Jules Verne's novel – and its stolid circumnavigation of the globe amidst every kind of accidents – offers a glimpse of a premonitory place for the exertion of view and vision, a place which is nowadays sandwiched between the outstanding space of contemporary tourism and the exclusive space of global capitalism.
This dance piece reflects the complexity of a journey where any destination is replaced by the "Everywhere" and every encounter with the others becomes a negotiation towards a hybrid space of translation.
The bodily presence is redefined into a strange milieu, which seems at the same time a golf club, a supposedly authentic rural village, an Universal Expo or a colonialist party.
The margin between here and elsewhere is the space where everything happens in terms of bodily dynamics.
Choreography is set as a perturbation of sightseeing, an "atmospheric" condition of the body: as if it would be possible to define choreographic systems through a climatic perspective, on the side of steam and meteorology.


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CAST

The format is accumulatory and hosts an interchangeable number of performers and visual artists. Every performance could differ in format, set, dance evolution media and cast.
Mk's workteam ( Michele Di Stefano choreographer, Philippe Barbut, Biagio Caravano and Laura Scarpini performers, Lorenzo Bianchi musician ) collaborates for the evolution of the project with
Roberto Cafaggini light designer
Lorenzo Bazzocchi engineer and director of Masque Teatro - www.crisalidefestival.eu
Roberta Mosca and David Kern performers and dancers of the William Forsythe Company,
Haithem Dhifallah perforner
Anna de Manincor/Zimmerfrei visual artist - www.zimmerfrei.co.it
Margherita Morgantin - www.margheritamorgantin.eu - visual artist
In progress.


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SIDE PROJECTS

The dance materials that emerge during the processes are hosted into a side project called Quattro danze coloniali viste da vicino (Four colonial dances at close range), which is a pure choreographic rendition of the journey.
Grand Tour is another side-project for a single performer conceived by Michele Di Stefano in order to investigate a touristic condition of the performing body.