Play Please!

Interactive Musical Atelier

artistic direction Francesco Gandi, Davide Venturini
choreography Anna Balducci
dance(by turns)Anna Balducci, Valentina Caini, Viola Esposti Ongaro, Barbara Stimoli
interaction and visual design Elsa Mersi
sound design Spartaco Cortesi
computer engineering Rossano Monti
light consolle Alberto Martino
costumes Fiamma Ciotti Farulli
props design Livia Cortesi
management Valeria Castellaneta, Valentina Martini, Francesca Murador, Chiara Saponari

Imagine we are inside a big musical instrument and imagine that as we move we can create music and drawings with the simplicity of a game. Indeed, as we know, we can play a game, but we can also play an instrument or a part in a performance. First of all, 'play' means 'having fun'; and as we have fun, the big instrument we are in becomes a musical atelier, where children are invited to participate and 'experiment' their own gestures as a form of composition, a creative exercise for a collective musical score. 'Play Please!', devised by TPO company, is an itinerary of musical stations created by light; it seems like there is only light where we move, but this light is sensitive, thanks to sensors which, like the strings of an imperceptible guitar, transform our movements into sounds and images. In this show we play sounds and we draw with light, as well as with luminescent ropes and other 'toy-props', and more simply with our hands or our whole body, in a particular environment whose aesthetics is conceived to set in motion the curiosity of children and adults to explore, play and create.

The thread running through this 'atelier of luminous sounds' is a refrain constantly taken 23 up through the theatrical action that is divided into four parts, each part representing the four phases of a composition that will be completed by the end of the game.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• play
• please
• compagnia
• tpo
• interactive
• musical
• atelier
• theatre
• children
• teatro
• infanzia
• interattivo
• parto
• italy
• spettacolo