Concerto fetido su quattro zampe
Italy
A Fetid Concert on Four Paws
Directing & Text
Alice & Davide Sinigaglia
Civilisation is an achievement. So is language. But how can one manage to turn 30 without deeply betraying your own self?
Language
Italian with German & English surtitles
Duration
45 min
Location
Kleines Haus
Kleines Haus Staatsschauspiel Dresden
Glacisstr. 28
01099 Dresden
KH 3
Dates
more about the artist
We walk through the streets the tourists have left behind dirty. Hands in our pockets, hoodies on our heads. We look around: not a soul. Where are all the young people? Another dead season in this town. We feel like smashing everything up, shaking this world awake from its deathly quiet, in the hope that the animal in us will start howling again.
“Sometimes, when my ears itch, I think I’ve forgotten how to bite.
What a fantastic achievement: civilisation!
What a fantastic achievement: private property!
What a fantastic achievement: language!
Yeah, really, it makes you want to use them.”
Alice and Davide Sinigaglia are sister and brother. They come from a family of musicians and first came into contact with theatre at the SCARTI Production Centre for Theatrical Innovation in their hometown of La Spezia. Alice, b. 1996, studied Directing at the Paolo Grassi Academy of Theatre in Milan. Davide, b. 1999, studied Percussion at the La Spezia Conservatory and then trained as a performer. In 2023, Alice directed the first edition of TUTTA LA VITA DAVANTI (OUR WHOLE LIVES AHEAD OF US) in La Spezia for the elderly of the future, i.e. artists under 30. Their first collaborative performance together is a portrait of a generation and a theatrical hybrid. The beats, poetry, situation and acting are all rooted in music. It’s the starting point and the tool for their own revolt and a philosophical conundrum with the concept of civilization: being human – being animal – being yourself.
Directors & Performers Alice Sinigaglia, Davide Sinigaglia
Technical Direction Febe Bonini Production SCARTI Centre for Innovative Theatre Production (La Spezia, Italy) Production Management Giulia Moretti, Francesca Lateana Photos Cosimo Trimboli, Salvatore Scaduto, Leonardo Bertucci (Portrait Alice & Davide Sinigaglia)
Selected in the funding programme Powered by Ref
A project of Romaeuropa Festival 2023 in the framework of ANNI LUCE_osservatorio di futuri possibili in collaboration with Carrozzerie | n.o.t und / and 369gradi srl in cooperation with Periferie Artistiche Residencies (Centro di Residenza Multidisciplinare del Lazio) – in network with ATCL multidisciplinary circuit of Lazio for Spazio Rossellini regional multidisciplinary cultural pole, Teatro Biblioteca Quarticciolo & Cranpi.