Beast Without Beauty – Carlo Massari – ph. Davide Colagiacomo
Il giovane coreografo Carlo Massari si ispira al teatro dell’assurdo di Samuel Beckett e al suo Giorni felici per raccontare la trappola della condizione esistenziale. In scena un autentico tuffo nel non-sense, un irriverente, cinico studio sugli archetipi della miseria umana, sull’inespressività, sulla spregevole crudeltà nelle relazioni interpersonali. Volti pallidi, figure esangui, disumanizzate e stremate che si affrontano in un algido duello; in palio c’è l’affermazione di un ruolo, un’identità, una posizione sociale, senza esclusione di colpi.
Original creation Carlo Massari
Production C&C Company
With Carlo Massari, Emanuele Rosa, Giuseppina Randi
Sound and lighting design Francesco Massari
Consulting costumes Gabriella Strangolini
Hairstyling Bruna Toneatto
In co-production Festival “Danza in Rete” Fondazione Teatro Comunale Città di Vicenza
With the support of Festival Oriente Occidente/CID Centro Internazionale della Danza, CSC/OperaEstate, Piemonte dal vivo, ARTEVEN, Komm-tanz Compagnia Abbondanza/ Bertoni, h(abita)t – Rete di Spazi per la Danza/Leggere Strutture Art Factory, Municipality of San Lazzaro di Savena “Protagonismo e Creatività
With the support of Residenza I.DRA. and Teatri di Vita within the framework of the “Progetto CURA 2018”
With the support of the programme MOVIN’UP SPETTACOLO – PERFORMING ARTS single session 2018/2019 curated by MINISTRY FOR CULTURAL HERITAGE AND ACTIVITIES – General Directorate for the Performing Arts (MiBAC – DG S) and Association for the Circuit of Young Italian Artists (GAI) together with Association of Young Artists of Emilia-Romagna (GA/ER ) With the support of MiBACT and SIAE “Sillumina – Private copies for young people, for culture”
Yet another cold, cold, merciless look at society.
An irreverent, cynical study of the archetypes of human misery, of inexpressiveness, of despicable cruelty in interpersonal relationships. Losers in a superficial relationship face each other in an icy duel; at stake is the affirmation of a role, an identity, a social position, survival. There are no rules, everything is allowed: we lend ourselves to be prey, designated victims of the other, we are aware of it, we are just waiting for it to happen, and in turn we are ready to pounce, offend, cleave, crush, tear, to mercilessly finish him off, but without getting our hands dirty.
A perverse aristocratic game of double-crossing, of abuse; a hidden, unspoken, pastel-coloured violence that leads irretrievably to slaughter, to extinction; there will be no winners, only losers. Of all the fussing, nothing happens…. And so we implode, unable to get back up, we abandon ourselves but being careful not to ruin our hairdo, smudge our make-up, crease our suits, not to lose dignity lest we suffer acts of cannibalism, be devoured by others, by our emptiness, by the deaf silence. An attempt to physically recount the evil of living, the Beckettian paralysis: a man deluded, desperate to the point of becoming insensitive, now unable to take charge of his life and remove it from the misery in which he has become mired. A comedy of the absurd (in which we suffer the absurd in spite of ourselves) with the existentialist and post-existentialist flavour of Beckett’s theatre, perfectly expressed in his ‘Happy Days‘.
An authentic plunge into non-sense, a black irony counterpointing the emaciated pallor of the faces, a fascination in the absurdity of the scenes, in the estrangement from human participation in the actions, in the facts; bloodless figures, devoid of energy, exhausted and dehumanised, as at the end of a long war, who know they have served no purpose except to do themselves and their own useless harm, to become cynical and opportunistic in the face of death to the point of contradicting themselves and betraying their playmates.
Beast Without Beauty – Carlo Massari – ph. Giulia Marangoni
Carlo Massari is a performer, choreographer and transdisciplinary creator active on the Italian and international contemporary scene. He has always been committed to the research of new performing languages, and he delves into the hybridisation and mixing of different artistic disciplines, defining in the “amphibious” form his clear and recognisable distinctive trait.
His eclectic training and professional career is characterised by experiences that alternate between prose and musical theatre, and even dance and physical theatre. His Masters include: Malou Airaudo, Michela Lucenti, Sonia Schoonejans, Theatre de l’Ange Fou, ATER Balletto, Lucio Dalla, Csaba Antal, Walter Le Moli, Claudio Longhi, Pietro Luigi Floridia.
Over the years he has collaborated as a performer for: Biennale di Venezia, Barbara Nativi, Marco Baliani, Teatro dell’Argine, TeatroDue, Cie.Balletto Civile, Cie.Abbondanza-Bertoni, Cie.della Rancia, Cie.Petri Dish.
In 2011 he co-founded C&C Company, a research and production company in the field of dance-theatre (recognised by the MIC), for which he is Artistic Director and is responsible for the award-winning creations: Maria Addolorata (HiverOclytes – Avignon, International Choreographic Competition – Hannover, Tanzpreize – Berne), Tristissimo (Premio Roma Danza, Les Lendemains qui Dansent – Arques), Beast without Beauty (ActFestival – Bilbao), Les Miserables (NID Platform), Right./span>
In 2020 he was awarded the CollaborActionXL prize by the AnticorpiXL Network and became an Associate Artist of the Oriente Occidente Festival.
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Reduced under 8: 3 euro
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