INVERTED SHIPRECK
The sea is neither a man nor a woman, it’s neither male nor female.
The sea is a feeling of conflict like youth, or of eternal and calm peace.
The sea is an outspread, endless soul.
Giants are born from the waves, mermaids from fish, monsters and visions from uncertain transparencies.
The sea doesn’t resemble anything, the sea is the origin, the air is just a rarefied liquid, the sea triumphs even over earth. During some blessed instants, we can feel water becoming ever-present. So the dream to go back to the sea comes true. To discover how many shadows make a night, and how many nights have honed the perfect face of the moon, to eventually understand if solitude has a bottom and how much water is needed to fill it.
The sea is a lover of the night and of its fragments of light, stars, fishing lights of lanternfishes. Here, the dream catches the lightning, stops the glow, forgets the way back.
The sea is the highest idea of endless freedom and at the same time a sweet sense of attachment to the roots, a miracle that ties together fear and valour, the lightness of daring and the burden of living. Inside the sea there’s everything and its contrary.
The sea is life, the things it tells us about are the world. And in front of its song of huge strength, we put up a tender and desperate resistance, hanging by a dream thread, pending on the wave, like rocks clenched in a liquid fist, and though the object of our look has been the same for thousands of years, we turn our eyes to the stars in the sky, with the heart reduced to a mere atom.
A sea journey, the charm of discovery, the excitement of the departure, the resistance in front of the force of nature: Fortuna is the latest, immersive work of choreographer Piergiorgio Milano, a film that runs back from the end, when memories and hopes concentrate in an enigmatic flow of events and emotions. The performance weaves different stories, thanks to the blend of dance, circus, sculpture, narration, and music. A sound landscape that overwhelms the audience in a sea world, recalled by the swish of the waves and the songs of ancestral tradition that refract in a plastic environment, highly imaginative, stretched between an installation and a waving vision.
Like a stormy sea, Piergiorgio Milano’s Fortuna sucks us into the depth of the abyss, aboard a ship that marks the life, the aspirations, and the dreams of its passengers. A great and legendary experience that, likewise, smells of the here and now, as bright as dramatic. A journey through memories and suggestions, between the momentum of change and the undertow of resilience.
