Why do we remember the past and not the future? Do we exist in time or does time exist in us? What does it really mean for time to flow? What links time to our nature as subjects? What do I listen to when I listen to time flowing?
Carlo Rovelli
After its debut at the Teatro Elfo Puccini in Milan, as part of the MILANoLtre festival, TACA TÈ lands at the Fonderia. The show is produced by Compagnia Sanpapié with artistic direction by Lara Guidetti, in co-production with the Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto.
Taca Tè, in Emilian dialect meaning “you start,” is a challenge to the right to exist in time, played out between two bodies that are chronologically distant but converge in the present of dance. On stage, Antonio Caporilli and Francesca Lastella confront the grand theme of time and intergenerational encounter through relentless physical debate. Past and future mirror each other in an attempt to build a relationship capable of moving fearlessly along the timeline in both directions. Thus, the codes of ballroom dancing, which dictate roles, melodies, and spaces, dissolve in an “other” environment that progressively frees itself from structures to open multiple perspectives on the body and the relationship. The choreography develops a unique and ever-evolving flow of movement where the internal rhythms of the dancers diverge and oppose each other before finding common ground that allows for the transcendence of roles in an ironic, at times theatrical and surreal game.
Following the performance, there will be a talk with Elisabetta Donati, a sociologist and Head of the Culture and Research Department for the Ravasi-Garzanti Foundation, the scientific partner of the Over Dance project, which is entirely oriented towards research and policies for aging.
