SIMPOSIO DEL SILENZIO

The dream is the gateway to a fairy-tale world of anthropomorphic clouds that flirt, orcs and giantesses, fantastic animals, black rabbits and rapacious birds. (Lorenzo Mattotti)

In the complex journey that takes us from childhood to adulthood, adolescence is the transitory moment of anxieties, of transformations, the place where dreams and desires, deriving from the childhood’s thoughtlessness with childish enchantment, are projected into the future by dialoguing (and often colliding) with reality. As fairy tales teach us, however, this is the necessary journey to understand also who we are and above all through the dialogue with our deepest fears. Thus in Symposium of Silence: a tale of dance, circus and theater, conceived and created as a fairytale trip into the dark world of the unconscious, whose geographies are inspired by the illustrated works of Lorenzo Mattotti. The story is focused on the anxiety and fragility of a young protagonist and her clumsy interrogative relationship with large, heavy books that inhabit the scene. As bearers of hypothetical answers and viable paths, these objects, almost provided with a life of their own, accompany her on a vertical journey in search of herself that almost recalls the illogical scenarios of Carroll's Alice during the famous fall in the white rabbit's hole.

From this fall backwards, images and movements in succession, give life to symbols of childish anxiety, through the turbid scenarios of a narrative dedicated to doubt, uncertainty, and self precariousness.

As in any fairy tale of growth, the narrative insists and returns on the dynamics generated by the demand and the desire for balance facing the obstacle, the test to pass, the safe place and the status to be conquered: abandoning the presumed certainty of a center, the story slides into the precariousness of motion, in the search for a temporary safe place, of a plausible order, to finally give us the only possible certainty: that nothing remains ever the same and that the condition of demand is the only one way to growth, change, discovery.