La ragazza indicibile

Freely adapted from La ragazza indicibile by Giorgio Agamben, Monica Ferrando

Virgilio Sieni

Teatro Storchi, Modena

22/10/2011 ,  21:00  

Choreography and direction Virgilio Sieni
Original music Francesco Giomi
Costumes Laura Dondoli
Theatre sceneries Chiara Occhini
Light Giovanni Berti, Virgilio Sieni
Performers Ramona Caia, Xaro Campo Moreno, Marta Capaccioli, Eloise Dechemin, Aurore Indaburu, Claire Indaburu
Production Torinodanza, Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione, Compagnia Virgilio Sieni
Supported by Ministero per i Beni e le Attività culturali, Regione Toscana, Comune di Firenze

Running time 1h

The show starts from the reflexions about the myth of Persefone-Kore, developed from Giorgio Agamben in the essay "La ragazza indicibile".
A work focused on the female soul, the ancestral myth of the woman.
Giorgio Agamben’s idea starts from the myth of Kore, a girl kidnapped by Hades, an afterworld god, who brought her into netherworld to marry her against her will, and she is identified in pagan cult as the season marker goddess.
A journey into myths linked to female soul getting to contemporary vision.
Kore is the icon of that unutterable (“indicibile”) that belongs to secrets revealed to initiates, truths unutterable with prepositions, with logos, she represents the supreme knowledge and the mysterious vision, and so she is, with that, "indicibile".
Kore is the “divine girl” and figure’s open-endedness leads to delete the gap between woman and child, virgin and mother, animal and human, human and divine.

Six dancers look at the way of listening trying to gain silence from the words of images. They are at the same time children and elderly people, delicate and contracted, vital strenght that doesn't hesitate to be clownish in this dancing away the body gestures. They overcome the boundaries of mutism, touching themselves, applying themselves playing with each other to lighten the space, at the empty game that supply blood and energy to the human being.
I will try here to go back to primitive dance, like an interior poetic corpus watching our time with the endless glee of the origin and the realisation of the dynamic figure between intimacy and the other.
Everything is searching a shift between gesture creation and the loss of it.
The plot brings facts back to the body like a silent dialogue: shapes come out, and the forms, the pictures, the physical declinations and the dynamics that hint at too, and, at last, they become phrasal dancing, played by a caesurae score.
these caesurae represent the threshold where the women give themselves to dancing, organising a choreographed touching that recalls to instincts, to catch the echo with the other, to be an intermediary of a living of the skin.
Living choreography as loss and birth, lighting of intuition organised in movements doomed to disappear but rich of intimacy, of a primitive behaviour far from the daily way of life, of a dialogue through gestures that takes from the other the little sensations that blow up in the movement.
Together, the six dancers build their secret that appears in every moment for what it really is: a body that is given to the dynamism of cells that transmit to each other the declinations of intuition in the dynamic form.

Virgilio Sieni

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Virgilio Sieni

Born in Florence, Virgilio Sieni received his training in Amsterdam, New York and Tokyo. He has been a leading figure in Italian contemporary dance since the early 80s. His most recent work include the Lucretius trilogy (La natura delle cose, Oro and Ultimo giorno per noi) and Tristi Tropici. In 2007 Virgilio Sieni founded the Art of Gesture Academy, at the Cantieri Goldonetta in Oltrarno Fiorentino: an innovative context aimed at the transmission of artistic practices.

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