CCC is a trilogy by TPO dedicated to the poetics of gardens and to dance.
The project is composed of three shows:
the Japanese Garden, the Painted Garden and the Italian Garden,
all of which realized using the ccc sensitive carpet [children cheering carpet].


The Italian garden is a place of wonders and represents the ideal of harmony typical of Renaissance culture. The aim of its beauty could simply be interpreted as entertainment for aristocrats, but the delight enhanced in the visitor reveals wider plans. It is the dream of a poet who imagines a miniature world for the pleasure of body and soul and realizes it together with architects and gardeners through a refined play of allegories and perspectives. Its labyrinths and box parterres, its statues, its floral arrangements, its waves, polychromatic stones and most hidden retreats tell stories, whisper songs and immerse us inside a dream. This is a stage where an architect, a poet and a gardener create a kind of dramaturgy of the eye, where the spectator enjoys getting lost and finding her/his way again as if she/he were living inside an imaginary poem. Here nature is called to fulfil an intimate wish, enjoyable and at the same time celebratory, where the absolute protagonists are beauty and the art of representing feelings through space and the shapes that nature can invent through the able hand of the gardener. In the show, two dancers accompany the audience into five different environments-the shade garden, the labyrinth, the ‘verzura' garden, the night garden, the water garden- and introduce us to the wonders of a hidden world. Their dancing in the grass, their interacting with the classical geometries of the Italian garden, creates several little entr'actes where characters move like playful puttos. The public (children and adults) will be able to enter and play inside this ‘sensitive garden', composed of a white dance floor onto which animated images get projected.

CCC system
The relationship with the graphic and sound elements has been made interactive thanks to the “CCC” (children cheering carpet) technology, based on a grid composed of 63 pressure sensors located under the carpet and connected to the videoprojection and sound systems via computers.