It is Cafelulé’s hope that Urban Tale will not only be brought to cities all around the world, but that audiences (real and online) will take part in the construction and direction of the Urban Tale experience. Marco explains: “We want to preserve direct contact with each audience, in order to stimulate a deeper emotional relation… For this reason the changes from performance to performance, integrating into the cast a local actress who will in the language of the host country, therefore increasing the sense of 'closeness' with the city and its inhabitants.” As Marco sees it, “every city becomes a protagonist of the exhibition.”Īnd as Urban Tale grows, the experience will feature a different voice of “the protagonist” depending on which city it is being performed in. Marco explains Urban Tale as a truly “multidisciplinary, transmedial and collective show” - a performative story about “the encounter of human beings bound with technological relationships and digital eyes searching for human relationships.” Marco also emphasizes the show’s inherently participatory nature - and the mission of Urban Tale to push its audience to connect with their city in a new, highly personal (yet public) way. They meet human beings, with which they start building and remodeling it, giving it a new shape… For this purpose, we employ technology as an Actor and not as a tool.” “Technologies determine the rhythm of our lives,” explains Marco. Technology, it is Marco’s hope, is also humanized through the performance and serves as a truly integral part of the experience and magic of the show.
The shooting is an integral part of the show - it interacts with the performers, making every repeat performance unique and personal.” As Marco Boarino, Cafelulé’s Artistic Director, explains: “Every city shot from above by flying drones equipped with HD cameras, in order to discover them from an unusual perspective, preserving its memory from the sky. Technology is not only critical to the production of the show it is integral to how the performance is documented and experienced by virtual audiences as well. According to Cafelulé, the hope is to bring technology out from behind the curtain - to “bring to the stage and not leave it behind the scenes but give it a body and life, making it an actor capable of interpreting a feeling, of expressing and provoking an emotion.” Technology and performance are inextricably intertwined in Urban Tale - each dependent on and complementary to the other. Through the performance, Cafelulé explains, “technology becomes an actor," an integral part in the telling of the tale of the transformation of an “intelligent, interactive and invisible city.” Public space takes on a bold, new purpose and life through the performance and in so doing, new layers of meaning are added to these everyday places and buildings. Urban Tale is an exploration of the intersection of human, machine, and public space, a perspective shifting performance that challenges the audience to reconsider how they view and experience the immediate world around them.
Behind their movements, the walls of the buildings served as a screen for hypnotic projections depicting everything from bustling cityscapes to constellation maps. In this inaugural performance, the dancers moved up, down and across the towering vertical plane with ease, at one moment scrambling up the walls of the bell tower like a charging battalion, then the next, falling and floating like gravity-defying skydivers.
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