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A n d r e a C o s t a n z o M a r t i n i
// O C C H I O D I B U E //
OCCIO DI BUE is a solo work dealing with the intricate power relations between a dancer, a choreographer and the audience.
Created originally in 2016 as a site specific piece for the ancient royal theater of Agliè (Piemonte, Italy) as part of the Teatro a Corte Festival, the work has been later awarded, in its adapted form for stage, the Second Prize at the International Jerusalem Choreographic Competition.
When a dancer is on stage, who is he obeying to? To choreographer or to his own instinct?
When creator and performer are the same person, which of the two prevails? Through a lens of humour, skill and unsettling images Martini questions his role and position in the dance world.
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ANDREA COSTANZO MARTINI was born and raised in Italy where he received his first education in contemporary dance and ballet. At the age of 19 he moved to Munich, Germany where he attended the Heinz-Bosl Stiftung Ballet Akademien and in 2004 he began his professional carrier as a Ballet Dancer in the Aalto Staats Theater Essen.
In 2006 He joined the BATSHEVA Ensemble and 2 years later moved to the main Company. During these years he performed extensively the repertoire of Ohad Naharin and Sharon Eyal and he began his activity as Gaga teacher and Choreographer through the “dancer create” program of the Company.
He later joined the CULLBERG Ballet in Stockholm where he performed for two years repertoire of Benoit Lachambre, Alexander Ekman, Crystal Pite, Jefta Van Dinter and Tillman O’Donnel. He created a work for six men of the company, ”For men only” presented at the Moderna Dans Theater in Stockholm and participated in the solo program of Deborah Hay - This empty stage an ocean.
In 2012 he moved back to Israel where he joined the Inbal Pinto Dance company and started creating his own works.
In 2013 he was awarded First Prize for both dance and choreography at the International Stuttgart Solo Competition for the solo work “ What Happened in Torino”.
Since then he created (with the support of bodies like Pavillon Noir Aix-en-Provence, Tanzhaus Zürich, Lublin Centrum Kultury , Suzan Dallal Center Tel Aviv, NOD Turin, Tmuna Theater Tel Aviv, Hateiva Theater and Teatro Piemonte Europa) the works Tropical, Voglio Voglia, Filthy Guilty aaaaAAAAHHHH and TROP. The repertoire toured extensively Europe since 2014.
In october 2015 the work "What Happened in Torino" is awarded the audience prize at the Mas Danza Festival in Gran Canaria, Spain.
Parallel to this Andrea continues his activity as teacher (Gaga and improvisation) in Israel and abroad. He regularly teaches at the Gaga center in Suzan Dallal, Tel Aviv, and at the Vertigo Studio in Jerusalem.
He has taught Gaga and Improvisation for companies such as Batsheva Dance Company and Ensemble, Cullberg Ballet, Royal Swedish Ballet, Inbal Pinto and Avshalom Pollak Dance Company and for the students of DOCH (Stockholm), Gaaton (Israel), NOD (Italy), Zurich Tanzhaus and many more.
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