France – “SAGA” by Marco D’Agostin
Marco D'Agostin returns to the Espace Malraux in Chambéry – which had already hosted him for the creation of his work First Love – with the new choreographic project SAGA, a reflection on the meaning of kinship today.
With SAGA, he looks at the family, its image and what it represents, as well as the different forms this notion has taken in history. For Marco D'Agostin, family ties are not defined by genetic or blood ties, rather by sharing – a house, perhaps – and above all, by the way we "inhabit" the world together.
We eat together, we tell, we sing, we dance together. On a surface covered with white powder, five dancers – the five guests of this SAGA – write together a choreographic “family novel”. Constantly merging and separating, in contracted or expanded moments, they exchange their memories, their secrets, their songs, their dances, generating invisible and unexpected relationships.
SAGA was created in close collaboration with visual artist Paola Villani. Produced by VAN, production centre based in Bologna, with the support of the Fondation d’Entreprise Hermès in the frame of its program ‘New Settings’, it is coproduced with several European dance production centres, including the Malraux - Scène nationale Chambéry Savoie, where SAGA is staged on May 12 (at 08:00 pm).