Of the Nightingale I Envy the Fate – av Motus [IT]

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Of the Nightingale I Envy The Fate – en poetisk föreställning som utforskar frågor om sorg, förlust och det mänskliga tillståndet.

For those of us who live at the shoreline standing upon the constant edges of decision crucial and alone. 

(Audre Lorde, A Litany for Survival) 

To the animal sphere, the uncivilised, the wild, is traced Cassandra’s talent as prophetess. In the Oresteia, the coryphaeus compares her incomprehensible lament to the song of a nightingale: from the response of the ”unheard young woman” comes the title of this performance-cry, where Cassandra’s battle is evoked by the body- voice of Stefania Tansini in the moments before her unfair killing as a slave/adulteress and ξένη/foreigner. A shamanic rite in which the stereotypical feminine fragility and her fiery spirit of vengeance merge, the funereal visions of the future, like animal prowess, the elegance of the gesture and the fluttering of the eyelashes – a nightingale hybridised by tropical feathers that refracts in an altered space – in dialogue with a mobile light (from beyond the world?) that chases and challenges her.

Idea and direction: Nicolò, Enrico Casagrande with Stefania Tansini

Dramaturgy: Daniela Nicolò

Live sound design: Enrico Casagrande

Soundscapes: Demetrio Cecchitelli

Technical direction and Light design: Theo Longuemare

Music track: R.Y.F. (Francesca Morello)

Latex props: _vvxxii

Dress Boboutic: Firenze

Assistant costume and set designer: Susana Botero

Illustrations: Lilsis.art

Graphics: Federico Magli

Video: Vladimir Bertozzi

Production: Francesca Raimondi

Organization and logistics: Shaila Chenet

Communication: Dea Vodopi

Promotion: Ilaria Depari

Press office: comunicattive.it

International distribution: Lisa Gilardino

A Motus production with TPE / Festival delle Colline Torinesi

Artistic residencies hosted by Lavanderie a vapore Torino, Centro nazionale di produzione della danza Virgilio Sieni, AMAT Marche

In collaboration with: Regione Emilia-Romagna and ATER Fondazione

With the support of MiC, Regione Emilia-Romagna

Duration: 45 minutes