Speaking cables
choreographic device
for voice, cables and speakers
(2023) • performance • 45′
Speaking cables
choreographic device
for voice, cables and speakers
(2023) • performance • 45′
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 combination and 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)
With Agnese Banti
Live electronics Andrea Trona
Artistic project, musical composition and direction Agnese Banti
Artistic and technical collaboration, musical computing Andrea Trona
Dramaturgy and direction collaboration Marta Vitalini
Sound direction Agnese Banti, Andrea Trona
Lighting and technical consultant Antonio Rinaldi
On-site technical collaboration Biagio Cavallo, Donato Debellis
Organisation and distribution assistance Alice Diodovich
Artistic encounters curated by FONDO Yan Duyvendak, Camille Louis, Ana Pi
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
Project supported by FONDO, Network for Emerging Creativity developed by Santarcangelo dei Teatri 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
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); TBA (Sep 2024)
Spin-off project scheduled at: Supernova (April 17th 2024)
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
photos © Monia Pavoni, Nicola Baldazzi, Lorenza Daverio, Giacomo Mondino, Pietro Bertora