The company Essevesse was founded by Antonino Ceresia in 2013 in Marseille. In 2018 Fabio Dolce joined the association in the role of co-director. The two Sicilian artists come together to combine their knowledge and artistic visions to develop the two main axes of the company: creation and education / awareness.
The balance between the creative process always in tension and the attention to the evolution of the contemporary world, occupies a significant place in their research. This guides them towards the unleashing of instinctive movements, which intrinsically linked to the emotions related to the world around them, become their own movement language. Their peculiarity comes about as a result of creating performances, both in urban / alternative contexts and in theatrical scenes, which gives voice to new forms of expression such as numerical art, experimental music, etc; at the same time re-evaluating the traditional arts such as classical music, painting and sculpture, forming their choreographic signature.
In doing so, they wish to involve a vast and diversified audience, making them aware of the importance of being, on the one hand, in step with the progress of the arts, and on the other of appreciating, at the same time, the artistic heritage that surrounds us. Alongside their thirst for choreographic experimentation stimulated by continuous technological progress, Fabio and Antonino hold a privileged place for gesture and movement poetry.
Simultaneously the two choreographers built up a laboratory where they develop approaches for self-empowerment and social inclusion, using body expression as a non-formal education tool. They continuously aim to reach as many people as possible with their practice via European projects that allow them to cooperate with partners all over Europe, with various profiles, in order to share each other’s experience and work together towards a better world.
FABIO DOLCE
Fabio trained at the Academy of Teatro Massimo in Palermo, the National Dance Academy in Rome and the National Dance Academy of Rosella Hightower in Cannes. He started his international career in Italy joining the Corps de Ballet of Teatro Massimo and the Corps de ballet of Teatro Politeama in Palermo and Astra Roma Ballet company in Rome. He continued in France with Cannes Jeune Ballet , CCN Ballet de Lorraine and CHATHA dance company, and ended up in the UK with Shobana Jeyasingh, De Nada Dance Theater and Edifice Dance Theater. After dancing master pieces in the choreographic world by the most renowned choreographers, such as William Forsythe and Merce Cunningham or Mathilde Monnier and Maria La Ribot, he currently is pursuing his career as a freelance artist and performer, collaborating with other artists developing his creative and pedagogical skills while working with amateurs, schools, dance/ drama conservatoires, community centres, and professional dance companies as well as with people suffering from physical and mental disabilities.
ANTONINO CERESIA
Antonino trained at the Academy of Teatro Massimo in Palermo and the National Dance Academy of Rosella Hightower in Cannes. He started his international career in Italy with the Corps de ballet of Teatro Massimo in Palermo, the Aterballetto in Reggio Emilia and the Maggio Fiorentino in Florence. He pursued in France at the Cannes Jeune Ballet, the Bordeaux Opera House, the Nice Opera House and the Ballet d’Europe, dancing for Monique Loudieres, Jean Charles Gil, Kelemenis and others. Being the founder of Cie Essevesse, Antonino’s choreographies have been chosen to be shown among international dance festivals such as Cannes Dance Festival, 31st Hannover festival, Onze Bouge in Paris and others. He studied the pedagogy of dance in France and obtained his diploma in ballet and contemporary dance, which allowed him to enhance his skills serving education and raising awareness of arts working with many schools and community centres. Antonino has been in charge of the ‘Raising Awareness of Dance’ program at the Marseille Opera House for more than ten years.
For this creation, the two Sicilian artists wish to give a lively and dynamic look to a work that has been revisited many times: The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri. They wish to develop a choreographic and musical moment, supported by a video installation, expressing the complexity of the relationship between a work and its author, Dante and La Divine Comédie: at the very moment of creation and once the work has been delivered to the public.
"Inspired by this monument of Italian literature, we present our comedy: If I were Dante today, how would I describe my spiritual journey using the means by which I best express myself?
For us it is the body and the performing arts united with music and visual art.
Dante's reflections at the time are the ones that guide us today in the creative process: what are the social themes that we want to defend? What language is developing today that will probably be the language of tomorrow? What is going on around us? And love in all this ? " »
The three duets which represent the bases of creation of this comedy (#duointention, #duodivin, #duohandmade), today intertwine taking shape in a single piece which is inspired by the image very dear to Dante, idealizing God like three concentric circles of white, red and green color.
The musician, performers and video will exchange protagonist roles throughout the piece. The use of any material available by each venue for an original and unique scenography for each performance, is an essential clause for the artists because it nourishes the very essence of their creativity and it supports the imminent need for "recovery and recycling ”, themes very dear to the two choreographers.
Young people and body expression
Since 2013, the company has been committed to carry out raising awareness and education with more than 2300 students, from schools predominantly in the Aix-Marseille metropolitan area but also in Europe. Currently Essevesse is involved in structures such as the Marseille Opera House and DEMOS in collaboration with the Philharmonie de Paris in France, La Casa del Sorriso in Italy, Oaklands School in London. Students participate in workshops with professional dancers and usually create a performance, which is presented at the end of the year on different professional stages.
ERASMUS PLUS in strategic partnership
–KA1 Act-no-ReacT! en partenariat avec Check-In (Portugal), CEIPES (Italie), ASPAYM (Espagne), IASD (Pologne), AICSCC – GAMMA Institute (Roumanie), Euni Partners (Bulgarie) en 2020.
–KA2 Lifelong Dancing in partnership with ASPAYM (Spain), CEIPES (Italy), AICSCC (Romania), Euni Partners (Bulgaria), in 2019 and 2020.
–KA2 Dance Against Bullying in partnership with The Smile of the Child (Greece), CEIPES (Italy), AICSCC (Romania), Euni Partners (Bulgaria), in 2019, 2020 and 2021.
September 25th, Théâtre Golovine, Avignon.
1 Bis Rue Sainte-Catherine, 84000 Avignon, Francia
October 10th, festival Differenti Sensazioni, Italy.
Stalker Teatro, Piazza Eugenio Montale, 18
10151 Torino
The show is postponed (date to be defined), cause COVID-19
Date originally planned:
November 6th, Atelier Dantza, France.
19 Rue Bourbaki,
64000 Pau
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