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The stark black and white image of a bleak and empty factory space is projected on to a square on the stage with the metal pillars that hold the stage lighting managing to look part of the scene. When lights dimly appear, performer Nicola Pianzola emerges from the dark as a faceless hooded figure whose…
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When one man can command the intensity of the theatrical experience just by flexing his sinewey muscles, we must find ourselves at the Parnassian peak of physical theater. Nicola Pianzola, of the experimental Instabili Vaganti company of Bologna, is just that man, & his hour of incantation-like speech & gymanastic movements is nothing but a…
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The company Instabili Vaganti is perfoming at Festival Akropolis a new dramaturgy, the second moment of evolution of a theatrical study that has a strong relationship with the artistic ferments coming from Mexico. The company faces that unfamiliar land and stages its deep pain. […] [The performance] opens our eyes. The photos and the momories…
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It isn’t a commemoration.“Vivos los llevaron y vivos los queremos” (“They picked up them alive and we want them alive”) is the slogan that leads the demonstrations and that the artists repeat on the stage. It is the construction of the memory: memory for these disappeared bodies whose lacks is scarring deeply. […] The space…
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[…] A work with an enormous emotional, political and ideal meaning, able to pull didactic moments together with images with an amazing expressive and plastic power. […] Instabili Vaganti, trough scenic moments rich in rhythm and corporeality, stage the new desaparecidos and the warning to the consciences. Desaparecidos#43 is the attempt to break the wall…
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[…] The emotions are really physical in the cold air of this unusual location. The gestures and the symbols on the stage begin to put the mind to work. […] A physical and material theatre that entirely expresses the pain and the anger for such a great number of lives destroyed and forgotten. […] This…
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A tragedy that became hashtag, #Megalopolisproject43, with the objective to involve everybody in an international project against the silence in order not to forget the 43 students of Ayotzinapa disappeared in Iguala, Mexico, on 26th September 2014. Thanks to this ‘Acción Global por Ayotzinapa’ we’re in a theatre that – mentioning Augusto Boal – puts…
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[…] Instabili Vaganti stages the dramatic event of the 43 Mexican students with Desaparecidos#43. This performance is the result of a research begun in Mexico and arrived in Uruguay and Argentina, and it’s a long and intense work of testaments and stories collection from the Mexican students involved in the international project Megalopolis. […]
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The company Instabili Vaganti stages the history of a recent past, maybe forgotten too fast, thanks to two Mexican actors met during the artistic residence period in Mexico. Bodies, sounds, images, actions are moving to tell the dramatic event of 43 students disappeared on 24th September 2014 in Iguala, Mexico. […] The artistic performance brings…
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[…] The bilingual writing – Italian and Spanish – returns with strength the voices of the Mexican students and of the families of the desaparecidos, and reveals the deep tie with the land that has generated it. […] The continuous twist of private and public celebrations tells a drama that blends the tragedy of a…