Balli plastici remix

FREE REVISITING OF THE HISTORIC PRODUCTIONE BY FORTUNATO DEPERO

1918/2018

 

project and direction

MICHELE ABBONDANZA e ANTONELLA BERTONI

project and digital stage design

PAOLO ATZORI

choreography

MICHELE ABBONDANZA e ANTONELLA BERTONI

in collaboration with the dancers

with

MARCO BISSOLI, MARIA VITTORIA BORTOLOTTI, VALENTINA DAL MAS, GIOVANNI LEONARDUZZI, TOMMASO MONZA, ANIA TONELLI,  ALISSA SHIRAISHI,  PICCOLA COMPAGNIA ABBONDANZA/BERTONI: NAIMA FIUMARA, EMILY MANICA, GIACOMO MANICA, ANNA MANZANA, AGATA PAVANI

and the ROBOT TANAO

music

Balli Plastici (ALFREDO CASELLA, GERALD HUGH TYRWHITT-WILSON BERNERS, GIAN FRANCESCO MALIPIERO, BÉLA BARTÓK)

Performed with live orchestra or digitally reproduced

lighting designer

ANDREA GENTILI

project collaboration and stage props

TOMMASO MONZA

costumes

CHIARA DEFANT

hair and make up

LUCIA SANTORSOLA

creative coder

SEBASTIANO BARBIERI

A.I. Nato developer

GUGLIELMO CASSINELLI

Tanao projet et dévelopement

GAIA GREMES

rigger

ALDO ALIPRANDI

administration and organisation

FRANCESCA LEONELLI e DALIA MACII

production

COMPAGNA ABBONDANZA/BERTONI, ASSOCIAZIONE FILARMONICA DI ROVERETO, SETTENOVECENTO

in collaboration with

MART

with the contribution of
FONDAZIONE CASSA DI RISPARMIO DI TRENTO E ROVERETO

thanks to

NICOLETTA BOSCHIERO, CARLO PROSSER e FEDERICO ZANONER (MART – Archivio del Novecento), Prof. TOMMASO SCARANO (ITE A. Tambosi), GIORGIA PASOLLI (Jumpcut).

In the form of a "great futurist variety" we are presenting 14 scenes, with a prologue and epilogue, featuring 28 musicians, 14 performers and two robots: one representing the ghost-machine of Depero,the other an agent and dancer on stage.

How would the "proto-designer" Depero have remade his Balli Plastici?

And how can you re-visit and remake something which left no trace?

We indirectly asked the artist himself, through the use of a "machine", in this liberal incursion of Depero's Plastic Theatre where we actually imagine a robot/machine centre stage.

It is a kind of vocal assistant using artificial intelligence to enable it to answer the questions asked throughout the performance.

In this way, our desire was to create the chance to put on a "Great Futurist Variety". An imaginary kaleidoscope of figures within a highy technological setting, achieving  a more expressive and emotional result which accurately represents and communicates  those signs and symbols typical of its original author.

 

The twelve pieces of music are performed from the original score used, as they had been composed by the four composers.

 

"When I live off my thoughts from yesterday

I'll start to fear those who copy me" Fortunato Depero

2018. Auditorium Melotti - Rovereto (TN).

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