STUPOROSA

Where

Rangashankara

36/2, 8th Cross Road, R K Colony, 2nd Phase, J. P. Nagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560078, India

When

18 Feb 2024
7:30 PM (Strictly no late entry).

Duration: 70 minutes

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…maybe we cannot know the real reason why we are crying. Maybe we do not cry about, but rather near or around. Maybe all our explanations are stories constructed after the fact. (Heather Christle, The Crying Book)

As Alfonso di Nola writes in La Morte Trionfata, mourning is the set of social practices and psychic processes aroused by the death of a loved one. In the past, mourning was an aspect of social life, a complex system of shared gestures and tears which, through defined codes and ritual practices, allowed the individual to express pain with the support of the community.

The disappearance of funeral rites and communal support leaves individuals confronting loss in a stark, isolated manner. Despite the omnipresence of death in our modern world — evident in events like the recent pandemic, wars, and Mediterranean shipwrecks — mourning becomes an existential condition, a pervasive melancholy difficult to process.

In this context, the performers of Stuporosa, directed by Francesco Marilungo, respond with tears. Unmotivated and seemingly without reason, in this exploration, crying becomes the only conceivable reaction to an inevitable state of mourning. The tears take on various nuances, restrained, suffocated, musical, hopeful, and even transforming into a song that echoes the ancient sounds of a Salento funeral lament.

Director's profile

Francesco Marilungo

After graduating in Thermo-Mechanical Engineering and a research period in aerospace, Francesco Marilungo attended the DanceTheater Atelier at Scuola d’Arte Drammatica Paolo Grassi in Milan. He continued his training as a performer studying with internationally renowned choreographers and artists such as Masaki Iwana, Claudia Dias, Gabriela Carrizo, Yasmine Hugonnet, Jan Fabre, Gisele Vienne and Romeo Castellucci. He worked as a performer with some artists including Enzo Cosimi, Antonio Marras, Jonathan Burrows/Matteo Fargion and Alessandro Sciarroni. Parallel to the activity as a dancer, he has begun his own authorial journey.
Driven by the precision of RTC (Real Time Composition), he focuses his research on creating atmospheres as the result of the juxtaposition of images structured on multiple levels of representation. In his works he uses the body to investigate the archetypes of our culture with particular attention to the perturbing, to all that is connected to the interdict desire.

With his works he is invited to various Italian festivals. With his project Party Girl he won Prospettiva Danza Teatro 2020 Award and was selected for NID New Italian Dance Platform 2020/2021.

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