INDIGENOUS - Sound drama

Act I. The mistake in greeting
Act II. Against the reptile's bite

Concept, set design, costumes: Barokthegreat
Choreography: Sonia Brunelli
Original live music: Leila Gharib, Francesco Brasini
With: Dafne Boggeri, Giorgia Nardin (Alice Zanoni, Simona Rossi), Sonia Brunelli
Theoretic collaboration: Piersandra Di Matteo
Visual effect: Dafne Boggeri
Sound engineer: Mattia Dallara
Production: Barokthegreat
Co-production: Schaubühne Lindenfels Leipzig, Santarcangelo Festival
Realized thanks to Accordo GECO 2-Regione Emilia-Romagna realized by Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione
With the support of: Xing
Duration 45’

Indigenous unleashes a universe of primitive fever with an onstage encounter between dancers and musicians. It’s a world of insistent and flashing rhythm that dissociates itself from the ritual imaginaries to which it nonetheless refers. The figures emerge through a powerful relationship of bodies with sound, whose density they render visible. Athletic gesturality of a mythical aura is evoked, building up and breaking down into liquid geometries. Indigenous involves the spectator’s eye and breath: enrapt by an obscure pulsation he recognises the signs of the real through itsdistortion. On a quest to discover how gesture and movement are rooted in the brain, Barokthegreat’s performances speak to the reptilian brain — that area of the anatomy responsible for primitive behaviors, basic needs and survival instincts. It’s a part of the brain that delivers immediate response, like a reflex: same situation, same stimulus. Such is the area that Indigenous hope to colonize, their imperturbable pulsation and peculiar atmosphere acting like a stroboscope on the eye. Inspired by music as a ritual, the performers launch themselves into a dance with such obsession that it soon transforms into a feverish trance.