Shows /

Scarti

pieces that do not meet expected quality
Roberto Cocconi e Luca Zampar / Compagnia Arearea
2023

— rejects?
– discard…
– you can tear the paper, if you like…
– what is it?
– a discarded memory, music never played, a choreography never danced.
– I’ll give you something of mine I’ve never used or only used a few times; but I liked it and never threw it away…
– come on, unwrap it then…

The stage as a container of attempts, of ideas, concepts, hinted steps, surreal moments that never take shape.
Packages, boxes, cartons of unused things, randomly reconstructed into free compositions born from unexpressed emotions and the weight of the past.

The audience is faced with an interweaving of micro-narratives, like open boxes containing small scenes, brief instants that evoke the past and seem to want to escape the present. Through dance, Cocco & Zampi reconstruct emotional compositions, giving back fragments of memories and pieces of an unfinished life experience, like a collage of dissonant and unexpressed experiences.
A rhythm emerges that does not seek narrative coherence, but the continuity of an uninterrupted stream of consciousness. Cocco & Zampi challenge conventions and lead us into a suspended world, where comedy intertwines with melancholy, and the atmospheres recall ancient forms of twentieth-century comic theatre, yet revisited with a contemporary gaze. Music from different eras accompanies this journey, amplifying the sensation of being in another dimension, where past and present freely merge.