DOV’E’ PIU’ PROFONDO

dove è più profondo (where is deeper) is a performance made up of the body, sound and images, the result of a creative process in which practitioners of traditional forms of singing and orality from the host territories were invited to share their musical and cultural heritage. Their voices were recorded, thus implementing the repertoire of choirs and spontaneous singers present in archives and rare collections in Apulia, Piedmont and Valle d’Aosta. In ‘Dov’è più profondo’ (where is deeper) overlapping narratives coexist, songs stripped of a unique origin and reflections on identities and traditions freed from the ideal of purity to make room for the imperfection of mixture. There are traces of people present and past, inhabitants of distant places, united by the time of toil and work, sociability and the relationship with nature and history. We belong to a society that almost no longer contemplates the time-space dedicated to rituality, except in forms that are often conditioned by a largely flattened imagination. The choreographic creation therefore recalls the power of song, as a place for a possible sensitive sharing between human beings, to analyze and celebrate simple and important aspects of living together.