2023
«Spread a nail of pitch in the thurible of the book.» Preludio alle braci is a scenic alphabet and a sound ritual where book, music and voice become a way of blowing on the embers, “alarms in the long night”. Starting from a performative recovery of the tradition of unrolling the scroll Exultet, which during the Easter Vigil the deacon-cantor slides down from the pulpit while chanting its content, Giorgiomaria Cornelio and Roberto Paci Dalò orchestrate an electronic ceremony of sounds, wind instruments and gestures around the poetic text La consegna delle braci (Luca Sossella Editore).
A nine-meter roll, designed by Roberto Paci Dalo, marks the rhythm and the writing of the stage space, reinventing it with a continuous montage of images. Braci was born from the meeting between Congerie and Giardini Pensili, the performing arts company co-founded by Roberto Paci Dalò.