{"id":22255,"date":"2026-04-23T13:36:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T11:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/norrlandsoperan.se\/forestallningar\/asteroid-marco-dagostin\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T09:15:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T07:15:29","slug":"asteroid-marco-dagostin","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/norrlandsoperan.se\/en\/programme\/asteroid-marco-dagostin\/","title":{"rendered":"Asteroid \u2013 Marco D\u2019Agostin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Geology, Romance, and Broadway Glamour<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

With his characteristic humor, Marco D\u2019Agostin steps onto the stage as a mysterious paleontologist who has come to talk about the sudden extinction of the dinosaurs. Quite unexpectedly, his academic lecture begins to give way to more sentimental reflections, his words and voice increasingly resemble song, and in a full-scale battle with Broadway, D\u2019Agostin brings to life an unprecedented duet that blends science and love, entertainment and information, life and death, dance and theater. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Geology and romanticism have one thing in common: they both seek to tell the story of how things last a long time. When the absurd hypothesis that an asteroid could have wiped out all the dinosaurs in an instant emerged, the scientific community was shocked in the 1980s. No one could accept a story that was so terribly fascinating yet at the same time far too improbable. It\u2019s much like someone who suddenly finds themselves without a lover. It\u2019s simply hard to accept that life can change course so suddenly and so cruelly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amid betrayal, dinosaur bones, and mysterious caves full of iridium,*Asteroid* depicts<\/em> life\u2019s\u2014and thus art\u2019s\u2014extraordinary ability to always reemerge in new forms without ever giving up. D\u2019Agostin invites us to a dizzying shift in perspective where we come to see these apocalypses as something that has already passed. We remain\u2014we living beings who, time and again, rebuild ourselves anew. Layer upon layer, our lives emerge like the fabric of the Earth\u2019s crust, where every biography becomes a small geological epoch, destined to leave its mark. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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About Marco D\u2019Agostin<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Marco D\u2019Agostin<\/strong> is an award-winning Italian choreographer and dancer whose work has been presented at leading venues and festivals in Europe and South America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his works, D\u2019Agostin explores the mechanisms of memory and the unique relationship between audience and performer. His dance language is a complex landscape where sound, words, and movement constantly meet and collide, creating an emotional bond between dancers and audience. He often draws on personal or collective archives, creating choreographic situations that encourage participation, recognition, and emotional resonance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

D\u2019Agostin was awarded the UBU Award<\/strong> <\/strong>for Best Performer Under 35 (2018)<\/strong> <\/strong>and Best Dance Performance in both 2023 and 2025<\/strong> \u2013 with *The Years*<\/em><\/strong> (2023)<\/strong> and Asteroid<\/em><\/strong> (2025)<\/strong>. He has also received the Riccione Special Prize<\/strong> for Dramaturgical Innovation (2023) and the Hystro Award Corpo a Corpo<\/strong> (2024), and is an associate artist at Piccolo Teatro in Milan<\/strong>.
<\/strong>D\u2019Agostin is a co-founder of the Italian production platform VAN<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s an authentic, original, and surprising one-man show. Entertaining, cultured, ironic, and refined\u2014for ninety minutes, he showcases all his artistic qualities with skillful precision and keeps surprising us the whole time.\u201d <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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