THE LITTLE MERMAID
DESIRE_CHANGE_TRANSCENDENCE
The body of the fairy tale is not an inert object of stable sensorial perception, but a transitive category of the aesthetic experience of the living. A change of form. The tisionomic contour is not confined to the representative delegation of itself, but due to the desire for rebirth it is a mutant trait of the transcendent action of sentimental ecstasy. The fairy-tale body does not perpetuate the image of the cognitive installation but sacrifices itself to the dynamic verb of metaphysical dramatization.
By losing the emotional limitation of its appearance, the body prepares itself for the expressive martyrdom of its organic essence. The supreme moment of the end manifests itself with the loss of bodily fluids; the body of the fairy tale begins its dissolution, leaving an organic testament, a new psycho-physical silhouette. Soul foam? The form of ecstasy blessed by the test is at work in the changing of the body born not governed by the enduring form queen in history. In the fairy tale where the time of loss reigns supreme. the misfortune of the two-headed lambs does not appear to be the showcase of the seen, but the glassy power of bodily diamorphosis.
VISUS PERFORMANCE
Impressive atrophies and conceptual hypertrophies: to restore the poetic substance of the tragic core of the fairy tale. Cleaning up of comics of childhood heritage, and regeneration of Rilkian-derived destiny: the threshold. In macro sensorial expansion and in micro material extension, the threshold traces the perpetually shifted line of Desiderio_Mutamento_Transscendenza. The threshold function is located in the body.
THE LITTLE MERMAID
The Little Mermaid
Then The Little Mermaid
in Hans Christian Andersen
text | imagoturgy || Francesco Pititto
regia || Maria Federica Masters
scene | costumes | visual elements || Maria Federica Masters
musica || Andrew Azzali
interpreters || Valentina Barbarini | Clare Bersani | Matthew Ramponi | Alessandro Sciarroni
light design || Rocco Giansante
costume making || Manuela Barigazzi
scenographic creations || Luca Melegari
production || Lenz Refractions
first || Nature Festival of Theatres, Parma, 2005
duration || 75 minutes
Production included in Hans Cristian Andersen 2005 Foundation’s Celebrations
The show was presented at the K5 Festival, Brescia, al Festival Cyl, Salamanca (Spain)
