PASTO A DUE

Power is the exercise of the boundary.
How to trace and traverse the lines of existence while simultaneously experiencing the questioning territory of coexistence — the place where the vocabulary of possibility reveals itself.

Power is a game of moral balance. Resistant labour and the geometry of limit. To deprive or deprive oneself before the banquet of possession.

This Pasto a due — a table laid out with possible conquests — becomes a treatise on strength, on yielding and resisting, on consuming or preserving, on succumbing and renouncing or subjugating. It is obsessively recounted through what remains of two bodies caught in the act of contention.

They are the brothers of Seneca’s tragedy Thyestes: harsh and merciless in their hunger for possession. They are what survives of them — terrible shadows, birds of the night recalling Tantalus, embodiments of conflict, hatred and atrocity.

They sit composed at the banquet table upon which, according to the Latin tragedian’s account, the most ferocious of revenges will be consummated.

They remain suspended in the instant preceding the narrative’s epilogue: that space where doubt and tension, having reached their apex and prolonged through infinite time, begin to alter and fracture the surface of their composure, gradually dismantling the forms of etiquette.

And here the tragedy is already unfolding — within the slow dripping of the question, of possibility, of futile hope; within the overturning of logic, the excess of desire, the impossibility of absolute reason and the monsters produced by its dream.

With PASTO A DUE, the diptych inspired by the myth of the Atreides — initiated with the previous creation PUNTO DI FUGA — reaches its conclusion.
regia e coreografia / direction and choreography STEFANO MAZZOTTA, EMANUELE SCIANNAMEA | da un progetto di / from a project by STEFANO MAZZOTTA | collaborazione all'allestimento / collaboration to the direction CHIARA GUGLIELMI, MARTIM PEDROSO | drammaturgia / dramaturgy FABIO CHIRIATTI | disegno luci / light design STEFANO MAZZOTTA, ANTONIO MEROLA | costumi e progetto scenografico / costumes and scenographic project STEFANO MAZZOTTA | elementi scenografici / scenographic elements VITTORIO VIOLA | produzione / production ZEROGRAMMI, FONDAZIONE TEATRO PIEMONTE EUROPA, FESTIVAL TEATRO A CORTE (IT) | coproduzione / coproduction TEATRO DA GARAGEM | con il sostegno di / with the support of REGIONE PIEMONTE, MIBAC | un ringraziamento a / thanks to PROD. AO QUADRADO (PT), MATERIAIS DIVERSOS (PT), TEATRO NACIONAL D. MARIA II (PT), DIMORA COREOGRAFICA (IT) |
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genere → genre TEATRODANZA/DANCETHEATRE

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“(...) The award for Best Contemporary Dance Performance, assigned to Punto di fuga, looks toward the future. The work — a co-production between Italy and Russia — emerged during the 2011 Year of Cultural Exchange between the two countries and brought together the young companies Zerogrammi from Turin and Dialogue Dance from Kostroma.

It was precisely in the Russian city, in February 2011, that Emanuele Sciannamea and Stefano Mazzotta — dancers and choreographers originally from Southern Italy, trained at the prestigious Scuola Paolo Grassi in Milan and emerging through their agile ensemble — arrived to begin the collaboration.

The twenty-five degrees below zero of the Russian winter and their limited knowledge of Pushkin’s language did not discourage them. Together with two performers from Dialogue Dance, they created Punto di fuga, an all-male piece which, balancing strength and irony, reinterprets Seneca’s Thyestes.

Applauded during the winter in Kostroma and later in the summer in Turin at the Teatro a Corte festival, the newly awarded Punto di fuga encapsulates the shared thought of the four young artists: ‘encounter — and therefore exchange — is the only true richness worth pursuing.’”

2012

A PERFORMANCE

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STEFANO MAZZOTTA + EMANUELE SCIANNAMEA

// ZEROGRAMMI

PASTO A DUE

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PASTO A DUE // IN SCENA

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PASTO A DUE // teaser

The twenty-five degrees below zero of the Russian winter and their limited knowledge of Pushkin’s language did not discourage them. Together with two performers from Dialogue Dance, they created Punto di fuga, an all-male piece which, balancing strength and irony, reinterprets Seneca’s Thyestes.

Applauded during the winter in Kostroma and later in the summer in Turin at the Teatro a Corte festival, the newly awarded Punto di fuga encapsulates the shared thought of the four young artists: ‘encounter — and therefore exchange — is the only true richness worth pursuing.’”

— V. Bonelli | Russia Oggi

2012

A PERFORMANCE

ARCHIVE

STEFANO MAZZOTTA + EMANUELE SCIANNAMEA

// ZEROGRAMMI

PASTO A DUE

PHOTOGALLERY

#PHOTOGALLERY, #CREAZIONI

PASTO A DUE // IN SCENA

PH. G. DI BELLO

VIDEO

#TEASER, #CREAZIONI

PASTO A DUE // teaser

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Applauded during the winter in Kostroma and later in the summer in Turin at the Teatro a Corte festival, the newly awarded Punto di fuga encapsulates the shared thought of the four young artists: ‘encounter — and therefore exchange — is the only true richness worth pursuing.’”

— V. Bonelli | Russia Oggi