Abracadabra | Teatro Arena del Sole

Thursday 30 and Friday 31 October, at the Teatro Arena del Sole, in the Thierry Salmon Hall, the performance Abracadabra takes the stage.

A magic trick, a con game that resembles theatre, the glossy packaging of a lie, the allure of watching those who watch. Abracadabra is a journey through mirrors and mirages, where voice and body dissolve only to reappear elsewhere. A new body—one, a thousand, or none at all. A verbal kaleidoscope, a polyglot voice, a ventriloquist’s scream.

This continues CollettivO CineticO’s “seismic action on authorship,” which began with Dialogues, turned spectral in Manifesto Cannibale, and now manifests as disappearance. Absence now takes form: becoming hallucination, thought, mirage. Voice and writing turn into living matter, a magic word stripped of meaning and charged with enchantment. An impossible, ubiquitous dance.

A serious game, a poetic attempt to piece together “the woman cut into little pieces,” writes choreographer and company director Francesca Pennini.

“Behind the language,
inside the curtain,
beneath the skin
We’ll meet in the silence after all things
It will be beautiful to have nothing left to say.”

Directed by Francesca Pennini
Dramaturgy, brainstorming: Angelo Pedroni
Action and creation: Angelo Pedroni, Francesca Pennini
Invisible actions and creations: Carmine Parise
Texts and voice: Francesca Pennini
Music and sound design: Simone Arganini
Scenography: Alberto Favretto
Lighting and technical design: Alice Colla

Produced by: CollettivO CineticO, Fondazione Teatro Stabile di Torino / Torinodanza Festival, Festival Aperto / Fondazione I Teatri di Reggio Emilia, Centrale Fies | Art Work Space
With the support of Regione Emilia Romagna, MiC
And with the support of Emilia Romagna Teatro ERT / National Theatre

Presented within CARNE – a focus on physical dramaturgy

Photo by Laila Pozzo