An interdisciplinary performance posing questions on extinction and the human condition through its unique combination of movement, sound and visual art.

As the community on stage grapples with a huge catastrophe that will produce their own extinction, new and original languages of movement will be born through an atypical approach to choreographic questions utilising different art fields. The artis asks himself, "How can we create movement with inanimate matter and how do we to petrify animated bodies?"

Outdoor performance of WRECK, Lithuania, 2022

By inverting the relationship between the choir and its landscape, it is possible to write a partition for a soft sculpture. By manipulating this object, geometric forms appear that allow an opportunity for explorations and investigations into the presence of performers on stage, thus putting movement and visual art in dialogue. Bodies are no longer busy with entering and exiting the space, it is rather the space moving, bending and changing its form to reveal or swallow them.

This performance is made to be presented in different spaces: normal stage or site specifics. It also appreciates the presence and participation of local communities, that can be involved in the performance after a short period of rehearsals. 

In occasion of the presentation in Singapore, in the framework of Vector#5: Pyschogeographies in collaboration with Dance Nucleus, 5 local contemporary dancers are invited to collaborate in a 20-minute adaptation of Wreck with artist Pietro Marullo. Artists with high level of technical training, improvisation skills and ability to work in a group dynamic are encouraged to participate in this unique artistic exchange. This engagement will entail intensive rehearsals that will take place over 5 days, followed by 2 performances at the outdoor space of Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay. Click here for more details on the Open Call.

THE ARTIST

Pietro Marullo is an Italian artist based in Brussels. His interdisciplinary work lies at the intersection of visual and performing art, installation and new technologies, deeply focused on social, historical and anthropological topics. He has always focused on the analysis of the human community, of the internal processes of violence, and of the cosmogonic forces that determine its morphology. His works are presented in four continents, in very important dance festival, performing art festival, theaters, music networks, puppet-object and contemporary art platforms. 

Concept, choreography and direction: Pietro Marullo

Soundscape: Jean Noël Boissé

Lightscape: Julie Petite-Etienne

Soft sculpture and Costumes: Pietro Marullo, Bertrand Nodet

Produced by: INSIEME IRREALI asbl

Co-production and Support: Festival Internazionale Danza Oriente Occidente, Rovereto - Italy, Museo MART di Rovereto e Trento, Théâtre Varia de Bruxelles - Belgium, La COOP asbl and Fédération Wallonie- Bruxelles – Belgium, Ramdam Art Centre - France, CDC La Briqueterie de Paris - France, Théâtre Marni de Bruxelles - France, TanzHaus of Zurich - Switzerland, Belgian Taxe Shelter, Wallonie-Bruxelles-International, CO.CO.F. de Belgique.

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The event is part of the Asia-Europe Cultural Festival 2024, organised by the Asia-Europe Foundation - ASEF with the financial support of the European Union and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark.  For the full programme, CLICK HERE.