CONCEPTION AND DESIGN PIETER C. SCHOLTEN
WITH DERECK CAYLA, QUENTIN DEHAYE, EMIO GRECO, NEDA HADJI-MIRZAEI, KELLY HIRINA, ARNAUD MACQUET, HELENA VOLKOV
GUIDE LEANDRO AMATO TESTO/TEXT BY BO TARENSKEEN
TRANSLATED BY FRANCESCO DURANTE
VIDEO MAITE BERMÚDEZ, MOISES MORICOLI
SOUND DESIGN PIETER C. SCHOLTEN
LIGHT DESIGN HENK DANNER, PAUL BEUMER
COSTUMES CLIFFORD PORTIER
CO-PRODUCTION ICKAMSTERDAM, HOLLAND FESTIVAL, THEATER A/H VRIJTHOF, NEDERLANDSE DANSDAGEN
IN COLLABORATION WITH ATER – ASSOCIAZIONE TEATRALE EMILIA ROMAGNA
Project founded
with POR FESR 2007-2013 “La cultura come risorsa”
Italian premiere
Running time: 2h
Venue Museo Nazionale Ferroviario di Napoli “Pietrarsa” – SALA DELLE LOCOMOTIVE
Dates
13/06/2014 21:30
14/06/2014 21:30
In Addio alla Fine Emio Greco and Pieter C. Scholten return to the style of their earlier works: very little theatricality, using only the body and dance as the starting points. Presented in the form of an itinerant performance, this work leaves the public with a powerful visual imagery. Indeed, the public meets their “guide”, Leandro Amato, at the entrance of the Museo Ferroviario di Pietrarsa; they are then taken into the Sala delle Locomotive where they line up along the sides of the stage; the performance ends in the open-air Arena, just a stone’s throw from the sea.
At the centre of the choreography is the importance of responsibility and the courage of being vulnerable: Greco and Scholten believe that only through critical thought and concrete action can the dancers, actors and spectators bring about a process of change. Greco and Scholten were inspired by two works for this performance: The Improvising Society, a text by Hans Boutellier which deals with social networks and Federico Fellini’s film E la nave va, a rhinoceros on stage as homage to this masterpiece of Italian cinema.
