Cuenca/Lauro
MAGIS
Concept and artistic direction:
Elisabetta Lauro
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by and with:
Stefania D'Onofrio, Elisabetta Lauro, Dania Mansi​
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music: Paolo Dinuzzi
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production:
KRASS​
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supported by:
Comune di Barletta
length: 25'​ ​​
Three silhouettes, three luminous beings, venture into the darkness in search of revelation.
Their journey begins with enthusiasm, continues with difficulty, and ends in complete disorientation.
The travellers feel that time stretches with every step, and the further away the idea of reaching their destination becomes, the more they feel themselves slipping into an undefined space and surrendering to the circular motion that leads nowhere.
Right here, at the most difficult moment, questions arise:
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is the journey less of a journey if it leads nowhere?
Is life less life if there are no goals or big events?
How big does a miracle have to be to be called a miracle?
Is the miracle found outside or inside us?
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MAGIS is a dance-theatre performance inspired by the story of the journey of the Three Kings and
focuses on a specific moment in the pilgrimage, namely when the three lose sight of the star.
It is a work that aims to appeal to people of all ages and does so through a language composed of illustrated actions mixed with moments of dance, song and text; a “holding hands” to search together for small daily revelations.
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"We are three women, we take up little space and together we make a total of 138 revolutions around the sun. But this is relative, as all human things are relative. A long time, a short time, too much time, out of time, timeless; inventions. Because Time, like Love, like Art, like Life and like all the things that really matter in this universe, cannot be quantified. Let us imagine that at this very moment we are observing stars that lived ten thousand years ago, some of them already dead despite still shining. Is this the present? Or is it already past? Do we belong to the future? In short, what I mean is that everything is relative and that, yes, we are three women who take up little space and who together make a total of 138 revolutions around the sun, but the truth is that our journey has only just begun." E.Lauro 21.12.2023
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