hosted at Teatro Palladium on Feb. 18 with Fàtico
- The title of our season is “Vertigine”. What is vertiginous to you?
Vertigo is the emptiness before a creation, the feeling that I am about to learn a new language while I looking for an emotional and scientific alphabet to refer to. It is that feeling when I face a fall, because it is only during the fall that I realize I have some tools useful to keep me from shattering. For instance, I keep surprising myself that I can rely on my body. Sometimes despite being firmly anchored to the ground I seem to float between imaginations that shake me decisively and theoretical reflections with which I establish a kind of devotional dialogue in order to proceed with my writing.
- What power do dance practices have to change the imaginary and/or act the world?
Bringing one’s body in public spaces I hope can always be a choice and the ultimate power for all people. For those who practice dance as a job, I think it is more about the magical power of the body to recall directly those of the Witches before us, allowing to use our postures/positions as a tool of relationship, just within that world and among those beings in whose midst we act and stand.
- The relationship between body and personal archive is central to your work. How does your body return a material of memories to the stage and what relationship does it establish with vocal material?
The archive I refer to is actually an archive radically unrelated to what I consider the core of my person. At the same time, I recognize that a multitude of experiences surface in my body that can be returned through muscular contractions, projections of glances, geometric arrangements of limbs. Like books and resources that make up the personal encyclopedia of each of us. Every work that I took on stage continues to influence what will happen next, as in a kind of expanded dramaturgy, and in this movement the voice grounds the topology that from time to time is proposed to the audience, a space that always laces what is seen with what is studied, what is perceived with what is known, what causes pleasure with fatigue and sometimes bewilderment.