Emptiness, silence, but above all, pitch black. The scene has gone dark, making it impossible to make anything out. Two screens are connected to two infrared cameras which move like eyes, and their gaze guides the spectator through the darkness, following the actor’s every move. The cameras try to make Read More

Two screens provide two simultaneous points of view, focusing on this episode taken from Homer’s epic. At times, the images work together in the same way that human eyes allow us to see, and at other times, they are different from each other and mix up, just like human thought. Read More

A ring of television monitors rises up from beneath the ground. The structure is unusual and could belong to the past or the future. The show begins as this structure appears, with the image of a huddled body immediately displayed, sliding along the curve of screens until the ring disappears Read More

The abstract room is a mental space. It is the interior of the everyman who, for a moment of suspended time, is overcome by sensations, obsessions, memories and images. In this timeless room, the actors interpret the idea of conscience and play out imaginary or experienced relationships that are exaggerated Read More

Seven actors and fifteen monitors are on stage. Their choreography and the scenes they act out are processed using the technological possibilities of video. The live images on the screens are parts of another show that is being performed at the same time on other off-stage sets. Real and simulated Read More

The sound of lutes and cymbals from a faraway time accompanies the first steps of the visitor walking toward the second order of the Colosseum to enjoy its extraordinary view, looking out on the Arch of Constaintine, the columns of the Temple of Venus, and Rome. The history of this Read More

I am tired, as if I too belonged to the family of statues and were just as old. Yannis Ritsos   Offered by Studio Azzurro and Moni Ovadia for the first time in 1990, DELPHI, a cantata stages Yannis Ritsos’ short poem Delphi featuring an original score by di Piero Read More

Many craftsmen at work have been filmed during the research trips made by Studio Azzurro to create the installations of the Mediterranean Meditations cycle. Bowmakers, fishermen, saddlers, casters, glassmakers, chisellers, potters, weavers, olive pickers, winemakers, boat builders, restorers, bookbinders, blacksmiths, tanners, doll makers: all of them filmed in their workplaces, Read More

If you wait, sooner or later you’ll believe you are waiting for someone. Samuel Beckett   Three hundred deckchairs are arranged at the centre of the large square of Fabbrica del Vapore, facing the “cathedral”, a long early twentieth-century industrial archaeology building. People take their seats a few minutes before Read More

Rock Songs Triptych is a composition by Giovanni Sollima for a string orchestra and a choir, dedicated to the Dolomites and to mountain culture. Triptych of Songs, a video opera that blends with musical composition, was projected onto three large screens behind the orchestra, in synch with the score, thus Read More

Fragments from Ejzenstejn’s movie and footage from a concert performance of Prokofiev’s cantata alternate in an edited video in which they finally intermingle thanks to video processing: the protagonists of the film and those of the performance end up side by side in the same image. Ejzenstejn and Prokofiev worked Read More

The story that inspired this show is a part of the Racing Stories project and takes place in a thick bamboo scenery that in a wonderful, disturbing way, imprisons images without ever giving them entirely back. The stage is crossed by a luminous sign, a long path of horizontal monitors Read More