INSEL

concept, choreography and voices Panzetti / Ticconi
performers Sissj Bassani, Efthimios Moschopoulos, Aleksandra Petrushevska, Julia Plawgo
music composition Demetrio Castellucci
music and voice Gavino Murgia
light design Annegret Schalke
costume design Werkstattkollektiv
dramaturgical support in the frame of JUMP network Piersandra Di Matteo
psychoanalytic theoretical insight Daniela Frau
technical direction on tour Michele Piazzi, Annegret Schalke
manager, distribution Aurélie Martin
Italian administration Federica Giuliano (VAN)
German production management Sofia Fantuzzi
logistic Eleonora Cavallo (VAN – Panzetti/Ticconi GbR)
production Panzetti / Ticconi GbR (DE); Associazione Culturale VAN (IT)
funded by Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe (DE)
coproduction Tanz im August / HAU Hebbel am Ufer (DE) // JUMP network (formed by Oriente Occidente, Festival MILANoLTRE, I Teatri di Reggio Emilia, Lavanderia a Vapore/Piemonte dal Vivo, Marche Teatro/Inteatro Festival, Orbita, Scenario Pubblico / Centro di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale, Teatro Comunale di Vicenza, Teatro Stabile dell’Umbria) (IT) // Torinodanza (IT) // Julidans Amsterdam (NL) // Pact Zollverein (DE) // Le Manège, scène-nationale – Reims (FR) // Le Pacifique – CDCN Grenoble Auvergne Rhône-Alpes (FR) // network Les Petites Scènes Ouvertes with the sponsorship of Caisse des dépôts (FR) // Centre Chorégraphique National de Nantes within the framework of Accueil Studio (FR) // CCNR / YUVAL PICK within the framework of Accueil Studio (FR) // Fuori Margine Centro di Produzione di Danza e Arti Performative della Sardegna (IT)
artistic residency program Centre Chorégraphique National de Nantes (FR) // Lavanderia a Vapore/Piemonte dal Vivo (IT) // Kinosaki International Arts Center (Toyooka city) (JP) // TEN Teatro Eliseo Nuoro (IT) // Le Pacifique – CDCN Grenoble Auvergne Rhône-Alpes (FR) in partnership with CCNR / YUVAL PICK (FR) // Chorège – CDCN Falaise Normandie (FR) // Scenario Pubblico / Centro di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale (IT) // Le Manège, scène-nationale – Reims (FR)

Residency in preparation of the new choreographic creation by Panzetti/Ticconi (panzettiticconi.com); the duo – based in Italy and in Germany – has recruited 4 professional contemporary dancers and performers (m/f/d) for INSEL, which will premiere at Tanz Im August (Berlin) and then at Torinodanza Festival (click here).

The physical impact of being castaway on a desert island and the fall into the depths of one’s own interiority are, in INSEL, equivalent collisions. INSEL, the German word for island, is a choreographic and sound creation for 4 performers which chooses a geographical condition as a symbolic reference to turn the gaze towards the individual and into the inevitable encounter with one’s own shadow. Two figures, guarded by their shadows, find in the monologue their only means for an expressive channel. Pleased by their own suffering tones, they do not contemplate the presence of the other. They plunge into the darkness of their own being, staging the drama of their narcissism. The shadows extend like majestic darkness and voice, an ancient, profound voice which with telluric vibrations undermines any kind of egoic protagonism and leaves space, amidst the shaken and shattered ground, for the possible emergence of a community. The lament, from being a solitary and narcissistic expression of an individual, is structured into cadenced, collective gestures. Mourners lead the ritual, while the voice of the island accompanies and soothes. The voice of Gavino Murgia is inspired by the traditional Cantu a Tenore technique originating on the island of Sardinia.