Laboratorio di voce e teatro
July 26, 2025
Curated by "Sound of the Soul,"
hosted by Giulia Merelli and Serena Abrami
Laboratorio di danza e agricoltura
July 27, 2025
by and with Paola Campagna
and with the contribution of
Silvia Capponi
Contrada Carufo, 24 - 62020 - Camporotondo di Fiastrone (MC)
Final restitution open to the public with tasting
Workshops and final shows by reservation
Tel: 320 2173389
Agriculture and dance.
Is another way of life possible?
In recent years, my interest has focused on the relationship between the human body and the sense of ‘exertion’ associated with physical labor. I have thus drawn closer to the world that has been part of me since childhood: that of farmers.
Working in the fields, I had the idea: to create a synergy between the land and the practice of dance movement, where one gives value to the other. The excessive use of technology confuses the senses, challenging our perception. The illusion of convenience that new machines promise us hides a truth, which is that they make our cognitive experience increasingly rational and less sensorially engaging, leading to a profound internal divide. The psychophysical value that dance gives to the body is thus put at the service of the farmers, and the care that the farmers put into working the land serves to train the dancer and develop the concreteness and precision of their gestures. In this mutual exchange, effort becomes the practice for achieving an artistic result.
Paola Campagna
Il suono dell'anima
Giulia Merelli and Serena Abrami have conceived and structured a theater workshop, where artistic mediators of vocality (single and choral vocals, dramatization, creative writing, physical action) merge to bring out the creative voice of each participant.
Giulia Merelli, a teacher, actress, and author of her own plays, after working in theaters as a performer, now leads artistic and educational workshops, primarily with adolescents. Drawing on a background in literature (classics), theology (religious studies), and performance (a diploma as a performer from the C.U.T. in Perugia), she intertwines acting with physical experience, viewing the word as a tangible action. She composes and performs monologues and directs plays.
A singer and songwriter with twenty years of experience in music, Serena Abrami is above all a curious person who today moves between vocal research, writing, and curating choral experiences. In recent years, theater has become increasingly popular. To name a few works: with the band Leda, he composed and performed live the music for the opera in progress Don Chisciotte ad ardere (Ravenna Festival) for the three-year period 2023-2025, for Ermanna Montanari and Marco Martinelli of Il Teatro delle Albe. As a soloist, he accompanied Montanari in “A te come te. Scritti giornalistici di Giovanni Testori.” In “Sole & Baleno,” together with Pietro Babina, he explored acting in greater depth as a possible dimension of research on the voice.
Paola Campagna
Paola Campagna is a choreographer and dancer specializing in contemporary dance and Argentine tango, as well as a performer.
For years, she has worked with her own company and taught at training academies for actors and dancers in Rome.
She also collaborates with mental health and community services, as a Dance Movement Therapist and Somatic Movement and Child Development Educator (BMC®).
Her research as a teacher and choreographer focuses on improvisation, seen as “the movement of human expression.” Through her compositional work, her perspective becomes a tool for interpreting and symbolically translating everyday reality.
Paola’s ambition is to restore images to dance, freeing it from the physicality of a soulless body, where the mind struggles to see. The image needs to guide us toward that Elsewhere that, at times, seems difficult to access until we allow ourselves the patience to wait… for a vision to arrive.
Silvia Capponi
Silvia Capponi is a dancer and teacher of Contemporary Dance Techniques, graduating with honors from the National Academy of Dance in Rome. Since 2014, she has danced with various companies and collaborated with nationally and internationally renowned choreographers.
Since 2019, she has been part of the “Su la testa” collective, directed by choreographer and dancer Paola Campagna, with whom she has deepened her research into transmitting the principles of contemporary dance to actors and children with special needs. She has led movement workshops at the child neuropsychiatry department of the Viterbo Local Health Authority and at the Fightthestroke Foundation in Milan.
Since 2020, she has worked as a dancer in the world of opera in major Italian and international theaters. She has danced for the Claudi Foundation, directed by Giulia Merelli.
She is a teacher at the F. Filelfo Dance High School in Tolentino; She teaches contemporary dance and body movement at Elisa Silvestri’s “Steps Art” and Simone Riccioni’s “Cinemachepassione,” conducting her own research on gesture. She co-authored choreographic works set to live music with Giorgio Mogavero.
