Does theater still make sense today
Anna Dora Dorno
Lockdown memory is a performance that falls squarely into the category of reality theater, capable of bringing new multimedia languages into dialogue with those of the stage, capable of narrating the complexity of an innovative project such as Beyond Borders, in which theater, video art and documentary film are interwoven through a long-distance collaboration with artists from around the world. Textual notes, visual notes, physical and musical scores, zoomed-in conversations and scenes from the daily lives of the artists involved are the unfolding dramaturgical fragments that bounce off the walls of an aseptic room in search of a single glimmer, that virtual window open to a world which has had to mark its boundaries, due to the measures imposed by the containment of the pandemic.
From their desks, the on-stage actors also take care of the video direction, reliving the different moments and situations created during the Lockdown, between Hyper connection and isolation, giving voice to the delicate social situation in the countries of the artists involved: from the protests of the Black lives matter movement in the United States to the social uprising in Chile, from the mass exodus from the Indian megacities to the return to normalcy, after the tragedy, in the city of Wuhan.
Direction Anna Dora Dorno
Original text Nicola Pianzola
Dramaturgy by Anna Dora Dorno on texts by Arundhati Roy, Appeal of Iranian Artists to the USA, Meng Fan, Jesus Quintero, Ana Gabriela Pulido, Juliana Spinola, Cecilia Seaward.
Performer on stage Anna Dora Dorno, Nicola Pianzola
Performers on video Sun Young Park – SOUTH KOREA, Juliana Spinola – BRAZIL, Anuradha Venkataraman – INDIA, Cecilia Seaward – USA, Jesus Quintero COLOMBIA, Ana Gabriela Pulido – MEXICO, Maham Suahil – PAKISTAN, Jialan Cai, Yuwei Jiang | CHINA, Danial Kheyrikhah | IRAN
Original music Riccardo Nanni
Lighting design: Anna Dora Dorno, Mattia Bagnoli
Dramaturgy and video editing: Anna Dora Dorno, Nicola Pianzola
Artistic Residencies: La Città del Teatro – Fondazione Sipario Toscana Onlus | Teatro Masini Faenza – Accademia Perduta / Romagna Teatri | Teatro Studio Mila Pieralli Scandicci – RAT Tuscan Artistic Residencies
With the support of: Accademia Perduta / Romagna Teatri | Teatro delle Donne
Festival Colpi di scena 2021 – Accademia Perduta / Romagna Teatri
Festival Avamposti 2021 – Teatro delle Donne