POLIANT
Poliante. From the Greek polyánthea – rich in flowers – a perfect title for an anthology of Pier Luigi Bacchini's poetic writing. An incessant conversation with Nature, the landscape, the perfumes, men and women as belonging to a Whole that once also included the Gods, in search of profound signs, originals that are still perceived, they are smelled and sometimes seen through the echo of Orpheus' song which calls together the elements of the world. It is a collection of flower verses that punctuates an all-encompassing time – life, l'eros, the metamorphosis of bodies, the death that has already arrived and the one that will come again as life – in a light motion like a circle in water.
Twenty years of poetic body. “I have translated the poetic works of Pier Luigi Bacchini into different modes of stage representation. I practiced different ways of creating sound and body of Bacchini's verses: for actress and author, for quartet of actresses with author, for musician, actor and author, for actresses and voice-overs, for solo actress. Each mise en parole established with the place of the event (setting up) a cross-fading relationship between bodies, the voices, the sounds and the poetic landscape. The annual event was created by selecting his works according to a dramaturgy of the bodies that, from time to time, they became his poetry in situ. In his verses nature and science arise, they die and are resurrected, the gods are present in the smallest human molecules and theaters are living landscapes in which births alternate, deaths and divine projections.”
Francesco Pititto
Anthology of the poetic writing of Pier Luigi Bacchini
from the poetic works of Pier Luigi Bacchini
Direction and imagery | Francesco Pititto
Installation and enclosures | Maria Federica Masters
Musica | Andrew Azzali
Interpreters | Valentina Barbarini, Sandra Soncini, Elena Sorbi
Production | Lenz Foundation
