Dec 12 2024 to Dec 12 2024 7:30 p.m.

Where

Bangalore International Centre

7 4th Main Rd, Stage 2, Domlur 560071

Event Description

*This work contains scenes that explore mature themes. Viewer discretion is advised.*

The irreverent That’s All Folks!, premiered at the Equilibrio Festival 2024 and draws inspiration from cartoons. In a minimalist set, a quartet of international performers—Damiano Ottavio Bigi, Ching-Ying Chien, Issue Park, and Faith Prendergast—explore a work that blends dance, science, and myth. Inspired by the concept of the ‘event horizon,’ it delves into physical vertigo, the fall, and being drawn into a space where perspective shifts and everything changes depending on where we look.

This project continues the themes of Un Discreto Protagonista, expanding the conversation on choreographic writing and artistic composition. While the previous work focused on the universe’s origins and astronomical processes, this piece shifts to humanity’s relationship with the cosmos.

Working with a quartet of dancers, the team explored two distinct paths. The first centers on a “purely physical narrative,” using complex movement patterns to create a thematic structure that unfolds gradually. This investigation draws on ritual forms connected to founding myths and cosmology, balancing irrationality with control and chaos with logic to explore interconnected spatial and dimensional relationships.

The second path constructs four characters suspended in an undefined space—a non-time and non-place—where they encounter their unconscious and archetypal memories. Inspired by the event horizon concept, the characters search for a new beginning, questioning whether our world could have emerged from a previous universe, in a moment called “the bounce,” when space and time dissolved into a cloud of probabilities.

Through this journey, they question the nature of time, motion, and instability in a place where there is no fixed perspective. Our vulnerabilities and strengths are mixed as we teeter on the edge, learning more about ourselves.

Created by Damiano Ottavio Bigi & Alessandra Paoletti
Performers: Damiano Ottavio Bigi, Ching-Ying Chien, Issue Park, Faith Prendergast
Composition and Sound Design: David Blouin
Music: David Blouin, Colin Stetson / Sarah Neufeld Duo, Gary ‘Oslide, Henry Purcell, Hank Williams
Lighting Design: Lucien Laborderie
Set and Costumes: In collaboration with Tzela Christopoulou
Set Construction: Marios Karaolis

Please note: Kindly arrive and be seated by 7:15pm. Entry to the auditorium will not be permitted after the performance begins at 7:30pm.