MEDIATHEK

This show is the attempt to reach a person. Gihan I. is a young egyptian blogger. Three years ago, like hundreds of thousands of her fellow citizens, she lived through a revolution. Starting from the first image of February 11, 2011 in which Gihan is interviewed in Tahrir Square, until today’s tweets through which Gihan tells of her life in Cairo under the military coup, we try, through her glance, to trace a personal and collective story, recollecting and manipulating the traces of a life that happens faraway from us, asking ourselves why we feel it so close to ours. And wondering in which ways it speaks to us. The two founders of the company, Claudia Sorace and Riccardo Fazi, back onstage after six years, recollect the traces of three personal lives and put them together, make them explode, attempting to understand in which ways and through which questions, these faraway lives could connect, even if only for the length of a performance. The show is a multimedia project into which all the sound and music elements are originally written and produced. The music is composed by Riccardo Fazi, historical composer of the company, while all the sound elements that build the sound score that crosses the whole show are produced live by the interaction of the performers with the stage elements. Inspired by the work of traditional Foley radio artists, all the movements and actions on stage produce sounds that help visualize the narration as it unfolds: all the elements onstage are microphoned so to render them acoustically reactive. At the same time, the sound score contains the assemblage of a huge amount of sounds collected during a three months work of research of field recordings that the two performers did on their own lives while they were really trying to reach Gihan I., during the summer of 2013.