guest production from open studios 2021
concept and direction Alessandra Paoletti, Damiano Ottavio Bigi/Fritz Company
performers Damiano Ottavio Bigi, Lukasz Przytarski
composition and sound design David Blouin
light designer Amador Artiga Tuset
lighting design collaboration Evina Vassilakopoulou / Amador Artiga Tuset / David Blouin
music Antonio Vivaldi, Brian Eno, Antonio Caldara, The Nicholas Brothers and Cab Calloway, David Blouin
photography and video Amador Artiga Tuset, @velislavvelislav, Pavlos Kosmidis
co-production Compagnia Simona Bucci/Degli Istanti, TORINODANZA Festival / Teatro Stabile di Torino –– Teatro Nazionale, ONE DANCE WEEK Festival – Plovdiv with the support of 2WORKS / DIMITRIS PAPAIOANNOU, il FUNARO / Pistoia, Fabbrica Europa / PARC Performing Arts Research Centre – NRW Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft, Teatro-Biblioteca Quarticciolo – Rome
duration: 50 minutes
The idea for Un Discreto Protagonista was born in the pandemic period and is the result of the reflections and thoughts that that period engraved within us. The fragmentation of unity and its dissolution is the central theme that runs through the entire work and develops from a fragment of time that expands and is explored in the relationship, harmony and contrast between the two figures on stage. They move within an abstract space, a no-man’s land that becomes a waiting place; an infinite horizon that could also be a closed room. Time is frozen, a huge pause, in which everything can coexist and from which a chasm opens, which is loss, bewilderment.
“We deliberately left room for multiple visions”, the authors tell us, “so that what happens on stage can resonate with the viewer in a totally personal way, opening up visions and feelings in the face of the human fear of finding oneself in nothingness. It is a tale of an instant, the instant of time going off the hinges, or before that, the moment in which balance and symmetry break down to start time. No bang, no noise, just a temporary vibration of air. On a blank page, a narrative takes shape, which goes beyond a visible story: pure dance and narrative fragments burst through images related to some of the oldest stories, like pieces of a single story”.
