Irene Fiordilino - Scirocco Dance Theatre Company
On-track
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Choreography and performance by Irene Fiordilino
Mentored by Choreographer Drosia Triantaki and Sound Artist Dani Joss.
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Performed at:
2019, Unit Motives: GRM Festival, Thessaloníki, Greece
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Synopsis:
What is "journeying"? A passive travelling or an active waiting? Starting from this initial enquiry, Irene Fiordilino's choreographic investigation aims to evoke the experience of a train-trip in its synaesthetic aspects, both visual and auditory. Counterpointing Ferrari's American journey - metaphor of his lifelong research into musical composition - the choreography develops as an ironic attempt to stay on track.
Abstract and symbolic, virtual and physical, visual, auditory, and haptic, nostalgic and ironic, this performance aims lo lead the audience into a collective journey, made of many imaginary stops and train stations, punctuations in a stream of consciousness.
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“On-track” questions the meaning of ‘composition' within both Ferrari’s music and a choreographic structure which alternates set material with improvisational scores; an intentionally random intersection of pre-fragmented meaningful events and a space open for unintentional responses and contingent choices. Whereas Ferrari’s music was developed in a recording studio and can only exist when reproduced by a speaker, performance art is unique and unrepeatable, almost made of an ephemeral transitoriness of being. The dialogue between these two art forms can be extremely interesting and hits the very core of the concept of ‘presence’.
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The piece is rife with naive, funnily romantic images of train stations: the linear geometry of their tracks and pavements, the flashing numbers on the departure board, the disrupted announcements, the lazy quiet and the sudden chaos, of feelings, of words, the will to go, the fear to leave, the ordered benches on the specular platforms, two sides, two directions which mirror each other, the suspended dimension of a transitory space, the loneliness in the crowd… the typical whistle and some steam coming out of a red locomotive.