Performative outcome of the workshop led by OPERABIANCO
with the community of children and over 60 of Bologna
Playground, the performative outcome of an intergenerational workshop, brings together children and people over 60 from Bologna, who through play and dance engage in dialogue with the city’s urban and natural landscapes.
The shared movement practices draw inspiration from Pieter Bruegel’s painting Children’s Games and are accessible to all bodies, whether experienced or not. Their purpose is to build a shared physical language among participants and to create a “landscape within the landscape,” to which each person contributes their own uniqueness.
Bodies with different rhythms, dynamics, and postures intersect in an aesthetic and ritualistic experience, constructing an ecosystem of forms in close relationship with the surrounding environment.
The dance develops through training in that collective intelligence that knows how to dialogue with the unexpected. “Playground is our playground!”
CREDITS
concept, coreography and direction: Marta Bichisao e Vincenzo Schino
with Marta Bichisao, C.L.Grugher, Sabrina Rigoni/ Beatrice Leonardi, Luca Piomponi, Simone Scibilia and with a group of old people and a group of young childern
production: PinDoc, OPERA BIANCO
co production: Festival Danza Estate, Teatro Stabile dell’Umbria
with the support of: Home Futuro Presente, LaMama Umbria
OPERABIANCO is an artistic research collective founded by dancer and choreographer Marta Bichisao and director and visual artist Vincenzo Schino. Since 2006, it has embraced the theatrical realm as a way to explore dance, performance art, visual arts, and video, while fostering processes of community involvement.
Its use of multiple artistic languages gives rise to immersive performative experiences, where challenges to traditional forms of spectatorship offer audiences new postures, perspectives, and visions. Among the central themes of its artistic inquiry is the interplay between comic and tragic in the relationship between performer and stage, and between the human and the cosmos.
Much of its inspiration comes from painting and cinema, used as entry points into choreographic research to question the boundary between composition and reality, between foreground and landscape.
Playground is part of Bologna Estate 2025, the program of activities promoted and coordinated by the Municipality and Metropolitan City of Bologna – Bologna-Modena Tourist Area, and is supported under the program agreement between the Municipality of Bologna and MiC Direzione Generale Spettacolo for live entertainment activities in suburban areas.
Playground is part of Fair Play, a series of events organized by Gender Bender in the Bologna metropolitan area from May 2025 to January 2026, with the support of Fondazione del Monte di Bologna e Ravenna.