ULTRAUMANO
durational performance
anno: 2025
concept, dance and choreography: Nicola Galli
set design and lights: Margherita Dotta, Nicola Galli
dramaturg: Giulia Melandri
production: TIR Danza
length: 120 minutes
anno: 2025
concept, dance and choreography: Nicola Galli
set design and lights: Margherita Dotta, Nicola Galli
dramaturg: Giulia Melandri
production: TIR Danza
length: 120 minutes
ULTRAUMANO is a durational and site-specific performance in which a lonely body explores a dark and earthy cavity in a time-dilated
dimension, to reveal the sensory and cognitive abilities of living beings and bring to light an invisible ecosystem engaged in a complex process
of constant connection, exchange and transformation of matter.
The audience is invited to inhabit the performance space, to stay for a non-defined time, to contemplate the recesses, "folds" and appearances.
The various sensorial activations generated by the movement of the body, sound, light and smell, propose a new order of perception and open up reflections on the invisible, the obscure and the mystery of nature. ULTRAUMANO is an action that questions the human point of view as dominant knowledge and an exercise of imagination towards a new balance between human and nature.
In the vibrant space of the Almagia space, the gesture has dilated and thinned, turned into landscape, into fold, into temporal crack. [...] This investigation has unfolded within a habitat that is not only physical but a relational and temporal space, a place where the body has become a territory to be traversed without possession, a space of encounter between visible and invisible forces.
In ULTRAUMANO, the gesture merged with the environmental texture, generating a mutant and organic landscape, almost an organism in itself. Here, the distinction between inside and outside dissolved, allowing a fragile and dynamic cohabitation to emerge, in which the boundary between human and other-than-human became uncertain, labile.
The body, rather than inhabiting a space, allowed itself to be inhabited by it, in a continuous exchange of signifiers and meanings, referring to a fluid topology of the self, which recalls the practice of contemporary dance as an experience of crossing, metamorphosis and welcoming alterity."
The audience is invited to inhabit the performance space, to stay for a non-defined time, to contemplate the recesses, "folds" and appearances.
The various sensorial activations generated by the movement of the body, sound, light and smell, propose a new order of perception and open up reflections on the invisible, the obscure and the mystery of nature. ULTRAUMANO is an action that questions the human point of view as dominant knowledge and an exercise of imagination towards a new balance between human and nature.
In the vibrant space of the Almagia space, the gesture has dilated and thinned, turned into landscape, into fold, into temporal crack. [...] This investigation has unfolded within a habitat that is not only physical but a relational and temporal space, a place where the body has become a territory to be traversed without possession, a space of encounter between visible and invisible forces.
In ULTRAUMANO, the gesture merged with the environmental texture, generating a mutant and organic landscape, almost an organism in itself. Here, the distinction between inside and outside dissolved, allowing a fragile and dynamic cohabitation to emerge, in which the boundary between human and other-than-human became uncertain, labile.
The body, rather than inhabiting a space, allowed itself to be inhabited by it, in a continuous exchange of signifiers and meanings, referring to a fluid topology of the self, which recalls the practice of contemporary dance as an experience of crossing, metamorphosis and welcoming alterity."
Michele Pascarella [ www.gagarin-magazine.it - 06/2025 ]
