choregraphy Roberto Zappalà

music D. Shostakovich, P. Glass, G. Sollima

light design and costumes Roberto Zappalà

dancers Daniela Bendini, Kana Ote, Wei Meng Poon, Michal Zahora, Roberto Zappalà

 

 

 

 

Soliloquylit is a series of ‘solos’ having light and movement as the only compositional tools. Used in a non-narrative way, these elements translate their dramaturgical power through the use of ‘masks’ that each soloist wears as a means to challenge one’s identity, trying to find a space for one’s body in light and darkness.

 

 

‘…in the first section, a body hits and fights the ground, moving as a Kafkian insect before ‘metamorphosing’ into a pithecanthropus erectus. First the "soliloquylit" of a cyclothymiac, bat-woman that uses her hands as claws; followed by a peaceful tai-chi warrior exposed to an electric blue light and the double-bass of Toscano. However, it’s in the subtle "soliloquylit" of a female dancer’s naked torso that the performance reaches its climax. Enthusiastic feedback from the audience." Carmelita Celi, (LA SICILIA)