Othello Tango

In the organizer's words:

Following the resounding success of the dance piece Romeo y Julieta Tango, the ensemble Compagnia NaturalisLabor dedicates itself to one of Shakespeare's most famous texts in the language of dance and tango.

Inspired by the Shakespearean tragedy Othello , choreographer Luciano Padovani traces the emotional subtext of the dramatic plot and draws the audience into the vortex of the title character's distorted perception of reality, the projection of his exuberant, all-consuming jealousy. The drama develops in a circle: within a liturgical framework at the beginning and at the end, the fascinating dance evening explores love in all its nuances, from the tender and erotic discovery of the beginnings to the passion that is lived, which constantly increases, gains strength and finally unfolds its destructive power. The hidden conductor of events is Iago, a brilliant and envious string-puller who manipulates reality in a subtle and deceptive way. Because he feels he has been treated unfairly because he has not been promoted, he cleverly spins his intrigues: in the dance piece, for example, he stirs up Othello's jealousy of his supposedly unfaithful wife Desdemona in a Mephistophelian manner, which gradually drives Othello to despair, which escalates into madness. In the end, he humiliates and despises his wife, and it is only after he has killed her that Jago's role is revealed.

"As the plot progresses, Padovani's choreography brings out the expressive power, the emotional subtext of the play, imbuing Shakespeare's story with biting cues, quick and allusive gestures, especially in the overwhelming sequence of Othello's explosive final jealousy towards Desdemona: 'a dance of fierce movements, of deadly gestures, in an uninterrupted struggle between holding, falling, tugging, expressing the total passion of love and the utterly insane delusion that the worm of jealousy, 'the green monster', brings forth." Giuseppe Distefano / Exibart