on stage with Femina on 15th of May, Spazio Rossellini
What is vertigo to you?
It is in time a spatial variable, it comes like an arrow, a spear, a bullet or a missile and projects us where we are not, perhaps into our innermost. It may be a good opportunity to cross this divide where it is not necessary to understand, and it is reasonable to let go.
What power does dance have to act the world?
Dance is poetry that engages action, outside the pattern of any narrative and requires the unparalleled talent of not wanting to understand everything. It has the ability, and the courage, to follow a path that goes nowhere. Feeling the thoughts of the body it generates body-words, gestures, bringing to light that which knocks in the dark. In the present it pierces the surface of time and shows us another world, or the world for what it is, and then dissolves it.
How is the concept of the feminine reworked in Femina and how can bodies on stage break stereotypes?
A certain culture stereotypes women, and bodies, which reveal stories that people might not be able to tell, mirror the social world. The female body is valued and observed as an object in social space, which is where we started with Femina. Through the intoxicating power of music (Dawn of Midi’s Dysnomia) between imitation, loss and the dissolution of the self, the performance is a dense exploration of the contemporary female universe in choreographic form.
Perhaps Femina carries with it the courage to reaffirm that the female still exists albeit alienated from the society that now calls her: non-man, fluid, no binary, and that the feminine is capable of regeneration even in this time when the late-modern self is increasingly exhausted and derealized.