Lcontamination between languages – dance, theatre, music, cinema -, the curiosity to explore new frontiers by investigating the international contemporary scene, the desire to offer innovative shows with courage and intelligence: all this is FOG Performing Arts Festival.
Very rich calendar of the sixth edition – in the centenary of the Milan Triennale – with 39 appointments (and 93 repeats) in four months, and as many artists and companies on stage.
INFO: Milan, Triennale, from 11 February to 11 May.
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Dimitris Papaioannou – INK
Don’t miss the visionary Greek performer Dimitris Papaioannou with INK (ink), in which he plays the guardian of a dark and submerged universe who tries to maintain order. The intrusion of a visitor from the bowels of the earth upsets his solitary existence, introducing sweetness and cruelty at the same time.
Dimitris Papaioannou in a moment of the show “INK” (photo by Julian Mommert).
In a duet that soon turns into a duel, the great Greek artist – accompanied by the charming dancer Šuka Horn – probe the limits of reality through the filters of science fiction and horror. The result is a thrilling chase, a nightmarish manhunt. In 2021 INK received the Ubu Award for the best foreign show presented in Italy.
Meredith Monk in concert with Katie Geissinger and Allison Sniffin
On February 18th at 19.30 there will be the concert by Meredith Monkone of the most courageous and visionary figures of contemporary performing arts.
Meredith Monk (photo Christine Alicino_Hands).
Legendary master of multidisciplinarity and pioneer of the “extended vocal technique”, Meredith Monk – along with her ensemble (Katie Geissinger and Allison Sniffin) – presents one of his rarest and most intimate concerts at the Triennale, reflecting a sixty-year career between experimentation and innovation. A musical performance that invites the audience into enchanting and fascinating worlds, exploring the infinite possibilities of the human voice.
Motus – Of the Nightingale I Envy the Fate
For over thirty years the Motus have revealed themselves capable, like few realities in Europe, of interpreting the urgencies and contradictions of the present. With Of the Nightingale I Envy the Fate the company is confronted with theIliad and with the prophetic power of Cassandra, an essential archetypal figure of Western culture, offering a contemporary reinterpretation.
The Motus company in the show “Of the Nightingale I Envy the Fate” (photo by Andrea Macchia).
On stage, Stefania Tansini – performer of extraordinary scenic strength – is both vulnerable and combative, interpreting the announced tragedy of the Homeric character. In a performance that becomes ritual and revelation, a body and a voice that are victims of the patriarchal system claim their presence, in a sound forest of shouts, whistles, songs and hisses.
The Veronal – Sonoma
Led by the visionary choreographer Marcos Morau, the celebrated Spanish company La Veronal returns to FOG with Sonoma, a show inspired by the works and life of director Luis Buñuel, master of surrealist cinema.
The Spanish company La Veronal in a moment of the show “Sonoma” (photo © Alfred Mauve).
In a world where everything loses its meaning, a group of women seek an escape route in pure irrationality and instinct, abandoning their bodies in free fall between surreal and dreamlike scenarios.
Playing with the symbols of folklore, religion, cinema and art history – in a show with movements of astonishing energy and hypnotic beauty –, the corporality of the dancers on stage becomes the mouthpiece of a rebel primitive scream, in a journey between dream and fiction, between human and extraordinary. A masterful show.
Peeping Tom – DIPTYCH. The Missing Door and The Lost Room
A romantic encounter in a hotel room, a drama that takes place between the walls of a bourgeois living room: in a maze of doors and scenarios, dance and theater give shape to fragmented narratives and psychological thriller atmospheres.
The Belgian company Peeping Tom in the show “DIPTYCH. The Missing Door and The Lost Room”.
With DIPTYCH. The Missing Door and The Lost Roomthe Belgian company Peeping Tomamong the most visionary on the international scene, blurs the line between reality and fiction by animating a disturbing drama, between rooms that hide deceptions and mysterious plots.
In a cinematic succession of noir-tinged scenes, the company’s trademark, ambiguous figures move acrobatically and convulsively, like pawns in the hands of unknown forces, exposing the crudest characters of the human soul. On stage on 5 May at 7.30pm and on 6 May at 4pm.
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