Synopsis
Arbores is a multidisciplinary contemporary circus show, where the circus disciplines, tight wire, aerial rope, hand hand, acrobatic dance are contaminated with live music and electronic experimentation. In Arbores the viewer is led into a dystopian dimension where the characters on stage move in a surreal imaginary that lives of references to archetypes and disturbing visions at the center of which is the relationship man-nature. The fundamental theme is the relationship between the two identities which, in a continuous tension, as between opposites that magnetically attract each other, seek new forms of balance, side by side or mutually distant, crossing moments of struggle and opposition.
Company
Gera Circus was founded in 2010 by Sandro Sassi, its founder and promoter. Over time the project has become a connector in the world of contemporary circus that ideas and realizes shows and multidisciplinary performance resulting from intersections between different artistic experiences. Within Gera Circus, artists, performers and musicians meet, research and generate site-specific projects dedicated to heterogeneous contexts and audiences. The continuous experimentation of new expressive forms in the contemporary circus, the search for hybrid languages - between theatre, circus, clowneries, live music, sonorizations - makes Gera Circus an extremely fluid and innovative container of proposals.
Organising and collaborating people or organisations
- Artistic direction: Sandro Sassi
- External view: Giuseppe Vetti and Andrea Montevecchi
- Performers: Linda Vellar e Sandro Sassi
- Live Music: Andrea Ugolini
- Light design: Alex Turano
- Dramaturgy and textes: Gabriele Duma
- Literary sources: Rossella Consoli e Gianluca De Fazio
- Costumes: Simona Randazzo
Bibliografy: Metamorfosi – Ovidio, Uno, nessuno e centomila – Luigi Pirandello, Bibbia, Genesi - Torre di Babele, Origine della disuguaglianza – Jean Jacques Rousseau, Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi – Galileo Gelilei, Connessioni - Kae Tempest, Verde Brillante - Stefano Mancuso, La metamorfosi delle piante - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Principia Philosophiae Cartesianae - Baruch Spinoza, De gli eroici furori - Giordano Bruno
In collaboration with:
- Arterego – Bologna
- Circk Fantastik - Firenze
- Cronopis – Matarò (Barcellona)
- Teatro dell’Argine - Bologna
- Spazio Eco – Bologna
- Spazio Slip - Torino
- Encirca’t - Arenys de Munt (Barcellona)
- Antitesi Teatro – Pisa
- DAS - Dispositivo Arti Sperimentali
Projects details
Status: Seeking performance circuit
Web of the project: https://www.geracircus.it/spettacolo/arbores/
Additional documents: dossier - technical sheet
Market of reference: International
Disciplines: Circus, Music, Theatre
Scale of the show: Large format, Text
Location for the project: Indoor / Theatre
Recommended audience: Teenage, Adults
Interests: Dramaturgy, Ecology / Sustainability, Experience