Ideazione e regia Andrea Paciotto


creato con la collaborazione di:


Musica e media design Jan Klug

Performers Charlotte Brathwaite, Monika Haasova, Jelena Jovanovic, Mary Endo


Assistente alla regia Zlatko Stojilovic

Scenografia Sander Trispel, Andrea Paciotto

immagini Sander Trispel, Zlatko Stojilovic

Luci Jasper Buurman

Consulenza Anne Bogart

A Das Arts project developed with support of Grand Theater Groningen, Gasthuis Theater Amsterdam


Additional support by Trust for Mutual Understanding, La MaMa E.T.C. New York, Frank Mohr Instituut Groningen, Italian Cultural Institute in the Netherlands, Amsterdam Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Practicum General, Stichting Steim Amsterdam.

“…We really don’t know how much strength and what capacities are concealed within ourselves. We do not suspect all we are capable of; we come into being and pass away without ever recognizing all we could have been and done.”

from Aska and the Wolf  by Ivo Andric


The audiece is watching a live dream. Through a system of video cameras, projectors, motion tracking devices, contact mikes and interactive computer tools, the bodies of the performers are scanned, exposed and intruded upon.  The actions they execute are directly linked to the visual and acoustic events in the space and are mixed live with other pre-recorded images and sounds.


Goodnight, don’t let the BAD BUGS BITE.


The piece clearly worked its spell on the audience as well as on me.  I found the evening poetic, political, personal and quite beautiful.  Ruminations of Foucault seemed imbedded in the work and the body in a way that became accessible to many.  The collaboration between presence, idea, design and music is remarkable. 

Anne Bogart – Director SITI Company

New York – February 2003



Grand Theatre Groningen (NL)

La MaMa E.T.C. New York (USA)

Gasthuis Theatre Amsterdam (NL)

Nederland Dancedagen Maastricht (NL)

Pumpenhaus Munster (D)

The piece draws upon a fairytale by Serbian Nobel Prize winning author Ivo Andric (1892-1975) named Aska and the Wolf, the viscerally disruptive sculptures of American artist Kiki Smith, and three short stories written by Andrea Paciotto.