Balletto Civile – Davidson – ph. Donato Aquaro
A metà strada tra racconto e sceneggiatura, Il Padre Selvaggio, scritto nel 1962 e pubblicato postumo nell’anno della sua morte, è un abbozzo di film che Pasolini non ha mai realizzato, nonostante fosse quasi tutto pronto e il regista avesse anche fatto un viaggio in Africa con Alberto Moravia e Dacia Maraini per trovare i posti dove girare.
Balletto Civile porta in scena Davidson, un oggetto coreografico con un giovane performer di talento: una messinscena danzata, una vertigine tra opera letteraria e teatro fisico.
freely adapted from the screenplay Il Padre Selvaggio by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Concept and dramaturgy: Maurizio Camilli
Choreography: Michela Lucenti
With Maurizio Camilli and Confident Frank
Lighting design: Vincenzo De Angelis
Sound design: Andrea Gianessi
Assistant director: Ambra Chiarello
Assistant to choreography: Francesco Collavino
Production Balletto Civile, in collaboration with ERT Emilia Romagna Teatro / Teatro Nazionale / focus CARNE
with the support of ATER (Modena) and ICK (Amsterdam) and the Italian Ministry of Culture MIC
– What is poetry, sir?” asks Davidson
– But you know it! – says the professor.
– No I do not know! – protests the boy shaking his curly head.
– Yes you know!
– No I do not know!
– You are an African, you are immersed in poetry!
– No, poetry is a white thing.
– Sing a song from your village!
Davidson begins to sing one of his village songs.
But the singing is in his head closely connected with the dance. And then, singing, he starts dancing.
A long song, a long dance.
– Here, this is poetry!
Balletto Civile – Davidson – ph. Donato Aquaro
Il Padre Selvaggio (The Savage Father) is an outline of a screenplay written in 1963 by Pier Paolo Pasolini and published posthumously in the fateful 1975. The director did not find financers, frightened by his freedom of thought, and the film was never made. It is the story of Davidson, a sensitive and acute black boy from an African tribe and his encounter with a progressive and tormented teacher – a frontier figure, alter ego of Pasolini himself – who tries to give his boys a modern and anti-colonialist education. Above all, this suspended work recounts the conflict between the teacher and Davidson, wary of the new method and culture of the new teacher precisely because he is the smartest. The heart of this contrast is the dilemma of the relationship between blacks and whites, the problem of freedom and democracy, of the tension towards the other than oneself.
A short and intense piece of writing, with a strong political and not just poetic value, a sort of canvas that escapes definitions, conceived above all as a succession of images and indications of actions. A hybrid screenplay that mixes codes and languages and precisely in the absence of its realization offers great expressive potential.
An indefinite form that presents visual qualities that lend themselves to dance staging, in a vertigo between literary work and physical theatre.
Balletto Civile met its Davidson on the outskirts of Modena.
Balletto Civile – Davidson – ph. Donato Aquaro
A nomadic group by definition, animated by a strong ethical tension, Balletto Civile was founded in 2003 by Michela Lucenti. The creative approach is a research based on movement that emerges from the deep scenic relationship between the artists. It works on a total language where theatre, dance and original song interact naturally.
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