UNTOLD

Premiere: BIENNALE TEATRO 2020, VENICE.

UNTOLD, unspoken.

What cannot be said cannot be processed and resolved.

Cracks and inconsistencies emerge from the shadows of the removed, hidden elements leave marks and messages, press on the surface, demand to be brought to light.

UNTOLD is an introspective journey, the result of careful research into the potential of shadow theater.

An on-sight projection of bodies and objects in which Illusion and the unveiling of artifice coexist.

The language of visual theater blends with an original soundtrack that becomes an integral part of the dramaturgy.

 

CREDITS

Concept, creation, performer: Valeria Bianchi, Aurora Buzzetti, Giulia De Canio

Original music: Posho

Lights: Matteo Rubagotti

Sound design: Posho, Jacopo Dell’Abate, Valeria Bianchi, Emanuela Belmonte

With the collaboration of: Caterpillar

Production: UnterWasser

Executive production: Pilar Ternera / NTC

With the support of: Nuovo Teatro delle Commedie, Straligut Teatro, Officine Caos, Teatro Biblioteca Quarticciolo, Meridiano Zero, Centro di Residenza della Toscana (Armunia Castiglioncello – CapoTrave/Kilowatt Sansepolcro).

 

BIO

UnterWasser Company has been founded in 2014 by Valeria Bianchi, Aurora Buzzetti and Giulia De Canio. The company places itself at the border between Visual theatre and Contemporary Art, exploring how the two overlap and creating an original, poetic language as an investigative instrument into the human mind and its many facets. 

The focus is on the artistic object, the handcraft, the image, the sculpture, the moving matter. 

The performance is a “Mobile Installation” to be enjoyed in the evolving of the scenes (frames), in the fluidity of their flowing, in the sequence of not-hidden transformations of the matter, in changing of perspectives and points of view, that bring on the scene the principle of editing as used in cinema.

We are fascinated by the extraordinary possibility offered by Visual Theatre of opening doors on the scene, gashes that bring the public in poetic, dreamlike and fantastic worlds, empty canvas on which the eye of each spectator can project meanings and evoke memories, emotions, images.

Works

INFINITE POSSIBILITÀ PER ESSERI FINITI TOUR (2023)

BOXES, show (2022) PREMIÈRE in KILOWATT FESTIVAL

UNTOLD, show (2020) PREMIÈRE in BIENNALE TEATRO 2020, VENEZIA

AMARBARì show,’tout public’ (2019) PREMIÈRE IN SEGNI FESTIVAL

MAZE, show (2018) PREMIÈRE in CITTÀ DELLE 100 SCALE FESTIVAL 

OUT, show, ‘tout public’ (2015) PREMIÈRE IN SEGNALI FESTIVAL

FLOATING, installation (2017) ,CASERMARCHEOLOGICA

THE WIRE CITY, installation (2017) Carrozzerie n. o. t.

AMARBARì, installation,(2018) ROMAEUROPA FESTIVAL 2018

Awards

NATIONAL CRITICS AWARD 2022

VALTER FERRARA AWARD, RADICONDOLI FESTIVAL 2019

IN-BOX AWARD 2019

BENEDETTO RAVASIO AWARD 2016

EOLO AWARD 2016

SPECIAL MENTION FESTEBÀ FESTIVAL

SCENARIO INFANZIA AWARD, SPECIAL MENTION STUDENTS JURY 2014  

PRESS QUOTES

“A refined show, the result of intense research, and at the same time light and poetic, an existential itinerary that leads toward an awareness.”

– Rita Cincirrone, PANEACQUACULTURE

 

“Fascinating figure theater curated by UnterWasser, a company formed by three formidable thespians who show how to do high-level theater with shadows.”

– Walter Porcedda, THE GENERAL STATES

 

“A mature and honest show that lays bare scenic artifices only to disproportionately increase the narrative illusion, thus transporting us beneath that patina of silence where the most deafening words live.”

– Francesco Chiaro, PERSINSALA

 

“The merit and relevance of UnterWasser’s work is that he has created works that deal with radically contemporary themes on essential issues without the need for words, without theorizing and from the humility of the simple craftsman playing with sticks, wires and lights.”

– Toni Rumbau PUTXINEL.LI