Come and discover “White Out,” a circus show that won first prize for best choreography at the 2024 Baia Mare Festival (Romania).
When mountaineering becomes a breathtaking experience, blending dance, theater, and contemporary circus. Piergiorgio Milano achieves a remarkable feat: recreating on a flat stage the emotions associated with the verticality and dizzying immensity of high mountains. Skis, carabiners, and ropes are repurposed here to create powerful images and new choreographic possibilities.
In mountaineering, the term “whiteout” refers to the complete loss of landmarks due to particular weather conditions: snow and clouds distort the reflection of light, creating an apparent uniformity between sky and earth and making it impossible to move in any direction.
White Out is an ironic and dramatic journey, both amusing and poignant, not only in the natural landscape evoked on stage but also in the human interior.
The mountain, therefore, as a mirror of the human being.
“The greatest ambition of this show is to transform mountaineering into artistic language. To create a choreographic experience and a visual synthesis that transports the immensity of the mountain into a theater, so that the audience can experience the snow, the storms, and the vertical rock faces up close.”
Piergiorgio Milano
Freely inspired by the writings of mountaineers Walter Bonatti, Giampiero Motti, Enrico Camanni, Jon Krakuer, Joe Simpson, Mark Twight, and Reinhold Messner.
In mountaineering, the term “whiteout” refers to the complete loss of landmarks due to particular weather conditions: snow and clouds distort the reflection of light, creating an apparent uniformity between sky and earth and making it impossible to move in any direction.
White Out is an ironic and dramatic journey, both amusing and poignant, not only in the natural landscape evoked on stage but also in the human interior.
The mountain, therefore, as a mirror of the human being.
“The greatest ambition of this show is to transform mountaineering into artistic language. To create a choreographic experience and a visual synthesis that transports the immensity of the mountain into a theater, so that the audience can experience the snow, the storms, and the vertical rock faces up close.”
Piergiorgio Milano
Freely inspired by the writings of mountaineers Walter Bonatti, Giampiero Motti, Enrico Camanni, Jon Krakuer, Joe Simpson, Mark Twight, and Reinhold Messner.
