Coproduction OE

concept and performance Sara Sguotti e Arianna Ulian
text Arianna Ulian
sound environment Spartaco Cortesi
dramaturgical support Giovanni Sabelli Fioretti
PR / media relations Giuseppe Esposito
coproduction Perypezye Urbane and Nexus
with the support of CSC OperaEstate di Bassano del Grappa OperaEstateFestival \ CSC centro per la
scena contemporanea di Bassano del Grappa
residencies and support IIC Zurigo, Tanzhaus Zurich, Boarding Pass Plus Dance, Passages Transfestival, IIC Strasbourg, Santarcangelo Festival

An assemblage of words, sounds and gestures around the image of a crack: a landslide but also an opening, a wound but also a wound for bodies that come together, different but belonging to the same flap: they glide, slide and move forward, they cross a time of preservation between what is defined as alive and what is defined as dead: they mutate it, they reverse it.
The rupture opens with a sound: a pop, a burn or a crash. It is an irreversible event; it divides space and marks time. You must create movements and find words to understand its ambivalence: the crack opens up the possibility of filtering light, of water flowing, of the edges settling into a new configuration. Sara Sguotti and Arianna Ulian’s work celebrates and at the same time curses the changing nature of bodies, marked by cracks inside and out, out of alignment, subject to degeneration, inclined to rupture; but in this celebration/curse it isolates a pulsating, tempestuous and conscious rhythm that testifies to the irreducible wonder of being bodies. CrePa is conceived in constant relation to the spaces that will host it, alluding to the ephemeral state of every living being. The research takes different forms, from duet to durational. In each of its forms, the theme of “crack” is considered as the main object.
The work was commissioned by the OperaEstate Festival on the 800th anniversary of University of Padua and, in this particular context, explores the role and responsibility of human beings in the design of gardens and botanical gardens. It also takes the form of an installation, as a durational performance accompanied by a video work.