Alone on stage, a dancer struggles among quotations of different nature and quality, focusing on an entire scene from the 1921 movie The Playhouse, where Keaton plays a monkey that imitates clichés of human bourgeoisie.
We share an opening of the creation of Trickster, where dance has been composed through a collage of plural and manifold materials: unpredictable crossings which place the body in a state of constant questioning.
Francis Bacon’s sensual and kinetic painting nourished the physical dramaturgy.
The emerging portrait is a haunted body, animated by the constant and pressing dialogue between its own anatomical specificity and the almost acrobatic invitations of the scores.