TRIC - (THE RIGHT CHOICE)
ESSE EST PERCIPI
Short film - 2020. The video was recorded during the lockdown at Fængslet, prison in Horsens.
2020-2021
Concept, performance, video editing and voice over by Anna Penati
Movement consultant: Marco Zavarise
Songs by Sara Polo
© humanlab.studio 2020
Inspired by Rockaby (1980) - Samuel Beckett “Life is nothing more than the act of perception or the state of being perceived. To be is to be perceived”.Berkeley (1685-1753).
Jerzy Grotowski used to say that theatre manifests itself if there is at least one actor and one spectator. But in the impossibility of having a spectator witnessing the theatrical act, what happens to theatre? Can theatre die?
So doesn’t theatre exist right now because it is not perceived?
An actress locked up in her prison/house builds her own black box to resist. She resists and looks for an audience that would recognize her existence. Until she realizes there is no way out if not death. What if, however, this pandemic is actually a gift? What if dying is actually a stepping stone to rethink our theatre. Like a fire that increases the fertility of the burnt soil.
Esse est percepi becomes a ritual to kill theatre, in order for it to be reborn stronger from its ashes.
2020-2021
Concept, performance, video editing and voice over by Anna Penati
Movement consultant: Marco Zavarise
Songs by Sara Polo
© humanlab.studio 2020
Inspired by Rockaby (1980) - Samuel Beckett “Life is nothing more than the act of perception or the state of being perceived. To be is to be perceived”.Berkeley (1685-1753).
Jerzy Grotowski used to say that theatre manifests itself if there is at least one actor and one spectator. But in the impossibility of having a spectator witnessing the theatrical act, what happens to theatre? Can theatre die?
So doesn’t theatre exist right now because it is not perceived?
An actress locked up in her prison/house builds her own black box to resist. She resists and looks for an audience that would recognize her existence. Until she realizes there is no way out if not death. What if, however, this pandemic is actually a gift? What if dying is actually a stepping stone to rethink our theatre. Like a fire that increases the fertility of the burnt soil.
Esse est percepi becomes a ritual to kill theatre, in order for it to be reborn stronger from its ashes.
PETROL
Audience Award at the 16th International Fêtes internationales du théâtre Next Wave Festival, Montreal
Directed by Giacomo Gamba
BRILLIANT TRACES
by Cindy Lou Johnson
Directed bt Ettore Oldi
Performers: Anna Carla Maria Penati and Marco Zavarise
an European debut
Directed bt Ettore Oldi
Performers: Anna Carla Maria Penati and Marco Zavarise
an European debut
NORDICOMÆDIA
Three years research project supported by Europæisk Kulturregion 2021.
LUMEN - AARHUS CAPITAL OF CULTURE 2017
THE BEGINNING OF MEMORY
Teaching and directing VIA UNIVERSITY COLLEGE's students (2018/2019)
