with Nouveau Grand Tour - by Institut français d’Italie
Nonostante le macerie is the latest creation from the Macula collective.
As part of the Nouveau Grand Tour, an initiative designed by l’Institut français d’Italie, the artistic team is currently in residence at the Gymnase. You are invited to discover the behind-the-scenes of this creation by attending a work-in-progress session, to see the show in the midst of its creative process.
State of intent :
Nonostante le macerie (Despite the rubble) is a site-specific choreographic project that adapts to each location it encounters, embracing its architecture, memories, and materials..
The choreography is conceived as a framework of flexible rules in which bodies, moving through space and time, bring the places themselves to life: they inhabit them, traverse them, listen to them, allowing layers of memory sedimented over time to surface.
The work evokes the “rubble” that inhabits our lives—existential, ethical, moral, personal. The performers navigate these layers with telescopic awareness, moving from detail to whole, from particular to global, revealing what normally remains submerged.
The body, moved by memories, visions, and perceptions of the historical present, transforms inner states into movement. In dialogue with the geometries of the place and with the other presence on stage, different degrees of intimacy emerge: from encounters between strangers to familiar closeness, in a continuous oscillation between distance and proximity.
Despite the rubble, it attempts to build a bridge between the alienating loneliness of our time and the possibility of rediscovered reciprocity. In the act of encounter, creation, and play, the show seeks a way to continue living: to inhabit the ruins together, transform them, and discover that survival is a shared gesture.
Concept, direction: Priscilla Pizziol, Edoardo Sgambato
Performance: Edoardo Sgambato
Photography © Colletivo Macula
