Animalie is a scenic commentary on the text L’aperto, l’uomo e l’animale by Giorgio Agamben. The dramaturgy of the play refers to the text as glossa or counterpoint, it is therefore open and not conceptual stone, but autonomous and living. It works on an extended sensoriality exploiting the possibilities of image and sound – electronic pulsations in an idea of theatre that leaves the word behind and enters the territories of trance. The body and dance are central points of the investigation
The performer executes a vocabulary of signs and movements, comparing and ‘directing’ a larger device. The music is based on granular synthesis and pure electronic sound: Agamben’s voice reading parts of the book has been recorded, sampled and processed in such a way as to bring it closer – in the concreteness of the sound – to the voices of the animals he evoked in the text. Part of the images – including original drawings by Oreste Zevola – are created live using software that allows you to capture images from the stage to modify them in real time and re-project them on a large format in a scene made up of multiple projection surfaces.
