Press Review

The creation work is strictly connected to the elaboration of a personal choreographic code, dance style and expressive poetics. All codes that belong to art-therapy: vocal expression (text or singing), music and any artistic form useful during the creation … This particular interest for the human being and the attention to aspects like contact, relation, authenticity, consciousness … refer to some fundamental passages of an art-therapeutic journey …

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I suggest going to see Atacama Company’s dancetheatre performance that, with Patrizia Cavola and Ivàn Truol’s direction, clearly and hilariously represents a humanity that keeps itself busy to be unhappy. The message reaching people of all ages is clear and direct: “Be unhappy!!”.

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In the tale danced in and around a bed by Patrizia Cavola and Ivàn Truol of Atacama Company, there are the worries and irony of the human condition. “La Cama”, performed on the second day of Nuova Danza Festival at Asmed, is a fascinating proof of theatre-dance, full of emotional suggestions created by gesture, music, words and images.

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A bed. That’s all Patrizia Cavola and Ivàn Truol from Atacama Company need in order to draw a dance at the boundary between wake and sleep. “La Cama” … wants to confuse reality and dream in a game of overlapping, revealed as the performance goes on.
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Through a gesture that is never excessive, but always studied and attentive to create the drama (also in the lightness that prepares the drama) of a realistic situation, metaphor for the politic situation of that regime, the two dancers become a touching vehicle of the impossibility to love, representative of the love as a crime … Atacama Company is excellent in recreating all that in their own body, which amplifies the noise of the tragedy making it touchable in its more real expressions. Effective and touching in creating and showing that horror.
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It will be interesting to immerse ourselves in Atacama Company’s psychedelic atmosphere. The two choreographers Patrizia Cavola and Ivàn Truol, both with a very high level and important experience, with “Dal Sud o intorno all’11 settembre 1973” continue the musical collaboration with Epsilon Indi, already appreciated in other performances like the latest “La Cama”: an investigation of relations in a bed. In this performance we can certainly expect that work on movement (becoming a symbol) which is typical of the two choreographers, always attentive to details and able to move from irony to drama, giving the most profound meaning of things.
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A performance inspired to the tragic events that, exactly thirty years ago, caused the forced expulsion from Chile of the legitimate govern of Salvador Allende and the military dictatorship of the general Augusto Pinochet. Not easy themes that the authors  – dancers Patrizia Cavola and Ivàn Truol, founders and directors of ‘Atacama’ Company, face entrusting, most of all, to the evocative power of gesture and movements.
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An original, pleasant choreography that captured the audience thanks to the successful connection between dance and theatre. Patrizia Cavola and Ivàn Truol are very good interpreters, and they are also the choreographers and directors of the performance.
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Patrizia Cavola and Ivàn Truol have em-“bodied” in a very physical and theatrical dance this peculiarity of the bed as fundamental place of being. With measured irony and a trace of benevolent compassion, “La Cama” reveals tics, squalor, embarrassment and frenzies belonging to the intimacy of the bed and, therefore, to all of us.

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In the dance field, the presence of Italian Atacama stands out.
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