Man lives between the infinitely large and the infinitely small.
(Blaise Pascal)

For three days and three nights Orlando wanders in the forest, chasing something he didn’t even know he was looking for: the more he discovers, the more he gets lost. In the bewilderment, it is the history that takes shape, with the surprise of being catapulted into a new space, made up of landscapes that appear and disappear instantly, of comic and dramatic substrates. Dipped into a narrative dimension, the characterization of Il Pupo‘s movement (typical Sicilian puppets) merges, in the choreographic texture, with the search for the character of Orlando, the protagonist of Ariosto’s play.
Working on the suspensions and on the idea of being moved from the outside, the scene inhabited by the madness of Il Pupo Orlando, it moves between tension and lightness, to trace the possible dancer movement variations starting from the posture of Il Pupo.

concept, choreography and performance: Giuseppe Muscarello
music: Prodigy
lighting design: Danila Blasi
costumes: Dora Argento
production: Pindoc
co-production: Muxarte, Rosa Shocking / Festival Tendance, Antonio Pasqualino International Puppet Museum
with the support of MIC Ministry of Culture and Regione Sicilia
in collaboration with Piemonte Dal Vivo/Lavanderia a Vapore, Festival Fabbrica Europa, Teatri di Vetro

After the performance

LE COSTELLAZIONI DEL PUPO
meeting with Giuseppe Muscarello

At the end of Il Furioso, the author Giuseppe Muscarello talks about the creative process that led to the construction of the project Le constellazioni del pupo.

[photo: Federica Zedda]