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Fabrizio Crisafulli – La luce organica

Registra teatrale, artista visivo e una laurea in architettura. Passioni diverse e complementari che hanno portato Fabrizio Crisafulli, catanese di nascita e romano d’adozione, a indagare il rapporto tra il palcoscenico, visto come spazio, gli attori e la luce, intesa come linguaggio espressivo. Materia ed energia viva che ricorda le colate laviche dell’Etna, uno spettacolo magico e luminoso che si riflette nelle notti catanesi: ecco l’origine di una passione.
Lei è un regista teatrale, come nasce il suo interesse per la Luce?
Sono laureato in architettura e questa passione proviene molto anche da lì. Ma forse un ruolo importante lo ha svolto anche il mio essere nato in Sicilia, a Catania, alle falde dell’Etna; l’aver spesso visto da vicino le eruzioni, le colate laviche di notte, le esplosioni e le “fontane” di luce. Esperienze che, fin da ragazzo, mi hanno fatto percepire in maniera forte la luce come materia e come energia.

Quando e perché ha iniziato a studiare il rapporto attore, spazio e luce?
A contatto con la ricerca teatrale romana degli anni Settanta, le cosiddette “cantine romane”. Nel lavoro dell’avanguardia teatrale di allora quel rapporto era molto importante. La luce mi interessa come materia ed energia. E come elemento capace di essere parte attiva – insieme alla parola, al corpo, allo spazio, al suono – di quel campo di tensioni che sono le prove e lo spettacolo teatrale.

È autore del libro “Luce attiva, Questioni della luce nel teatro contemporaneo”: qual è la giusta luce in teatro?
Una luce che non sia solo immagine. Una luce generativa, capace di suscitare relazioni, di modellare lo spazio e il tempo, creare senso e poesia, costruire drammaturgia.

Stage director, visual artist and a degree in architecture. Different, yet complementary passions that have led Fabrizio Crisafulli, born in Catania and residing in Rome, to investigate the relationship between the stage, perceived as space, the actors and light, regarded as an expressive language. Matter and living energy that evoke the hot magma of the Etna volcano, an amazing show of magic and light that illuminates the nights in Catania: the origin of his passion.
You are a stage director, so where does your interest in light stem from?
I earned a degree in architecture and my love for light also comes from there. But a lot of it also stems from the fact that I was born in Sicily, in Catania precisely, at the feet of Mt. Etna, so I often get to see eruptions at a close distance, including lava flows at night, explosions and the “fountains” of lighted lava. This experience has helped me perceive light as a matter and as a living energy ever since I was very young.

When and why did you start studying the relationship between actors, space and light?
My research experience started in Rome in the nineteen seventies at the so-called “Roman cellars” for experimental theatre. Back then, for Italian avant-guard theatre, this relationship was very important. I am interested in light as matter and energy. It is an element capable of being an active element – together with words, body, space and sound – within the range of tensions created on stage during rehearsals and shows.

You are the author of the book “Luce attiva, Questioni della luce nel teatro contemporaneo” [Active Light. Issues in light of contemporary theater]: what is the right lighting for theatre shows?
Light should not only be image. It should be a generative light, capable of evoking relations, shaping space and time, creating sense and poetry, and building dramaturgy.

You are also the author of many lighting installations (Porte di luce, Azioni di luce e luce, Forest, Architettura mobile…): how do you work with light? How has your approach to light change?
Even in my installations, light is always a constructive force with a temporal logic. This strongly affects the “theatricality” of my works that do not include actors. As I go on with my research I increasingly recognise the ability of light to become, just like sound, an independent, complex language. It is capable of performing “actions”, building sense, turning into a symbol, indicating directions, and creating worlds.

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