_RAPSODIA PER GIGANTI

Whirling on Stilts between Myth and Fairytale
  
The characters of myths live many lives and die many deaths’, on the contrary the characters of novels are bound to one single role. Resounding in these ‘lives and deaths’ are all the other ones
Roberto Calasso.
 
Rapsodia per giganti is a duet on stilts in open spaces. The roots of this duet are found in the vast territory between myth and fairytale.
Two huge characters from the past appear at the ruble of drums ... dances are open and like in an old pack of cards the stories criss-cross and merge together, unravel and mingle again, on the edge of the eternal line between Eros and Thanatos.
The composition of the piece is not guided by just a single fabulae, single episodes with their beginnings and their endings – but by a general atmosphere: the aura of strength and wonderment which pervades the whole area between myth and fairytale and which makes everything that is human fleeting,  short-lived and of a disarming smallness. Therefore, the performers are losing their ‘humanity’ by transforming themselves into characters who are coexisting as their opposites and their negations. 
In this interpretation the narrative structure is abandoned in favor of an intertwining and logical unwinding of the created pictures, which themselves are based on associations.
 
With the support of: DECS Repubblica e Cantone Ticino – Fondo Swisslos / DFAE / Migros kulturprozent