Asteroide
© Masiar Pasquali
A tribute to the musical, to its passionate and paradoxical logic, to stories of love that finish suddenly, like an asteroid, and to our intolerable human finitude. With his typical irony, Marco D’Agostin constructs a score for voice and body that, shifting between palaeontology, dance and emotion, tells of the endless ways in which life always finds a way to resist.
In the new show by Marco D’Agostin, a mysterious palaeontologist faces the audience to discuss bones, extinction and cosmic matter. It is immediately clear that something is amiss; his words reveal sentimental details, the posture of a limb assumes a bizarre choreographic pose, his pronunciation of words appears ever more like song.
A threat hangs over the body of the speaker, as terrifying as the trail of an asteroid; it is the musical, the most paradoxical and exhausting form of entertainment, which appears to want to devour the conference and test his ability to dance and sing the story of the end. In a hand-to-hand fight with Broadway, the speaker/performer D’Agostin creates a brand-new duet between science and love, between entertainment and education, and between life and death.
A blend of betrayal, dinosaur bones and mysterious grottoes full of iridium, Asteroide tells of the extraordinary capacity that life – and therefore art – has of constantly presenting itself in new forms, without ever surrendering. And we, the living creatures continuously called on to rebuild in the wake of apocalypse after apocalypse, are the demonstration that we recreate ourselves layer upon layer, just like the Earth.
Duration: 1 hour and 30 minutes without intermission
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In the new show by Marco D’Agostin, a mysterious palaeontologist faces the audience to discuss bones, extinction and cosmic matter. It is immediately clear that something is amiss; his words reveal sentimental details, the posture of a limb assumes a bizarre choreographic pose, his pronunciation of words appears ever more like song.
A threat hangs over the body of the speaker, as terrifying as the trail of an asteroid; it is the musical, the most paradoxical and exhausting form of entertainment, which appears to want to devour the conference and test his ability to dance and sing the story of the end. In a hand-to-hand fight with Broadway, the speaker/performer D’Agostin creates a brand-new duet between science and love, between entertainment and education, and between life and death.
A blend of betrayal, dinosaur bones and mysterious grottoes full of iridium, Asteroide tells of the extraordinary capacity that life – and therefore art – has of constantly presenting itself in new forms, without ever surrendering. And we, the living creatures continuously called on to rebuild in the wake of apocalypse after apocalypse, are the demonstration that we recreate ourselves layer upon layer, just like the Earth.
Duration: 1 hour and 30 minutes without intermission
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© Masiar Pasquali
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© Masiar Pasquali
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© Masiar Pasquali
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© Masiar Pasquali
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© Masiar Pasquali
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© Masiar Pasquali
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© Masiar Pasquali
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© Masiar Pasquali
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© Masiar Pasquali
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© Masiar Pasquali
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© Masiar Pasquali
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© Masiar Pasquali
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© Masiar Pasquali
Credits
Asteroide
by and with Marco D’Agostin
sound Luca Scapellato
songs written by Marco D’Agostin, Luca Scapellato
scenes Paola Villani, Bots Conspiracy
lights Paolo Tizianel
costumes Gianluca Sbicca
with a textual incursion by Pier Lorenzo Pisano
choreographic assistant Lucia Sauro
research shared with Chiara Bersani, Sara Bonaventura, Nicola Borghesi, Damien Modolo, Lisa Ferlazzo Natoli
movement coach Marta Ciappina
repertoire dances Giulio Santolini, Stefano Bontempi
vocal training Francesca Della Monica
scientific advice Enrico Sortino
set construction Piccolo Teatro di Milano - Teatro d’Europa
promotion, care Damien Modolo
organization, administration Eleonora Cavallo, Federica Giuliano, Irene Maiolin, Paola Miolano
a VAN production
coproduced with Piccolo Teatro di Milano – Teatro d’Europa, Théâtre de la Ville (Paris), Fondazione Teatri di Pistoia, Pôle-Sud CDCN (Strasbourg), Festival Aperto / Fondazione I Teatri (Reggio Emilia), Baerum Kulturhus – Dance Southeast-Norway, Snaporazverein
supported by CCN Ballet de l’Opéra national du Rhin; Centro Nazionale di Produzione della Danza Virgilio Sieni (Firenze); AMAT e Civitanova Danza per RAM_Residenze Artistiche Marchigiane; La Contrada – Teatro stabile di Trieste; Centro di Residenza dell’Emilia-Romagna L’arboreto – Teatro Dimora | La Corte Ospitale; Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Oslo/MiC-Direzione Generale Spettacolo and Sprang / Ål kulturhus, regional dance scene and performing arts center, in the frame of NID international residencies programme, Grand Studio (Bruxelles), Scenario Pubblico (Catania); CSC/Centro per la Scena Contemporanea (Bassano del Grappa); Atcl/Spazio Rossellini: Fondazione Teatro Comunale Città di Vicenza, Centrale Fies, Teatro Stabile dell’Umbria
