This is how the world goes: discomfort in music by Nico and the Navigators

Discomforts: in a geometric and at the same time poetic space, in refined light, a lost humanity moves floatingly, although the gestures seem to reveal its relational disorders, confused restlessness and confused aggressions. The performers of the ensemble Nico and the Navigators in "Where you are not," the opening piece of the TeatroDue Festival in Parma, move in precise coordination to disengage from each other in fragmentary actions - possible histories, bonds and new dimensions. The last verse of Franz Schubert's "Wanderer's Fantasy" - "Dort wo du nicht bist, dort ist das Glück" has given the piece its title, and the music is played live on stage by an orchestra: Verses, words of discontent, lots of question marks, feeling alienated, life rushing around us, friends wandering, aimless wandering. The whole piece a hesitation: fears, doubts, desires. Used books of all kinds. Standing still in a bucket. Loneliness. Different languages. Searching for shapes and order in the sky. Being able to forget in order to approach happiness. The feeling of death. And the need for love. Everyone seems to look for recipes, to indulge in his apprenticeship, to rave about thinkers. But in vain. Life continues to divide, to create vague madness. The characters seem to come across solutions in words or emotional agreements. But the equilibrium is constantly in danger. And even misappropriated despair can ease people's sadness. One lives only once: I wonder if that is enough. Hardly addressed experiences. In a serene atmosphere, moreover. That's the way the world goes: impossible to deal with it as a whole, to gain certainties for oneself and others, to anticipate tomorrow. A funeral at the end of life anyway? It seems so, but to joke about it is allowed. The absolute gracefulness of gestures, great concern for everything, sincerity that filters immediate experiences and pure theatricality, and music that leads, accompanies, creates the moment of feeling, do not, it seems, solve the problem of dramaturgical frittering. Nevertheless, the applause of the festival audience long and certainly deserved.

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