The Olympic Games
photo Alice Brazzit
“All I have is a voice
To undo the folded lie,
The romantic lie in the brain
Of the sensual man-in-the-street”
W. H. Auden, September 1 (1939)
Four young people meet at sunset, in the shadow of the olympic truce that has just been called: time has come to crumple, one gaze into the other, in the communion of tiredness. Poets suggested them that time for resistance is the present one, and its form is duration.
In order for them to not get caught unprepared by the dawn, they learn how to recognize each other with invisible signs of agreement; they practice how to drive their gaze towards the same direction. Tomorrow, they will keep piercing the world.
This is the wish that leads us, and the same we want for the audience: may these Olympic Games be the time of an encounter, the place where to find eyes to walk with through the night.
photo Alice Brazzit
CREDITS
by Chiara Bersani, Marco D’Agostin
performed by Chiara Bersani, Marta Ciappina, Marco D’Agostin, Matteo Ramponi and with a group of young local dancers
sound Pablo Esbert Lilienfeld
Olympic anthem Hani Jazzar
co-creation Closing Ceremony Luca Poncetta
design and creation Olympic rings Paola Villani
dramaturgical advice Igor Dobričić
technical direction Paolo Tizianel
logistic Eleonora Cavallo
promotion Marco Villari
co-produced by K3 Tanzplan Hamburg as part of the project TOGETHER APART
funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation, CapoTrave/Kilowatt, VAN dance company, european project «
BeSpectACTive » (supported by CapoTrave/Kilowatt, Tanec Praha, Teatrul National Radu Stanca Sibiu, Bachelit Multi Art
Centre, Domino Zagreb, York Theatre Royal, B-51 Ex Ponto Lubjana, Lift London)
creative residency at Centrale FIES art work space
supported by Corsia Of – Centro di Creazione Contemporanea, Ateliersi