artistic direction Francesco Gandi, Davide Venturini choreography Anna Balducci, Luisa Cortesi dance for two performers drawings/paintings Rebwar Saeed visual design Elsa Mersi sound design Spartaco Cortesi computer engineering Martin von Günten, Rossano Monti costumes Loretta Mugnai voice over Caterina Poggesi props Livia Cortesi collaboration on script Stefania Zampiga CCC is a trilogy by TPO dedicated to dance and to the poetics of gardens. The project is composed of three shows: The Japanese Garden The Painted Garden The Italian Garden The Painted Garden is a garden created by the painter Rebwar Saeed, where the colours of the Kurdish natural landscape and the geometric harmonies of the islamic garden merge and play with each other: In this oriental space, the painter invites the public to follow an imaginary path through four gates, each of them leads to an area dedicated to a different colour and element: the yellow garden (earth), the blu garden (water), the green garden (leaves), the red garden (love). The theatrical action ends in the ‘garden of waterworks’. In this travel children explore colours, matter, the use of shapes and space, together with the beauty of Rebwar’s imaginary gardens. On stage two dancers create some choreographies inside the different landscapes, each of which contains an animated play environment, which the painter proposes to the children. The exploration develops through frames and the dancers invite the young audience to enter the places, where stones, the ground, flowers, water and animals suggest a theatrical relationship which permits to the gardens to develop. In this technologically sophisticated scenery, by means of light and instantaneous ways, the public is invited to interact and live a theatrical experience based on a ‘tactile’ relationship with images and sounds.The garden proposes an aesthetic and sensorial experience, where the games connected with the sensitive carpet represent some metaphors of the relationships among children, develop the connections between the self and others, and help the audience to build up a primary approach to the theatre and a playful contact with the arts. CCC -THE INTERACTIVE CARPET It is set inside a stage space with a central plan, devised by TPO in collaboration with Martin Von Gunten, for the realization of theatrical events with interactive dynamics. The stage is composed of a white dance carpet, a video projector sending animated images from above and a system of 32 sensors (hidden under the carpet), which react to an impulse synchronizing sounds and images. On the carpet, virtual landscapes are created through the development of games for individuals or groups. By entering this stage space, it is possible to create musical works, activate images and other complex events through movements and pressure over the sensors.
