Scene Madre* / Ambra Senatore

Scene Madre*
Choreography: Ambra Senatore
Music: Jonathan Seilman
Sound: Jonathan Seilman and Ambra Senatore
Light: Fausto Bonvini
Costumes: Louise Hochet
Outside view: Caterina Basso, Claudia Catarzi, Giuseppe Molino, Barbara Schlittler
With Matteo Ceccarelli, Lee Davern, Elisa Ferrari, Nordine Hamimouch, Laureline Richard, Antoine Roux-Briffaud, Ambra Senatore
Suites of scenes from life. Successions of everyday and unusual things. On an almost empty set, a street appears, then a shipwreck, then a company cafeteria or even... What link unites these fragments? What connections will we find between these situations? Italian choreographer Ambra Senatore cultivates surprise and talks to us about the discrepancies and humor that take precedence over reality but also about the movement that becomes poetic when language struggles to say. If it is difficult to say when an action begins and when a scene ends, it is because choreographic writing seeks fluidity and passage. Strata of meaning, layers of dialogue and accumulations of gestures are superimposed to end with a burst. It is a succession of excesses and silences which all arise from the same matrix: the mother scene. Written “like a rebus or even an intrigue”, this piece is fundamental in the weaving of inextricable links between beings and situations. Scena madre* is above all the first moment of beginnings where the beginnings may seem identical but from which one must emerge, from which one must choose, from which one must test in order to escape. You might as well open wide to project yourself better...