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Sep 07 2023 - 16:00

Museo della Città, Rovereto

The Ranch is Empty

A haunting hand-to-hand fight. A relationship that becomes manipulation. A living body that empties itself of its emotional weight and becomes corpse.
All around a living, distracted city. The future, which, on closer inspection, does not look welcoming. Progress that has made us distant, unable to “feel” the other.

The urban dance of The Ranch is Empty, inspired by photographer Sebastião Salgado's pictures of migrants' journeys, unsettles us and asks us questions: who are we leaving behind in our journey towards the future? How indifferent have we become?

To individualism for survival, however, there is an alternative: the encounter with the other, with tenderness, with those who remind us of where we come from and where we are going.

Participants in the workshop for dance and theatre enthusiasts led by Natalia Vallebona and Faustino Blanchut in Rovereto are also involved in the performance.
In collaboration with Compagnia Abbondanza/Bertoni.

Natalia Vallebona's work breaks the mould: the body - the extreme raw material and vehicle of a truly wild expressiveness - dominates. Her distinctive characteristic consists precisely in this physical-expressive power: sophisticated, strong and bewitching.

- Gaia Clotilde Chernetich e Diego Pizzorno, Aringa critica

Accessible space for people with physical disabilities.
Family-friendly performance.
Free admission.

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The Ranch is Empty

Choreography and staging Natalia Vallebona
Dramaturgy Faustino Blanchut
Performers Faustino Blanchut, Éléonore Pinet Bodin, Marianna Moccia, Maxime Pichon, Alvaro Valdes, Natalia Vallebona
Music Patrick Belmont, Maxime Pichon
Live music Maxime Pichon
Included in the Go Towards - Boarding Pass Plus 2022 Project Production Poetic Punkers Partners Wolubilis, Le BAMP, Compagnia Abbondanza/Bertoni, LOBO Festival Tolosa, Les Noctambules Nanterre, Teatro della Tosse Genova, DanscentrumJette, UP - Circus & Performing Arts

Duration 50'



In collaboration with Compagnia Abbondanza/Bertoni, included in the GoTowards Project - Boarding Pass Plus 2022.
As part of the project Lungo Le Vie Dell'ACQUA: Ambiente, Cultura, Qualità Di Vita Per Educare Alla Cittadinanza Globale (Along the Ways of Water: Environment, Culture, Quality of Life To Educate Global Citizenship), sponsored by the City of Rovereto and funded by the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation.