During the summer of 2018, Danza Urbana Festival commissioned me a site-specific performance with adolescents to investigate the relationship between human and nature, past and present. The location was Mountain Bibele, an important archeological site where Etrurians set up a village three centuries before Christ.
I gathered information by visiting the museum and the old village:
what is the history of Etrurians?
how did they live?
what rituals did they have?
what was their relationship with the Roman Empire?
Fire Cavern Ritual di World Music Scene - album Nature Player Primitive Ethnic Soundspheres
Ais Alpan di Francesco Landucci - album Etrurian Imaginary Sounds
Ancient Night Lyra di Francesco Landucci - album Etrurian Imaginary Sounds
Ade Sound’s di World Music Scene - album Ancient Etruscan Sounds
Music was a great challenge. How could I be authentic and 'contemporary' without overturning the way music was more than 2.000 years ago?
We finally landed on site only to find out from the museum guardian that there was a massive migration of
!!!HORNETS!!!
...slowly getting used to the heat, touching/sensing the nature around us, connecting with the stones by creating spatial configurations, flying like birds, and so on...
I started the rehearsals in the studio.
10 days (7 studio based + 3 in Mountain Bibele)
6 to 7 hours sessions of work everyday.
How do I facilitate their connection to the archeological site without being phisically there? How do I help the young dancers getting used to dance under the boiling sun of September? → I decided very soon to move our rehearsals outside