Asteroide
A tribute to the musical, to its passionate and paradoxical logic, to stories of love that finish suddenly, like an asteroid, and to our intolerable human finitude. With his typical irony, Marco D’Agostin constructs a score for voice and body that, shifting between palaeontology, dance and emotion, tells of the endless ways in which life always finds a way to resist.
In the new show by Marco D’Agostin, a mysterious palaeontologist faces the audience to discuss bones, extinction and cosmic matter. It is immediately clear that something is amiss; his words reveal sentimental details, the posture of a limb assumes a bizarre choreographic pose, his pronunciation of words appears ever more like song.
A threat hangs over the body of the speaker, as terrifying as the trail of an asteroid; it is the musical, the most paradoxical and exhausting form of entertainment, which appears to want to devour the conference and test his ability to dance and sing the story of the end. In a hand-to-hand fight with Broadway, the speaker/performer D’Agostin creates a brand-new duet between science and love, between entertainment and education, and between life and death.
A blend of betrayal, dinosaur bones and mysterious grottoes full of iridium, Asteroide tells of the extraordinary capacity that life – and therefore art – has of constantly presenting itself in new forms, without ever surrendering. And we, the living creatures continuously called on to rebuild in the wake of apocalypse after apocalypse, are the demonstration that we recreate ourselves layer upon layer, just like the Earth.
Duration: the play is currently in production
Contacts
In the new show by Marco D’Agostin, a mysterious palaeontologist faces the audience to discuss bones, extinction and cosmic matter. It is immediately clear that something is amiss; his words reveal sentimental details, the posture of a limb assumes a bizarre choreographic pose, his pronunciation of words appears ever more like song.
A threat hangs over the body of the speaker, as terrifying as the trail of an asteroid; it is the musical, the most paradoxical and exhausting form of entertainment, which appears to want to devour the conference and test his ability to dance and sing the story of the end. In a hand-to-hand fight with Broadway, the speaker/performer D’Agostin creates a brand-new duet between science and love, between entertainment and education, and between life and death.
A blend of betrayal, dinosaur bones and mysterious grottoes full of iridium, Asteroide tells of the extraordinary capacity that life – and therefore art – has of constantly presenting itself in new forms, without ever surrendering. And we, the living creatures continuously called on to rebuild in the wake of apocalypse after apocalypse, are the demonstration that we recreate ourselves layer upon layer, just like the Earth.
Duration: the play is currently in production
Credits
Asteroide
by and with Marco D’Agostin
sound Luca Scapellato
songs Marco D'Agostin and Luca Scapellato
lighting Paolo Tizianel
costumes Gianluca Sbicca
assistente to the creation and alter ego Lucia Sauro
research carried out with Chiara Bersani, Sara Bonaventura, Nicola Borghesi, Tabea Martin, Damien Modolo, Lisa Ferlazzo Natoli
movement coach Marta Ciappina
repertory dance Giulio Santolini
vocal coach Francesca Della Monica
scientific consultancy Stefano Bontempi, Enrico Sortino
curation, development Damien Modolo
organisation, administration Eleonora Cavallo, Federica Giuliano, Irene Maiolin
a VAN production
coproduced with Piccolo Teatro di Milano - Teatro d’Europa; Théâtre de la Ville, Paris; Teatri di Pistoia; La briqueterie CDCN du Val-de-Marne; Centro Nazionale di Produzione della Danza Virgilio Sieni; CCN Ballet de l’Opéra national du Rhin; Pôle-Sud CDCN Strasbourg; Festival Aperto / Fondazione I Teatri - Reggio Emilia Snaporazverein
with the support of Agora de la Danse, Montréal; Grand Studio, Brussels; Scenario Pubblico, Catania; Centrale Fies CSC/Centro per la Scena Contemporanea (Bassano del Grappa); Teatro Comunale di Vicenza; La Contrada, teatro stabile di Trieste and other partners to be defined
Image: Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York / Los Angeles
