Sometimes our usual and seemingly unimportant tools on stage become extraordinary tools, and the concept of normality is multidimensional and relative. This is what happens in the performance “Work” of the Italian art virtuoso Claudio Stellato, whose performance is included in the list of 10 recommended performances of the Avignon Festival. Nails, some wood and paint, few tools and everyday gesture which seem to be unimportant, revisited and transformed in a fantastic construction site. Physical efforts are pushed to the limit of exhaustion which sometimes lead to an absurd result. With his third creation, Claudio Stellato goes into his research between body and matter in depth.

Claudio Stellato is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in Brussels. He first trained as a jazz musician at the Scuola Civica Jazz in Milan while working on street theatre. He then travelled and trained for several years in theatre and circus in different countries before entering Le Lido, Centre for Circus Arts in Toulouse in 2001. Besides his own projects, he organises workshops and provides external advice on peer productions, collaborates with several theatre and dance artists and choreographers and also takes part in the Circus Next jury.