Ugo
Dance performance and installation - 2007 - 40 minutes
Ugo is a project aimed at stimulating the audience’s perception through a combination of dance, drawing, music and text. The artists have brought together four different artistic mediums, each stamped with the distinctive character of its maker, to ask the audience to find the links they have worked on creating. Ugo is an open invitation to the audience’s senses and, particularly, to its interpretation. Ugo is not being performed on a stage or in a typical theatre space. The audience is guided into the space by a structure of drawings placed on the floor while the dancer performs a structured improvisation based on physical qualities exploring perception of space and linking rhythmically and energetically to the pre-recorded text and music. The text features a simple narrative but also fuses with the sound design to function as pure sound.
creation: 2007 - 40 minutes
concept, choreography, dance: Raffaella Galdi
sound: Emre Sevindik
light: Lutz Deppe and Tomek Ness
text and voice: Nicholas Elliott
drawings: Floriano Secciani
costume: Christophe Linérè
video: Andrea Kiez, Tanztage Festival 2007, Sophiensaelle Berlin
production: Raffaella Galdi, artblau Tanzwerkstatt Braunschweig in collaboration with Tanztage Festival Berlin
financial support: from the Italian Institution of Culture in Berlin
premier: 12th January 2007, Sophiensaelle Berlin, Tanztage Festival
touring 13th and 14th January 2007, Sophiensaelle, Berlin