Author of an ironic, multicultural, social and political dance-theater, open to the confrontation of genres, from opera to academic ballet, Sasha Waltz, trained between New York and Amsterdam, director, resident choreographer in Berlin, leading artist of the German and international contemporary scene, with her research in constant motion reflects acutely on the time in which we live giving us a glimpse of ourselves creator of a gap.
“A company is not something abstract. It exists because we love working with people.” There is in Sasha Waltz this attention to the personal history of the individual, to the perception of the world that those who work with her have in the current deflagration of geographical, cultural boundaries. Her company not surprisingly presents itself as a collective, “Sasha Waltz & Guest,” a nucleus of dancers, actors, musicians, mobile nourished by collaboration with a multiplicity of artists.
Coming to Rovereto are two shows born from the heart of Sasha Waltz & Guest. The first is triple signature, Joanna Dudley, Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola, Rufus Didwiszus. Title stolen from a clothing label, Colours may fade with friction read instrucions carefully store in a cool and dry place no side effects. We wonder what is at risk of ending up faded, worn, worn out, no longer wearable. There are two on stage, a couple, Dudley, singer, musician, performer, and Diaz de Garaio Esnaola, dancer and choreographer, in their fourth collaboration. The setting is familiar, a room with a table and chairs in the center, but the apparent tranquility of the situation is physically reversed in a new, 90-degree plane conceived by set designer Rufus Didwiszus. A view of our lives from above, with a distance that separates and makes lucid, and which reveals, thanks to the scenographic choice, a lot about some interpersonal dynamics. The two cannot get out, there is no escape: their bodies, which, positioned on the inclined plane, are in perpetual danger of falling, tell us this above all. We feel, watching them, the physical, constant effort to resist. A perceptual filter on the facades of everyday life.
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