Bianco su Bianco is a delicate and intense show that arose from the desire of the main creators of two Olympic ceremonies to return to an artistically intimate and small-scale dimension. It tells the story of Ruggero and Elena, of the young man’s difficult childhood, of the power of friendship that enables him to weather the storm and of the bond, as magical as it is mysterious, that is love, which will sustain them both as they scale one of the highest of mountains.

It is a show where the two performers-actors-acrobats-clowns dialogue with a sophisticated and atmospheric universe made up of lights and sounds: a technology developed for the great forest of light that surmounted the Olympic stadium in Sochi and which, downsized for use in a theatre, becomes a further and impalpable performer in the show. Delicate, crystalline music accompanies the story of life and hope of this entertaining, fantastic and rather surreal couple.

CALENDAR

“Helena and Goos move around the stage with lightness and great agility. They elegantly bring forth small details to build tragicomic situations. With their help, we are creating a new show that plays –in keeping with our very own approach to storytelling– on the balance between a sweet and nostalgic form of absurd. Regardless of the simplicity and bareness of the theatrical apparatus, ours is a surreal universe, somehow fiercely serene, a self-reflecting form of theatre, where actors use the proscenium to engage in a dialogue with the audience, where illusion and tricks are always disclosed at the end, where we laugh and are moved, where the clowns do not play the fools, but rather embody the frailness of losing heroes.

Our clowning is white as bread flour is, white as the embers of burnt out coal, white as a scratch on the knee after falling off a bicycle. Our clowning is white on white like the angels in Corteo, like the ice chandelier smashed to pieces in Donka, like the closet from which Icaro escapes, like the ball everyone chases under the rain shower in Rain, like the backlit atmosphere in Nebbia, like the peppermints in La Verità.”

Daniele Finzi Pasca, Extract of the word of the Director, 2014

Main festivals over the last year:

Vladivostok (Russia) Primorsky Stage (Mariinsky) – Chekhov International Theatre Festival

Roma – Teatro Vittoria – Romaeuropa Festival ed. 2021- 2022

Tunisi – Théâtre de l’Opéra – Festival International des Journées Théâtrales de Carthage

Islas Canarias – Centro Insular de deportes de Gran Canaria & Teatro Guimera – Mapas Festival

Alicante – Plaza de Toros – Festival Fresca

Creation partners:

Caffè Chicco d’Oro

Cornèrcard

Grand Hotel Villa Castagnola

Fidinam

In co-production with:

Teatro Sociale Bellinzona – Bellinzona Teatro

Maison de la culture de Nevers et de la Nièvre

L’Odyssée – Scène conventionnée de Périgueux

With the support of: 

City of Lugano

Cantone Ticino

Pro Helvetia

Ernst Göhner Stiftung

Sintetica – Research Partner

AIL SA