Dekru: “Virtual reality” | AUGUST 4TH

Virtual reality is the highly anticipated second show by the Ukrainian mime quartet Dekru, produced by Mosaico Errante, a company dedicated to bringing the art and tradition of popular performance to theaters across Italy and around the world.
A show of bodily virtuosity in which the concept of “virtual reality” takes on three intersecting meanings: virtual is the reality of the technological devices we use daily (smartphones and computers first and foremost). But it is also the one created by pantomime, which manages to make us see things that are not there and is therefore the most suitable form of expression to describe the hyper-connected universe in which we are immersed. Finally, virtual reality is also the one that each spectator constructs in their own mind, interpreting what is in front of them in their own way.

Virtual reality is a humorous, evocative and dynamic investigation into the relationship between the physical and the digital and on the influence that modern media has on our lives. A series of scenes, between the daily and the dreamlike, which without the use of words, tools and sets, manages to perfectly convey the concrete and emotional details of the situations shown thanks to an extraordinary mimetic capacity and a plastic flexibility of bodies that become whatever the imagination of the four artists on stage desires.

A show made of stories and “stories”: love and Instagram, poetry and TikTok. Aided by the public’s imagination, the stage—while remaining empty—fills with headsets, mobile phones, social networks, but also with crash test dummies that come to life and ambiguous nightclub characters. As if in an interactive game or an analog video game, the spectators take part in the action by interacting with the artists, who challenge them to basketball (obviously with an imaginary ball), transform them into living statues, and involve them in their choreography.

Considered the spiritual heirs of Master Marcel Marceau and winners at the Odessa Festival of Clowns and Mimes, with their universal language these artists have amused and moved hundreds of cities in countries all over the world, including France, Germany, Spain, Polynesia, New Caledonia, Belgium, the Netherlands, Poland, Hungary, Romania and Switzerland, as well as Ukraine and Italy, where they have performed in prestigious theaters such as the Comunale in Vicenza, the Apollo in Lecce and the Salieri in Legnago.

The ability to treat great themes with lightness and the group’s irresistible empathy has allowed Dekru to also win over the vast audiences of TV programs such as Ukraine’s Got Talent and Tu sí que vales Italy. The quartet was chosen to perform during Pope Francis’ Audience for the Jubilee of Popular Entertainment and as the protagonist of the Gran Gala du Cirque, a show that brings together the best international circus performers in a single great evening.

FULL PRICE: €12 – REDUCED (UNDER 12): €7

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