“The highest ambition of this show is to transform mountaineering into an artistic language. To create a choreographic experience and a visual syntesis in such a strong way, that the vastity of the mountain could be transported inside of a theatre, so the audience could really feel the cold, the snow, the storms, on a rocky vertical cliffs.” Piergiorgio Milano
White out means the complete loss of space-time references and the consequent impossibility to advance or retreat. A stall condition that can lead to extreme consequences. A gentle boundary between life and death, soft as the clouds and the snow. Alpinism belongs to all nations, and has a deeply human history; White Out is a tribute to all the climbers who have disappeared, or embrace that kind of risk, in the endless white of heights.
The conquerors of the useless.
White Out is an ironic and dramatic journey, fun, engaging, not only through the natural landscape evoked on stage, but through human interiority, opening up glimpses for other looks. It is a big challenge to translate into choreography, into an emotional place, the Alpin landscape. To bring the verticality of the mountain into the horizontality of the stage; To give rhythm to something immobile, that doesn’t have it. To express vastness in a closed theater. And not only that. To convey the sense of fatigue, of challenge, of courage; and the feelings, the fears, the loneliness, the attraction to risk, the desire to reach the summit, the ambitions and contradictions that follow those. The mountain like a mirror that reflect the man.
Dramaturgy uses cinematographic editing with a broken down chronology. The show comes to life with an alternation of images going back and forth between reality and imagination, developing through the principle of fragmentation and flashbacks. An external narrative voice guides the audience during transition moments, so that each spectator can enrich the show experience tapping into their own imaginary.
