(2002)
| P.O.M.P.E.I. |
| Heil Tanz ! |
| Public Relation |
| Sorelline |
| Transgedy |
| La Signora |
| La testimone |
| Esercizi spirituali |
| Other projects |
By Caterina Sagna
Choreography Carlotta Sagna and Caterina
Sagna
Presented by Viviane de Muynck (english
and french version), or Daniela Bisconti (italian version)
With Alessandro Bernardeschi, Claire Croizé,
Lisa Gunstone, Antonio Montanile, Mauro Paccagnella, Carlotta Sagna,
Caterina Sagna
Dramaturgy Roberto Fratini Serafide
Costumes Tobia Ercolino
Light design Nuccio Marino Light
Philippe Gladieux Sound Carlo Bottos
Production Manager Nicolò Stabile
Production: Associazione Compagnia Caterina Sagna
Coproduction: Théâtre de la Ville - Paris, la Biennale
di Venezia, Halle aux Grains - Blois (F),
Centre National de la Danse - Paris (F)
Thanks to Needcompany - Brussels (B)
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Open rehearsal, work in progress, press conference,
Public Relation reports "live" the meeting between a dance
company and its public, showing the thousands of creative indecisions
and practical mishaps preceding that solved (or unsolved) doubt which
is a performance. The public is called to attend a "tour de force"
of a peculiar kind: a performance dreamed, planned and almost carried
out, starting from the title, will be undone under everybody’s
eyes, to recover or to pretend that incompletedness which makes a work
of art debatable. In as silent a realm as movement is, one accepts the
challenge (or commits the fatal mistake) to express oneself in words
and to lean oneself for the period of an evening to the crutches of
dialogue. Improvisations, extemporary discussions, exhibitions of the
work through fragments or in stages, live sketches, finishing touches,
training. Everything (except the banality) will be shown of the performance
which will be or has been, along with the risks, the accidents, the
blind alleys and the fickle handicaps therein, which can produce, night
after night, undesirable collateral effects.
The finished performances make a mosaic of aesthetic successes and failures;
Public Relation is made of questions and answers: but the questions
are not necessarily verbal, the answers not necessarily danced. What
is staged is this deflagration of purposes and accomplishments, the
erupting magma which lies at the base of every creation, and that also,
in a disquieting way, remembers a catastrophe. But the catastrophe,
at least on paper, is not frightening: nothing is more alive than what
is yet to be born.
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Caterina and Carlota Sagna’s work invites us to discover an unusual
form of spectacle involving a range of different registers. An extraordinary
experience without a safety net that remains veiled. A new breed of
spectacle?
Simply cast your mind back to the hard-hitting content of Sorelline
one of the highlights of “Mettre en Scène 2002” in
which she drew her inspiration from the Little Women to denounce the
commonplace tyranny between dance and theatre. With a delightfully caustic
sense of humour, Caterina Sagna breaks with conventions, playing on
the troubled dividing line between what is true and what is false.
Relazione pubblica combines magnificent dancers from Italy, France,
and Great Britain.
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