21 — 24.05
Romeo Castellucci, Scott Gibbons Cesena-New York
To Carthage then I came
performance — premiere
| ⧖ +- 40min | €18 / €15 | Wheelchair accessible with assistance only, no accessible toilets | Standing, contains loud sounds
A procession of performers enters the space, one after the other, repeating the same gesture. They share an identical action that rises from the body to become sound—a signal, a warning—floating in a constant limbo between punk rebellion and ancestral prayer, a gesture of freedom and a theatrical bow.
Romeo Castellucci returns to the festival with a sound performance conceived in close dialogue with the top floor of Parking Panorama. This car park in the centre of Brussels is an architectural gem with a conical roof that evokes both a circus tent and a bell tower. Gradually, the gesture of the performers makes the architecture resonate, building into a polyphonic crescendo. The architecture, in turn, shapes the action we are witnessing. The mechanical movement of bodies in relentless repetition is transporting, as if we were inside a combustion engine or atop a bell tower where a human hammer strikes the bronze without pause, marking the time of an alarm.
Castellucci collaborates with long-time sound partner, Scott Gibbons, to create a work on the threshold between theatre and concert. A performance that returns to the core of his practice, probing the almost spiritual boundary between individual presence and the constant possibility of belonging to a mechanism larger than oneself.
21.05
- 17:00
- 18:30
- 20:00
22.05
- 17:00
- 18:30
- 20:00
23.05
- 15:00
- 16:30
- 18:00
- 19:30
24.05
- 15:00
- 16:30
- 18:00
Presentation: Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Bedford Hotel
By: Romeo Castellucci & Scott Gibbons | Movement direction: Gloria Dorliguzzo | Sound technician: Claudio Tortorici | With local performers | Technical direction: Eugenio Resta | Production: Caterina Soranzo | Head of production: Benedetta Briglia | Organisation: Giulia Colla | Technical team in Cesena: Carmen Castellucci, Francesca Di Serio, Gionni Gardini, Dario Neri | Administration: Michela Medri, Elisa Bruno, Simona Barducci | Finance: Massimiliano Coli
Production: Societas | Coproduction: Kunstenfestivaldesarts
To Carthage then I came is conceived as the second phase of the project Senza Titolo, a production by Triennale Milano and Societas commissioned on the occasion of the centenary of Triennale Milano (2023)
With the support of the Ammodo Foundation
