SPIRO

The scene opens on a wake, a recurring ritual in many places around the world: friends, relatives and acquaintances of the deceased together in the same place for long hours, to say goodbye and console each other. SPIRO reveals personalities, relationships and fears around death, through the composition of sounds, movements and images in the form of tableau vivants. With a dreamlike taste, singing is the core of the performance – as it is a language closely linked to funeral rituals – while the stage actions are performed in a circular space in which the audience is immersed, as part of the wake.

An ironic, poetic, touching wake.
Five characters accompany the audience on a journey through the inexpressible and the ephemeral, gradually revealing human strengths and weaknesses in the face of death.

The artistic research behind the performance was born from a study of funeral rituals around the world, from field research on cemetery architecture in Italy and Brazil, and finally from a multidisciplinary confrontation with medical personnel, bioethicists, anthropologists and philosophers, with the aim of bringing the artistic work to focus on universal traits of the experience of limits and exploring the experience of death as tragic, comic, poetic and absurd.

WITH

Eduardo Colombo, Victor Kanashiro, Silvia Ribero, Angie Rottensteiner, Tiago Viudes

DRAMMATURGY

Tiago Viudes

FLAMENCO CHOREOGRAPHY

Raffaella Soluri

AFRICAN DANCE

Lenna Bahule

TRADIZIONAL OKINAWA DANCE

Satoru Saito

COSTUMES

Burker Warner

MUSIC

Original compositions and arrangements by BILOURA

GRAPHICS AND VIDEO ITALY

Raffaele Diomede

BRASILGRAPHICS

Alex Hoera

BRAZIL VIDEO

Raphael Calheiros

VIDEO CUT

Angie Rottensteiner

PRESS OFFICE ITALY

Jacopo Sant

PRESS OFFICE BRAZIL

Nossa Senhora da Pauta

ARTISTIC DIRECTION EFFIMERIA

Silvia Ribero and Angie Rottensteiner

SPIRO IS PART OF EFFIMERIA PROJECT SUPPORTED BY

Municipality of Agliè, Municipality of Alice Superiore, Municipality of Candia Canavese, Municipality of Ivrea, Municipality of Torre, Brillor, NovaCoop, University of Turin - 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