Progetto Orlando
About the event
Orlando Project, born from the encounter of a new generation of artists and a long collective effort spanning residencies, studies, and creative crossings, approaches Orlando Furioso as a narrative machine spinning out of control. It all begins with Angelica’s flight—an initial gesture that drags the characters away from war and into a constellation of detours, bewilderments, and sudden accelerations. In a setting that resembles the landscape of a freshly ended rave, amidst chaos, music, and an accumulation of preseries, the performance follows the poem’s centrifugal force all the way to Orlando’s madness and the famous journey to the Moon. Rather than a rewriting of Ariosto’s work, the piece reactivates its anarchic energy and formal freedom, bringing back to the forefront a masterpiece that continues to speak of desertion, desire, and the rejection of History.
