Beast Without Beauty – Carlo Massari – ph. Davide Colagiacomo
PROVA APERTA
Il giovane coreografo Carlo Massari si ispira al teatro dell’assurdo di Samuel Beckett e al suo Giorni felici per raccontare la trappola della condizione esistenziale. In scena un autentico tuffo nel non-sense, un irriverente, cinico studio sugli archetipi della miseria umana, sull’inespressività, sulla spregevole crudeltà nelle relazioni interpersonali. Volti pallidi, figure esangui, disumanizzate e stremate che si affrontano in un algido duello; in palio c’è l’affermazione di un ruolo, un’identità, una posizione sociale, senza esclusione di colpi.
Original creation Carlo Massari
Production C&C Company
With Carlo Massari, Emanuele Rosa, Giuseppina Randi
Sound and lighting design Francesco Massari
Consulting stage clothes Gabriella Strangolini
Hairstyling Bruna Toneatto
In co-production Festival “Danza in Rete” Fondazione Teatro Comunale Città di Vicenza
With the support of Festival Oriente Occidente/CID Centro Internazionale della Danza, CSC/OperaEstate, Piemonte dal vivo, ARTEVEN, Komm-tanz Compagnia Abbondanza/ Bertoni, h(abita)t – Rete di Spazi per la Danza/Leggere Strutture Art Factory, Comune di San Lazzaro di Savena “Protagonismo e Creatività”
With the support of Residenza I.DRA. and Teatri di Vita as part of the “Progetto CURA 2018”
With the support of MOVIN’UP SPETTACOLO – PERFORMING ARTS program single session 2018/2019 curated by MINISTERO PER I BENI E LE ATTIVITA’ CULTURALI – Direzione Generale Spettacolo (MiBAC – DG S) and Associazione per il Circuito dei Giovani Artisti Italiani (GAI) together with Associazione Giovani Artisti dell’Emilia-Romagna (GA/ER ) With the support MiBACT and SIAE “Sillumina – Copia privata per i giovani, per la cultura”
Yet another look: firm, cold, icy, merciless at society.
An irreverent, cynical study of the archetypes of human misery, inexpressiveness, despicable cruelty in interpersonal relationships. Losers in a superficial relationship face each other in an icy duel; at stake is the assertion of a role, an identity, a social position, survival. There are no rules, everything is allowed: we lend ourselves to be prey, designated victims of the other, we are aware of it, we just wait for it to happen, and in turn we are ready to pounce, offend, cleave, crush, maul, to mercilessly finish him off, but without getting our hands dirty.
A perverse aristocratic game of double-crossing courtship, of abuse; a hidden, unspoken, pastel-colored violence that leads irretrievably to slaughter, to extinction; there will be no winners, only losers. Of so much agitation nothing happens…. And so we implode unable to get back up, we give up but being careful not to ruin the hairdo, smudge the makeup, crease the suit, not to lose in dignity lest we suffer acts of cannibalism, be devoured by others, by emptiness, by our own emptiness, by the deaf silence. An attempt to physically narrate the evil of living, the Beckettian paralysis: a man deluded, desperate to the point of becoming numb, now unable to take charge of his life and remove it from the misery in which it has become mired. A comedy of the absurd (in which the absurd, despite ourselves, we suffer it) with the existentialist and post-existentialist flavor of Beckett’s theater perfectly explicated in his “Happy Days”.
An authentic plunge into nonsense, a black irony counterpointed by the emaciated pallor of the faces, a fascination in the absurdity of the scenes, in the estrangement from human participation in the actions, in the facts; lifeless figures, devoid of energy, exhausted and dehumanized, as at the end of a long war, who know they have served no purpose except to do themselves and each other uselessly harm, to become cynical and opportunistic in the face of death to the point of contradicting themselves and betraying their fellow players.
Beast Without Beauty – Carlo Massari – ph. Giulia Marangoni
Carlo Massari is a performer, choreographer and transdisciplinary creator active in the Italian and international contemporary scene. Always committed to the research of new performative languages, he delves into the hybridization and mixing of different artistic disciplines, defining in the “amphibious” form his clear and recognizable distinctive trait.
His eclectic educational and professional background is characterized by experiences that alternate between prose and musical theater, until he lands in dance and physical theater. His Masters include Malou Airaudo, Michela Lucenti, Sonia Schoonejans, Theatre de l’Ange Fou, ATER Balletto, Lucio Dalla, Csaba Antal, Walter Le Moli, Claudio Longhi, Pietro Luigi Floridia.
Over the years he has collaborated as a performer for: Venice Biennale, Barbara Nativi, Marco Baliani, Teatro dell’Argine, TeatroDue, Cie.Balletto Civile, Cie.Abbondanza-Bertoni, Cie.della Rancia, Cie.Petri Dish.
In 2011, he co-founded C&C Company, a research and production company in the field of dance-theater (recognized MIC), for which he is Artistic Director and signs its award-winning Creations: Maria Addolorata (HiverOclytes – Avignon, International Choreographic Competition – Hannover, Tanzpreize – Bern), Tristissimo (Premio Roma Danza, Les Lendemains qui Dansent – Arques), Beast without Beauty (ActFestival – Bilbao), Les Miserables (NID Platform), Right.
In 2020 he is the recipient of the CollaborActionXL award from the Antibody NetworkXL and becomes an Associate Artist of the Oriente Occidente Festival.
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