Work

The FIMFA 22nd edition will begin at São Luiz with Work, where absurdity is king at a surrealist workshop, orchestrated by the choreographer Claudio Stellatto, who creates am unusual symphony with raw materials. An object-performance where the DIY becomes art, somewhere between dance, new circus, sculpture, dadaist happening and visual theater. On a “construction stage” of plywood four performers seem to follow the assembling instructions for a parallel universe. They’re hammering nails, sawing, applying sand paper, manipulate a concrete mixer and clay, in a gesture vocabulary that explores the repetition and the stubbornness to the extreme of delirium.  An absurd world where the construction chief is in risk of., at any given moment, end up nailed to his own set… real paintings are brought to life with the transformation of the materials and scenery elements; the matter evolves and the stage transforms before our eyes. Claudio Stellato deepens his research between the body and the matter, in a hilarious performance, with an aura of mysterious ritual, where gestures and everyday objects are used as an alphabet to create new language.

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