Instabili Vaganti theatre company on tour in Indonesia
Instabili Vaganti theatre company is in Indonesia, first stage of a long tour in Asia which between October and December will also include India and Nepal.
The tour started in early October in Bali, at the Yayasan Bali Purnati, residence centre directed by Bumi Purnati, where the company worked on the brand-new show The Shadow of Dante, an Italian-Indonesian co-production which involved the Italian Cultural Institute in Jakarta and Bumi Purnati Indonesia.
Instabili Vaganti’s new project, inspired by the Divine Comedy, brings to the stage the work started in remote collaboration and on video, during the lockdown, with Balinese artists Made Suteja, traditional Balinese dance performer, and Kadek Budi Seitawan, performer and shadow puppeteer, to create the web performance series in seven episodes entitled VideoDante#Indonesia.
After a period of productive residency and a preview in the spaces of the Yayasan Bali Purnati, The Shadow of Dante will debut at the Teater Salihara on October 19, presented by the Italian Cultural Institute as part of 22nd Week of the Italian Language in the World.
The show, directed by Anna Dora Dorno, will be the result of an artistic contamination combining elements of the Balinese tradition -dance and shadow theatre- with Instabili Vaganti’s contemporary performative language, between physical theatre and visual experimentation. And the Week of the Italian Language in the World will be the perfect context for an encounter between Dante’s verses – reworked in an experimental key through the performers’ vocal work and the sound compositions by musician Riccardo Nanni – and the Indonesian musical and performative tradition.
The Week of the Italian Language programme in Jakarta, curated by the Italian Cultural Institute, also include another work by Instabili Vaganti, Lockdown Memory, which is staged on October 18, still at the Teater Salihara.
The performance, directed by Anna Dora Dorno and with original text by Nicola Pianzola, tells the genesis and complexity of Beyond Borders, an international project that in the last three years has involved artists from all over the world. New multimedia languages interact with the scenic traditional ones to tell the political and social upheavals that took place in the years of the pandemic and stimulate a reflection on the new borders that have changed the world order.
After Indonesia, Instabili Vaganti‘s tour will continue in India, in November.
The whole Asia tour is supported by Italian Ministry of Culture (MiC), Emilia-Romagna Region, and ATER Fondazione. The Indonesian stage is supported by the Italian Cultural Institute in Jakarta and is organized in collaboration with Komunitas Salihara and Yayasan Bali Purnati.
- Lockdown Memory
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video - the web performance series VideoDante#Indonesia