concept, choreography and sound: Francesco Scavetta
in collaboration with the dancers: Laida Azkona, Gry Kipperberg, Dante Murillo Bobadilla, Arnulfo Pardo Ravagli
dramaturge: Sasa Bozic
light designer: Stefano Stacchini
costumes: Gjøril Bjercke Sæther
scene: Wee, Sebastiana Di Gesu
video: Francesco Scavetta, Gianpaolo Rampini
production: Wee
co-producer: Dansens Hus (Norway)
supported by:
Arts Council Norway, Fund for performing artists, the Ministry of
Culture of Republic of Croatia, Zagreb City Council for Culture
in collaboration with:
combined operations (Zagreb - Croatia), ART Workshop Lazareti (Dubrovnik-Croatia), Teatro Comunale di Cagli (Italy)
Realized in collaboration with: Lokomotiva- Centre for New Initiatives in Arts and Culture/Skopje; Station - Service for contemporary dance/Belgrade, Brainstore projects/Sofia
AND I JUST STOOD THERE is an ironic investigation on artificial paradises and extreme moments. It's a list of bizarre accidents, surreal gestures and talks, dance and video clips, which flows in a weird, paradoxical way. This load of distillated situations invites us to examine how we relate to, and discriminate between, personal and impersonal, natural and constructed. The core of the performance lies in an expression of artificiality which contemporary experience is often based on: one of no longer living in the world, nor in the language, but in the image of the world.
Throughout an investigation on visual and conceptual displacement/misplacement, the performance deals with our perception of the reality by deconstructing narrative scenes and, at the same time, visual and physical languages. With a process of adding and removing, we play with the collapsing of the sense (and the signs) of the situations presented to us, challenging spectators expectations, delaying back-taste meanings and creating empathy by triggering ironic catches.
Tour schedule:
26. - 27. September - Teatro Comunale di Cagli (Italy)
29. September - Plesni Theatre/Ljubljana (Slovenia)
2.-3. October - Croatian Institute for Movement and Dance (Croatia)
6. October - New Stage of Belgrade Drama Theatre/Beograd (Serbia)
11 October - MOB-Macedonian Opera and Ballet /Skopje (Macedonia)
13 October - Sfumato Theatre/Sofia (Bulgaria)
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