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UnterWasser is a research group, founded in 2014 by Valeria Bianchi, Aurora Buzzetti and Giulia De Canio, that investigates the mutual contaminations between puppet theatre and the visual arts.
The company undertakes work on two parallel tracks: performance on the one hand, and exhibition/installation on the other.
UnterWasser's theatre is a mobile installation to be enjoyed as the scenes evolve, in the fluidity of their flow. The material is transformed in front of the viewer and the perspectives change according to the principle of film montage. The protagonists are the artistic object, the image, the sculpture, the moving matter. The performer is at the service of the object and becomes its animator.
UnterWasser's installations have a theatrical dramaturgy, a narrative movement that makes them dynamic and evocative.
The images are drawn from the world of the oneiric, a well from which to draw suggestions of the inner universe, with aesthetic references inspired by figurative art.
UnterWasser's first work, OUT (2015) received the following awards: EOLO AWARD 2016, Finalist of SCENARIO INFANZIA AWARD 2014.
In 2016 the company received the BENEDETTO RAVASIO AWARD.
In 2017 UnterWasser presented his work OUT at the Blue Project Foundation in Barcelona and created for the Caserm Archeologica in Sansepolcro, the installations FLOATING and LACITTÀ LABIRINTO DEL TEMPO.
In 2018, the show MAZE debuted at the Festival Città delle 100 Scale in Potenza. The show won second place at IN BOX BLU 2019
In 2018, they created the installation AMARBARÌ for the Roma Europa Festival.
In 2019 AMARBARì became a performance and debuted at the Segni Festival in Mantua.
The UnterWasser company received the VALTER FERRARA AWARD 2019 in Radicondoli: "for the accurate research work, for a poetics that, in the productions, manages to absorb the knowledge and experiences of each element of the company: puppet theater, sculpture, visual art".
In 2020 the show UNTOLD debuted at the Venice Theater Biennale.
In 2022 they started the creation of the show BOXES which debuted at the Kilowatt Festival in Sansepolcro.
In the same year they made an artistic residency for Cambio Festival in Rio de Janeiro and created the istallation POSTCARDS FROMRIO.
The company received the ANCT AWARD 2022.
In 2023 the group collaborated with the musician Giovanni Truppi, participating in the presentation tour of the album "Infinite possibilites for finite beings".
UnterWasser has presented its shows in Italy, China, Brazil, Palestine, Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, France, Switzerland, Croatia, North Macedonia, Greece, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal.
To date the company stages all the shows in its repertoire.
Image Gallery
Video Gallery
Beneath the water is the seabed, with its hidden beauties that create wonder.
We work to share the experience of enchantment through the pursuit of a refined aesthetic, the result of careful study of materials and techniques.
Underwater is also dark, deep, dense.
Deep are the themes that ask to be plumbed and brought to light.
Underwater, voice has no language, words become sound and meanings are grasped with the eyes.
We seek a visual, universal, silent theatre.
Underwater is the oneiric, the world of symbol, myth, utopia.
To draw on it, one must shatter the mirror of the surface and immerse oneself.
“Crossing the sea” is an internationalization project of Italian performing arts born with the aim of creating and consolidating long-term collaborations in non-European areas, thanks to partnerships currently operating in the Middle East, Asia, North Africa, Oceania, North America, Central America and Latin America.
The project is meant to start a process of internationalization of careers by creating networking opportunities and sharing good practices of work. The project was born in 2018 and already selected 68 Italian artists/companies through a call.
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