Flavia Dalila D’Amico: In music In Levare is placing the accent on a weak note, that relieves us for a moment from a continuous beat. In Levare, however, is also to rebel, to rise up together. For your vocation and artistic research, do you find yourself more in the first or in the second definition? What does ‘In Levare’ refer you to?
Michela Lucenti: Creating “in levare” is what allows me to work with others, with the group, take breath together and then “beat” in the ‘unison of meaning. We create in community to speak to a temporary community that is the audience of the live performance. Breathing together for the ‘actualization of the ritual, the weak note serves to prepare for the ‘action.
Flavia Dalila D’Amico: How did you translate Charles Baudelaire’s The Flowers of Evil into a physical score, is what is today’s evil from which you propose to bring forth flowers?
Michela Lucenti: Flowers of Evil contains an extraordinary physical score, rich in characters, places, relationships. Our work has been embodying a poetic and narrative thought. Our performance is titled Les Fleurs we do not want to talk about evil, but about complexity. We tell about the cities around us, we make Flowers the last, something forgotten.
Flavia Dalila D’Amico: Can you tell us what you will be working on during the creative process of Giocasta?
Michela Lucenti: My new work on Giocasta is about the story that precedes the great plots of classical tragedies. I investigate Giocasta’s “passion.” Starting with an ‘antecedent, I focus on her relationship with Oedipus. I start from a meticulous physical score in relation to composer Thybaud Monterisi and the text. An ancient and modern tragedy of a woman alone grappling with History.