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JENTU

2016

A PERFORMANCE
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STEFANO MAZZOTTA

// ZEROGRAMMI

JENTU

  • “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
    — Samuel Beckett


    JENTU is a creation for two dancers inspired by Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. Through a close reading of Cervantes’ work, the focus on the exploits of the protagonist and his travelling companions — from Sancho Panza to Dulcinea — gradually shifted toward the meaning these actions may still hold for us today.

    Actions without happy endings, futile gestures consumed in the dim light of a room. Actions capable of prefiguring a new ethic and a new model of heroism: a hero without special powers, without glory, without trumpet calls announcing his fragile humanity.

    The brightest colours dissolve into watercolours that wash across the stage through choreographies, solos and duets, actions and silences permeated by a delicate mood.

    With a light and elusive touch emerges the figure of a fragile hero, emblem of an ethic of failure — one that renews the challenge to try again, from the beginning, with courage.

    A hero who speaks to us of the ability to accept the fall in order to pursue one’s deepest ideal, and ultimately rediscover, in the tension toward our noblest desires, the wonder of the journey required to fulfil them.

    Thus are the characters of JENTU: exiled from a time to which they no longer belong, or from a place that has been taken away from them. Suspended, foreign, they inhabit a Leopardian landscape whose threshold is surrender — the only possible place of belonging and meaning.

  • progetto, regia e coreografia / project, direction and choreography STEFANO MAZZOTTA | con / with CHIARA GUGLIELMI, STEFANO MAZZOTTA | drammaturgia e collaborazione all'allestimento / dramaturgy and collaboration to the direction FABIO CHIRIATTI | disegno luci / light design ALBERTA FINOCCHIARO | produzione / production ZEROGRAMMI | coproduzione / coproduction PIM OFF (IT), CASA LUFT (IT) | un ringraziamento a / thanks to CHIARA MICHELINI, VILLA CULTURA (IT), TERSICOREA T.OFF (IT) | con il sostegno di / with the support of REGIONE PIEMONTE, MIBAC |

  • JENTU // un immaginario

    PHOTOGALLERY

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    JENTU // un immaginario

    PH. C. GUGLIELMI

    JENTU // IN SCENA

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    JENTU // IN SCENA

    PH. E. GIURANO, M. SCRIGNAR, F. SCIOLTI

    JENTU // teaser

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    JENTU // teaser#4

    VIDEO

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    JENTU // teaser#4

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  • genere → genre TEATRODANZA/DANCETHEATRE

    pubblico → audience 14+

    durata → duration 1h

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“(...) Quite simply, it is the journey toward one’s aspirations, one’s passions, one’s beauty. This is what the two protagonists of Jentu attempt: they fail, begin again, and never lose heart. Like contemporary Don Quixotes, anti-heroes pursuing their ideals, they travel side by side, encouraging one another. It is within this poetic metaphor of the journey — and of refusing to surrender to the world — that the success of Jentu resides (...)”

— Maria Luisa Buzzi | DANZA&DANZA


“(...) a tale in stages, composed of powerful gestures and broad dancing steps, almost stretched like elastic from a window — a place of encounters and departures. The hidalgo is an anti-hero, fighting against worldly illusions, glory and power. In its rounded and complete form, Jentu succeeds in telling all this with poetry (...)”

— Marinella Guatterini | Il Sole 24 Ore


“(...) The choreographies created by Stefano Mazzotta evoke different emotional states, offering themselves to both the eyes and the hearts of those who watch.”

— Miriam Arensi | La Voce


“(...) The fluid score of contacts and lifts, of complicity and brotherhood (how rare it is to see a duet that does not evoke love between man and woman!) alternates with melancholic moments of suspension at the window: as though reality, impossible to ignore, always ended up calling the two heroes back to itself. And even if Chiara/Sancho never stops urging her knight onward (‘get up! run! fight!’), Stefano/Quixote, having hung his coat on the hook, walks away. Outside the stage, after all, it is far more difficult to give substance to dreams.”

— Maddalena Giovannelli | Stratagemmi

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