Within the framework of the Caleidoscopio season, Requiem for a Hit is performed by first-year students.
Included in the Salone Off programme of the Torino International Book Fair, the performance takes the form of an event-ceremony reflecting on the very meaning of gathering in a theatre and on the need to share a common time and space. A creative process developed over two weeks of intensive work brings to the stage the result of approximately 1,500 hours of training, including circus techniques, physical preparation, dance, theatre and expressive research.
Requiem for a Hit emerges as a pretext to come together, to laugh in sadness and cry in joy, like a celebration or a funeral. In a collective dimension shaped by fragility, disorientation and a desire for belonging, the piece places at its core the need to remain united and to create something that can preserve the memory of a shared moment.
The direction is entrusted to Compagnia del Caravaggio, founded by Alessandro Travelli and Rita Carmo Martins, an artistic company developing a hybrid language combining circus, theatre, dance and visual arts.