concept Chiara Frigo
mentoring Monica Gillette
dramaturgical consultancy Riccardo de Torrebruna
artistic collaborations Maru Rivas, Giovanna Garzotto
original music Laura Masotto
video project Matteo Maffesanti
project curation Nicoletta Scrivo
production Zebra Cultural Zoo
the research took place within the framework of Choreography Connects
a project of CoisCéim Broadreach (Irlanda), Operaestate/ CSC Comune di Bassano e Le Gymnase CDCN a Roubaix
supported by Teatro Civico di Schio, Teatro Comunale di Ferrara, Teatri di Vetro (Roma), Operaestate/ CSC Bassano del Grappa, Teatro Stabile dell'Umbria
project selected for Nid Platform 2024/Sezione Open Studios, Teatro Comunale di Vicenza

A Human Song is a large-scale participatory art project involving people of different ages, cultures, and backgrounds. Part of a research focused on themes of spirituality in art, it here becomes an epic community performance. A poetic event that considers the power of bodies, a human tide that moves through the meditative action of walking and running together, supporting one another, accompanying each other to the ground, rebelling, and rising again. It is inspired by the act of wandering, "Gnaskor" in Tibetan culture: a pilgrimage without a destination, without any point of arrival. If on one hand mountains are climbed and goals are conquered, on the other, a path is followed in which circles are traced while remaining at the base, in the valleys. The performance is based on a single spatial movement, a human wave that moves from one side of the stage to the other, in an individual and choral cyclicity. A Human Song will involve young artists and members of the local community in an encounter of sharing and collective creation.