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Acabadabra
2021
Performance, Installation
50 min
Performance, Installation, 50 min
Imagination, research, visual and sound dramaturgy Cosimo Ferrigolo, Gaia Ginevra
Giorgi, Edoardo Lazzari
Sound design Riccardo Santalucia in collaboration with Emanuele Pontecorvo
Lighting consulting Andrea Sanson
Administration Giusy Guadagno
Production Extragarbo (Venice, IT)
Co-production Short Theatre (Rome, IT)
With the support of Teatro India (Rome, IT)
Ph. CIRCA Studio
Acabadabra takes shape in the CRATERE_ WEGIL: the sound whirlwinds of the past, witnessed by the former fascist building, collide with the clandestine voices of today’s city. The aim is to acoustically penetrate and profane the context in which they are recalled, in a “Saturnian necromantic practice”. The work takes shape from the collection of sound materials resulting from marginal wanderings in the folds of the city, then translated into poetic compositions, musical disappearances and peripheral presences. These world-sounds will activate new possible relationships with haunted places, ghostly voices that overturn the canonical divisions between outside and inside, center and periphery.
The performance manifests as a transformative experience, where the reclamation of marginality is seen as a possible strategy of subversion, counterposed to an idea of the city as a mechanism of control, a top-down planned space, and a theater of abuses of power—an expression of a colonialist project that continues to perpetuate its violence.
CRATERE: Cosimo Ferrigolo, Gaia Ginevra Giorgi, Edoardo Lazzari / Extragarbo – Short Theatre
