AMARBARÌ

WORLD PREMIERE: SEGNI FESTIVAL 2020

Amarbarì is a shadow art performance designed to envelop a small audience of “travelers”. It's a cosy, colorful installation in which adults and children alike are invited to discover different worlds, through the use of sounds, animated lights and shapes. These worlds are born in the shadows, but need light in order to be explored.

“Amar bari” is the bengali term for “my home”. This home is open to anyone, it's mobility allows us to discover different environments and cultures. A “world-home” which affirms every earthly creature's right to freely explore and migrate.

CREDITS

Idea, creation, performer: Valeria Bianchi, Aurora Buzzetti, Giulia De Canio

Original soundtrack: Posho

Light design: Matteo Rubagotti

Production: UnterWasser

With the support of: Straligut Teatro; Perieferie Artistiche; Contact Zones; Mariagiulia Colace; Ondadurto Teatro - Centro creazione Arte Antrodoco.

"After the great success of "Out", the Unterwasser women's collective formed by Valeria Bianchi, Aurora Buzzetti, Giulia De Canio presented at Segnali "Amarbarì" an enveloping performance of shadows for a few travelers of all ages, ready to be amazed. In fact, the public of children, 25 at a time, is invited to cross the threshold and sit inside a space made up of 4 white walls, which miraculously, through the colored play of shadows, form an enchanted, capable building, like a real magic carpet, to move from place to place. "Amar bari" in Bengali language means "my home". And in fact each of the little participants will be able to experience that place as a real home in which to live, a house without borders, because the world we live in should not have any border.

On the 4 sides of the room you can see and imagine landscapes of all types, from the seabed, to warm colorful cities, starry skies, even skies crossed by brightly colored hot air balloons that from above plow the infinite possibilities that our land grants . Just outside, spectators will also be able to observe the extraordinary, in their mechanical simplicity, contraptions used to create all these imaginaries: small projectors, silhouettes and mobile sculptures of wood, wire and colored glass. A performance that can also be enjoyed by very young children with their mothers. A place to dream all possible worlds together.”

— Mario Bianchi, EOLO

THE INSTALLATION

Before becoming a show, AMARBARÌ was a site-specific installation created for RomaEuropa Festival 2018. The installation occupied 5 rooms of the Ex-Mattatoio di Testaccio (Rome). You can see a short trailer here.