Closing Party
(arrivederci e grazie)

After Happy Hour and El pueblo unido jamás será vencido, Alessandro Bernardeschi and Mauro Paccagnella conclude their Trilogie de la Mémoire (Memory Trilogy) with Closing Party (arrivederci e grazie). This closing ball without sequins, both absurd and ironic, makes us think and see the last convulsions of the great utopias of History. The final part of a juicy triptych depicting the escapades of the fifties, Closing Party (arrivederci e grazie) invokes the end and the breathlessness as a possible new beginning; where intimate memories and collective memory intertwine to form one body.

Alessandro and Mauro imprint the gestures and deploy their trajectories, from Marianne Faithfull to Béjart’s Boléro, the Italian leaden years to Pier Paolo Pasolini, from feathers to wigs. Not to mention the tutus.

But all of this would be nothing without the delicate beauty of their aging dancers’ bodies, reinforcing the political character of the piece where age is no longer just the metaphorical background but indeed constitutes the heart of the choreographic phrase. A dance for two, a farewell waltz, ironic and wacky, a final ball both serious and light whose scenic score is based on a disturbing double game.