A show that is first and foremost a tragedy. A tragedy, however, that is not only representation, but imposes the truth about the interaction between Tortelli and bystander, a demonstration of his style, technique and courage, an art form that belongs to his culture and his personal contemporary dramaturgical vision.

Michele Olivieri for Sipario

 

 

"...The theatre requires characters to appear on stage dressed in a suit of poetry but at the same time with their bones and blood visible..."

Federico Garcia Lorca

 

Diego Tortelli’s creation Lorca sono Tutti delves deep into the memory of one of the most famous Spanish mysteries. On a patch of land in the countryside of Andalusia, where the remains of the poet possibly lie buried beneath the hard and heavy clods of earth, an inscription among the olive trees reads: “everyone was Lorca” (“Lorca eran todos”).

In this production, Lorca is reborn as a narrator and as a character/interpreter of his own works, which endlessly explore the themes of mystery, love and death.

The poet is given a new life, face, voice and identity, through a “body” made of bones concealing the “heart” of a fragmented “soul”. 

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Preview: 

24th April 2018, Cremona, Teatro Ponchielli

Premiere:

12th October 2018, Milano, Teatro Elfo Puccini

 

Direction and choreography: Diego Tortelli

Musical dramaturgy and original music: Francesco Sacco

Live guitar: Francesco Sacco

Light design: Carlo Cerri

Video and photography director: Luca Condorelli
Set design: DADAMAX by DADA
Original jewellery: TOMOKISSIMA by Tomoko Ogawa

Assistant choreographer: Selene Manzoni

Dancers: Cristian Cucco, Veronica Galbo, Vanessa Loi,Anita Lorusso, Giuseppe Morello, Corey Scott Gilbert

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DURATION 60’ for 6 dancers

 

Co-production MILANoLTRE Festival,

Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto, Sepama srl

With the support of Fondazione I Teatri di Reggio Emilia 

in collaboration with Teatro Ponchielli di Cremona

Residency @ Galvanotecnica Bugatti

 

With thanks to DADAMAX by DADA for the jacket decoration, TOMOKISSIMA by Tomoko Ogawa for the jewels, Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto Costume department and Fondazione I Teatri Reggio Emilia Costume department