Produttività potenziata. Edoardo Sanguineti e Luciano Berio, da "Esposizione" a "Laborintus II"

Abstract

In this essay, I consider the dynamics of collaboration and co-creation between Edoardo Sanguineti and Luciano Berio I examine how the ballet-performance Esposizione, considered by Berio as an aesthetic failure, was transformed, within a changed collaborative configuration, into Laborintus II. In fact, I claim that one of the prerequisites that fostered the aesthetic success of Laborintus II, refocusing the creative minds on an element absent from Esposizione, was precisely the intervention of the commissioners of the work at the ORTF, the French radio station, who on the occasion of Dante’s 700th birthday had asked Berio and Sanguineti for a work in homage to the poet of the Divina Commedia. By reusing the materials from Esposizione, but adding a dialogue with Dante to it, Berio and Sanguineti managed to convert failure into success. 

Keywords: co-creation, intermediality, intertextuality, Dante, Ann Halprin.