POPoff describes human most ancient traditions and rituals, showing a tribe that moves at the frantic rhythms of pizzica and taranta, where the people explore on their own the environment and the others.

Food plays a central role in the pièce, being a double metaphor of the ground and the social ritual of the meal. Food marks our days and introduces us to the daily life relationships, as the wheat, ancient symbol of rebirth and fertility, becomes the common thread which weaves the relationships between the characters and Nature and, at the same time, represents a death trap for the man who goes into.

A matriarchal history is outlined on these coordinates. The woman assumes, overturning the initial situation, a prevailing position with respect to the man, immersed in a sort of family rite in which the “females” find themselves recalling but also reproaching the events related to their personal history.

The performance sees the collaboration with Faraualla, a famous polyphonic quartet from Puglia, with which it brings to the stage a fusion of live music and dance.

The Faraualla vocal quartet was born in 1995, from the will of the four singers, united by an interest in research on the use of the voice as an “instrument”, through the practice of polyphony and the knowledge of the vocal expressions of different ethnic groups and different historical periods. The suggestions of a journey through cultures that are so distant from each other merge into an original synthesis in which the cultural roots of the group forcefully emerge. Puglia is present in the “sound” that characterizes the band from Bari, in the instruments that accompany the performance, in the very name of the group.

Lost Movement therefore presents a dual proposal in the stage creation of POPoff, which can be performed with or without live music.