la forme de l'âme
live performance piece inspired by the writings of Jean-Luc Nancy (2015)
FABRIZIO ROSSO dramaturgy, stage design and direction
ELENA BOILLAT dancer and choreographer
NADIR VASSENA electronic music and sound projection
The production is built on a live performer, electronic music (including fragments of the voice of Nancy reading his texts) and projections from above through a smoke filled scenery. The invisible substance of the sound marks the tempo, the passage of time, in which the seasons of the body pass from birth, through life to death. The lighting, made solid by the smoke, is charged with the task of designing the spaces inhabited by the body: Light and Body come alive, divide, follow each other only to disappear into nothingness. “Thereby the body dies and carries its secret to the grave, leaving only the slightest hint of its passing”. (Jean-Luc Nancy)
The performance stages the tragic reality of the limits and finality into which we are thrown and the mystery toward which we are inexorably led.
PREMIERE 20.12.2015, LAC, Teatrostudio - Lugano, Switzerland
DATES 28.10.2016, LAC Teatrostudio - Lugano, Switzerland
02.12.2016, Modern Body Festival - Den Haag, Netherlands
01.12.2017, Accademia Dimitri - Verscio, Switzerland
12.07.2018, Festival Territori - Bellinzona, Switzerland
13-14.12.2019, Teatro Foce - Lugano, Switzerland
19.11.2021, Electro Acustic Room - Lugano, Switzerland
28.05-02.06.2024, Fringe Festival - Torino, Italy
24.05.2025, M.A.N. Festival - Wroclaw, Poland
Photographs of the performance by William Monaco
photo William Monaco
photo William Monaco
photo William Monaco
photo William Monaco
Original script by Fabrizio Rosso
© 2015 Fabrizio Rosso. All rights reserved.
Work Declaration No. 000663568 registered with the Société Suisse des Auteurs (SSA), Switzerland.
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