Roberto Castello

  • Italiano
    • IN-GIRUM-R-Castello_ph-Alessandro-Colazzo_4181_m2

    SATURDAY, 5TH SEPTEMBER 2015 | 21.45 | 60′
    SUNDAY, 6TH SEPTEMBER 2015 | 20.00  | 60′
    LA PELANDA | TEATRO 2

    theatre/dance

    Premiere

    IN GIRUM IMUS NOCTE (ET CONSUMIMUR IGNI)

    (We go around in the night and we are burned by fire)

    performers Elisa Capecchi, Mariano Nieddu, Giselda Ranieri, Ilenia Romano, Irene Russolillo
    light, music and costumes Roberto Castello
    costumes Sartoria Fiorentina
    production Aldes
    with the support of MIBACT/Direzione Generale Spettacolo dal vivo, Regione Toscana/Sistema Regionale dello Spettacolo

    www.aldesweb.org/en/in_girum

     A rugged black and white and hypnotic music is the environment in which the micro stories of this peripatetic night show are linked together, a mixture between cinema, dance and theatre.

    The cold light of a video projector articulates the spaces, times and geometry, and the black costumes turn the characters translucent, projecting them into a timeless past inhabited by a dispersed humanity that moves on, struggling, with a brusque, emotional, disorganized gestuality, beyond exhaustion, slowly falling into a trance.

    The pulsing rithm of the music and movement carries one, little by little, to a dimension that is hypnotic, and an empathy that is close to being physical with the fatigue of the interpreters. ”In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni” (“We go around at night burnt up by fire”), enigmatic latin palindrome with uncertain origin, which was already chosen as title by Guy Debord for his famous movie in 1978, it therefore goes beyond its possible interpretation as a metaphor of living endlessly consumed in desires, to become a cathartic experience of its comical and grotesque exhaustion.

     

    BIOGRAPHY

    Roberto Castello was born in Turin in 1960, studied modern dance with Anna Sagna and in New York. In 1980-84 He danced with Carolyn Carlson’s Teatro Danza la Fenice and created his first choreography for that company. In 1984 he founded with other six dancers the modern dance company Sosta Palmizi and created some collective works. From 1990 as a free lance dance maker works with some Italian companies and for himself. In 1995 he comes to Tuscany and founds his new ensemble, named ALDES he coregraphes some works for.
    Ubu prize 1986 (“Il Cortile”), 2003 (with the performance “Il migliore dei mondi possibili” – the best of possible worlds, a project in 10 sections he is still working on).