Alice Occhiali and Valerio Peroni are actors, directors and theatre pedagogues. They met in 2013 at a residence at Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium, Denmark. In 2016, they started an independent activity in Italy, collaborating with international theatre groups and institutions in Italy, Denmark, Germany, France, Poland, working as actors, organising and directing theatre performances, site-specific performances and workshops. Since 2019 they are back in Denmark.
Aliter Ubi - X Transit Festival
date
05. June 2022
time
14:30-15:00
Ticket
Gratis - men reservér din billet online
WORK IN PROGRESS
Váli Theatre Lab, Italy/Denmark
Performers: Alice Occhiali, Valerio Peroni Director: Alice Occhiali
Voice over: Grandma Lillia, Aunt Francesca, Aunt Vilma Duration: 30 min. - Performed in Italian and English
The performative project Aliter Ubi comes from the need to rediscover a connection with one’s roots after years spent abroad, far from ‘home’. ‘Home’ is not thought as a determined physical place, but as a poetic space of daily rituals and a receptacle for sensations and memories. ‘Home’ can be a person, a perfume, an object, a song, a voice… Returning home is going back to the origin of who we are.
This first work in progress presents two characters suspended in a different world, Aliter Ubi. Voices accompany the journey of these two creatures who are animals, children, adults and old people at the same time. A starting point is an extract of The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard: “The central problem consists in asking whether, through the memories of all the houses in which we have found shelter, beyond all the houses in which we have dreamed of living, it is possible to identify an intimate and concrete essence that could be a justification of the singular value of all our images of protected intimacy.” Alice Occhiali writes that in her head Aliter Ubi looks like the Po valley, in the area of Ferrara where she was born and grew up: the vast fields, the canals, the Volano Po, covered by a slight fog and a thick blanket of frost on winter mornings. The distant voices of grandparents, peasants, artisans, partisans echo in this empty space, gently indicating the way back home.
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VÁLI THEATRE LAB is a theatre company founded in 2019 by Alice Occhiali and Valerio Peroni, based in Holstebro (Denmark) as part of Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium. Their work focuses on the production of theatre performances and on the creation and realisation of pedagogical projects with children, teen-agers, and professional actors. Over the years they have developed collaborations in Holstebro and other European cities, with kindergartens, primary-secondary-high schools, universities, theatre schools, old people homes, and community centres.