ABOUT PERFORMANCE
Photo — Andrea Pizzalis
MASTER CLASS WITH RICCI AND GIOVANNI FORTE (“ricci/forte“ company, Italy)
MYTHS OF THE PAST AND THE PRESENT-DAY RUSSIA
Stefano Ricci and Gianni Forte: “It is the question of the adaptation and uninterrupted transfiguration of the people of Russia who are at the crossroads between the tradition and the inexorable future that is knocking on their door. By reconsidering metaphorically our own lives and obsessions we would like to talk about “the dark side” of the reality and cross the desert of lost memories about collective nonchalance that causes the infinite loneliness of the modern man. Ironic as it may sound, in the end of the road it all seems to be longer than life itself. There is nothing unusual in the fact that the word „LIFE” will be repeated over and over again: life hurts, life betrays, life is watching us… We shall talk about the lives lived and we shall see life as a grotesque performance; we shall see the pain and joy that in real life walk hand-in-hand. The life of any man becomes a myth and every myth creeps into the life…”