EMILIANO PELLISARI
via Gabrino Fondulo 51, 00176 Roma (Italia)
3926757027
emilianopellisari@gmail.com
BIOGRAPHY
From studies on Hellenistic theatre to Renaissance fantastic theatre and seventeenth-century mechanical inventions, comes Emiliano Pellisari style.
Well known in Europe and all over the world as stage designer, costume designer, light designer, illusionist, theatre director, brilliant and “sui generis” choreographer and finally self producer.
Scenic inventions are designed and built by himself and protected by copyright patents, according to the English and American laws.
The man-machine relationship has imposed a study and an innovation for the choreographic techniques that represent the distinctive know-how of the NoGravity Theatre Company.
EDUCATION AND MASTERS
1968-1982 From 0 to 14 years: Luisito Pellisari, the father, intellectual and one the founders of the “Group 63”, polyglot, scholar with a big knowledge in Arab and Indian cultures and a thirty-year residence in Nepal
1982-83 Scientific High School “Serpieri”, Rimini
1984-1988 Scientific High School “Cavour”, Rome
1983-1989 from 15 to 21 years: Enrico (Nanni) Filippini (putative father), journalist, intellectual, philosopher, among the founders of “La Repubblica”, italian national newspaper
1989-1992 Begins his studies in Philosophy, at Villa Mirafiori (“La Sapienza” University in Rome). He studies hard for a while but finally he stops to start studing Moral Philosophy (Lecaldano) and Formal Logic (Cellucci)
1990-1992 from 21 to 24 years he learns from Niels Gullov, brilliant danish designer, ax master, ceramist, tailor, fiberglass sculptor
1992-1993 Italian Army, Artillery Officer
1995 Work shop in Pontedera (Tuscany) held by Anatoly Vasil’ev
2004 – Pier Paolo Koss, performer and choreographer, collaboration for Daimon show
2005 - Brian Senders (Momix), collaboration for NoGravity show
2006 – David Parsons, collaboration for the Paralympics show in Turin
WORK EXPERIENCE
1989-1999 School of Life. Nanni Filippini dies. The family broke down. Emiliano begins a worker careeer: bricklayer, carpenter, electrician, plumber
1999-2009 Theatre organizational manager for “Attori&Tecnici”, established Theatre Company at Teatro Vittoria in Rome.
2003-2005 - Executive Producer for “Teatro della Tosse” in Genoa (international events: Navigation for Genoa, City of Culture)
2004 - Event “Luzzati”, Barcolana, Trieste
2005 – Exclusive agent in Italy and Europe for “Teatro della Tosse” of Genoa
2005- Founder of the NoGravity Theatre Company
ART WORKS
Emiliano Pellisari follows the suggestion by Bernardino Zapponi and begins as film director and screenwriter
1997 Production assistant, Toma Film
1998 Tritone, Korti, Rai 2
Follows the suggestiong by Suso Cecchi D'Amico and begins as Theatrical author
1998 Investigative writer in collaboration with the well known journalist D'Ayala (“Dalla Coppola al colbacco”, Castelvecchi)
1999 Bananas in Bahamas, Aprea Srl
CHOREOGRAPHER AND DIRECTOR
2005 Daimon Project, International Exhibition, Milan
2005 Daimon show, International Performance Art Center, Moscow
2005/6 NoGravity Theatre Company, national tour
2006 Paralympics , End Cerimony, Turin
2006 Johnson&Johnson Event, Paris
2006 Comix show, Teatro Parioli in Rome, national tour
2007 Orfeo+Euridice for the “White Night” in Rome
2008 Blutango show, Teatro Vittoria in Rome
2007/11 Inferno show, national/international tour
2010/12 Cantica II show, national/international tour, France, Spain, Russia and Switzerland
2011/12 Paradise show, national tour
2013/14 From Hell to Paradise show, France tour
2015 From Hell to Paradise show, National Theatre in China
2016 ARIA show, Teatro Olimpico in Rome
2017/18 ARIA show, international tour
2019 Leonardo Festa del Paradiso show, national and international tour (Napoli Teatro Festival, Inspiration Festival Moscow, China, Teatro Biondo in Palermo)
LECTURER AND SPEAKER
Rome Academy of Fine Arts: Stage for the set design course held by Prof Paolo Ferruzzi for the creation of costumes and sets for the Paradiso show. Academy of Fine Arts in Milan: Conference for the set design course on the Inferno show. Dante Alighieri Society. Conference on the female figure in the Divine Comedy in relation to the character of Beatrice represented in the show Paradiso. University 'La Sapienza'. Conference on the Baroque Theater at the Faculty of Architecture. Supervisor Prof. Magni 'La Sapienza' University. Drawing course. Conference on Contemporary Theater Scenography 'Tor Vergata' University. Conference on Dante Alighieri and the theater at the Faculty of Letters.
AWARDS
1999 - Ater Tondelli Prize
2000 - Enzimi Prize
2013 - Dante Alighieri Society: "Award for the international diffusion of Dante's thought"
Mariana/P
Via Mazzini n. 72, Sant'Antioco , 09017 -SU-
Via Gabrino Fondulo 51 , 00176 -ROMA-
+39 377 11 25 415
mariana.prc@gmail.com
nogravitydancecompany@gmail.com
TRAINING
-Diploma of Scientific High School E.Lussu Sant'Antioco, SU
-Graduation Diploma of the National Academy of Dance, Rome,
-Insights of Classical, Modern, Contemporary Technique at: IALS , MAC, MAISON DE LA DANSE, MIMMA TESTA DANCE SCHOOL, LA MAISON DE LA DANSE.
- Internship at the school "ROSSELLA HIGTOWER" in the city of Cannes
-Work Shop : back animals by Alessandra Cristiani. Gaga Dance, with Nunzia Picciallo, dancer of batsheva dance company, Israel
He has studied different Yoga methods for years, . Currently she is interested in butoh dance.
DANCER CHOREOGRAPHER
-Mariana Porceddu was born in Sardinia, on the island of Sant'Antioco, in June 1981; the interest in dance is innate: the long journey that will lead her to become a professional begins at the tender age of 6. Two extraordinary Masters graduated from the National Academy of Dance in Rome arrive on the small native island and will introduce it to classical and modern dance. In 2002, at the age of 21, after 15 years of studies, she obtained the diploma of professional dancer at the prestigious National Academy of Dance in Rome. In 2004 she worked with "DANZA PROSPETTIVA" by Vittorio Biagi, Dancer by Maurice Bejart, "Ballet du XXsiecle", of the Paris Opera and founder of the Lyon company, of the ATER BALLETTO. Mariana dance for him "Don Giovanni," Mediterraneo, "Mujeres", "La Mia Sherazade" Choreographer and Master for 3 intense years, she indelibly leaves the power of the gesture, the speed of the nerve, the grotesque of Folklore.
2008-2020 Joins Emiliano Pellisari's "NOGRAVITY" company, initially as a dancer, then as an assistant. Dance the show "INFERNO" (National Tour: Bellini of Naples, Teatro Olimpico of Rome, Arena del Sole Bologna, Civic Theater of Casalgrande, Il Bonci of Cesena and others). From 2011, for the show Cantica, the second of Dante's trilogy, he began to sign the choreographies together with Emiliano Pellisari. The collaboration is tightened for all subsequent productions. The works of NoGravity are inspired by the Renaissance and Baroque Theater of Wonders, the tours appear all over the world on very prestigious stages: the Grand National Theater of Beijing, the Gran Teatro Nacional of Lima, the Auditorio del Sodre of Montevideo, The Grand Theater Conservatory of Music, Shanghai, Inspiration festival, Green Theater VDNKH, Moscow, Manoel Theatre, Malta Arts Festival, Valletta, Malta, M.A.P. Festivals, Convention Center, Baku, Azerbaijan, Festiva Materia Prima, Krakow, Opéra de Toulon, Toulon, Palais de congres, Cannes Odyssud, Blagnac - France, Baluarte of Pamplona, Opera of Massy, Paris, Teatro La Fenice of Venice, and numerous other theaters.
In 2016 the company produces "ARIA, Baroque airs in the air", a Baroque show with live music and dance. Tour : Green Theater VDNKH, Moscow, Manoel Theatre, Malta Arts Festival - Valletta, Malta, M.A.P. Festival, Congress Center, Baku - Azerbaijan, Festiva Materia Prima, Krakow, Opéra de Toulon, Toulon, Palais de congres, Cannes Odyssud, Blagnac - France,
Baluarte of Pamplona, Opera by Massy. The show "FESTIVAL OF PARADISE" will follow, with Renaissance music directed by Maestro Walter Testolin, dance will always accompany these shows.
- In 2020 Nogravity produces "FELLINI DREAM" a prose and dance show, on this occasion with the actors Graziano Piazza and Viola Graziosi the Nogravity technique opens up to the actors, the first theatrical movement laboratory for non-dancers is born. From 2020 he will create and curate the music for all the shows.
-In 2021 - 22 new "INFERNO 2021" and "EXODUS" are produced
- In 2023 the "DISABILITY" project was born, the protagonists become the disabled in wheelchairs, a movement workshop for children with disabilities is underway and the preparation of a new theatrical production.
DANCE - THEATRE
Since 2020 Emiliano and Mariana, an artistic couple since 2013, have been experimenting with the new NOGRAVITY LIVE shows, where they act together on stage creating the live work of art. The following are part of this new set:
-MASK, the masks and the Myth
-PASOLINI VS MARAINI with voice off by Dacia Maraini
-FONTANA PROJECT, spatialism
EMILIANO AND MARIANA, THEY ARE A COUPLE IN LIFE AND IN ART, THEY HAVE THREE CHILDREN, ELOISA ,ARIA AND FABER. THEY LIVE IN THEIR HOME THEATER IN PIGNETO
THEATER AND TOURS
2015
DIVINE COMEDY MOSCOW. ELIKON THEATER OF THE OPERA, DIVINE COMEDY KRAKOVIA Festiva Materia Prima
2016
DIVINE COMEDY WUXI Great theater, DIVINE COMEDY NINGBO. Ningbo Grand Theatre, DIVINE COMEDY Ningbo Grand Theatre, DIVINE COMEDY BAOSHAN Baoshan Theatre, DIVINE COMEDY SHANGAI. Grand Theatre, JINSHAN DIVINE COMEDY. Jinshan Theater, FENGXIAN DIVINE COMEDY Fengxian Theater, ARIA KRAKOVIA RAW MATERIAL FESTIVAL, MONTEVIDEO DIVINE COMEDY Auditorium Nacional De Sodre
2017
ARIA Duesseldorf Festival, DIVINE COMEDY Teatro Canal, Madrid, DIVINE COMEDY SANTIAGO DE CHILE Teatro Corpo Artes, DIVINE COMEDY BOGOTTA'. Teatro Major, DIVINE COMEDY VITORIA-GASTEIZ Teatro Principal Antzokia, DIVINE COMEDY BILBAO Teatro Canal
DIVINE COMEDY SAN CUGAT (BARCELONA), Auditori Theatres, ARIA MALTA MANOEL THEATER, DIVINE COMEDY MALTA. FORT SANT'ELMO
2018
AIR M.A.P. Festival, Congress Center, Baku - Azerbaijan, DIVINE COMEDY Gran Teatro Nacional, Lima Peru, DIVINE COMEDY Gran Teatro Nacional, Lima, Peru, ARIA Green Theater, Inspiration Festival - VDNH - Moscow, Russia, ARIA Green Theatre, Inspiration Festival - VDNH - Moscow, Russia, ARIA Green Theatre, Inspiration Festival - VDNH - Moscow, Russia, DIVINE COMEDY Fort St. Elmo, Malta Arts Festival - Valletta, Malta
ARIA Manoel Theatre, Malta Arts Festival - Valletta, Malta, DIVINE COMEDY Festival de Teatro de El Ejido, El Ejido - Spain, DIVINE COMEDY Teatro Circo de Marte, Santa Cruz de la Palma -, Canary Islands, DIVINE COMEDY Teatro Leal, Tenerife - Canaries
2019
DIVINE COMEDY Batumi Theatre, Batumi - Georgia, ARIA Odyssud, Blagnac - France, ARIA Théâtre de L'Olivier, Istres - France, ARIA Opéra de Toulon, Toulon - France, DIVINE COMEDY Le Radiant Bellevue, Caluire-Lyon - France, ARIA Théâtre des Sablons, Neuilly-sûr-Seine - France, ARIA Opéra de Massy, Massy - France, ARIA Le Pin Galant, Merignac - France, ARIA Le Grand Angle, Voiron - France, LEONARDO Grand Theatre, Hefei - China, LEONARDO The Grand Theater Conservatory of Music, Shanghai - China, LEONARDO The Grand Theater Conservatory of Music, Shanghai - China, LEONARDO Grand Theater, Wuxi - China, DIVINE COMEDY Teatro Villa de Molina, Molina de Segura - Spain, DIVINE COMEDY July Musical Institute of Trapani, Trapani - Italy, DIVINE COMEDY Festival de Chateauroux, - France, LEONARDO Inspiration festival - Green Theater VDNKH, Moscow, Russia, LEONARDO Inspiration festival - Green Theater VDNKH, Moscow, Russia, LEONARDO Inspiration festival - Green Theater VDNKH, Moscow, Russia
2021 - 22
FELLINI DREAM - Prose and dance show - Teatro Biondo, Palermo, INFERNO 2021 Winter Festival, Budapest, Hungary, INFERNO 2021 Teatro Ristori, Verona, INFERNO 2021 Teatro Menotti, Milan, FONTANA PROJECT Teatro Menotti, Milan, INFERNO 2021 Teatro Olimpico, Rome
EXODUS Teatro Olimpico, Rome, EXODUS Teatro Tor Bella Monaca, Rome, EXODUS Teatro Menotti, Milan, PASOLINI VS MARAINI Teatro Tor Bella Monaca, Rome, MASK Teatro Menotti, Milan, PASOLINI VS MARAINI Teatro Mignon, Tirano, THE PASSION ( OF MARY ) Baroque music and dance, Teatro San Luca, Rome
CREATIONS
2008 Hell
2010 Cantica
2011 Paradise
2013 Divine Comedy - From Hell to Paradise
2016 Aria, Baroque music and dance
2019 - Leonardo, Renaissance music and dance
2020 Fellini Dream, prose and dance
2021 Hell 2021, FontanaProject, on spatialism
2022 Exodus, voice off by Moni Ovadia Pasolini vs Maraini, voice off Dacia Maraini,
Mask, the myth
2023 Disability Project, ( ongoing) , Maria's passion, Music and dance
