Album of the inhabitants of the New World

with Biagio Caravano, Sebastiano Geronimo, Luciano Ariel Lanza, Flora Orciari, Laura Scarpini, Francesca Ugolini
choreography Michele Di Stefano
modular system live Biagio Caravano
music by The Creatures
lighting Giulia Broggi
video Lorenzo Basili
management Carlotta Garlanda con Silvia Parlani
distribution Jean François Mathieu
co-productionmk/KLm, LAC Lugano Arte e Cultura (CH), Triennale Milano, Théâtre du Briançonnais (FR), Bassano OperaEstate
with the support of Istituto Italiano di Cultura Bucarest (RO)
in collaboration with USI Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio (CH) - corso coordinato dall’arch. Riccardo Blumer - e CNDB Centro Nazionale Danza Bucarest (RO)
with the support of KOMM TANZ/PASSO NORD residency project Compagnia Abbondanza/Bertoni in collaborazione con il Comune di Rovereto, ORBITA /Spellbound Centro Nazionale di Produzione Danza in collaborazione con ATCL Circuito multidisciplinare del Lazio - Spazio Rossellini
with the contribution MIC

Premiere 18 ottobre 2024 Triennale Milano

There is no place for the exotic; it is pure representation. But its very abstract vacuity can become a real space, a container to be re-signified. Panoramic Banana is a collection of sounds, dances and images, set up like a catalog, alluding to a story of conquest and abuse, perpetrated in a resort at the edge of the world. Evocation of an environment that holds fast to a single savage principle: intermingling, proximity, the incomprehensible euphoria of a pact between perpetrators and victims. While ethnologists reconvert to examining the last stainless tribe still around - the tourist one - and anthropologists go off the deep end dealing with television series, savage thinking is forgotten by entertainment and yet proliferates undisturbed in the haze, without proclamations of redemption but for that very reason absolutely crucial to the future of humanity. Sonic, aquatic, tropical, 40-degree-shaded, epidemic, balsamic, anatomical and humid future.

mk's new production is a kaleidoscope of dances and images immersed in a hybrid sonority, as hot as a furnace; a proliferation of choreographic systems that seem to refer to a new folklore, evocative of a world to come, in which the disorder of things is the rule, and the environment becomes murky and pulsating, finally undisturbed in its desire for rewilding.

It is the spirit of the unknown and of disorder, roaming in the wild in the forest, around the city and the fields, destroying the conventions on which meaning is based and the systems by which images are shaped. The savage is a challenge thrown at the unity of the symbol, at the transcendent totalization that binds the image to what it represents; the savage insinuates itself into this unity and the force, opening it up, creates in its place a slippage, an articulation that makes meaning and signifier clash with each other. Of this clash the savage makes spaces of darkness and light in which objects, in mottled nudity, return the gaze, while around them signifiers float in the void. The savage is the space of the death of signification. (Michael Taussig)