ANDAVAMO TUTTI

Andavamo tutti is a creation for five performers born from the encounter with the poem Andavamo tutti come fosse un’emigrazione by Giancarlo Majorino — a visionary and powerful text capable of condensing the present, the near future, and that “continuous near future” which never seems to resolve itself.

The poem portrays a humanity deprived of its axis, stripped of its centre: ideologies, religions, the relationship with the natural world that contains it. A chaotic and surreal migration runs through Majorino’s verses: humans and animals advance together, alarmed and disoriented, mixed to the point of losing distinctions of species, role and memory. “Transit was necessary”: movement itself becomes urgency, inevitability.

On stage emerges a humanity perhaps only pausing after a frantic and disordered advance, driven toward an undefined yet unavoidable direction. A vast collective march in which animals, human beings and objects intermingle without conflict, crossing a devastated landscape no longer capable of sheltering or nourishing life.

The proximity of feral and vulnerable bodies, the confused struggle of paws and legs, the smell of burning and the loss of orientation shatter the rules of survival and territory as we know them.

From these images arises a choreographic language that is intensely dynamic and urgent, traversed by disorientation, by the sensation of being overwhelmed and then suddenly stilled, as though gestures themselves could overlap and exchange places. The action is dominated by an unavoidable sense of “going”: a migration without clear direction, yet with an impelling destination.

Bodies cross the space overturning planes and perspectives, overwhelming the gaze of the spectator in an attempt to restore the image of a multitude in full motion.

Nature, though wounded, seems to suggest a call toward togetherness in the face of emergency: a salvific imperative pushing toward a possible recomposition.

Andavamo tutti presents itself as a manifesto of life: when necessary, one flees together; one becomes cohesive or, at the very least, forced into proximity and mixture. The well and the water become symbols of a search for salvation, of a stubborn attempt at resolution. Resilience and continuity permeate the work as vital forces.

The creation explores the sense of belonging between human beings, animals and nature, revealing a profound equality: similar among similars, particles composing and decomposing themselves, generated by the same urgency. An urgency close to the skin, questioning a humanity called to save itself, awaken and recompose itself.

DIRECTOR’S / DRAMATURGICAL NOTES

The performance asks not to fall into the trap of its title or into an immediate association with the theme of migration.

The interest does not lie in representing a phenomenon, but in what happens when humanity reaches such a state of emergency that it becomes compelled toward mixture, toward an unexpected and profound form of belonging — even within separation.

The stage is inhabited by overturned planes and perspectives, by the dismantling of hierarchies, by the relentless inhabiting of movement “toward”: motion, breathlessness, movement without memory.

The scenography is built through objects and signs evoking an inescapable march: traces of the animal world and remnants of consumption, objects no longer useful, no longer functional. No dominant structures, only fragmentary presences: tails, heads, paws.

A central element of the project is the lighting design, conceived as a sensitive landscape. Naturalistic, almost colourless lighting — with tones recalling dawn and dusk — accompanies radical environmental shifts, constructing a place/non-place in continuous transformation.

Andavamo tutti was born from the desire to translate the visionary force of Majorino’s poetry into choreographic form, recognizing within it an urgent reflection on contemporary humanity: disoriented, pushed into an unstoppable collective movement, yet still capable — within emergency — of rediscovering an unexpected commonality.

A work that proposes itself simultaneously as political and poetic gesture: an act of shared flight, forced yet vital.

KEYWORDS

paws / legs
well
belonging
mixture
disarming and wondrous
suspended time
no place, no direction

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES

Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution by Pyotr Kropotkin — Elèuthera
Torme di tutto by Giancarlo Majorino — Mondadori
Collected Poems by Wisława Szymborska — Adelphi Edizioni
Atlante delle migrazioni by Giovanna Ceccatelli, Stefania Tusini, Stefania Tirini — Clichy
Geografia delle migrazioni by Maria Luisa Gentileschi — Carocci Editore