Program Black Box
13.07 | 19:00 | 45’
14.07 | 19:00 | 45’
Kalamata Dance Megaron / Black Box
DIEGO TORTELLI & MIRIA WURM
TERRANOVA | hidden link
The internet connects more than half of the world’s population through an invisible network of servers, computers and devices. But humans are not the only organisms on the planet connected by an invisible network. While plants seem like isolated, solitary individuals, their special relationships with mycelia enable them to communicate with each other, sometimes over considerable distances. Nearly all plant species have a mutually beneficial relationship with these mycelia, which are the parts of what science calls “real” fungi usually hidden under soil, and which form a network of small, branching tubes and thus connect with each other. Fascinated by non-verbal communication in general, the choreographer Diego Tortelli, together with his dramaturg Miria Wurm, explores in his new creation TERRANOVA I hidden link this type of organic interaction, considering mycelia as a vital interface that connects all different kinds of life and also has the power to change our environment but also our inner body system. He deliberately placed the dancers’ bodies directly in this natural environment during the development of the piece in order to then contrast the final product, the choreography, with the industrially created stage space. The space that people today usually refer to as their natural environment. The stage space chosen to surround the dancers emphasizes proportionately more the antibiosis or symbiosis with it at that moment.
- Artistic direction & choreography: Diego Tortelli
- Concept & dramaturgy: Miria Wurm
- Dance: Hélias Tur-Dorvault & Fabio Calvisi
- Music: Biosphere with Bergsbotn I, Ran Slavin with 12 North / Night Particles, Interior / Nova Huta, Foreigner / Snow Tracks, Klezmer Pimp / Etch, Light Movement / Nova Huta & Pyrit with Styx
- Lighting design: Roman Fliegel
- Sound design: Federico Bigonzetti
- Production management: Miria Wurm
- Costume tailoring: Nuvia Valestri
- Graphic design: Alessandro Tortelli
- A production of Diego Tortelli & Miria Wurm GbR
- Funded by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media within the program NEUSTART KULTUR Germany. And by the Cultural Foundation of Stadtsparkasse Munich.
- Co-produced and supported by Orsolina28 – Art Foundation.
- With the kind support of Tanztendenz München e.V. and HochX Theater.
DIEGO TORTELLI & MIRIA WURM
The choreographer Diego Tortelli and the dramaturge Miria Wurm, both members of Munich’s independent dance scene, have been developing projects together since 2018. Their artistic language and aesthetics are characterized by clarity and complexity, both in terms of choreographic style and the subject matter of their works. Drawing on cutting-edge technologies and theoretical concepts, they create contemporary dance pieces that reflect on current issues from a personal perspective. Pivotal to each piece is Tortelli’s very own choreographic idiom, which splits the body into its various limbs and joints and then reassembles them over and over again like a game of Tetris. The torso remains the fixed point around which everything revolves, as if calculated by geometric formulas – at times playful and surreal, at others architectural and rigid. The body is revealed in all its beauty and artistry, but also its fragility and brokenness. Traces of bodily memory are brought to light through a process of poetic abstraction.