ESP – Extra Sensory Perception | AUGUST 5TH

“ESP – Extra Sensory Perception” – CUBO TEATRO E BENEDETTA PARISI

There are places that are not visited only with the eyes.
They are crossed with the body, with listening, and with the imagination. Sometimes a single voice—near, invisible, almost interior—is enough for what seemed like a landscape to become a threshold, and for what seemed like a ruin to become a presence once more.

With ESP – Extra Sensory Perception, Cubo Teatro and Benedetta Parisi build a sensory and interactive experience designed for the Tur d’Amun in Bardonecchia, an archaeological park that preserves the remains of the ancient manor castle. Here, there is no stage to watch: the place itself becomes the stage. The stones, the trajectories, the silences, and the encounters become part of an immersive device in which the performance happens, first and foremost, in the mind of the participant.

The term extra-sensory perception usually refers to phenomena that go beyond the five senses. ESPreverses this meaning: it doesn’t invite an escape from perception, but rather its amplification.
Through an audio track, a voice guides the audience on a journey of stories, scores, and mental visualizations. It is a path between the real and the liminal, where imagination is not an escape, but a tool to inhabit space more intensely and to discover what, normally, remains at the margins of our gaze.

Each spectator embarks on their own individual journey, yet they are never entirely alone. Trajectories graze one another, glances meet, and the presence of others becomes signals, apparitions, fragments of a silent narrative.
In the Tur d’Amun, between archaeological memory and contemporary perception, the past is not merely told: it is listened to, walked through, and imagined.

ESP is an experience that is both intimate and collective. It is an invitation to let the voice open a crack in the ordinary, transforming the visit into a ritual, the landscape into a vision, and the location into a secret map of perceptions.

Designed for a small group of spectators (maximum 20 people at a time), ESP is specifically structured into 4 performances, each lasting approximately one hour.