From July 17, exibition in San Sepolcro during Kilowatt Festival.
photos by Daniela Neri
In 2007 laLut – Centro di Ricerca e Produzione Teatrale, in cooperation with the University of Siena and with the support of the EU Culture Programme 2007-13, kicked-off Playing Identities, a cluster of projects that aimed to deploy theatricality as a tool of inquiry into the construction of identities in contemporary societies. Indeed, the stage is a space where actors are forced to negotiate their identities through actions that connect them with fellow colleagues and with the audience.
In a world in which the lives of individuals are intertwined and transformed by mutual influence, creolisation offers the best model for describing the encounter, the clash and the confrontation of manifold forms of culture. While multiculturalism tends to neutralise diversity, creolisation tells of human beings who are able to both create and dissolve boundaries, to exploit diversity in order to devise a common language and to create the premise for inclusive societies to succeed on the ground.
Playing Identities developed three different phases. The last, entitled Performing Heritage, stops here at Kilowatt Festival.
Creolimage tells stories through pictures of the journey that took place from 2010-11, in which artists from diverse backgrounds performed together through the negotiation of practices, artistic languages, themes, and forms of expression. Romania, France, Hungary, Poland, and Italy were involved in the first Creole Performance Cycle, a creative process led by Balletto Civile, a company of performers who won the competition put forward by laLut in 2009 for the first of the project’s three ‘seasons’.
Balletto Civile decided to depict today’s Europe through the lens of labour, and investigated specific contexts in every country as raw material for the scenic actions, repetitive gestures, body movements, sounds and songs. The process is often more interesting than the final product. Although the aim was to produce a performance, each artistic residency offered an opportunity to enter into ‘human creative workshops’ and the bringing together of the languages and gestures that generate them.
Daniela Neri’s photography witnessed this process, and while on the one hand it documents it, on the other it takes part in the process in a straightforward manner. An attentive viewer can find a way to relive the long journey and recognise each milestone as they go.
The Exibition will start at 5 p.m. in “Sala delle Esposizioni” Palazzo Petrorio.
Thanks to: Comune di San Sepolcro, Kilowatt Festival, Creative Europe Program.
[Stefano Jacoviello]