Performance for adults and children aged three and over
a Teatro delle Briciole production, part of the New Outlooks for a Young Audience project
directed by Giulia Gallo, Giovanni Guerrieri | I Sacchi di Sabbia / in collaboration with Giulia Solano /
with Beatrice Baruffini / Chiara Renzi, Serena Guardone / Arianna Benvenuti / Francesca Ruggerini and Paolo Romanini / books by Giulia Gallo / lighting devised by Emiliano Curà / sets designed and produced by Paolo Romanini
Re-inventing the animated book in theatre form, POP UP a cartoon fossil interweaves the micro-stories of a paper child and a mysterious small ball: the rhythmic, chromatic and sound developments in their relationship, their encounters, their mirrorlike qualities, their transformations. The chromatic scansion of the different cartoons making up the performance is a powerful means for exploring basic feelings and creating groups of associations among feelings, shapes and colours. The shape of the variations on the theme, musically accompanying the noise-based research, becomes a flexible tool for experimentally exploring children's imagination.
Thus the adventures of the child and his small ball trigger a symbolic interplay of geometries and metamorphoses touching on crucial aspects of that imagination: fantasy, invitations, threats and dreams.
Two actresses, who are also animators, breathe life into the two paper characters, playing on the appearance of figures and shapes in time, on the way they interact with their bodies, on movement and the illusion of movement, and on the synchronicity between voices and between voices and images.
The I Sacchi di Sabbia Company has made a name for itself nationwide over the years, earning widespread recognition for the unique nature of its approach based on re-inventing the contemporary popular stage. After winning two ETI "Hamlet's Debut" awards, the I Sacchi di Sabbia were nominated for the Ubu Prize in 2003 for their performance of Orfeo. Il respiro ("... for their combination of wit, history and metaphysics") and they won the Ubu Special Prize for 2008. Swinging permanently between tradition and innovation, between the tragic and the comic, I Sacchi di Sabbia's work has firmed up in a style midway between the visual arts, dance and music in the search for unusual performance venues, while always displaying a keen interest in the region in which the performance is being staged.
The exhibition is part of the new cultural palimpsest of Roma Capitale Romarama
