Wassily b3 / Effetto Lazarus

Wassily B3 is dedicated to the Bauhaus movement, created 150 years after the birth of the famous composer. Wassily B3 is the name of the renowned chair designed by Marcel Breuer and dedicated to Wassily Kandinsky, who purchased its first example. The Bauhaus movement is reflected in the choreography for its aesthetic principles, which use the distortion of human proportions and the use of stage objects that become prosthetics and functional extensions of the body. The overall sense of the performance traces, following the interpretative lines of Rationalism, the creation of life, the evolution of species, individual and global social relations (war/peace). The characters and scenes are presented in the form of a "Parade," referencing the shows of the era and surrealism.

The evolutionary leap emanates from the chair itself (like Kubrick’s monolith in 2001...), with which we still engage today, with feelings of aesthetic inadequacy and wonder at the concept of modernity. The visual contact inevitably compels us to jump and propel ourselves toward the future (futurism). The theatre of wonder thus becomes the choice of language and the thesis of the choreography. The Wassily B3 chair is a standing protagonist; it is a stage design upon which we imagine the audience sitting. The images evoked generate surprise in an unconscious state between incomprehension and amazement.

The Lazarus Effect is inspired by the studies of Robert Cornish, the scientist who wanted to bring the dead back to life. The modern and innovative choreography, in terms of language and construction, is set in a post-catastrophe morgue where the bodies of young victims are subjected to Dr. Cornish's Lazarus serum with the intent to revive them. The notes are from Saint-Saëns' famous Danse Macabre.
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