DANCE at PAS: Katy Higgins / Francesco Ghirlanda & Roberta Ricci / David Mariano

DANCE at PAS
An evening of movement and sound by Katy Higgins / Francesco Ghirlanda and Roberta Ricci / David Mariano
26th April 2023
Doors open at 20:00 performances start at 20:30
Entrance in the courtyard, Aufgang II, 1 OG
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SCHEMA
Performed by Katy Higgins
SCHEMA is a solo work that explores how and why the brain responds to sound and music. The first production of SCHEMA was in April 2019 and this re-working is a solo endeavor by Katy Higgins. Accompanied by a lively and diverse soundtrack Katy uses dance, film and spoken word to delve deeper and traverse the emotive connections we create when hearing specific sounds and music. The motivation behind this piece came from the work of Daniel Levitin and their book ‘This is your brain on music’. Like the book, this piece will be informative and maybe you will learn something new? Using this information Katy will create a space for everyone to laugh together, maybe even cry together but most importantly – we will have fun!

HERE. A story about time
Performed by Francesco Ghirlanda and Roberta Ricci
Mankind has always struggled to reconcile inner time with the passing of external, chronological, objective time.
Is there a moment when, from inside our partitioned, chronological time dimension, we get a glimpse of the other ones?
Is this moment a point of equilibrium as well as one of fragility?
“HERE – A story about time” has arisen out of such enquiries and reflections.
The performers have created a score upon which three dimensions of time take shape: absolute time, which is unstructured and precedes existence; partitioned time, which is sequential and chronological; and existential time, which is human, internal and, though bound by chronological time (or, perhaps, by virtue of this very bond), glimpses “absolute” time by dilating and contracting.In their exchange, the two performers channel a flow of experience fragments into images which mirror the complex emotions that created them.
Here. We have landed in space and time. We both precede and succeed. We are temporary and thereby able to make sense.

UNTITLED
Performed by David Mariano

(Cover photo credit: Giuseppe Signorino, courtesy Francesco Ghirlanda and Roberta Ricci)