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PANORAMIC BANANA. ALBUM DEGLI ABITANTI DEL NUOVO MONDO [Album of the Inhabitants of the New World]

choreography and atmosphere Michele Di Stefano 

live modular system Biagio Caravano 

music The Creatures 

lighting Giulia Broggi 

video Lorenzo Basili 

performers Biagio Caravano, Sebastiano Geronimo, Luciano Ariel Lanza, Flora Orciari, Laura Scarpini, Francesca Ugolini 

management Carlotta Garlanda with Silvia Parlani 

distribution Jean François Mathieu 

co-production mk/KLm, LAC Lugano Arte e Cultura (CH), Triennale Milano, Théâtre du Briançonnais (FR), Bassano OperaEstate 

with the support of the Italian Cultural Institute in Bucharest (RO) 

in collaboration with USI Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio (CH) – course led by architect Riccardo Blumer – and CNDB National Centre for Dance Bucharest (RO) 

with the support of KOMM TANZ/PASSO NORD residency project Compagnia Abbondanza/Bertoni 

in collaboration with the Municipality of Rovereto, ORBITA / Spellbound Centro Nazionale di Produzione Danza 

in collaboration with ATCL Circuito multidisciplinare del Lazio – Spazio Rossellini with the contribution of the Italian Ministry of Culture 

duration 60 min 

 
There is no place for the exotic; it is pure representation. Yet its very abstract vacuity can become a real space, a vessel to be redefined. Panoramic Banana is a collection of sounds, dances, and images, arranged like a catalogue, alluding to a history of conquest and abuse perpetrated in a resort at the edge of the world. An evocation of an environment true to a single savage principle: blending, proximity, and the incomprehensible euphoria of a pact between oppressors and victims. While ethnologists pivot to examining the last indestructible tribe still around—tourists— and anthropologists drop off the radar to study television series, savage thought is forgotten by entertainment yet proliferates undisturbed in the haze; it makes no proclamations of redemption, but for this very reason remains absolutely crucial for the future of humanity. A future that is sonic, aquatic, tropical, 40 degrees in the shade, epidemic, balsamic, anatomical, and humid. The new production by mk is a kaleidoscope of dances and images immersed in a hybrid soundscape, hot as a furnace; a proliferation of choreographic systems that seem to hint at a new folklore, evocative of a world to come, where the disorder of things is the norm, and the environment becomes murky and pulsating, finally undisturbed in its desire for ‘rewilding’. 

Michele Di Stefano

Michele Di Stefano, choreographer and founder of the mk collective, active since 2000, is renowned for exploring movement as a dynamic system and a perceptual field, alternating stage creations with site-specific and environmental projects. He has received commissions from Aterballetto, the Korean National Contemporary Dance Company, Nuovo Balletto di Toscana, and Ballet de Lorraine. He has served as a dance programming consultant for the Teatro di Roma, co-curator of the Giacimenta project for Matera 2019, and creator of the performance cycles TROPICI and BUFFALO. In 2014, he was awarded the Silver Lion at the Venice Biennale, and in 2018 he received the Nico Garrone Prize. He was an associate artist at the Triennale di Milano (2022–2024) and is currently part of the curatorial team for the Short Theatre Festival. In 2012, he published Agenti autonomi e sistemi multiagente with Margherita Morgantin.

mk

mk has been active in choreography and performance since 2000, revolving around an original core of performers and shared, cross-disciplinary projects, including a constant collaboration with musician Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch. Key works include: Bermudas (2018), performed over 60 times, awarded the Danza&Danza Prize 2018 and the UBU Prize 2019 in its durational version Bermudas_forever; Parete Nord (2018), co-produced by Torinodanza; Pezzi anatomici (2020); Eden (2020), for BolzanoDanza; and Maqam (2021), a choreographed concert with Amir ElSaffar. 2022 saw the creation of Sfera, which explores language as an extension of gesture, and Piscina Mirabilis, a participatory project for heterogeneous communities presented in unconventional spaces. With Atmosferologia (2023), the company reimagined the urban performance Veduta as an observation device for the city. In 2024, Panoramic Banana debuted, co-produced by Triennale di Milano, weaving together installation and choreography through a journey of residencies and public showings. In 2026, Smoking Rooms is set to premiere at Torinodanza, while Veduta takes the form of a Mediterranean Atlas, a further development of a project dedicated to landscape and urban space.