DRODESERA 2010 TRAILER PROGRAMME BOOKLET B-FIES PARTNERS INFO STAFF
COMPAGNIA VIRGILIO SIENI
TRISTI TROPICI
Freely inspired by Tristes Tropiques by Claude Lévi-Strauss
Monday 26th July / h 21.00
Turbina 1
durata 60 minuti
ideation, choreography, set design Virgilio Sieni
performance and collaboration Simona Bertozzi, Ramona Caia, Elsa De Fanti, Dorina Meta, Michela Minguzzi
original score Francesco Giomi
lighting Marco Santambrogio
costumes Lydia Sonderegger
masks and scenery Chiara Occhini
setting Francesco Pangaro
production Daniela Giuliano
organization Giulia Rabbene
administrative director Rossella Nati
administration offices Marina Frulio
production 2010 La Biennale di Venezia, Spielzeit'europa I Berliner Festspiele, Bitef Theatre Belgrade
as part of the ENPARTS - European Network of Performing Arts
with the support of Programma Cultura della Commissione Europea
co-produced by Biennale de la Danse de Lyon, Teatro Stabile di Napoli, Compagnia Virgilio Sieni
The Company is supported by Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali-Direzione Generale per lo spettacolo dal vivo, Regione Toscana, Comune di Firenze
The show is freely inspired by Tristes Tropiques by Claude Lévi-Strauss. Virgilio Sieni does not produce a literal transcription of the test: on stage are two couples of women (dancers Simona Bertozzi, Michela Minguzzi, Ramona Caia, Elsa De Fanti) and a blind girl (Dorina Meta). Figures that from a distance appear as undefined shadows, opaque visions, close and dependent figures, couples that "huddle together nostalgic for their lost unity".
The show is developed in three parts in which the female apparitions are identified as a "penultimate" presence, following a tripartite journey through animal vicinity, conveyed tenderness, lasting nostalgia that foster the sense of what the ethnologist described as "the West's lost opportunity of remaining female". Tristes Tropiques opens to the agony and the evocation, dazzling us with eternal nostalgia, disclosing the sedimentation of ritual as it becomes a gesture between animality and humanity.
VIRGILIO SIENI
Wunderkammern_Canti
Friday 23rd July, Sabato 24 luglio / Saturday 24th July, Domenica 25 luglio / Sunday 25th July, h18.00 - 18.20 - 18.40 - 19.00
Dro
duration 60 min.
Wunderkammern_Canti
part of the project Art of the Gesture in the Mediterranean by Virgilio Sieni
project assistant Sara Dal Corso
production Centrale Fies, Regione Toscana, Accademia sull’arte del gesto, Cango Cantieri Goldonetta Firenze, Compagnia Virgilio Sieni
special thanks to Fiorindo Angeli, Mario Bortolotti, Fabio Giuliani, Carla Moratti, Rabé, Kadia, Raed e Raef Harrabi
I
There are secret locations in this village transcribed through the gestures of some of its residents, who have volunteered to participate in this journey.
II
A universe of signs that make up a natural geography of actions intended to mask any bits of reality left in familiar places. Selected rooms are to be prepared for the event, reshaping their nature and giving them a new usage.
III
Orderly, reconsidered places that shed light on a private universe and allow themselves to be transcribed in otherness, in memory.
IV
These places symbolize the innocent archipelago of objects, furnishings, souvenirs and lights, re-designed to secretly welcome guests/spectators.
V
Visions connected to one another by a web of gazes, towards residential microcosms that, for once, are drained of their everyday function.
VI
Loci of the “we,” based on the rarity of sentiments and sedimentation within human beings.
VII
An excursion in the historic nucleus of the village of Dro, Orbia, through rooms that lead us back to its inhabitants, who have given their time to participate in a series of experiences and show us their homes and their views of the contemporary condition.