Alessandro Sciarroni during the "Turning Matera" rehearsals

"Petroleum" is inspired by the unfinished work of the same name by Pier Paolo Pasolini, which probes the radical and underground transformations of social, urban and natural landscapes.
Giuseppe Biscaglia and Francesco Scaringi, curators of the project co-produced by Basilicata 1799, in this project of extraction, explore the various terrestrial stratifications through theatre, dance and performing arts in order to reflect upon the relationship between humans and nature in the Anthropocene age, the new geological era in which the equilibrium of our planet depends on the human behaviour. Between 2014 and 2015, as part of the “Migrant Bodies” project, Alessandro Sciarroni began to work on the concept of turning, starting from his observation of the natural phenomena of migrating animals which return to reproduce at the end of their lives, and die in the place where they were born.
The English word is literally interpreted and performed on stage, through the movement of bodies which revolve round their axis in an emotional psychophysical journey, in a lengthy dance, in the same way which turning also means evolving and changing.