Kinkaleri's 'OTTO' Returns at Centro Pecci in Prato

Kinkaleri, the Italian performance collective, revived their seminal work 'OTTO' (Premio Ubu 2002) after 15 years at the Festival Contemporanea of Centro Pecci in Prato. The piece, originally a meditation on falling and rupture, now reveals new layers: a search for connection with the audience and a critique of contemporary obsessions with appearance, authenticity, and commodification. The central motif of stumbling—'the fright of a foot tripping over a body,' as Samuel Beckett wrote—becomes a political gesture, a suspended time of resistance. New performers Filippo Baglioni, Chiara Bertuccelli, Andrea Sassoli, and Mirco Orciatici took the stage, while a surprise evening featured original cast members Marco Mazzoni, Cristina Rizzo, and Luca Camilletti (with Matteo Bambi replaced by Orciatici). Critic Stefano Tomassini notes that the revival challenges the Italian dance system's profit-driven race for visibility, asserting the enduring value of repertory and history over branding and networking.