Othello Tango
Notes of the show<>
“Beware of jealousy, my lord!
It is a green-eyed monster that delights in the food it eats.”
W. Shakespeare / Othello
After the resounding success of Romeo y Julieta Tango, the company returns to explore through the language of dance and tango one of its best known Shakespeare texts.
Inspired by the Shakespearean tragedy "Othello tango" by Luciano Padovani, it evokes the emotional subtext of the whole story, capturing the viewer and dragging him into a human reality that becomes the projection of an energetic, powerful, turbulent feeling. The drama develops in a circular way: within a narrative time delimited by a liturgical incipit and a conclusion, love is declined in all its nuances, from the tender and erotic discovery of the beginnings to the lived passion that always grows more, acquiring power and manifesting its destructive charge. The hidden director of the whole story is Iago, an envious puppeteer who manipulates reality in a subtle and deceptive way, creating scenarios of jealousy that exasperate Othello, arouse in him obsessive internal fantasies that push him to act in a delusional way and to humiliate and despise his wife until he kills her.
Credits<>
Concept, choreography and direction Luciano Padovani
assistant Jessica D'Angelo
set designer Mauro Zocchetta and Gloria Gandini
costumes Chiara Defant
lights Thomas Heuger
Co-production Festival Estate Teatrale Veronese
in collaboration with Camerata Musicale Barese / Centro Servizi Culturali S. Chiara
With the support of MIC / Veneto Region / Municipality of Vicenza / Arco Danza
Press<>
Applause to the Roman for Luciano Padovani's Italian premiere
.... the dancers and the tangueros restore strength and physical presence to Othello, Desdemona and Jago, the real protagonist in this drama that sees the death of innocents and the never subsided torment of those who are devoured by the 'green-eyed monster', jealousy that drives madness. .... and so the drama is consumed in a crescendo of intensity. Luciano Padovani has hit the mark: the passion for tango and dance moves in a combination that sees the rigor of one marrying with the fluidity of the other thanks to its extraordinary performers ...
Silvia Allegri / L'Arena
Padovani, in the progressive development of the clear plot, brings out in his choreography the effective expressive force, the emotional subtext, innervating Shakespeare's story with biting cues, fast and allusive gestures, especially in the overwhelming sequence of the explosive final jealousy of Othello towards Desdemona: a dance of violent movements, of fatal gestures, in a non-stop struggle between holds, falls, tugs, which express all the passion of love and all the mad blindness that the worm of jealousy produces, "that monster with green who delights in the food on which he eats"...
Giuseppe Distefano / Exibart
