TERMINUS
Co-producers: HumanLab - Art Farm
Concept and directing: Anna Carla Maria Penati
Componist and Sound Designer: Domenico Mannelli
Scenography and Mask maker: Alessandra Faienza
Performers: Anna Carla Maria Penati, Marco Zavarise, Martin Schultz Kristensen, MengTin Liu
Audience: fra 6 år
Audience: fra 6 år
A man, an old man, a homeless, lives in a train station: every day he sees hundreds of people passing by. They pass and do not stop, like the time: flies away to never come back. If instead, for once, people slow down and even stop? What would happen? Terminus is a show that explores the infinite facets of human relationships and their unexpected surprises.
Terminus is a show that aims at re-discovering the value of time. In this historical moment we are used to fulfil our waiting time scrolling our phone, and create therefore an “accelerated time” in which not even the slightest moment can be wasted in waiting. In this way we lose though, our connection to the present moment and don’t allow anymore unexpected encounters with other humans to be part of our lives. We decided therefore to set the show in a train station’s waiting room, a “non-place” like thousands others in the world, to explore the wonder, which unpredictable encounters with other people could bring in a suspended time. We feel relevant to tell a story that takes place in these moments and spaces that our generation and the new ones have forgotten, in order to remind us that taking time to raise our eyes and wait for the others is still a valuable option.
Anna Carla Maria Penati, instruktør, actress and mask lecturer
(Interview at Dramaturgi Dpt. Aarhus Universitet 2020)
"Masks have always been mysterious and fascinating objects: originating from ancient traditions, they bring us, still today, closer to the most unexpressed part of our being, awakening our dreams and making us laugh and cry. Every time you look at a mask, even when completely still, a new, imaginary world - sometimes curious, sometimes funny - instantly opens up; both performing arts and folklore have constantly exploited their remarkable expressive potentiality. But what they mean to me most, it is that masks ask the audience to breathe in a suspended poetic time and to look at the world with the astonishment of a child".
Concept and directing: Anna Carla Maria Penati
Componist and Sound Designer: Domenico Mannelli
Scenography and Mask maker: Alessandra Faienza
Performers: Anna Carla Maria Penati, Marco Zavarise, Martin Schultz Kristensen, MengTin Liu
Audience: fra 6 år
Audience: fra 6 år
A man, an old man, a homeless, lives in a train station: every day he sees hundreds of people passing by. They pass and do not stop, like the time: flies away to never come back. If instead, for once, people slow down and even stop? What would happen? Terminus is a show that explores the infinite facets of human relationships and their unexpected surprises.
Terminus is a show that aims at re-discovering the value of time. In this historical moment we are used to fulfil our waiting time scrolling our phone, and create therefore an “accelerated time” in which not even the slightest moment can be wasted in waiting. In this way we lose though, our connection to the present moment and don’t allow anymore unexpected encounters with other humans to be part of our lives. We decided therefore to set the show in a train station’s waiting room, a “non-place” like thousands others in the world, to explore the wonder, which unpredictable encounters with other people could bring in a suspended time. We feel relevant to tell a story that takes place in these moments and spaces that our generation and the new ones have forgotten, in order to remind us that taking time to raise our eyes and wait for the others is still a valuable option.
Anna Carla Maria Penati, instruktør, actress and mask lecturer
(Interview at Dramaturgi Dpt. Aarhus Universitet 2020)
"Masks have always been mysterious and fascinating objects: originating from ancient traditions, they bring us, still today, closer to the most unexpressed part of our being, awakening our dreams and making us laugh and cry. Every time you look at a mask, even when completely still, a new, imaginary world - sometimes curious, sometimes funny - instantly opens up; both performing arts and folklore have constantly exploited their remarkable expressive potentiality. But what they mean to me most, it is that masks ask the audience to breathe in a suspended poetic time and to look at the world with the astonishment of a child".
