WITCHESS
WITCHESS (Womxn Implement The Creation of Harmonious Ecosystems of Selfless Species) is an interdisciplinary project which combines literature, dance and music. It was born from the collaboration with guitarist Silvia Cignoli, singer Andrea Silvia Giordano and dancer Clotilde Cappelletti. Starting from some contemporary feminist works (by writers such as A. Davis, Silvia Federici, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie,…), the quartet builds a performance with the aim of re-imagining a reality without patriarchy and predefined gender roles. Some of the themes tackled in WITCHESS’ compositions are witch-hunting, racial segregation, capitalism conceived as an obstacle to the survival of ethnic and gender minorities, the integration of lgbt+ communities,… Thanks to some artistic residencies supported by nusica.org, OperaEstate and WeStart Cpm, the group has been able to synergize different artistic forms (literature, movement, and electroacoustic and electronic sounds) into a harmonious output that brings the listener into a free creative space with no aesthetic boundaries. WITCHESS’ first album will be out in fall 2025.
Clotilde Cappelletti: dance performance
Andrea S. Giordano: voice, flute, electronics
Silvia Cignoli: electric guitar, electronics
Francesca Remigi: drums, percussions, electronics, composition
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Andrea S. Giordano is an Italian musician based in Oslo. Composer, improviser and singer developing her language with piedmontese dialect and harmonic juxtapositions. In 2024 she is going to release two albums with piedmontese lyrics with her large ensemble Àlea and the trio Radis and a solo album produced during the residency at the Elektronmusikstudion EMS (Stockholm). She is currently working with artists such as Ingar Zach, Alessandra Rombolà, Pat Thomas and Kalle Moberg. She is curating the concert series Improverk and All Ears festival.
Classical and electric guitarist, experimental musician, sound artist and improviser who ranges from classical to contemporary music, from radical improvisation to avant-rock to her own musical creation that is a crossover between her academic background and the underground electronic scene. In her work, vaporous sounds build soft atmospheres which tend to explosion. She released the album “The Wharmerall”, “Digital Memories from a Suspended World”, and “Shimmering Behaviour”. She is co-author of site-specific and inter-media projects. As a score composer she has realized the music for found footage films and documentaries. She teaches guitar at Fondazione Scuole Civiche in Milan and has held seminars on augmented guitar in important Italian and Swiss conservatories.
Clotilde Cappelletti
Born and raised in Italy, Clotilde Cappelletti is a contemporary dancer and performer based in Amsterdam since 2016. Starting in 2014, she studied contemporary dance between Amsterdam, Israel, and Copenhagen. In 2020, Clotilde graduated from the University of the Arts, Amsterdam, in Modern Theatre Dance. She has collaborated with the choreographers Marcelo Evelin, Liat Tamar Waysbort, Ingrid Berger Myhre and Rita Bifulco, Duna Jocic, Cristina Planas Leitao, among others. She was part of the Opera Orfeo e Euridice directed by director Pierre Audi for the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. She currently works with the company SHARP\ArnoSchuitemaker and with the choreographer Ahmed El Gendy. In her works Clotilde is dedicated to the search for the so-called “self,” looking beyond the superficial layer of information that defines us. As a dancer and choreographer, Clotilde, likes to collaborate with artists from different fields, thinking that contamination is the basis of regenerative process.
Francesca Remigi
Nuova Generazione Jazz 2021, Top Jazz 2022, SIAE Award 2022 and Keep an Eye International Award 2023 winner Francesca Remigi is a polyhedric drummer and a visionary composer from Bergamo (IT), known for her international collaborations with Steve Lehman, Danilo Perez, Kris Davis, George Garzone, Val Jeanty, Immanuel Wilkins, Marion Hayden, Ellen Rowe, Bruno Chevillon, Yuhan Su and many others, with appearances at EFG London Jazz Festival 2020, DC Jazz Festival 2021 and Panama Jazz Festival 2022, Chile Jazz por la Paz 2022, L’Off Jazz Festival 2022 (Montreal), Melbourne Jazz Festival 2022…
Past Performances
30.09.2023 – JMuseo (Jesolo)
01.10.2023 – Teatro Magro (Mantova)
25.03.2024 – Spazio Scuderia (OperaEstate)
29.10.2024 – TEDx Bergamo (Gres Arts Bergamo)
Press
Gazzetta di Mantova | Concert Review | 2.10.2023
Gazzetta di Mantova | Concert Review | 1.10.2023
W.I.T.C.H.E.S.S. – Contacts
Phone: +39 3466417752
E-mail: f.doremigi@gmail.com
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