by cooperation with Saye Theatre: WORKSHOP WITH CLAUDIA CASTELLUCCI

“The Wave Treatment”
A dance seminary to the sound of bells

Claudia Castellucci, co-founder with Romeo Castellucci of the Italian theater company Societas Raffaello Sanzio, in 1981, comes to Iran to develop a workshop that combines dance and gesture theory. Predominantly dedicated to writing and teaching, Claudia Castellucci is the founder of several scholastic experiences: in the late 1980s she founded Scuola Tetrica della Discesa, which proposes a practice between philosophy and theater, and continues to write for several Romeo Castellucci creations or on theatrical practice.
“The Wave Treatment” is built according to a rhythmic principle that considers the different moments of the day. The rhythm is in fact the basis of this dance and opens to listening to the negative and missing part: the silence and the memory of the sound that is prolonged in time and that meets new strokes during its dispersion. We treat the sound of bells and the presence of dancers caught between shots and breaks. A dance based on the sound of bells and implemented with a stick. The sound of the bells is prolonged in a duration that adds up many chimes and arranges to be refracted and expanded by the currents. The spectral consistency of the sound founds a capacity for listening that brings together presence and memory (a presence that does not pass). The sequence of beats that continue to float in the air generates random coincidences and rhythms, different and co-present. Dancers treat this as a teaching.
We will search for the sound of the bells and the presence of the dancers between the beats and the intervals of rhythm. A dance created as the sound of the bells and performed with a stick. The sound of the bells extends for a duration that accumulates several beats and is arranged to be refracted and expanded by the chains. The spectral consistency of sound creates a listening capacity that combines presence and memory (a presence that does not disappear). The sequence of beats that continue to float in the air generates random and rhythmic coincidences, different and coexisting. Dancers treat all this as learning.
On the last day of the workshop, a public presentation of the work will be done