Romaeuropa Festival 2022 at the Mattatoio Mattatoio, all the appointments

“The spaces of the Slaughterhouse have always been the heart of our most innovative research proposal and attentive to generational change since in 2010 Romaeuropa opened the restored Pelanda to the public” explains Fabrizio Grifasigeneral and artistic director of Romaeuropa Festival on the occasion of the presentation of the numerous activities hosted right at Slaughterhouse in collaboration with Palaexpo Special Company
I’m over 40 dance, theater and music events that will take place at the Mattatoio and which include the performance of 5 special sections, Digitalive, Kids & Families, LineUp !, Anni Luce and Dancing Dayseach with its own curatorship, which offer visibility and opportunities to new artistic expressions projected towards the future.
“The Slaughterhouse remains a unique space in the topography and arts of the city of Rome, a space where it is still possible to dare and welcome artistic formats that could not fail to be presented elsewhere. – explains Grifasi – where we can push our eyes a little further in a welcoming and almost informal atmosphere“.

Now in its fifth edition, Digitalife is the section edited by Federica Patti entirely dedicated to the recognition of artistic expressions in the context of digital cultures where the most advanced forms of technology meet the new frontiers of music. “This year we talk about crossing space and other nature up to the construction of the rituals of traditions in addition to even visionary innovations – explains the curator of the section – All the invited artists are for the first time at the Ref, or bring their works to Rome and Italy for the first time“. The choreographer and multimedia artist Choy Ka Fai the September 24kicks off the section Digitalive with Yishun is Burning, a solo in which tradition and technology, ritual and vogueing, spirituality and celebration merge. Among the protagonists, Alex Braga leading for the first time ever live with Spleen Machineexperimental avant-garde audiovisual show, Sofia Crespo that through artificial intelligence in AquA (l) formings explore large-scale changes in the marine environment, Libby Heaney with the audiovisual performance slimeQore which recovers traditional narratives and colonial stories related to the River Thames and Great Britain, Franz Rosati with Distantia, audiovisual multimedia project with experimental and electronic sounds. The collaboration with the VRE fest – Virtual Reality experience: protagonist the set of digital sculptures Menagerie – AR sculptures by Auriea Harvey, American visual artist, space ad ADV Gathering – live digital artsfirst national meeting of the network of university and academic researchers in the field of Live Digital Arts, at the meeting / gift of Oriana Persico to Salvatore Iaconesi, pioneer of digital cultures.
“We are happy to open the Slaughterhouse to the new generations and to the very young spectators with a great novelty – explains Stefania Lo Giudicecurator of the section Kids & Families – a reopening at the end of September and throughout the festival to guarantee a splash of beauty even for children and their families during the three months of programming“. The section unfolds in a programming through weekends dedicated to children: starting on 30 September with These few centimeters of earth of the company Balsamic Consortiuma story of escape and welcome, of families and children, space for dance, music and theater with the company Dadodans engaged in KLaNK focuses on the transmission of emotions through music and singing. The contemporary circus of the Quattrox4 Company with Ersiliaa traveling performance that pays homage to living creativity by telling Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, while the Dutch Zonzo Company with the musicians of the adventurous jazz trio De Beren Gieren tells the exciting rhythms of Thelonious Monk between sounds, animations and video images. The history of the Pied Piper of Hamelin comes to life according to the gaze of Factory Transadriatica Companybut also returns (staged al Vittoria Theater) the Finzi Pasca Company with White on Whitea fusion of dance, theater and acrobatics in which the two performers-actors-acrobats-clowns dialogue with an evocative universe made of lights and sounds to tell the meaning and value of life.
The musical section is all declined to women LineUp! edited by Giulia Di Giovanni and Matteo Antonaci that from 8 to 10 October investigates the languages of pop, narratives and new identities. “We propose a feminine gaze and turn the spotlight on very talented artists: this year – explains Giulia Di Giovanni – we return a returns a global vision through the presence of artists who testify to the mixture of genres and a particular richness of their stylistic code“.
Space then to live (three days) for the Italian-Moroccan singer and performer LaHasnaIranian space NAVAwhich moves between pop and camp aesthetics, to the producer and songwriter LNDFKto the expressive elegance of Joan Thieleto the Alexandrian singer-songwriter, composer and producer Elasi. This year the section is enriched with Eclipse Talk, special Waiting For Coming Out Day made in collaboration with the Gay Center which stages the stories of the homonymous podcast created by Peter Turano with the presence of the writer Michela Murgia.
The best new proposals of the national scene condensed in Light years, the theatrical section born in 2017 by Maura Theophiles which focuses on creativity under 30 with the Powered By REF project.
“The section was created to intercept new realities of artists who may have a stage available, we are really unbalanced this year – explains Maura Teofili, curator of the exhibition – to give space to voices in what is one of the worst moments of the anthropocene“. The section is divided into the proposals of Greta Tommesani with CA.NI.CI.NI.CA, Elena Bastogi with untitled (mâchersesmots), Theater matrix with The dilemma of the hundred photovoltaic sunflowers, Giulia Odetto in My body is like a mountain. The format dedicated to the new dramaturgy, conceived by Tindaro Granata, Dramatic Situation. From the observation of new writings to the first stage concretizations comes Ok Boomer from Nicolò Sordowinner of the Tondelli Prize in 2021, which will debut in its stage form directed by Babilonia Teatri and tells of social disparities.
“The review was born as a national author’s dance to then look beyond borders. This year we offer choreographers who have worked with great masters, but who came from other backgrounds”The words of Francesca Manica, curator of the longest-running section of the activities of the Ref al Mattatoio, Dancing Days which captures the most innovative and surprising creations of the national and international choreographic scene. Space for Italians Stefania Tansini And Pablo Girolamito the Franco-Malagasy choreographer Soa Ratsifandrihanathe French Leïla Kathe Belgian Cassiel GaubeGerman Philippe Kratzthe Dutch Andrew Hannes. It is dedicated to emerging choreographers DNA clipboard Choreographers, the project in support of choreographers under 35 supported by the homonymous network and of which Romaeuropa presents, the final evening of the awards and in the national premiere the winning work of the last edition, Pas de deux from Jari Boldrini and Giulio Petrucci. The activities of the Ref al Mattatoio open on 22 September with the work of the choreographer of Moroccan origins Roduan Mriziga who directs the dancer, choreographer and singer Dorotheé Munyaneza in Akala solo in which ritual, dance and architecture are combined with song, poetry and rap before leaving space for numerous other shows and authors who are protagonists of the Ref 2022. Info and details on romaeuropa.net.