Speaking Cables
Choreographic Device
for Voice, Cables and Speakers
(2023) • performance • 50′
Speaking Cables
Choreographic Device
for Voice, Cables and Speakers
(2023-2025) • performance • 50′
Bringing one’s own voice on stage in order to question it as something other than oneself, building and deconstructing space through a process between ritual and game and the diffuse sound articulated on a white blank page.
The compositional research alternates monologues, choruses, dialogues, textures and silences thanks to a choreography that combines the experiences of sound art with the idea that loudspeakers are presences with which to relate to.
Speaking cables is an open, “site-responsive” device that, through the installation of its compositional cells in space, allows for various scenic-dramaturgical possibilities.
A celebration of the present moment, it recalls one of the constituent elements of every performing event, hence of every work that is consumed in its happening: duration, temporality, a here and now that simply, and inescapably, happens. And does not return. (Gargarin Orbite Culturali)
By and with: Agnese Banti
Live electronics: Andrea Trona
Visual and sound design, direction, dramaturgy and music: Agnese Banti
Artistic collaboration, musical computing, tech direction: Andrea Trona
Dramaturgy, direction and set up collaboration: Marta Vitalini
Lighting and technical consultant: Antonio Rinaldi
Artistic encounters curated by FONDO: Yan Duyvendak, Camille Louis, Ana Pi
Accessibility in collaboration with Giuseppe Comuniello, Dalila D’Amico, Camilla Guarino
Project supported by FONDO network for emerging creativity (first edition, coordinated by Santarcangelo dei Teatri and realised with AMAT, Centrale Fies, ERT – Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione, Fabbrica Europa, I Teatri di Reggio Emilia, L’arboreto – Teatro Dimora | Centro di residenza Emilia Romagna, Operaestate Festival Veneto / CSC Centro per la Scena Contemporanea, Ravenna Teatro, Teatro Pubblico Campano, Teatro Pubblico Pugliese, TSU Teatro Stabile dell’Umbria, Triennale Milano Teatro), ORBITA|Spellbound Centro Nazionale di Produzione della Danza within Creazioni accessibili 2024 and Romaeuropa Festival. With the support of LAMINARIE in the context of creative residencies 2025 – DOM la cupola del Pilastro and Grabinski Point. Thanks to Giovanni Cellucci and the Istituto dei Ciechi Francesco Cavazza of Bologna.
Residencies: Teatro Il Lavatoio – Santarcangelo Festival; L’arboreto – Teatro Dimora | Centro di residenza Emilia Romagna; Sala Lab, PARC – Fabbrica Europa; Sala Verdi – I Teatri di Reggio Emilia; Villa Strozzi – Tempo Reale; Vulkano/Malagola – Ravenna Teatro //// On-site technical collaboration: Biagio Cavallo (Santarcangelo Festival), Donato Debellis (Triennale Milano) //// Organisation assistance (Triennale Milano, Fuorimargine, Cross Festival): Alice Diodovich
Debut: July 13th-14th-15th 2023, Santarcangelo Festival
Scheduled at: Fabbrica Europa (September 14th-15th 2023); Festival Aperto (October 7th-8th 2023); FOG / Triennale Milano (February 20th 2024); La Stagione dei Teatri / Ravenna Teatro (April 5th-6th-7th 2024); Fuorimargine (May 3rd-4th 2024); Cross Festival (May 30th-31st 2024); Short Theatre (September 12th 2024); Creazioni Accessibili / Orbita Spellbound (December 5th 2024); Onfalos / Laminarie (May 9th 2025); Romaeuropa Festival (October 10th-11th, debut of [EXPANDED] version)
PRESS REVIEWS
Corriere di Romagna – Santarcangelo festival 2023: un bilancio
Gagarin Orbite Culturali – SANTARCANGELO FESTIVAL, OVVERO VITA NEI BOSCHI
KLP Teatro – DA COLLETTIVO CINETICO A RÉBECCA CHAILLON, INCURSIONE A SANTARCANGELO DI ROMAGNA
ATP DIARY – Enough not Enough. Essere comunità | Santarcangelo 2023
Gufetto – Festival Fabbrica Europa a Firenze: l’isolamento dei multi- e degli iper-
La Falena, Rivista di critica e cultura teatrale – 2/2023, Speciale I NOVISSIMI
T Magazine – Spazio-suono-immagine: intervista ad Agnese Banti
Teatrionline – Speaking Cables di Agnese Banti al FOG Performing Arts Festival
Spin-off projects
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Sound Immersion
scheduled at: Supernova (April 17th 2024), Teatro delle Relazioni (November 29th 2024)
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for Unintentional Predictive Writing and Speaker
installed at: Teatro delle Relazioni (November 7th – December 20th 2024)
Speaking Cables photos: 1 © Monia Pavoni, 2 © Nicola Baldazzi, 3 e 5 © Lorenza Daverio, 4 e 6 © Claudia Borgia, 7 © Pietro Bertora / Spin off photos: © Sara Sassi / OKNO Studio