From the 23rd to the 25th of February – after a successful tour in Italy and Romania – DopoLavoro Teatrale is back in Toronto with a new creation: La Rivoluzione Siamo Noi – The Change Maker; a project by the Istituto Italiano di Cultura Toronto with DopoLavoro Teatrale.
The Revolution is Us is an act of social sculpture that lies at the intersection of performance art, theatre, exhibition, interactive novel – and citizenship.
Intertwining the unfinished project by Pier Paolo Pasolini Porno Theo Kolossal with the photo The Revolution Is Us by Joseph Beuys, this piece allows you to become a change maker.
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Please note that the experience is divided into three parts/chapters over the course of 24 hours:
PART ONE
The experience begins directly from the participants’ home
PART ONE happens 24 hours before your selected performance date
If you select performance day 23rd, PART ONE happens on the evening of the 22nd
If you select performance day 24th, PART ONE happens on the evening of the 23rd
If you select performance day 25th, PART ONE happens on the evening of the 24th.
PART ONE can be done at your own convenience; you will receive details about this self-guided experience via email
PART TWO
The experience continues through the urban landscape
PART TWO happens on the same day as the selected performance date
If you select performance day 23rd, PART TWO happens in the daytime on the 23rd
If you select performance day 24th, PART TWO happens in the daytime of the 24th
If you select performance day 25th, PART TWO happens in the daytime on the 25th.
You will receive instructions via email.
This experience is self-guided and is up to you to decide your level of engagement and what you are able to do
PART THREE
PART THREE takes place in a “theatre”
This experiential work presents a series of creative stimuli within a fragmented narrative inspired by the body of work (and the body) of Pier Paolo Pasolini and Joseph Beuys.
PART THREE is 60 mins live experience throughout Istituto Italiano di Cultura of Toronto.
Part Three takes place on the evenings of February 23, 24, 25
Thursday, February 23 | 7:00PM EST
Thursday, February 23 | 8:00PM EST
Friday, February 24 | 7:00PM EST
Friday, February 24 | 8:00PM EST
Saturday, February 25 | 7:00PM EST
Saturday, February 25 | 8:00PM EST
The spectator takes on the role of actor and is challenged to become a source of inspiration for the other participants.
Designed for the participation of a maximum of 20 audience members at a time.
PHOTO OF PIER PAOLO PASOLINI BY DINO PEDRIALI, COURTESY OF BARTH SCHWARTZ
Project by
DLT and Istituto Italiano di Cultura Toronto
Concept and Direction
Daniele Bartolini
Written by
Ada Aguilar | Daniele Bartolini | Marta Falugiani | Oana Parvan | Stefania Vitulli
Interactive Experience and Exhibition Design
Ada Aguilar | Daniele Bartolini | Marta Zannoner
Co-creator and Creative Stage Management
Ada Aguilar
Executive Producer
Marta Zannoner
Dramaturgical Consultation
Donato Santeramo
Dramaturg and Co-creator of the Romanian Edition
Dramaturg and co-creator of the Italian Edition
Stefania Vitulli
Special thanks
Donato Kiniger-Passigli
Artistic Inspiration
Franco Berti
Production
DLT | Istituto Italiano di Cultura Bucharest | Istituto Italiano di Cultura Montreal | Istituto Italiano Cultura Toronto
Kanterstrasse and Festival Dello Spettatore – Rete Teatrale Aretina.
ABOUT DANIELE BARTOLINI | Director and Artistic Director of DLT
Daniele Bartolni’s artistic practice has been described by the New York Times as “an especially intriguing investigation” and by PaneAcquaCulture as “the theatre of the future.”
Born and raised in Florence, Daniele lived and worked in Paris in 2010 and 2011 before immigrating to Toronto in 2012. He conceives and carries on projects in English, French and Italian. His work has been presented in England, India, Germany, Italy and Canada. His digital work has been experienced in the United States, Turkey, Singapore, Malaysia, Mexico, Poland, and Australia.
He works as a director, producer, playwright, curator and multidisciplinary artist. Over the course of his career has received three Dora Awards nominations, a Telus Newcomer Award nomination, and he is the recipient of the RBC Newcomer Prize and a nominee of the PaneAcquaCutlure to the Premio Rete Critica.
He is known for complex and inventive work that expands the notions of performance. A practice that reinvents the grammar of the theatrical and live experiences. The work he does is
particularly attentive to intercultural dialogue, the inclusion of disadvantaged communities, cross-disciplinary work and the intersection of art and science.
His work has been presented and produced by La Biennale di Venezia, National Arts Centre of Canada, TO Live, Soulpepper, SummerWorks and Canadian Stage, Luminato Festival, Progress Festival, Teatro Metastasio Stabile Della Toscana, Khoj International Artists Association in New Delhi, Thespo Festival in Mumbai and many more.
In recent years, Daniele created and produced The Spectators’ Odyssey, with a major investment from the National Arts Centre of Canada through their program National Creation Fund and Stil Novo, an intercultural dialogue between the Italian heritage and a series of anthropological identities from Canada, co-produced with Teatro Metastasio Stabile della Toscana.
Daniele is the artist in residence at Villa Charities INC., the largest Italian Canadian Charity in North America.
He is known for inventing large-scale and complex performances in spaces where it normally does not exist: the city, natural landscapes, islands and canals, laundromats, side streets, museums, abandoned palaces, hotel rooms, industrial wastelands and your own home.
He is the Artistic Director of DLT, a company known for city-spanning and multidisciplinary experiences where the participants take on the role of protagonists. Its unique style of theatre is called audience specific; it centres around the audience who’s elevated as co-author of the narrative they experience.
ABOUT DopoLavoro Teatrale (DLT)
DLT is an international and award-winning company dedicated to multidisciplinary, innovative and experimental theatrical productions. DopoLavoro Teatrale offers a new form called audience-specific and creates projects ranging from theatrical performances and installations to interactive, urban and immersive creations.
Whatever the type, the public always plays a central role in that work and continues to explore, experiment and overcome the boundaries of the relationship between artists, the public and the space in which it operates.
Founded in 2006 in Florence by artistic director Daniele Bartolini, DLT is now based in Toronto, Canada. In 2019, The Stranger 2.0 (Above & Below) show was nominated for two Dora Mavor Moore awards in the Outstanding Production and Outstanding Direction categories.
In general, this audience-specific model of use has obtained numerous acclaim in Canada, England, India and in 2020 at the 48th International Theater Festival of La Biennale di Venezia with the show The Right Way.
The company is particularly attentive to the world of “newcomers” in Canada, using the often shows as a catalyst for intercultural exchange. It also manages complex site-specific shows that bring together non-professional artists alongside professional artists, with particular attention to social inclusion. Among the issues addressed by DLT, there is the cultural re-emergence: identity, ritual, intimate, collective. A harmonious revolution aimed at defusing the emotional device.