Panoramic Banana

Album of the Inhabitants of the New World

Michele Di Stefano / mk

Palco Sala Teatro

Past event

31 March 2026

20:00

Panoramic Banana

Album of the Inhabitants of the New World

Michele Di Stefano / mk

Palco Sala Teatro

Past event

31 March 2026

20:00

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.  

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. 

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