DILUVIO

In a time marked by deep fractures and fragile social bonds, Diluvio explores shipwreck as a condition of the present, traversing what remains of the world’s ruins and inviting us to collectively rethink the way we live. The creation is inspired by the novel "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding and stages a free and critical re-interpretation of it by translating the original narrative, place and time. The memories, nightmares, and hallucinations recounted in the novel find new narrative strength through a process of scenic deconstruction and rewriting that combines voice, movement, and sound. The young castaways’ desire for salvation - manifested in their expectation of rescue and in their attempts to known forms of coexistence - evaporates, leaving space for a new perception of the shipwreck: no longer an end but a gateway to imagining the future, a leap towards new ways of gathering together and towards the creation of spaces of belonging in which to discover new forms of connection.
In Diluvio dance and music release their lysergic and cathartic power, becoming a territory for the liberation of bodies and an experience of personal and collective transformation. Crossing sonorities, imagery, trends and aesthetics of techno, trance and alternative rock countercultures, the scene becomes a fluid, immersive space, thinning the distance between performer and audience and dissolving the boundaries of the show, until it transforms into a disco at the twilight of the world. A beating and rhythmic rain of lights, sounds, bodies, voices and sweat: a sensorial vortex in which to dive and participate in a ritual of collective party.