An opera in 4 scenes by Cristiana Palandri
It doesn’t matter to know if Kubic survived a dull and uninhabited land.
If you feel and think about our species, about a vanished world, from an extraterrestrial colony.
Whether the reality of Kubic’s dreams is found in the folds of an immense solitude or whether he himself is the dream of other life forms – including us, who wish to be elsewhere. Even inside him. In spaces that no longer exist or have never existed. In the form of everyone’s dependence on everyone and everything on what’s left. The vigil of a castaway.
It doesn’t matter whether Andrea, the woman who appears to us, is Kubic in another form, an autonomous, human and living being, or a hallucination.
In Kubic’s Dream, everything is a ghost.
Anatomy is a technical device captured in an ancient and exhausting ritual dance.
Waking is sleep, thoughts are constraints, illusions possibilities and pain, and the dissolved body is to the point of enjoying abandonment.
Adrift of dream machines and celestial bodies.
While they remain in us, vigilant, the eye and the listening.
The orbit of an eclipse.
Music, text, costumes and direction: Cristiana Palandri
Set design: Rosario Grieco and Cristiana Palandri
Videos and light design: Rosario Grieco
Choreography: Cristian Cucco
Music performers: Icarus vs Muzak Ensemble, directed by Fabio Sperandio
Vocal performers: Lada (soprano), Clara La Licata (contralto), Decio Biavati (basso)
Live electronics and turntable: Cristiana Palandri
Dancer: Camilla Paris
Kubic’s Dream is freely inspired by the novel Ubik by Philip K. Dick (1969).
© Cristiana Palandri / SIAE 2023
