T.R.I.P.O.F.O.B.I.A.
Choreography
Pablo Girolami
Dancers
Lou Thabart, Guilherme Leal
Music
Max Richter, Jacob Kirkegaard, Philip Jeck
Duration
11, 23 minutes
With the support of
KOMM TANZ Teatro Cartiera Progetto residenza Compagnia Abbondanza/Bertoni incollaboration with Comune di Rovereto;
Festival Fuori programma & Romaeuropa Festival;
ResiDance XL – luoghi e progetti di residenza per creazioni coreografiche (Azione della Rete Anticorpi XL – 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 e PERIFERIE ARTISTICHE – Centro di Residenza Multidisciplinare del Lazio”
The Context
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 Concept
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. The clarity is lost and the eyes close.