Cities of memory invisible cities archive#

Cardboard blackouts with pop-up windows, and old-style, slide-through transitions make of this work a nostalgic jump into old cinematographic experiments, where simple sleights of hand would do the trick in framing the image and smoothly changing scenarios.

Cities of memory invisible cities archive#

Memory and archive coexist in the two performers’ body, the one element of tangible continuity within a journey which leaves only ephemeral traces.Īn overhead projector dominates the performative space, acting as a portal between two realms: the physical and the imaginary, offering an escape door from a post-pandemic reality of confinement and isolation, and yet enhancing a familiar sense of spatiotemporal suspension. The performance unfolds as a journey through some imaginary cities described in Calvino’s book, a tangle of colours, textures, objects and affects which form surreal and dreamlike architectures. Invisible cities - inspired by Calvino’s homonym book - is an interdisciplinary performance which blends choreography with live drawing in an immersive experience. Supported by the Rummãn Collective with the online residency programme ‘Allegorical Impulse’ Live screening and exhibition at Allegorical Impulse Online Exhibition Performance by Sofia Burnay & Irene FiordilinoĢ021, Laban Theatre, Trinity Laban, London, UK

Produced by Scirocco Dance Theatre CompanyĬhoreography and Light Design by Irene Fiordilino