TEXTUL SPECTACOL, TEXTUL PRETEXT
THE TEXT - A SHOW, THE TEXT - A PRETEXT

Summary/Abstract: Ideas lead to other ideas, ideas then generate words, and strings of words generate books and generate and are generated by other books. The text brought into being by words is meaningful at any point in time, defying it when its artistic value justifies its timelessness. The text then enters collective memory, as a universal artistic asset and from there, over time, inspires genius artist of the future. For a text such as Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, the 21st century is that future. Dante’s text has been translated in most languages of the world, but a dense text such as Inferno or Purgatory is difficult to understand by this generation of electronic communication, irrespective of their language. A truly valuable text transcends the written word, materializes in a world or feelings, light, colour and sound which it transmits. The metamorphosis of a text into audio-visual emotions would be the means by which the internet generation could understand universal artistic writings, which otherwise would disappear slowly and implacably. An alchemist of the 21st century, the young director Roberto Castelucci discovered the philosophy stone, decoding in a whirl of signs and symbols the fundamental archetypes of Divine Comedy. The result is an imagistic text/performance of light and sound, a text/pretext of performing in a Dantesque manner the present, scanned accurately, often violently, often appallingly or touchingly but amazingly profound and truly human. Artistic gesture defeats language transcends language barriers and reaches the spectator by image, light and sound in a whirl of feelings, emotions and unique sentiments. The performance text speaks with a voice beyond words.

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