BIOGRAPHY
Dewey Dell is a dance and performing arts group active since 2006 and now composed by Teodora Castellucci, Agata Castellucci, Vito Matera, and the musician Demetrio Castellucci.
The choreographic research is continuously inspired and nourished by the images of art history and the behaviors of the animal kingdom, over the past few years it has moved closer to anthropological themes.
Dewey Dell has produced dance works that intersect different art forms, pursuing other lines of experimentation in music performance and video.
They have collaborated with visual artist Yuichi Yokoyama, theater director Kuro Tanino, musician Massimo Pupillo, vocalist Attila Chsihar, sculptor Matteo Lucca, and audiovisual installation collective Transforma, among others.
Since 2006 Dewey Dell has produced the following works: "à elle vide" (2007), "KIN KEEN KING" (2008), "Baldassarre" (2008), “Cinquanta Urlanti Quaranta Ruggenti Sessanta Stridenti” (2009), “Grave" (2011), “Marzo” (2013), “Trasmissione Verticale” (2016), “Sleep Technique - A Response to the Chauvet Pont d’Arc Cave” (2017) (nominated for choreography at Der Faust Theaterpreis in Germany), "Deriva Traversa" (2017), the diptych "I Am Within" & "I Am Without" (2018), "Hamlet" (2021), “I’ll do, I’ll do, I’ll do” (2022), presented worldwide in such contexts as: Arts House and Melbourne festival in Australia, Rencontres Chorégraphiques and Palais de Tokyo in Paris, La Biennale Danza in Venice, Wesleyan University and Macalester College in the US, Mime Festival at the Barbican in London, A l'Arme Festival in Berlin, Steirischer Herbst in Graz, BIT Teatergarasjen in Bergen, among others.
In 2023 they premiered with "Le Sacre du Printemps" with the original music by Igor Stravinsky.