Luc Dunberry is one of the faces of Sasha Waltz's company. He has also been seen dancing in Italy multiple times, in Körper, Gezeiten, Dido and Aeneas. And not only that. Along with Jan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola (also part of Waltz's collective and a guest at the Festival with Colours may fade), Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, and Damien Jalet (both from Les Ballets C. de la B. by Alain Platel), Dunberry was a co-author and performer of the stunning "dance concert" D’avant, a sensual project on the encounter between contemporary dance and medieval polyphonic singing.
In Rovereto, he brings his 1998 show, Anything Else, where we see him on stage with dancer Sigal Zouk and once again with Diaz de Garaio Esnaola. The piece is presented by the author as follows: “Three people, lacking contact, get burned at every misinterpreted attempt to express their needs. Their isolation and the desire to escape it are both the cause and consequence of their failures.” As often happens with artists who have grown with Sasha Waltz, Anything Else also confronts a strong ability to create a highly expressive scene, between realistic and imaginary. A place to expose human sensitivity and weakness with a healthy dose of self-irony.
Three toilets, with doors cut off at mid-calf, from which the three performers enter and exit for a piece that speaks to us about the insecurity of identity, the advertising conception of the body and all that entails, and the gap between intimacy and public exposure. A second show after Colours may fade to get closer to the reality of one of the most significant artistic collectives of recent years.
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