BELLO!
una creazione di circo contemporaneosettembre 2022
No one has power over beauty; beauty is something unsettling that pierces us, that shakes us; beauty does not conform
BELLO! is the new show created and directed by Francesco Sgrò, produced by Cordata F.O.R and Fabbrica C in collaboration with the FLIC Circus School
Bello! is a stage performance that brings together six virtuoso circus artists from different backgrounds and a very agile actor, chosen for their mutual ability to listen to and understand each other. Group dynamics are at the heart of the project.
Open to all forms of cross-pollination, the company builds its poetics on the chorus of acrobatic movement and the spoken word. Bello! is a show about the force of wonder and the power of an alert, ever-searching circus that subordinates aesthetics to ethics, relentlessly seeking new forms of expression.
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With Bello, I want to create the conditions for a confrontation between the spectator and their voyeurism. Naturally, the big top is generally perceived as a place of honesty, because the proximity between the actors and the audience enhances reality. But I wonder: doesn't the distance offered by the theater facilitate a detachment from fiction? And to accept it without shame, without understanding the consequences of the curiosity it arouses? In fact, only the theater can provide me with the spatial and structural conditions to manipulate what is seen and what is not.
Essentially, I don't want to be honest with the audience! Rather, I want to hide things, to play mischievously with the audience's expectations. The breathtaking and the sublime—it is through what the black box allows that I intend to recreate them.
Francesco Sgrò
Creation and direction Francesco Sgrò with the support and contribution of the Fabbrica C artists
Creation and performance Tijs Bastiaens, Vittorio Catelli Lasagni, Camille Guichard, Mario Kunzi, Giacomo Martini, Antonio Panaro, Britt Timmermans
Dramaturgy Jean-Michel Guy
Movement and choreography Teresa Noronha Feio
Acrobatic coaching Davide Visintini
Lighting Design Edwin Van Steenbergen
Text, theatrical coaching, photos and video Luca Quaia
Technical Luca Carbone
Set Design Francesco Fassone with the assistance of Jessica Koba
Costumes Anna Kemp and Agostino Porchietto
Music Francesco Sgrò and Pino Basile
Set Design Francesco Fassone with the assistance of Jessica Koba
Production Cordata F.O.R and Fabbrica C in collaboration with FLIC circus school.
Project realized thanks to the support of the Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo as part of the "ART WAVES_ For creativity, from idea to stage" call for proposals, and the Ministry of Culture, Piedmont Region, Torino Arti Performative