fàtico from Greek “that produces a pure affirmation”
function fàtica: that particular function that verbal language sometimes has not to comunicate or ask for information but to keep or establish contact between people those who pronounce and those who receive
FÀTICO is a choreographic and musical project where song and dance beat the rhythm of three orations, occupying a scenic space inspired by the artistic imagination of Hilma af Klimt. Electronic sounds and live voices empowered and modified fill a triangular acoustic space. On stage there are two performers, with microphones in contact with their skin, extensions of their bodies, the line of conjunction with the almost physical relationship with the audience, thanks to the instrument provided by the vocal act. The dancing appears under the form of choreographic fossils: on the one hand elements of western contemporary dance, folk and traditional dance and their evolution invented in the rhythm of the other, living fossils that show the (hi)story of a body and so the (hi)story of a dance. Aural illusions, high speed twirls, showers of sonorous stars, jumps into a circle are some of the numbers used to compose a creation inspired by an ascetic and meditative aspiration. In the words that beat the rhythm of the choreography, references to nature and the senses leave time for memories in their mental space before melting into the words of the cult.
Advancing through connections and collisions between the choreographic and sound material, a secular discourse is composed about sacredness and so establishes a topology in which the sidereal and carnal natures of devotion coexist, asking the audience to let themselves be led by the fàtico listen!
