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