The result of the performance presented at Castel San Pietro as part of the second edition of the Lugano Dance Project, *Panoramic Banana* is the new production by mk, one of the most intriguing companies on the international arts scene: a kaleidoscope of dance and imagery immersed in a hybrid soundscape.
Panoramic Banana
Album of the Inhabitants of the New World
Michele Di Stefano / mk
Panoramic Banana
Album of the Inhabitants of the New World
Michele Di Stefano / mk
Award-winning choreographer Michele Di Stefano brings to the stage a proliferation of choreographic systems that evoke a new folklore—imaginary and projected toward a world yet to come—where disorder reigns, the environment becomes murky and pulsating, and the desire for rewilding can finally flow undisturbed.
There is no place for the exotic: it is pure representation. But it is precisely this abstract void that can transform into a real space, a container to be redefined. Panoramic Banana is a collection of sounds, dances, and images arranged like a catalog, alluding to a story of conquests and abuses, unfolding at a resort on the edge of the world. An evoked environment that rests on a single wild principle: mixture, proximity, and the incomprehensible euphoria of a pact between perpetrators and victims.
While ethnologists turn their attention to studying the last indestructible tribe still in circulation—the tourist tribe—and anthropologists take refuge in the analysis of TV series, “wild” thought is forgotten by the entertainment industry but proliferates undisturbed in the mist. No proclamation of redemption—and precisely for this reason, absolutely crucial for the future of humanity: a future that is sonic, aquatic, tropical, 40 degrees in the shade, epidemic, soothing, anatomical, and humid.
Partner di produzione
choreography and atmosphere
Michele Di Stefano
with
Biagio Caravano, Sebastiano Geronimo, Luciano Ariel Lanza, Flora Orciari, Laura Scarpini, Francesca Ugolini
Modular System Live
Biagio Caravano
music
The Creatures
lights
Giulia Broggi
video
Lorenzo Basili
management
Carlotta Garlanda with Silvia Parlani
distribution
Jean François Mathieu
a co-production
mk/KLm, LAC Lugano Arte e Cultura, Triennale Milano, Théâtre du Briançonnais, Bassano OperaEstate
with the support of
Italian Cultural Institute in Bucharest
in collaboration with
USI Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio—a course coordinated by architect Riccardo Blumer—and CNDB National Dance Center in Bucharest
with the support of
KOMM TANZ/PASSO NORD Residency Project by Compagnia Abbondanza/Bertoni
in collaboration with
The City of Rovereto, ORBITA / Spellbound National Dance Production Center
in collaboration with
ATCL Multidisciplinary Circuit of Lazio – Spazio Rossellini
with the support of
MiC