Nunzio Impellizzeri Dance Company
Nunzio Impellizzeri creates some exceptional movements with the dancers.
…Sometimes you don’t know whether there are bugs or mammals, boys or girls on the stage …and it doesn’t matter because the important thing is the effect he achieves.
– Carmen De la Figuera, HeraldoNunzio Impellizzeri leaves the audience almost breathless… one succumbs to a spell, a fascination that one feels almost physically. An intense experience!
– Kaspar Sannemann, Oper-aktuell
NUNZIO IMPELLIZZERI DANCE COMPANY was founded in 2014 to produce and spread the work of artistic director and choreographer Nunzio Impellizzeri. The launch of the Zurich based company was the dance video “Quieta… inquietudine”, which has been awarded with the audience prize at the Loikka Dance Film Festival for the 60secondsdance competition in Helsinki in 2016.
The company’s work furthermore includes the full-length works: WAY OUT (2015), IN.QUIETA ROOMS (2017), CORPO BAROCCO (2018), SCH.NEE (2022); the performance-installation PLEASE, HOLD ME (2021); the site specifics: LOST & FOUND (2015) and HAPPENING (2016); the dance films: WATER RESISTANT (2013), Quieta… inquietudine (2014), THE DOCTOR SAID (2017) and CURA (2017).
Nunzio Impellizzeri’s artistic work is characterized by its strong and dynamic physicality, enticing images and innovative use of space. Observing human behaviour within the social construct, he melts both physical and conceptual aspects to transform the atmosphere of the performance space. The Nunzio Impellizzeri Dance Company works closely together with its team of international renowned dancers and collaborators. Applauded for the excellence of its performers and the versatility of its choreographies, the company’s work has been presented in theatres and international festivals in Switzerland, Germany, Russia, Italy, Finland, Denmark, Chile, Spain and Central America.
The artistic team of Nunzio Impellizzeri Dance Company strongly believes in a statement found in Todd Lehman’s book “The Streets of Sicily”, where he states that choreographers, like playwrights, have a magic toolbox from which they can build pictures that fascinate, intrigue, and entertain. They can create mirrors that force an audience to take a better look at their lives and at a society and its mechanisms. The company’s artistic aim is to move the audience, surprise them, challenge them and make them question social behaviour through a fearless use of intense body language.
NUNZIO IMPELLIZZERI is a choreographer known for his unique artistic signature, dynamics and strong visual imagery. His work is highly physical, impassioned and characterized by an innovative use of space.
Nunzio’s visual arts background plays a significant role in his creations: his studies in art history, life drawing, the art of sculpture as well as costume design, deeply influence the way he creates work. After his graduation in art studies in Sicily, he realized that dance is closest to his nature and the most suitable artistic medium to paint, mould and transform the space.
Nunzio Impellizzeri’s work is characterized by great attention to detail and he designs the set, light and costumes for most pieces himself. His productions emerge from his observation of human existence within a social context. He invites the audience to reflect upon and question social phenomena. A movement language is developed that communicates through intense physicality and intricate patterns carried by a solid dramaturgy.
Nunzio works with performers with high technical abilities and unique movement qualities. The smart choice of dancers leads to heterogeneous constellations with a strong stage presence, leaving space for their individual movement vocabulary. The dynamics of the bodies merge with the space, light, music and soundscapes. His pieces are physically extremely challenging and impress with their captivating aesthetics of contemporary poetic strength
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