Concept, creation, interpretation: Lucia Guarino and Ilenia Romano

Light: Gianni Staropoli

Music: AA.VV.

Sound editing: Leonardi Pucci

Video: Lorenzo Letizia

With the administrative support of: Nexus Factory

With the contribution of the Ministry of Culture, Emilia-Romagna Region, Municipality of Bologna

With the artistic residency support of: CURA centro umbro artistic residency, Spazio ZUT, Teatri di Vetro-Triangolo Scaleno, Home-Centro umbro artistic residency.

duration: 40 minutes

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One does not live in a neutral, white space. One lives, dies, and loves in a square, cropped, variegated space, with bright and dark areas, unevennesses, steps, depressions and humpiness, with some regions hard and others brittle, penetrable, porous.

[ Michel Foucault ]

SOMEWHERE was born from a reflection on how the spaces in which we live condition human relationships and how much, some of them can intensify bodies’ sense of loneliness and their possible relational voids. Starting from a research on heterotopias-non-places we asked ourselves what happens to us and what mechanisms of relationship we put in place when we find ourselves connected in these spaces, which today by their characteristics feed alienation, individualism, speed, desolation, depersonalization, noise. We are parallel existences that sometimes deviate intersecting in actual or illusory encounters, perceiving the Other from our own inner boundary. Inevitably they attract each other and come to relate between the visible and the invisible. They let themselves be “touched” by a glance, they exchange the rhythm of steps but not the personal existing real and imaginary path. They re-construct a common language with imperfect choruses, living gestures from the fragile balance between resonances and differences. They seek new paths. They reach so many everywhere and so many nowhere losing themselves between shadowy cracks and expanses of light, following a time out of time. Where Are They?

SOMEWHERE is meant to be a statement of hope that I and the Other, monads in the same system, can recognize each other, find each other and welcome each other, anywhere… somewhere.

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