The French choreographer Maguy Marin, who has been on the scene for over forty years with a very personal dance-theater, presents her award-winning work from 2004, Umwelt (Environment), at the Auditorium Parco della Musica, as part of the Equilibrium Festival.
The show, winner of the Prix spécial of the jury of the Critics' Union in 2006 and of a Bessie Award in 2008, has as its theme the Umwelt, that is a place with autonomous rules where a device of panels and mirrors marks the life of the nine dancers-interpreters. Pushed and hindered by a wind that blows incessantly, the protagonists go on without really looking for a meaning to their actions. The dancers appear and disappear in the interstices left by the panels, carry objects with them, repeat actions, seem to meet, but then disappear, as if there was a need for an encounter, which nevertheless never leads to contact. The show is a metaphor for the collapse of the contemporary world overwhelmed by consumerism, which teems with often meaningless dispersive activities. Everything is amplified by the thrilling and hypnotic music composed by Denis Mariotte, his faithful collaborator. Thus, an exhausting catwalk of apparent normality and vain search with no goal unfolds on the stage.
Choreographer symbol of the French nouvelle danse, Maguy Marin has developed a strongly expressionist type of language, characterized by a gesture with grotesque and exasperated tones. Her most significant works include: May B (1981), inspired by Samuel Beckett; Cendrillon (1985); Coups d'état (1988); Aujourd'hui peut-être (1996); Quoi qu'il en soit (1999); Pièces détachées (2002); Turba (2007). In 2016 she was awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement of the Venice Biennale.
Photo credits: courtesy of the New Auditorium PDM
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