SPIRO

a performance about death

 

"An ironical, poetic, absurd and touching wake.

Five characters accompany the audience on a journey through the inexpressible and the ephemeral,

revealing the strengths and weaknesses of the human in front of death."

 

The scene opens with a wake, a custom recurrent in most places around the world: friends, relatives and acquaintance of the deceased in the same place for long hours to say goodbye and console each other. SPIRO reveals the personalities, relations and fears of the griefing through the composition of sounds, movements and images in the form of tableau vivants.

 

The artistic research behind the performance - EFFIMERIA - dealt with death rituals all around the globe, aiming to bring them together in a wake that moves between cultures and forms of grief shifting between tragic, comic, poetic and absurd.

 

 

 CREATION

Eduardo Colombo, Victor Kanashiro,

Silvia Ribero, Angie Rottensteiner, Tiago Viudes

 

DRAMATURGY

Tiago Viudes

 

CHOREOGRAPHY FLAMENCO

Raffaella Soluri

 

AFRICAN DANCE

Lenna Bahule

 

TRADITIONAL DANCE OF OKINAWA

Satoru Saito

 

COSTUME

Burker Warner

 

MUSIC

original compositions and arrangements BILOURA

 

GRAFIC AND VIDEO ITALY

Raffaele Diomede

 

GRAFIC BRAZIL

Alex Hoera

 

VIDEO BRAZIL

Raphael Calheiros

 

VIDEO CUT

Angie Rottensteiner

 

UFFICIO STAMPA ITALIA

Jacopo Sant

 

UFFICIO STAMPA BRAZIL

Nossa Senhora da Pauta

 

ARTISTIC DIRECTION EFFIMERIA PROJECT

Silvia Ribero and Angie Rottensteiner

 

 

 SPIRO IS PART OF THE PROJECT EFFIMERIA SUPPORTED BY

Comune di Agliè, Comune di Alice Superiore, Comune di Candia Canavese, Comune di Ivrea, Comune di Torre, Brillor,

NovaCoop, Università di Torino - Polo OfficinaH, Festival La Grande Invasione, ZAC!, A.E.G.,

Cooperativa Paulista de Teatro, Direto da Serra, SAT - Sociedade Ambiental Amigos de Taiaçupeba,

Casa Parintins, SAMAÚMA - Residência Artística Rural, Oficina Cultural Oswald de Andrate