The 1989 edition of the Rovereto Festival, which features an extensive section dedicated to the historical avant-gardes of the 20th century, opens with a contemporary reinterpretation of the work of the Futurist from Rovereto, Fortunato Depero. The author of the show, co-produced by Oriente Occidente with the Arles Festival, is the Roman choreographer-architect Lucia Latour, founder of the Altroteatro company and a key figure from her long and essential experience working within the experimental group “Altro,” composed of painters, musicians, visual artists, dancers, and architects. Until 1981, this group updated the typical demands of the historical avant-gardes through interdisciplinary performances.
After the experiments of “Spatium Teca” in 1982 and “Lalu La” in 1984, with “Frilli Troup” in 1986 and “ON e Tombe…” in 1988, Latour established a personal expressive world full of humor, spectacularized by the contribution of multivision: moving images projected onto the back of the stage, the dilation and multiplication of the dancers’ actions creating multiple spaces of representation, “variable – says the choreographer – at the rhythmic speed of a remote control.” Her movement research, linked to Paxton’s contact improvisation and Cébron’s theories, since 1986 has focused on an analysis of the ambiguity of space and a dynamic challenge to the force of gravity.
“Anihccam” is the title of the new work inspired by Depero.
“The rhythmic structure of the show consists of an alternation of creative atmospheres by the artist. Avoiding museum-like reconstructions, these situations are spectacularized in danced episodes, set in a 'playfully' contemporary context linked to today’s 'electronic' habit of perception” (Latour).
Indeed, while Depero, in his proposal for a plastic theater, envisioned rigid geometric costumes related to Schlemmerian operations and Craig’s theories, Latour works on the contemporary idea of the dynamically 'electronic' movement of bodies.
The set design, consisting of a series of movable planes, is enriched by a special lighting system, of which multivision is a key aspect. The costumes are “free citations” of Depero. The music, created specifically for the show, is composed by Luigi Ceccarelli, with the collaboration of Maurizio Giri.
