as part of the Fabbrica Europa 2025 festival
Album of the inhabitants of the New World
There is no place for the exotic; it is pure representation. But its very abstract vacuity can become a real space, a container to be re-signified.
Panoramic Banana is a collection of sounds, dances and images, set up like a catalog, alluding to a story of conquest and abuse, perpetrated in a resort at the edge of the world.
Evocation of an environment that holds fast to a single savage principle: intermingling, proximity, the incomprehensible euphoria of a pact between perpetrators and victims. While ethnologists reconvert to examining the last stainless tribe still around – the tourist one – and anthropologists go off the deep end dealing with television series, savage thinking is forgotten by entertainment and yet proliferates undisturbed in the haze, without proclamations of redemption but for that very reason absolutely crucial to the future of humanity.
Sonic, aquatic, tropical, 40-degree-shaded, epidemic, balsamic, anatomical and humid future.
mk’s production is a kaleidoscope of dances and images immersed in a hybrid sonority, as hot as a furnace; a proliferation of choreographic systems that seem to refer to a new folklore, evocative of a world to come, in which the disorder of things is the rule, and the environment becomes murky and pulsating, finally undisturbed in its desire for rewilding.
The mk group has been involved in choreography and performance since 2000 and revolves around an original core of performers and shared, cross-disciplinary projects. The group is immediately invited to the most important festivals of the new scene in Italy and abroad. Veduta (2016) proposes an immersive investigation of landscape and perspective, adaptable to any urban horizon. Bermudas, a work on perpetual motion and pure movement, received the Danza&Danza prize as best Italian production 2018 and the UBU 2019 prize as best dance performance in the Bermudas_forever version.
Parete Nord is an international collaboration co-produced by Torinodanza 2018 and hosted at the Teatro Argentina in Rome, the Triennale in Milan and the Teatro della Pergola in Florence as part of 2019 Fabbrica Europa festival, among others.
With Anatomical Pieces mk has begun a new cycle of investigation open to the public in all its phases, built around the research work in the rehearsal room and the group’s stable co-habitation at Teatro India in Rome for the project Oceano Indiano 2020-21, a co-habitation from which the collective project Radio India – Premio Rete Critica 2020 and Premio Speciale Ubu 2021 – was also born.
The performance EDEN, with choreography by Carolyne Carlson, Michele Di Stefano, and Rachid Ouramdane received the Danza&Danza Special Prize of the Year.
In 2021, mk, in collaboration with Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch and Amir ElSaffar, presented the production Maqam at the Aperto Festival in Reggio Emilia and later at Torinodanza.
The circuiting of performances is accompanied by an intense activity of conferences, workshops and experimental proposals.
with Biagio Caravano, Sebastiano Geronimo, Luciano Ariel Lanza, Flora Orciari, Laura Scarpini, Francesca Ugolini
choreography: Michele Di Stefano
modular system live: Biagio Caravano
music by The Creatures
lighting: Giulia Broggi
video: Lorenzo Basili
management: Carlotta Garlanda with Silvia Parlani
distribution: Jean François Mathieu
co-production: mk/KLm, LAC Lugano Arte e Cultura (CH), Triennale Milano, Théâtre du Briançonnais (FR), Bassano OperaEstate
with the support of Istituto Italiano di Cultura Bucarest (RO)
in collaboration with USI Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio (CH) – course coordinated by arch. Riccardo Blumer – and CNDB Centro Nazionale Danza Bucarest (RO)
with the support of KOMM TANZ/PASSO NORD residency project Compagnia Abbondanza/Bertoni
in collaboration with Comune di Rovereto, ORBITA / Spellbound Centro Nazionale di Produzione Danza
in collaboration with ATCL Circuito multidisciplinare del Lazio – Spazio Rossellini
supported by MIC
