Instabili Vaganti on tour in India
After two years of forced break, Instabili Vaganti theatre company is back on tour and brings to India various shows and activities related to ‘Beyond Borders’, its international project which investigates and explores the concept of border meant not as a limit but as an opportunity for two parties to meet.
On November 13 and 14, Anna Dora Dorno and Nicola Pianzola attended the IAPAR International Theatre Festival in Pune performing their new work Lockdown Memory, a performance-lecture about the experiences lived by artists from all over the world during the pandemic. Moreover, as part of the festival, they held a workshop on the physical and vocal training of the performer: The Organic Body.
From Pune, the company moved to Bangalore, where they are working on the performance Dante Beyond Borders, which stages the work made in video in the web performance series VideoDante #India.
It is an Italian-Indian co-production by Instabili Vaganti and Ahum Trust, supported by the Italian Cultural Institute in Mumbai which promotes it on the occasion of the celebrations of the 700th anniversary of the death of the Sommo Poeta.
The performance, directed by Anna Dora Dorno, aims at exploring the numerous connections between Dante’s work and Indian culture, both from an iconographic, philosophical and theological point of view.
Through different artistic languages –experimental theatre, dance, cinema, video art, electronic music– the spectators are ferried to the otherworldly journey made by Dante. Dante’s tercets meet the mudras and gestures of Bharatanatyam dance, the original music composed by Riccardo Nanni interacts with classical Indian sounds, the evocative physical actions by performer Nicola Pianzola and the choreographies by dancer Anuradha Venkataraman interact with the videos made by the artists through a remote collaboration developed during the lockdown.
On November 21, Dante Beyond Borders will be presented at the Tata Literature Festival of Mumbai, live streaming from the Jagrit Theatre of Bangalore and from November 30 to December 1 it will be staged at the Ranga Shankara Theatre in Bangalore.
The last stage of the tour is a further development of the ‘Beyond Borders’ project: an exchange with Indian artists on the theme Wall that close, wall that free. It will take place in two different sessions, in Bangalore in collaboration with Ahum Trust and in Kohima in collaboration with the TaFMA.
Instabili Vaganti company’s tour is supported by the Italian Cultural Institutes in Mumbai and New Delhi, the Italian Ministry of Culture, Emilia-Romagna Region and ATER Fondazione.
IAPAR International Theatre Festival
Tata Literature Live! The Mumbai Litfest
