DOGOD is an ensemble of artists, from different countries and crossing different languages and environments, interested in the developement of new meanings and practices for live performance.
POLIGRAF (from latin: poli/many grafia/writing) is the name of the project partaked by all the members of the ensembe. Poligraf is the name of the main character of Bulgakov’s novel Heart of a dog. The character is the intersection between a man and a dog, the result of an experimental surgery on a stray dog.
POLIGRAF is an educational and artistic project started in 2009 in Bologna (IT) tand developed through 2 permanent workshops: one attended by 12 prisoners of the High Safety section in the Jailhouse of Bologna, the other attended by 15 students of the Department of Music and Theater of the University of Bologna,. Both workshops have been leaded by a pool of theater, visual, music artists coming from different countries.
In this project the attention for the social-pedagogical sides of theater work is all-one with to the interest for the innovation of artistic languages, the developement of new relations between theater and communities, a research over international or extra-national forms of communication, the developement of new mediums for new dialogues.
POLIGRAF is the opening project of the Dogod ensemble.
It is directed by Massimiliano Briarava Cossati, theater director, lecturer at the University of Bologna, with many years of experience in directing theater projects with special actors as children, drug addicted, prisoners.
The drawings, photographs and animated cartoons of Poligraf are created by Karin Andersen, well known german artist resident and operating in Italy and all Europe.
The body scores are designed by Sara Dal Corso, dancer for many companies in Italy including Societas Raffaello Sanzio.
The video alphabets and karaoke are created by Ana Ticak, serbian videoartist working in Italy and Germany.
The original choir music is composed and directed by Paolo V. Montanari, young musician and opera singer
The project obtains in 2009 the support of the Banca del Monte di Bologna e Ravenna Foundation and the patronage of the University of Bologna. Throught this contributions it’s been possible to present a first studio-step of the project on June 25th 2009 into the Jailhouse of Bologna, for an audience of guests, and receiving attention from institutions and press reviews. The Poligraf project is now ready for a step forward, with new actors and a larger audience, an international audience, so to test its effectiveness in exploring a less verbal and more sensitive language. It’s future developements are now supported by the Culture and University Council of the city of Bologna.
POLIGRAF - So many writings is a multi-linguistic performance inspired by Bulgakov’s novel Heart of a dog, and a permanent work-in-progress. Poligraf is, in brief, a dog talking, a dog listening. In this way Poligraf overlapses and overexposes worlds and words: as an analysis on educational systems for/on dogs and men. It explores the rhythmic natures of communication: reduced to language, amplified to athletism, reduced to words, amplified to vectors, directions, colors, reduced to behaviour, amplified to dance, reduced to morality and meaning, amplified to music, technicolor cartoons, karaoke. Poligraf, the dog, forces and capsizes all men's theaters and school vocabularies.
POLIGRAF (from latin: poli/many grafia/writing) is the name of the project partaked by all the members of the ensembe. Poligraf is the name of the main character of Bulgakov’s novel Heart of a dog. The character is the intersection between a man and a dog, the result of an experimental surgery on a stray dog.
POLIGRAF is an educational and artistic project started in 2009 in Bologna (IT) tand developed through 2 permanent workshops: one attended by 12 prisoners of the High Safety section in the Jailhouse of Bologna, the other attended by 15 students of the Department of Music and Theater of the University of Bologna,. Both workshops have been leaded by a pool of theater, visual, music artists coming from different countries.
In this project the attention for the social-pedagogical sides of theater work is all-one with to the interest for the innovation of artistic languages, the developement of new relations between theater and communities, a research over international or extra-national forms of communication, the developement of new mediums for new dialogues.
POLIGRAF is the opening project of the Dogod ensemble.
It is directed by Massimiliano Briarava Cossati, theater director, lecturer at the University of Bologna, with many years of experience in directing theater projects with special actors as children, drug addicted, prisoners.
The drawings, photographs and animated cartoons of Poligraf are created by Karin Andersen, well known german artist resident and operating in Italy and all Europe.
The body scores are designed by Sara Dal Corso, dancer for many companies in Italy including Societas Raffaello Sanzio.
The video alphabets and karaoke are created by Ana Ticak, serbian videoartist working in Italy and Germany.
The original choir music is composed and directed by Paolo V. Montanari, young musician and opera singer
The project obtains in 2009 the support of the Banca del Monte di Bologna e Ravenna Foundation and the patronage of the University of Bologna. Throught this contributions it’s been possible to present a first studio-step of the project on June 25th 2009 into the Jailhouse of Bologna, for an audience of guests, and receiving attention from institutions and press reviews. The Poligraf project is now ready for a step forward, with new actors and a larger audience, an international audience, so to test its effectiveness in exploring a less verbal and more sensitive language. It’s future developements are now supported by the Culture and University Council of the city of Bologna.
POLIGRAF - So many writings is a multi-linguistic performance inspired by Bulgakov’s novel Heart of a dog, and a permanent work-in-progress. Poligraf is, in brief, a dog talking, a dog listening. In this way Poligraf overlapses and overexposes worlds and words: as an analysis on educational systems for/on dogs and men. It explores the rhythmic natures of communication: reduced to language, amplified to athletism, reduced to words, amplified to vectors, directions, colors, reduced to behaviour, amplified to dance, reduced to morality and meaning, amplified to music, technicolor cartoons, karaoke. Poligraf, the dog, forces and capsizes all men's theaters and school vocabularies.
