Deserto digitale
year: 2019
creation dedicated to Edgard Varèse's musical research
direction and choreography: Nicola Galli
production: Fondazione Musica per Roma, TIR Danza, Fondazione Teatro Grande di Brescia, stereopsis
in collaboration with: L’arboreto - Teatro Dimora di Mondaino, Teatro Petrella di Longiano
dance: Alessandra Fabbri, Nicola Galli, Paolo Soloperto
music: Edgard Varèse (Un grand sommeil noir, Poème électronique, Déserts, Ionisation, Density 21.5.)
texts inspired by: Edgard Varèse, Alice Miller, Gilles Clément, Marcel Proust
scenography: Giulio Mazzacurati
video e costumes: Nicola Galli
light and sound: Giovanni Garbo
organisation: Giulia Melandri
artistic residencies: L’arboreto – Teatro Dimora di Mondaino, Teatro Petrella di Longiano, CapoTrave/Kilowatt Sansepolcro
with the support of: h(abita)t – Rete di Spazi per la Danza / Leggere Strutture Art Factory, Centro di Residenza della Toscana (Armunia Castiglioncello - CapoTrave/Kilowatt Sansepolcro), NEXT 2018 / 2019 Laboratorio delle idee per la produzione e distribuzione dello spettacolo dal vivo - Regione Lombardia
length: 60 minutes
Winner Prize Equilibrio 2018
creation dedicated to Edgard Varèse's musical research
direction and choreography: Nicola Galli
production: Fondazione Musica per Roma, TIR Danza, Fondazione Teatro Grande di Brescia, stereopsis
in collaboration with: L’arboreto - Teatro Dimora di Mondaino, Teatro Petrella di Longiano
dance: Alessandra Fabbri, Nicola Galli, Paolo Soloperto
music: Edgard Varèse (Un grand sommeil noir, Poème électronique, Déserts, Ionisation, Density 21.5.)
texts inspired by: Edgard Varèse, Alice Miller, Gilles Clément, Marcel Proust
scenography: Giulio Mazzacurati
video e costumes: Nicola Galli
light and sound: Giovanni Garbo
organisation: Giulia Melandri
artistic residencies: L’arboreto – Teatro Dimora di Mondaino, Teatro Petrella di Longiano, CapoTrave/Kilowatt Sansepolcro
with the support of: h(abita)t – Rete di Spazi per la Danza / Leggere Strutture Art Factory, Centro di Residenza della Toscana (Armunia Castiglioncello - CapoTrave/Kilowatt Sansepolcro), NEXT 2018 / 2019 Laboratorio delle idee per la produzione e distribuzione dello spettacolo dal vivo - Regione Lombardia
length: 60 minutes
Winner Prize Equilibrio 2018
Deserto digitale is a choreographic pièce dedicated to Edgard Varèse's revolutionary music research
focused on the spatialisation and three-dimensional organisation of sound.
Inspired by the musical work Déserts (1954), the pièce presents a white, aseptic and measured environment that welcome an imaginary landscape that reveals the desert intended as a boundess place and existential condition.
An unreal and psychic atmosphere, glorious sounds, interpolations of magnetic tapes, mixed colours and travelling figures compose a visual and oneiric ritual contended between suspension, violence and catharsis to generate a figurative atlas that progressively highlights the introspective nature of the human soul.
"If I say the word desert, what do your eyes see?"
This question leads our gaze on a sensorial, seductive and visceral trip that, scanning the different forms of desert, becomes a magnifying glass to bring to light a kaleidoscopic universe in constant short-circuit.
Deserto digitale, in its meaning of immense yet pocket-sized, fluid and immaterial space, opens a breach in the desolate human condition by recounting the silent revolt of latent emotions for the survival of the individual.
"From landscape installations to stratifications of bone architecture and research on the planetary system.
In Deserto digitale (Equilibrio prize 2018, seen at FOG Festival - Triennale Milano) we find all the elements of the poetic choreography of Nicola Galli, a fertile mind in continuous experimentation, that recently prefers the music of Edgard Varèse.
[...] Huge colored lenses, liturgically maneuvered and overlapped, create a chromatic scale and also act as a screen for video projection of micro-organisms and for shadow games.
The show creates a sensorial and dreamlike journey - with the beautiful Lied that evokes 'a great black sleep' during the prologue - and presents metamorphic postures from reptile and feathered together; martial struggles with long poles, synchronic solos and duets in relation to the timbric pulsing of music; astronaut explorations, corporal reconnaissance with probes in the oral cavity; a naked body, which embodies at the same time a climbing plant or chrysalis coming out of a steel carriage.
Many other sequences evoke no longer a boundless desert but a prolific vegetable, animal and human world."
Inspired by the musical work Déserts (1954), the pièce presents a white, aseptic and measured environment that welcome an imaginary landscape that reveals the desert intended as a boundess place and existential condition.
An unreal and psychic atmosphere, glorious sounds, interpolations of magnetic tapes, mixed colours and travelling figures compose a visual and oneiric ritual contended between suspension, violence and catharsis to generate a figurative atlas that progressively highlights the introspective nature of the human soul.
"If I say the word desert, what do your eyes see?"
This question leads our gaze on a sensorial, seductive and visceral trip that, scanning the different forms of desert, becomes a magnifying glass to bring to light a kaleidoscopic universe in constant short-circuit.
Deserto digitale, in its meaning of immense yet pocket-sized, fluid and immaterial space, opens a breach in the desolate human condition by recounting the silent revolt of latent emotions for the survival of the individual.
"From landscape installations to stratifications of bone architecture and research on the planetary system.
In Deserto digitale (Equilibrio prize 2018, seen at FOG Festival - Triennale Milano) we find all the elements of the poetic choreography of Nicola Galli, a fertile mind in continuous experimentation, that recently prefers the music of Edgard Varèse.
[...] Huge colored lenses, liturgically maneuvered and overlapped, create a chromatic scale and also act as a screen for video projection of micro-organisms and for shadow games.
The show creates a sensorial and dreamlike journey - with the beautiful Lied that evokes 'a great black sleep' during the prologue - and presents metamorphic postures from reptile and feathered together; martial struggles with long poles, synchronic solos and duets in relation to the timbric pulsing of music; astronaut explorations, corporal reconnaissance with probes in the oral cavity; a naked body, which embodies at the same time a climbing plant or chrysalis coming out of a steel carriage.
Many other sequences evoke no longer a boundless desert but a prolific vegetable, animal and human world."
Giuseppe Distefano [ Danza&Danza Magazine - 09/2019 ]