The objective of the second Crossroads-driven creative sessions by Progetto Amunì is to create a cross-media and multimedia performance. We discussed the meaning of cross/multimedia. A performance where the various disciplines intersect but which can also include audience interaction. It is no coincidence that compared to our former performances, we are following a different choice: exploring human contact and the digital.
The theme is, as we mentioned last month, BORDERS.
Our symbolic place of action is THE BEACH: a place that for some can be a holiday, well-being, relaxation, for others can be salvation, hope, dream).
What happens on this boundary line?
We will develop these themes and create something, inside and also transcending theatre, studying the relationships between us. Usually in our group, roles are naturally created. This is what we will have to follow now: explore labels for ourselves, how we identify with ourselves. One of the things we have to do on a conceptual level, is to try to unhinge mechanisms, to go beyond the Label itself.
Starting from our bodies, we start to work with Simona (choreography and movement) on relationships, contact, distance, space.
With Giuseppe we’re exploring the value of props and light in the creation of metaphysical and symbolic borders on stage. In the meanwhile we’re working on verbal statements like “I am … You are … They are …” to understand how our individual and collective minds perceive the role of others inside and outside our personal, political and social space.
With Sergio in the meanwhile we pursue the meaning of listening to music and sounds, on how to follow the moods that music evokes and how to work on stage also in contrast with it. The question is: can also Sound be perceived as a border, and can it be pushed, destroyed and created anew.
Here are some very interesting statements (in Italian) the performers made during the “I am…” impro:
Io sono chiuso
tu sei chiuso
io sono bloccato
io sono stanco
tu sei stanca?
tui sei in piedi
io sono dentro
io sono felicità
tu sei felicità
io sono tristezza
tu sei rabbia
io sono gelosia
io sono geloso
io sono alto
io sono basso
tu sei alto
tu sei altro
io sono nel mondo
io sono acqua
tu sei sole
io sono niente
io sono tutto
tu non sei tutto
io sono
