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Plastic People

“I do not believe it is possible to be a single woman or a single man; I am at once many women and many men. I am places, animals, cities, villages, families, memories, emotions, objects, and people I know — but I am also realities unknown to me, unexplored and unseen, which my imagination reaches, revealing identities of the past, present, and future.” Francesca Lettieri Following a DYNAMIC AND CREATIVE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS, the project moves through images and stereotypes that, throughout the history of Western culture, have influenced and continue to influence the thinking and behavior of the body. The performance presents STEREOTYPES and ICONS that succeed one another in the theatrical space, narrating the continuous and constant human metamorphosis that escapes any attempt at dogmatic classification. The spirit animating the work is ambivalent: optimism and the syndrome of decay, faith in progress and fear of catastrophe, dream and nightmare, weight and lightness, desire and absolute beauty, fragility and power of the body. PLASTIC PEOPLE is a constantly evolving creation, an open group of performers working on an ongoing artistic project that expresses the formless flow of the human condition, difficult to organize into any absolute form. It is a restless dance, always in conflict with itself but always faithful to its fragile and carnal nature. The result is a kaleidoscope of ideas and images that transform at a compulsive rhythm, following the heroic human drive toward the creative and dynamic evolution of things and the body, at once an extraordinary witness to beauty and despair. The project, launched in 2015, has gone through many creative stages between Italy and Germany, with each stage forming a new constellation of artists: in the first phase there were two artists, three in the second, and the current ensemble has grown to six performers. Special thanks go to the performers who have contributed to the project and to all those who will join in the future, bringing new ideas and further transforming the current structure of the performance. Project realized with the support of the Tuscany Region, the Italian Ministry of Culture, and the residencies ACS Abruzzo Circuito Spettacolo, CLAPS Circuito Lombardia Arti Pluridisciplinari, SPAM! Network for Contemporary Arts, PRINZENALLEE 58 – Berlin, and Tanzfabrik Center for Performing Arts Berlin. Special thanks to Vito Mancusi for his collaboration on the project.