T.R.I.P.O.F.O.B.I.A.
2021

Company
IVONA
Choreography
Pablo Girolami
Dancers
Lou Thabart, Guilherme Leal
Music
Max Richter, Jacob Kirkegaard, Philip Jeck
Duration
22 minutes
Premiere
25th May 2021 – Festival Danza Attack, Tenerife
Production
House of IVONA
With the support of
– KOMM TANZ Teatro Cartiera, Compagnia Abbondanza/Bertoni in collaboration with Comune di Rovereto;
– Festival Fuori programma & Romaeuropa Festival;
– ResiDanceXL – AnticorpiXL – Network Giovane Danza d’autore coordinated by L’arboreto – Teatro Dimora di Mondaino;
– Centro di Residenza della Toscana (Armunia – CapoTrave/Kilowatt);
– TWAIN Centro di Produzione Danza and PERIFERIE ARTISTICHE;
– DANCEHAUSpiù, Milano;
– Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia;
– MIC (Ministero Italiano della Cultura).
Awards
– First Prize – Jerusalem International Choreography Competition, Jerusalem;
– Best Choreography Award – Certamen Coreográfico del Distrito de Tetuán, Madrid;
– First Prize & Audience Award – Linkage Choreography Competition, Sofia;
– Audience Award – RIDCC, Rotterdam;
– Winner Premio Twain Direzioni Altre 2022, Tuscania.
The fear of holes, or rather, of all those small geometric figures that close together create clusters of small cavities. A game of images based on juxtapositions that are repeated three-dimensionally and that causes a sense of disgust and repellence; the alarm is triggered thanks to an intrinsic code, developed over the centuries by our ancestors, which safeguards the phobic from the danger of being infected by parasitic forms or being injured by poisonous animals. Anxiety, anguish, fear, hundreds of names for a single existential dimension: the fear of losing control over the world, over our body, over the other.
The means by which a trypophobic skeleton is formed is geometry, which, however, only thanks to the imaginative contribution of the human mind, becomes an active gateway for fear; reflecting man’s insecurities and paranoia. Bottomless, where all awareness falls steeply. Facing a fear is not an easy game. The risks are indeed real, but the outcome far worth it. It seems that playing the game rather implies accepting not to play at all. With T.R.I.P.O.F.O.B.I.A. we choose to accept the challenge, transforming ourselves into the parasites that creep into its galleries.
Note:
The work is currently being developed into a full evening version.