A mysterious paleontologist comes to the audience to discuss bones, extinctions, and cosmic material. It soon becomes clear that something doesn't add up: his phrases let slip sentimental details, the posture of a limb takes on a bizarre choreographic pose, and the pronunciation of words increasingly resembles singing.
Marco D'Agostin's new show is a tribute to the musical, to its overwhelming and paradoxical logic, to love stories that end as suddenly as an asteroid and to our human, intolerable finitude. With his usual brilliant irony, the Venetian artist develops a score for voice and body that moves between paleontology, dance and sentiment, an unprecedented duet that has science and love, entertainment and information, life and death, dance and theater as its pairs of protagonists. Amid betrayals, dinosaur bones and mysterious iridium-filled caves, Asteroid recounts the extraordinary capacity of life-and therefore art-to always re-present itself, in new forms, without ever succumbing.
Monday 06 October
Palco Sala Teatro
25 CHF
Included in the subscription
by and with
Marco D'Agostin
sound
Luca Scapellato
songs
Marco D'Agostin, Luca Scapellato
scenes
Paola Villani
lights
Paolo Tizianel
costumes
Gianluca Sbicca
with a textual incursion by
Pier Lorenzo Pisano
creation assistant
Lucia Sauro
animatronic
Bots Conspiracy
research shared with
Chiara Bersani, Sara Bonaventura, Nicola Borghesi, Damien Modolo, Lisa Ferlazzo Natoli
movement coach
Marta Ciappina
repertory dances
Giulio Santolini, Stefano Bontempi
vocal training
Francesca Della Monica
scientific advice
Enrico Sortino
scenic elements construction
Piccolo Teatro of Milan
promotion, curation
Damien Modolo
organization, administration
Eleonora Cavallo, Federica Giuliano, Irene Maiolin, Paola Miolano
digital communication
Alessandro Ieva
production
VAN
co-production
Piccolo Teatro di Milano - Teatro d'Europa; Théâtre de la Ville, Paris; Fondazione Teatri di Pistoia; Pôle-Sud CDCN Strasbourg; Festival Aperto / Fondazione I Teatri - Reggio Emilia; Baerum Kulturhus - Dance Southeast-Norway; Snaporazverein
support
CN Ballet de l'Opéra national du Rhin; Centro Nazionale di Produzione della Danza Virgilio Sieni Firenze; AMAT and Civitanova Danza for RAM_Residenze Artistiche Marchigiane; La Contrada, Teatro Stabile di Trieste; Centro di Residenza dell'Emilia-Romagna L'arboreto - Teatro Dimora | La Corte Ospitale, Italian Cultural Institute, Oslo/MiC-Direction Generale Spettacolo and Sprang / Ål kulturhus, regional dance scene and performing arts center, as part of NID international residencies program; Grand Studio, Brussels; Scenario Pubblico, Catania; CSC/Centro per la Scena Contemporanea (Bassano del Grappa); Atcl/Spazio Rossellini: Fondazione Teatro Comunale Città di Vicenza; Centrale Fies; Teatro Stabile dell'Umbria.
