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Alessandro Stracuzzi

Alessandro Stracuzzi

“The tragedy is over, Platonov”

“The tragedy is over, Platonov”

Written for Stormi. Traiettorie sugli Artisti associat, issue 2, 2022 Issued by Piccolo Teatro di Milano Encountering the characters of a work and their stories has the power to illuminate corners of one’s inner life that had until then remained in darkness. For this to happen, the spectator or

The Milanin within the Milanon

Dialect, Modernity, and Cultural Identity in Cletto Arrighi’s Teatro Milanese In the late 1860s, Milan was undergoing a rapid and irreversible transformation. Following Italian unification, the city shifted from being a peripheral outpost of the Habsburg Empire to a central node within the newly established nation-state, increasingly oriented

CROSSROADS #INHABITINGTHEWORLD

CROSSROADS #INHABITINGTHEWORLD

Originally published in Italian for Stratagemmi. An empty stage. Tribal music. Four dancers take turns inhabiting the space, giving rise to four performances that are strikingly different from one another. #1 Static pseudo-figurative drawings are projected onto the back wall while performer Matteo Sedda positions himself between the projector’

1|2|3 Solos & Duos

1|2|3 Solos & Duos

Originally published in Italian for Stratagemmi. ‘We do not have a body, we are a body,’ wrote philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty (Phenomenology of Perception, 1945). The human body, after all, is not an object but the subject of our experience. It is the archive of what we have lived and,

Erectus – Pithecanthropus

Erectus – Pithecanthropus

Originally published in Italian for Stratagemmi. An empty stage, stripped even of its wings. In absolute silence, a dancer crouched on the ground and completely naked moves, almost imperceptibly, from the edge of the stage towards its centre. Observed closely, his body scarcely appears human. It rather resembles an amorphous