Instructions to Make Ourselves Unhappy by Claudia Rosa

The dancers-actors will show us, with their suggestive dance, gloomy music and grotesque figures created with their bodies, all the monstrosities of obsessive and selfish love. And every single detail will serve to render this message of unhappiness: the stage is very dark, rarely illuminated by spotlights that create horizontal or vertical lines, where the dancers walk or run dressed in their yellow and black clothes that catch the eye of the public.

Everything seems to converge in terribly illogical circumstances and in real situations brought to exasperation. Our problems and quarrels are blown up out of proportions, but this is the mirror of our frustrations; and by looking at the performers we understand the core of our sadness … The four actors-dancers manage to get to us all the unease of wrong relationships only with their dancing, their slow movements, as if they were a déja vu. Few words uttered by a voice-over remind us that man is capable of destroying himself. Also the few words the dancers pronounce are very touching and they remind us that, afraid of everything, we are very keen to make life hard and complicated.

Claudia Rosa

Culturalazio.it

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