..A GLOBAL DIONYSUS IN NAPOLI.. is a multi-linguistic performance/installation setting out on a search for Dionysus, the Mediterranean God of conviviality, food and dance, amidst the scenario of contemporary metropolitan life.
Set in a contaminated Naples, with its passages leading to the rest of Europe, Asia and Africa, ..A GLOBAL.... attempts at giving a sense of the tensions between modernity and tradition, locality and globality.
..A GLOBAL.... is based on the life of Marcello Colasurdo, symbol of traditional Neapolitan music and master of the tammora, the local frame-drum. Gradually revealing himself as a present-day incarnation of Dionysus, Marcello is the ..vehicle.. for a travel across space and time:
..the ancient days, with their songs and dances enacted in hope for a rich harvest..
..the post-war industrialization translating agricultural communities into urban suburbs..
..the seventies and the struggles for workers.. rights..
..the contemporary world, with its newness and contaminations on one side and its invisible empires on the other..
A multi-layered biography of an artist, the performance offers insights not only into Neapolitan and Italian (hi)stories but also into global transformations. It addresses a world in which the commercial packaging of traditions and ..ethnic.. identities works towards a silencing of their power of resistance.
..A GLOBAL.... is born as an interdisciplinary project blending music, food, theatre, art and video. It took off with an ethnographical research on Marcello and the suburbs of Naples. Interviews with Marcello Colasurdo and the collection of historical, visual and iconographical material have been molded into an original text (written by the anthropologist Paolo Favero) that has been developed hand in hand with choices regarding scenographic, artistic, theatrical and musical elements (by Giuliana Ciancio and Nicola Ciancio).
..A GLOBAL.... is born and intended as an ever-evolving matrix, updating and adapting to the place and time in which it is staged.
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VIDEO VESUVIO (video by paolo favero, music by nicola ciancio)
STOCKHOLM, KULTUR HUSET 2004
POMIGLIANO D..ARCO, 2005
