ZOO

«Tonight we are the ZOO.
We are the Monstrosity, the Provocation, the Beast, the Beauty, the Myth;
we are the ones you love, the ones you dream of, the ones you fuck, you manipulate, you trample, you torture, you mutilate, swallow, digest, shit and throw away.
Come along.
Enjoy your ZOO. »

ZOO went on tour to Italy, London and Spain. The piece was also selected for the Aerowaves Festival as one of the best European choreographies of 2006. ZOO is a co-production of Danswerkplaats Amsterdam and Festival Interplay Torino and is financially supported by the Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst.

Choreography: Gabriella Maiorino

Dance: Samir Calixto /Daniel Hayward, Gabriella Maiorino, Fornier Ortiz Bedoya, Marlene Vilhena, Maria Chernova, Valentina Campora, Cordelia Lange, Cristina Leitão

Music: Simone Giacomini

Advise and visual: Ascon de Nijs

“Zoo shifted from circus to abattoir, via hospital, club and bedroom on the way, exploring the mucky relationship between man and beast… With vivid satire elevating the more commonplace shock value of its nudity and dark sexuality, Zoo merits a wider audience.”

Lucy Ribchester , Aerowaves, the Place Theatre, London

“…But the standing ovation was for ZOO and the five performers of the Italian, Dutch based choreographer Gabriella Maiorino; four legs and naked, back and forward, they created a cinematographic, feral and mounting rhythm, underlined by the beautiful lights, low and swinging”

Claudia Allasia, “LA REPUBBLICA”, (TORINODANZA)

Performance list:

2008

28 February De Lieve Vrouw, Amersfoort (NL) – try-out
5 March Theater Gasthuis, Amsterdam (NL) – try-out
6 March Theater Gasthuis, Amsterdam (NL) – try-out
6 June Festival Punto Aparte, Murcia (ES)

6 October Theater Bellevue, Amsterdam (NL) – dutch premiere

10 October Kunstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt (DE)
11 October Kunstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt (DE)
23 October Lantaren Venster, Rotterdam

*25/26 October ZOO workshop in Dansateliers Rotterdam.