Naples Theatre Festival

COSA DEVE FARE NAPOLI PER RIMANERE IN EQUILIBRIO SOPRA UN UOVO
by Enrique Vargas

directed by Enrique Vargas
production Napoli Teatro Festival Italia
in coproduction with Teatro de los Sentidos
executive production Associazione Culturale Interno 5
from 11 to 15th, from 17th to 21st June
20.00-21.00-22.00

First night
language Italian
duration 60′

location: Sala del Lazzaretto

this new dramaturgy on the theme “The City” is embedded in the project Metropolis of the city of Copenhagen (Denmark)

director assistant Patrizia Menichelli
artistic coordination Patrizia Menichelli, Nelson Jara
technical direction Gabriel Hernandez
technical direction assistant Umberto Franchini
imaginary city and city of threads design Gabriella Salvaterra
city’s model design Bernardo Rey
imaginary parade design Alekos and Nelson Jara
space construction Umberto Franchini, Gabriel Hernandez, Andrea Bertoni, Sebastiano Spinella, Giulio Barbato
city of threads construction Gabriella Salvaterra, Arianna Marano, Betina Birkjaer, Ludovica Zoina
light designer Pancho Garcia e Luigi Biondi
costume and mask design Patrizia Menichelli
costume and mask assistant Andrea Bertoni, Jorge Pratz
soundscape Stephane Laidet
soundscape assistant Cristian Londoño
smellscape Nelson Jara, Giovanna Pezzullo
smellscape assistant Susanna Poole
musical direction Alberto Sarcina
original music by Alberto Sarcina, Cristian Londoño, Sebastiano Spinella, Pancho Garcia
musicians Alberto Sarcina, Cristian Londoño, Sebastiano Spinella, Pancho Garcia, Stephan Laidet, Gabriel Hernandez, Alekos, Andrea Bertoni, Aurora Arenare, Carlo Melito
documentation and investigation materials Marco Mario de Notaris
investigative group of city’s project Giovanna Pezzullo, Patrizia Menichelli, Gabriella Salvaterra, Nelson Jara, Stephane Laidet, Claudio Frost, Valentina Vargas, Pancho Garcia, Alekos, Betina Birkjaer, Marta Perez
video-documentation Sara Pozzoli
administration Ignasi Riu
production Valentina Vargas
assistant production Elena Alonso
comunication Laura Settecase
production équipe in Neaples Interno 5
collaboration for dramaturgy and text Marta Perez
final text Enrique Vargas

inhabitants Patrizia Menichelli, Gabriella Salvaterra, Nelson Jara, Gabriel Hernandez, Pancho Garcia, Alekos, Stephane Laidet, Nelson Jara, Bettina Birkjaer, Sebastiano Spinella, Cristian Londoño, Arianna Marano, Umberto Franchini, Alberto Sarcina, Marco Mario De Notaris, Luigi Biondi, Susana Poole, Andrea Bertoni, Giulio Barbato, Ludovica Zoina, Carlo Melito, Aurora Arenare

During the months preceding the show, Vargas and his company live the city intensely, becoming inhabitants and investigators, taking possession of and immerging themselves in it. Neapolitan artists (plastic artists, musicians, voices and experimenters in general) will be included in the creative process, from the assembly of various experiences result the work in the city. The aspect on which the Columbian director will mainly concentrate is the “Dionysian”: by means of the story of the past and the telling of the present the group go out searching for that mysterious aura that currently envelops Naples.

Also in this work, the Teatro de los Sentidos will elaborate a sensorial dramaturgy attentive to giving form to space, obscurity and silences. The poetics of Vargas are presented as an unceasing transformation process in which the equilibrium point between plastic arts installation and theatrical action moves incessantly.

Enrique Vargas was born in 1940 in Manizales, Colombia, he studied dramaturgy, directing and acting at the Scuola Nazionale D’Arte Drammatica if Bogotà, and theatrical anthropology in Michigan. For four years he was the permanent playwright in one of the most important experimentation theatres of the world, the La Mama of New York and later was the director and playwright of the Gut Theatre in East Harem. During the 1970s he worked with object animation dramaturgy at the Central Theatre in Prague and, in the 1980s worked as director of the Centro di Investigazione Teatrale dell’Università Nazionale della Colombia, taking an interest mainly in the relationship between the infantile play, ritual and legends of the indigenous community of the Colombian Amazon region. He directed works such as Faustino Rimales, Sancocho de cola, 4 golpes, El romance y su sombra, La manta. In 1993 he founded the Teatro de los Sentidos and realized the “Sotto il segno del labirinto” trilogy, which included: Il filo di Arianna and Oracoli. Debuted in Bologna, in the summer of 2002, with La memoria del vino o I giochi di Dioniso. Currently he is continuing his activity of research, creation and training including laboratories, seminaries and staging of the dramaturgy of the sensorial image. He is also the artistic director of the Timefestival, in the city of Ghent (Belgium).

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