September 2025

Description of project:
Sull’uscio is the title of an ongoing research project by Apolvere, developed within the framework of performing arts. The collective began this exploration during a brief one-week residency in May 2025, where they initiated work on physical movement, soundscapes, musical composition, and text. Currently, in collaboration with Svesda (Santi Perez), the company is continuing its research with a two-week residency at Akropoditi Dance & Performing Arts Centre.
At the core of this new work lies an interest in the principles of recycling, resisting, and insisting. These concepts serve as guiding coordinates across multiple layers of the process. They shape the company’s approach to movement, spoken and recorded text, and musical composition. Conceptually, they also frame the project’s engagement with the theme of resistance in the context of contemporary European politics and broader Western policy.

Open presentation:
Saturday October 4^th 2025
20:00, Free Entrance

Masterclass
Saturday September 27^th 2025, 18:00 – 20:00
Free submission

Apolvere

Apolvere is an emerging dance/performance duo created and co-directed by Arianna Bonacina and Martí Ramis Muñoz. They are coming respectively from Italy and Spain and they met in their education in Salzburg. During their staying in Austria, they started creating together after realising they shared a common vision for scenic art. Their work is centred on creating fragmented realities where detailed dynamics of human actions and interactions are analysed and portrayed through the use of different medias. They mainly treat topics that have solid connection with the socio-political context they come from. This starting point generates a base for transversal reflections as they believe that art forms are deeply interconnected with societies and politics. Their long-term goal as a duo would be to be able to bring their work in different contexts as a way to open up spaces of confronting and discussing about cultural baggage and its implications in ones’ approach to collectivity.

Reflection on artistic residency in Akropoditi Dance and Performing Arts Centre
Apolvere and Svesda: Arianna Bonacina, Martì Ramis, Santi Perez

From the 22nd of September 2025 to the 5th of October 2025 Apolvere Collective, in collaboration with sound artist Svesda (Santi Perez), had the pleasure of conducting an artistic residency in the wonderful space of Akropoditi Dance and Performing Arts Center, in Syros. The collective, co-funded and co-directed by Arianna Bonacina and Martì Ramis, is currently working on the development of the dance piece ‘Sull’uscio’, a choreographic work where dance, performance, music-sound composition, and text merge together to become a poetic-visual poem. The main thematic axes of this work are voice and resonance of an individual in the collectivity and liminal spaces, areas of transition and ambiguity where images and metaphors can carry the narrative. The residency in Akropoditi was the second encounter the group had after a brief residency of one week in April 2025 in Spain. The group was looking for a place that could allow them to fully dive in the research, far from the usual context where they live (Barcleona, Spain), where they could benefit from different inputs deriving from a new framework and establish new artistic connections. Akropoditi was the perfect match to their interests, especially considering that the residency took place in a very delicate moment of the creative process, where the three artists were busy with the establishment of a common artistic language between dance and sound and the research of suitable materials for the piece.

During their first week in the centre Apolvere and Svesda investigated different musical and rhythmical schemes combined with different movement qualities. This research was conducted through long improvisational sessions in order to understand what influences had one discipline on the other, and viceversa. By the end of the first week Apolvere offered an open level workshop to movement artists and amateurs of the island where they guided a two-hours session using the tools they had been working with. Sharing their practice was an enriching experience that allowed for exchanges and clarified their working principles to themselves as well as.
During the second week of residency the group delved deeper in the research started the previous week and began a process of reviewing and evaluating the materials emerged. The analysis and evaluation of these materials remained an open and active collaboration between Apolvere and Svesda, following a work- dynamic fluid and organic, from which choreographic landscapes and sonic textures blended and complemented each other. On the 4th of October they had a public informal sharing of their work, from which relevant and interesting feedbacks derived. Overall the group felt extremely welcomed and supported by the team of Akropoditi, they established enriching artistic connections as well as lovely friendships with the members of the company and they really look forward to possible future collaborations and encounters!