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Rome, 22 B.C. Poetry and power, beauty and violence, memory and consensus: through their performance Virgilio brucia Anagoor deals with these themes from a sideangle, entering into the laboratory of the intellectual who had foreseen the demise of Imperial Rome. There is much prejudice on the figure of Publius Vergilius Maro – commonly known as Virgil – the bard of Octavius Augustus and who extinguished any hope of transforming Imperial Rome into a Republic. A poet at the service of imperial ideology, but Anagoor identifies some flaws. Firstly, the two books of his Aeneid that he read to Augustus and which narrate the violence and destruction meted on Ilio and the Trojan kingdoms, and the journey into the after world, the definitive turning point of the past exiled to memory. Thus Virgilio brucia is an opportunity to ponder on the relationship between art and power, the function of culture and that of memory, imperial warfare, and violence. Anagoor’s language is characterised by its clarity and luminosity, a dramaturgy made of symbolic gestures which plays between ritual and rarefied suspension.

During Anagoor's theatrical research and after the design of the dramaturgical elements, there are two creative paths that precede any figurative invention. On one side we have research and musical composition through constructing architecture and sound landscapes; and on the other side we have scenography and viedeo designing in order to realize the physical ambient using recordings to support the designing process.