APOCALIPSYNC_ 2
creation and direction: Luciano Rosso & Maria Saccone
costume and sets design: Luciano Rosso, Oria Puppo
light design: Oria Puppo
performed by: Luciano Rosso
duration: 60’
premiere: Avignon Festival, 2021.
production: Quartier Libre Productions, T4/ Maixme Seugé + Jonathan Zak
Accumulating millions of views on social media, quite naturally Luciano Rosso turns digital to find its audience. The dancer quickly gives birth to multiple characters by pushing to the extreme his areas of predilection such as lip sync and mime. He takes us on an extravagant journey with his one-man show first born during the pandemic in order to offer a reflection on isolation, creativity and a cartoonish look at our current world. Rosso brilliantly plays about forty crazy and witty characters who accompany him in the solitude of his apartment. On stage, he uses his elastic body to display all his talents: dance, clowning, pantomime, music and, in particular, lip-sync. It is an unique, overwhelming and hilarious show about the many ways to avoid boredom.
Luciano Rosso is dancer, actor, director and choreographer, trained in classical, contemporary, African, jazz and hip-hop dance, he also trained as an actor with Osqui Guzmán, Daniel Casablanca, Hermes Gaido and Paco Redondo, among others, and as a musician. He works on voice with Magdalena Fleitas, Alberto Alonso and Tom Viano, and on percussion with Santiago Albin, Gabriel Spiller and María Zoppi. He joined the Nandayure Company, under the direction of Analía González, as a dancer, actor and choreographer. In 2001, he joined the famous percussion group El Choque Urbano, with which he participated in “Fabricando Sonidos” and “La Nave”. With these two shows, he went on a three-year tour of Argentina, Peru, Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Guatemala. They were also performing in the Netherlands, South Korea and Syria. In 2009, he performed “Urraka”, a percussion show with objects and “Un Poyo Rojo”, a physical theater. With “Un Poyo Rojo” he also performed at the Belgrade Dance Festival in 2020, during the time of lockdown in most of European countries.
Excellent in several scenic disciplines, he develops particular interpretation movements, musicality and humor and deploys a series of lip-syncing, mime and dance techniques. It is ultimately an introspection into the intimacy and vulnerability of the actor, which invites you to follow him in his sassy and whimsical characters, but also in a world in crisis increasingly dependent on technology and social networks. Comical and moving, Luciano Rosso plunges us in a universe whimsical of which he alone has the secret.
© Le Monde
