A Journey on Stilts
EU Open House Event
The performance is an extract taken from Valse, one of the most represented open air performance of TTB’s repertory.
The performance is built around a myth-category of European social culture, namely, the waltz, with its vortical lightness, the flashing of glances and the skirmish of smiles; a lyrical-dramaturgical framework that records the waltz as a symbol.
In Musetta’s Valzer to the tunes of Puccini’s Bohème and Verdi’s Traviata, dancers present an acrobatic valzer danced on stilts, with a very high spectacular impact.
Stilts, which are by now classical accessories of open space theatre, expand the composition of low-cut dresses, tulles and dinner jackets into an oniric-fabulous swirl evoked as a possible reaction to the dreary atmosphere that stagnates on the leaden wasteland of our cultural life.
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LOCATION
Embassy of Italy
3000 Whitehaven Street NW
Washington, DC 20008
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TTB – TEATRO TASCABILE DI BERGAMO
TTB Teatro tascabile di Bergamo – Accademia delle Forme sceniche soc. coop. ONLUS was founded in 1973 by Renzo Vescovi following the path of Jerzy Grotowsky’s Teatr-Laboratorium and Eugenio Barba’s Odin Teatret.
The theatre is in Bergamo Alta, in the former Monastero del Carmine, where its activity of theatre-laboratory takes place, developing its research about outdoor theatre, eastern theatre-dance, pedagogy and actor’s dramaturgy.
In 40 years TTB realized or produced 113 performances in Italy and in 38 foreign countries, held conferences, laboratories and lectures cum demonstration on the techniques they practice. They also organized more than 70 events in Italy and abroad (Festivals, Shows, Special Events, pedagogical Activities).
Teatro Tascabile di Bergamo’s peculiarity is to be a “group theatre”. Their work is based on the interaction of each member, as in renaissance art workshops: not a “company”, but a group of people cooperating in a continuative daily effort to not just produce a play, but also to work on what’s behind the play, realizing specific and autonomous creative processes that do not obtain immediate results, but give a parallel and continuous cultural elaboration.
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