Versi

Versi [Verses] is a performance born for the second edition of Biennolo, especially for this garden. The huge magnolia tree asked me for it. I wanted to climb on its branches and confuse myself with it and confuse my verses with nature. Yet culture, or rather bureaucracy forbid me all tree climbing. So poetry became me, my gilded face, and my performers – I call them mine because we have an art blood relationship – sounded like animals. Don’t forget that in Italian, animal sounds are called versi, verses, same as the poetic ones.

We played with the double meaning and cats, dogs, cows, horses, monkey, mosquitos, pheasants and goats came. Everybody heard them and some one tried to shut them up.


BienNoLo, Milano, 2021 // Ph: Andrea Bertolin


BienNoLo, Milano, 2021 // Ph: Fabrizio Stipari


BienNoLo, Milano, 2021 // Ph: Fabrizio Stipari


BienNoLo, Milano, 2021 // Ph: Fabrizio Stipari

Versi / Corpi sul palco 

Andrea Contin performs Versi.


Corpi sul Palco, Milano, 2021 // Ph: Matteo Finazzi


Corpi sul Palco, Milano, 2021 // Ph: Matteo Finazzi


Corpi sul Palco, Milano, 2021 // Ph: Matteo Finazzi