Rizoma performance, production by Sharon Fridman dance company
Artistic Director and coreographer Sharon Fridman
Executive assitant Anat Grigorio
Dramaturgy and voice assistant Antonio Ramírez-Stabivo
Composer Luis Miguel Cobo
Musical creation Luis Miguel Cobo e Antonio Ramírez-Stabivo
Production manager Nacho Azagra
Musicians Omar Flavio Careddu, Luca Giordani, Astrid Harlan, Alessandra Lunghi, Atanassie Milenkovic, Teofil Milenkovic, Timossena Milenkovic, Zoran Milenkovic, Alberto Pedrotti, Giulio Robol, Simone Vanin
Co production Festival Paris quartier d’été and Mister Dante
With the support of Instituto Nacional de las Artes Escénicas y la Música (Gobierno de Espana), Ufficio Culturale Ambasciata di Israele
In collaboration with Fondazione Opera Campana dei Caduti, Mozart Boys&Girls coordinati da Marvi Zanoni
From a biological perspective, a rizoma is the underground “storehouse” that allows certain plant species to withstand adverse climatic conditions. In the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari, it represents a non-linear, non-hierarchical way of organizing existence. In Jung’s analytical view, it embodies the invisible essence of life. For the 34-year-old Israeli choreographer Sharon Fridman—working in Spain with his own company since 2006—it stands for a necessity: demonstrating that society can live in harmony with nature’s processes.His piece Rizoma is a grand open-air happening, designed for specific times of day (dawn in Rovereto, for example). It’s an ecological performance where only bodies and voices take the stage. At its core is the individual’s desire to connect with the universe, to breathe in tune with others and with Nature. This isn’t about New Age practices; rather, it’s a simple rediscovery of our bond with the earth through the body. A profound sense of communion also arises among spectators of this extraordinary moment, in which Fridman seems to portray the origins of the world—a symbolic birth enacted in every rhizome. “We set out,” explains Sharon Fridman, “to understand the definition of a rizoma as a horizontal composition, meaning it has no beginning or end—something that can give life and generate.”