BAROKTHEGREAT is an artistic collective founded in 2008 by performer-choreographer Sonia Brunelli and musician-composer Leila Gharib. Based in Verona, Italy.
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Image: Ghost by Barokthegreat (Sonia Brunelli, Leila Gharib)

GHOST

The title Ghost reveals what Barokthegreat, in collaboration with London-based director-designer Simon Vincenzi, aims to seek: the ghost. At the poles, a dancer and an off-stage musician lead a gradual progression of rhythmic pulses in sync with the light, alternated with sudden freeze-frames where the body locks into a statuesque pose—the still of its own movement. With Ghost, through a process of slow abstraction, Barokthegreat brings out the most spectral aspect of a dancing body’s legs and feet—limbs that seem to come to life on their own, guided by an accelerating beat composed and performed live with a Roland TR-8S drum machine. As the speed increases, the body detaches from rhythmic structures, loses coincidence with sound, and adheres to what it can still perceive. In the instability of references, the image vibrates and vanishes. Inspired by the origins of footwork, an art form and expression of resistance from Chicago’s 1990s urban subcultures. The interchangeable subtitles that accompany the performance are six: There’s a wrinkle inside my eye, What if I disappear?, We are the idiots, Lucifer wants to sell, Follow my feet, weapons!, Rid your mind before leaving.

Concept: Barokthegreat
Choreography, with: Sonia Brunelli
Music: Leila Gharib
Artistic collaboration: Simon Vincenzi
Lighting technician: Salvatore Pulpito
Production: Barokthegreat
Co-production: Schauspiel Leipzig, Xing/Live Arts Week
With the support of: CiCi Centro Interdisciplinare di Cultura Italiana – Universität Leipzig
Duration: 55'

host by Barokthegreat (Sonia Brunelli, Leila Gharib)
host by Barokthegreat (Sonia Brunelli, Leila Gharib)
host by Barokthegreat (Sonia Brunelli, Leila Gharib)
Ph. © Lorenza Daverio
Tour
Schauspiel Leipzig — Leipzig (DE) — premiere
Schauspiel Leipzig — Leipzig (DE)
Schauspiel Leipzig — Leipzig (DE)
Schauspiel Leipzig — Leipzig (DE)
Schauspiel Leipzig — Leipzig (DE)
Schauspiel Leipzig — Leipzig (DE)
Live Arts Week VIII — Bologna (IT) — Italian premiere
Live Arts Week VIII — Bologna (IT)
Short Theatre — Rome (IT)
Teatro Comandini, Rassegna Parallela — Cesena (IT)
Teatro Grande — Brescia (IT)
FOG Triennale Milano Performing Arts — Milan (IT)
youTHeater Identità Plurale, Teatro del Parco — Mestre (IT)