Festa

Love and civil war, tears and laughter, carnival and lent, enraptured stillness and disruptive dances :  the emotional seasons that succeed  through a breathless race.

The dawn of a mass society who wants to live out the defiance of contravention.  Festive delirium, forced cohabitation, intolerable merging, each one becomes the inconscient  hangman of the other.

The load carried from one to another becomes intolerable.  All is drowned out by laughter in a never ending collective nightmare that gives an illusion of celebration improvising a beggar’s carnival.

In the action of this infernal paradise, humanity in the throes of jubilation is innocently, unconsciously, self consuming.

The crowds express words of happiness without foundation, sketch misunderstood corporal movements, lance unknown signs that no one wants to understand.

A multitude parades, lifted by a ridiculous ballet, a licentious bazaar celebrated in the dredges of a dream like the ultimate Sabbath.

Danced fireworks reign.  The Garden of Eden is not far, just there, at the corner.  Men and Women, Order and Chaos enjoy an eternal adolescence, not seeming to tire of love games, prisoners in the arms of a damned Eros.

Production : Biennale de la Danse de Lyon, Aéronef de Lille, Régie du spectacle de Montélimar
Choreographer : Gaetano Battezzato, Marina Blandini
Choreographers Assistant : Marie-Zénobie Harlay
Video design : Marina Blandini
Dancers : Marc Lacour, Karine Flavigny-Salvan, Marie-Zénobie Harlay, Mélisande Carré, Gaetano Battezzato,Aurélien Picard, Ezio Schiavulli, Sugata Hirotori, Géraldine Bocquet
Chaoticien : Christophe Letellier
Music : Arnaud Rebotini
Light : Guy Simard
Stage design : Gaetano Battezzato
Costumes : Gaetano Battezzato, Marina Blandini
Seamstress: Malika Oujdémia