Spacewalk (2017)
Michele Rizzo
In Spacewalk, Michele Rizzo attempts to make tangible a hybrid understanding of space. In this work for two performers, he is looking for the invisible within the visible, and the virtual within the material.
The development of technology and the evolution of our imagination are administering stress tests to the material world. As reality echoes in the new spaces of the virtual realm, new ideas and visions of infinity appear. We have learned to escape reality – but also to reinforce and augment it. As a result, we have started to see the space around us as a receiver of our own representations, images and imagination. In Spacewalk two performers engage in a practice that allows them, and the audience, to travel through different spaces. From the concrete space of the theatre and the stage, they pass through the virtual space imagined by the performers in a sculptural set design on the threshold between an archeological site and a futuristic environment. Finally, they land into the infinite space of the unconscious, where movement continues behind closed eyelids.
“Spacewalk is a sterile performance, which places humankind in an ideal paradise, the heavenly nothing. In a museum performance, Italian choreographer Michele Rizzo explores, together with two performers, concepts such as infinity and space. Whoever can surrender to his minimalism will have a fantastic experience.”
Moos van den Broek, Theaterkrant, 10 March 2017****
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PREMIERE: 08 March 2017, Something Raw / de Brakke Grond Amsterdam (NL)
CONCEPT AND CHOREOGRAPHY: Michele Rizzo
PERFORMANCE: Emma Daniel and Valerio Sirna
SET AND LIGHTING DESIGN: Michele Rizzo and Lukas Heistinger
SOUND: Au†ismo
TECHNICAL DIRECTION: Lukas Heistinger, Yiannis Mouravas and Diederik Schoorl
ADVICE: Juan Pablo Cámara
DURATION: 55 minutes
PRODUCTION: Frascati Productions and Amsterdam Fund for the Arts
CO-PRODUCTION: CAMPO, Dansmakers Amsterdam and ICKamsterdam