U N T E R W A S S E R (“under water”) is a group that investigates the possibilities of Puppet theatre.
Under water there is the sea-bed, with its hidden beauties that create surprise. We work to share the experience of surprise, fundamental to us, through the research of a refined aesthetics, based on a study on materials and techniques.
Under water is also dark, deep, dense. Deep are the themes that ask us to be fathomed and brought to light.
Under water the voice has no language, words become sound and meanings are caught by the eye. Our theatre is visual, universal, mute.
Under water is the world of dreams, symbols, myth, utopia. To get there you have to break the surface and dive.
BIO
UnterWasser Company has been founded in 2014 by Valeria Bianchi, Aurora Buzzetti and Giulia De Canio. The company places itself at the border between Visual theatre and Contemporary Art, exploring how the two overlap and creating an original, poetic language as an investigative instrument into the human mind and its many facets.
The focus is on the artistic object, the handcraft, the image, the sculpture, the moving matter.
The performance is a “Mobile Installation” to be enjoyed in the evolving of the scenes (frames), in the fluidity of their flowing, in the sequence of not-hidden transformations of the matter, in changing of perspectives and points of view, that bring on the scene the principle of editing as used in cinema.
We are fascinated by the extraordinary possibility offered by Visual Theatre of opening doors on the scene, gashes that bring the public in poetic, dreamlike and fantastic worlds, empty canvas on which the eye of each spectator can project meanings and evoke memories, emotions, images.
Works
INFINITE POSSIBILITÀ PER ESSERI FINITI TOUR (2023)
BOXES, show (2022) PREMIÈRE in KILOWATT FESTIVAL
UNTOLD, show (2020) PREMIÈRE in BIENNALE TEATRO 2020, VENEZIA
AMARBARì show ,'tout public' (2019) PREMIÈRE IN SEGNI FESTIVAL
MAZE, show (2018) PREMIÈRE in CITTÀ DELLE 100 SCALE FESTIVAL
OUT, show, 'tout public' (2015) PREMIÈRE IN SEGNALI FESTIVAL
FLOATING, installation (2017) ,CASERMARCHEOLOGICA
THE WIRE CITY, installation (2017) Carrozzerie n. o. t.
AMARBARì, installation,(2018) ROMAEUROPA FESTIVAL 2018
Awards
NATIONAL CRITICS AWARD 2022
VALTER FERRARA AWARD, RADICONDOLI FESTIVAL 2019
IN-BOX AWARD 2019
BENEDETTO RAVASIO AWARD 2016
EOLO AWARD 2016
SPECIAL MENTION FESTEBÀ FESTIVAL
SCENARIO INFANZIA AWARD, SPECIAL MENTION STUDENTS JURY 2014
