Maria Addolorata
REVERBERATION

The condition of proximity is a state of presence. Ten years after the debut of Maria Addolorata, a company’s old production, Carlo Massari decides to resume the creative principles behind it to carry out a process of reworking and transmission. New bodies of performers, actors and dancers offer themselves as physical material for research and action. This is the starting point of a different and renewed look at the work, which in 2014 won numerous international awards and recognitions, and which strikes for its raw expressiveness even today. Its rough staging, unconcerned with clichés and easy aestheticisms, is conceived by associations of ideas rather than logical connections: here protagonists sing, shout, cry, move, slap each other, whisper, or get drunk, unconcerned about the rest, leaving a trail of objects, of clothes, that get the scene ‘dirty’. A process which questions the principles underlying C&C’s creative methodology, a precious passing of the baton: as useful to the receiver as to the giver for its whole idea of horizontal exchange of scenic practices.