1917
- CANCELLED . 20 March 2020 . 1917 CORE . Après-coup . Milano
- CANCELLED . 13 March 2020 . 1917 CORE . Mama's . Ravenna
- May 18th 2018 . 1917 CORE . POLIS Teatro Festival . Ravenna
- April 6th 2018 . 1917 CORE . Qui e Ora Experience . Rome
- January 23rd - 24th 2018 . 1917 . Teatro Arena del Sole. ERT
- January 13th 2018 . 1917 . Auditorium . Carpineto Romano (RM)
- April 8th 2020 . 1917 . Lepida TV . Cultura Emilia-Romagna
- October 27th 2017 . 1917 CORE . Teatri di Vetro . Rome
- October 18th 2017 . 1917 CORE . L'arlecchino Errante . Pordenone
- June 28th 2017 . 1917 . Premiere . Ravenna Festival . Teatro Alighieri Ravenna
- April 28th - May 11th 2017 . Residency for 1917. La Corte Ospitale . Rubiera (RE) Italy
- March 31th - April 13th 2017 . Residency for 1917. La Corte Ospitale . Rubiera (RE) Italy
- ErosAntEros' interview by Bologna Teatri, Bologna Teatri, February 20th 2018
- Simona Sagone on 1917 . Radio città Fujiko . January 26th 2018
- Presentation of 1917 by Massimo Marino. Corriere di Bologna. January 23rd 2018
- Giulio Sonno on 1917, Paper street, July 19th 2017
- 1917 on Sky TV in Classica HD's special on Ravenna Festival
- Anna Bandettini on 1917, La Repubblica, July 5th 2017
- 1917 by ErosAntEros on TGR, TV RAI 3, June 29th 2017
- ErosAntEros interviewed on 1917 by Radio3 Suite, RAI Radio3, June 27th 2017
- Inverview on 1917 by Renata Savo, Scene contemporanee, June 27th 2017
- Inverview on 1917 by Alessandro Fogli, Corriere di Romagna, June 25th 2017
- ErosAntEros interviewed on 1917 by Momus, RAI Radio3, June 24th 2017
- Inverview on 1917 by Matteo Cavezzali, Ravenna & Dintorni, June 22nd 2017
- Sandro Cappelletto on Ravenna Festival 2017 and the debut of 1917
- Inverview on 1917 by Matteo Cavezzali, Ravenna Festival Magazine, May 2017
- Davide Sacco interviewed on 1917's residency at La Corte Ospitale Rubiera
To mark the centenary of Russian Revolution, ErosAntEros intones a chant to revive the words and music of those who have lived it, to give back through our sound-voice research the surprise and the joy of the advent of a new time that leaves breathless.
Sun, moon, stars, night, aurora, will be the companions of this journey; red, lacquered-yellow-sun, silky-blue-sky, the palette with which we’ll paint our concert; trying to give through the scene that juncture where the flow of daily time seemed to stop to let the ideal dream become reality, that incredible moment when “our will be at last” has seemed to become “ours is at last,” and a new concept of State has been imagined, which “just adolescent: creates, invents, try!”.
But fatigue, hunger and cold accompanied the struggle for freedom and history teaches us that the initial dream was soon betrayed. And so, the unrelenting optimism emerging from the words even in the hardest moments is juxtaposed with Šostakovič’s Quartet no. 8, dedicated to the victims of totalitarianism and war, and perhaps to himself.
The show consists of three main elements: the words of the poets incarnated by Agata Tomsic; the music performed by the Quartetto Noûs and reworked by Davide Sacco; the video projection of Gianluca Sacco’s animations. Three different languages that dialogue with each other to narrate the utopia that seemed to be able to overturn the world, in Benjamin’s hope that its quote creates a new possibility to imagine a more “just, clean, happy, beautiful life” today.
concept and set Davide Sacco and Agata Tomsic / ErosAntEros
dramaturgical montage Agata Tomsic
literary consulting Fausto Malcovati
music montage, live electronics, lights and direction Davide Sacco
with Agata Tomsic and with Quartetto Noûs (Tiziano Baviera, Alberto Franchin violins,
Sara Dambruoso viola, Tommaso Tesini cello)
animations Gianluca Sacco
costumes Laura Dondoli
technical direction Paolo Baldini
commission of Ravenna Festival
in coproduction with ErosAntEros
in residency at La Corte Ospitale and Ravenna Teatro
textual materials Aleksandr Blok, Velimir Chlebnikov, Sergej Esenin, Michail Geršenzon, Vladimir
Majakovskij, Boris Pasternak
musical materials Dmitrij Šostakovič, String Quartet no. 8 in C minor, op. 110; Grigorij Mačtet, Exhausted by the hardships of prison; Pierre de Geyter, The Internationale
visual materials Dmitrij Bisti, El Lissitzky, Aleksandr Rodčenko
premiere June 28th 2017, Teatro Dante Alighieri, Ravenna, Ravenna Festival 2017
duration 80 minutes
Browse here the PRESENTATION of the show.
