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Giulia Staccioli

Play

THE ELEGANCE OF MOVEMENT IS VEINED WITH MADNESS

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November
Concept & Creation
  • Giulia Staccioli
Choreography
  • Giulia Staccioli
  • Jessica Gandini
Original Music
  • Ajad
Lighting Design
  • Marco Farneti
Costume Design
  • Sara Costantini
Costume Making
  • Riccardo Ninzoli
  • Caterina Rizzo
Staged with
  • Maria Agatiello
  • Elisa Bazzocchi
  • Paolo Benedetti
  • Eleonora Di Vita
  • Leonardo Fumarola
  • Serena Rampon
  • Marco Ticli
  • Marco Zanotti

The irony of innovative choreography, not easily classified.

Play is a show in pictures that tells the world of sports from an innovative perspective. On the unprecedented notes of the soundtrack composed by Ajad, evocative postcards are brought to life that capture the most intrinsic aspects of each discipline. With energy, elegance and a good dose of irony, Play removes the competitive aspect of sports, transforming it definitively into art.

Play was staged in 2008 to represent Italy at the Beijing Cultural Olympiad at the invitation of the Chinese Ministry of Culture and under the high patronage of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Italian Cultural Institute and the Italian Embassy, Play is a show capable of regenerating itself and keeping itself always current. In 2022 it was staged at the Royal Opera House in Muscat, where it won over the cosmopolitan audiences of the Omani capital.

Play is a remounting of "Indiscipline" from the company's 1996 debut show, originally created with Ilaria Cavagna, Mauro Maurizio Colucci, Paola Corio Kahler, Maura Muzio, Daniela Vergani, Stefano Cogliati, Andrea Zannoni, Giulia Staccioli.

2008
Play is representing Italy at the Beijing Cultural Olympiad at the invitation of the Chinese Ministry of Culture under the high patronage of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Italian Cultural Institute and the Italian Embassy.
2010
Play was the protagonist of a long and prestigious tour in Brazil touching 12 of the country's major stages such as those of the Teatro Alfa in São Paulo, the Teatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro realizing prestigious sold-outs and establishing the value and fame of the Kataklò Company in South America.
2012 e 2017
The show won audiences and critics in Northern Europe and Germany to return again to Brazil in summer 2016 for the Rio Olympics.