The project uses an original interactive system which reads dancers’ gestures and their spatial patterns as directions for the development of the music score and voices, partially composed in real time by dancers’ movements.

The work is inspired by Jorge Luis Borges’ tail “The

Library of Babel”, metaphor of human existence and “the universe which others call the Library”: there you can find chaos and order and the man, the imperfect librarian “may be work of chance”, constantly looking for the clarification of basic mysteries of humanity.

The scene is meant as universe of signs that dancers translate in writing and a language of images and emotions. Dancers’ faces and voices express strong emotional statements, transporting the audience into surreal paintings. The choreography draws lines into space and creates a separate atmosphere in which dancers are acting as if telling their personal story, interacting only because they happen to share the same space.

Although the dance vocabulary is an abstract one, with post-modern influences, they are suddenly transported into theatrical expressionism.

CREDITS

Coreography: Ariella Vidach

Dancers: Marta Molinari, Claudia Pintus, Ariella Vidach, Stefania Trivellin

Original music and nonlinear lyrics: Lorenzo Bruschi - TIMET

Software programming and automation : Raffaele De Tintis

Interactive design: Luigi De Aloisio

Interactive programming: Paolo Solcia

Big eye programming: Francesco Apuzzo

Light design: Michele Alvarez

Light technician: Lorenzo Giuggioli

Set design: Claudio Prati, Paolo Sansoni

Costumes: Olga Papoulidou

Organization: Maria Luisa Buzzi

Duration: 60′