Atmosferologia is a project dedicated to cities and to the perspective view of the urban landscape, created by one of the most interesting international choreography companies directed by Michele Di Stefano, winner of the Silver Lion Award at the 2014 Venice Biennale Danza. The audience follows the performance through wireless headphones, overlooking a panoramic view of the city: in Lugano, they will be looking out from the splendid Sala 1 of the LAC, located on the top floor of the cultural centre.
The urban scene is transformed by the audio into a place that floats between the present and the possible; the viewer is immersed in a landscape that is no longer just what is in front of him, but – just as in a sacred allegory – becomes a concentrate of coincidences and configurations that seem to refer to something else. Reality is now clouded, now sharply focused by sound, composed by Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch, which presides over the imaginative power of vision and makes possible the multiplication of the details in a place with imaginary coordinates.
Strange conspiracies and mysterious activities redesign the ‘here and now’ to re-read urbanity through postures and signs of an elsewhere, investigated by sharp dances that may be very near or very far, on the horizon. Indoors and outdoors.
Dance is therefore literally a point of view on the world; it inscribes and affirms the figure in the community space and at the same time suggests an escape.
