Tecnologie della luce site specific : drammaturgie per una nuova frontiera del teatro urbano

The art included in the urban space, as a mix of different disciplines: theater, dance, music, videos etc., offers the user the possibility of decoding and re-appropriation of urban characters, hidden or forgotten. Famous examples of past ‘urban theater’ have shown that sites are able to amplify the outcome of an artistic influence beyond its occurrence: memories remain in the spectator, developing recovery and urban regeneration processes. Mainly decisive is the use of light as a scenic project tool: also fundamental is transition from light that illuminates the space, to the light that creates it, and that through the use of digital media edit the built surface in a dynamic and virtual way, enhancing the ‘figurative potential’ and providing the community immersive reading space and new patterns of use. Cases of performance and site-specific installations based on light give evidence to the role of place in the gestation of the work and its communicative value.