ATHLETES

Simona Bertozzi’s project between dance, sport and vocality that places at the center of research, and practice, the athletic gesture of a community of women, or who recognize themselves as women, as an act of resistance and, above all, transformative force.
Athletes brings together and interacts a group of female dancers, sportswomen or former competitive champions along with women of all ages and backgrounds. With them also a singer/vocal coach who, starting from the vocality proper to sports disciplines, builds a choral texture in which each woman present can also give body to her own voice.
All athletes of the gesture, brought together in a multifaceted and transversal exercise, whose degree of athleticism unfolds in the collective and performative process of the bodies, valuing an attitude of utmost care and attention to the different needs and modes of presence.

Athletes is structured in TERRITORIAL EVENTS that are always different and unique.
In each space/context/territory in which the project is hosted, an effort is made to involve female or former female athletes (preferably competitive) who wish to enact a form of transmission of their sporting practices, vocabulary and vocality that characterize them.
A call is also circulated for female citizens of all ages and backgrounds who wish to engage in an experience of sharing and practice on body language to the possibility of making it a collective dance, starting with sporting gestures but transformed by individual anatomical experience.
The community of female athletes and citizens, gathered on the territory, is also joined by the four dancers of the Company who follow the project in each of its stages and who, in addition to sharing the group experience, present in the different spaces and contexts, the choreographic frameworks structured on the suggestion of the mosaic of the Palestriti.
The singer/vocal coach, also part of the original core of the project together with the dancers, transforms the vocalities transmitted by the sportswomen involved into a choral texture to be expanded and made into a voice/singing exercise for all the women present, generating a sound and rhythmic body to relate to.

SPILLOVER TO THE TERRITORY
Involvement of:
-Area sports clubs
-Category sports associations and ASD Local sports clubs.
-Women/citizens and women’s communities in the area
-Circles and clubs
-Possible focus with girls and/or adolescents

ACTIONS
Athletes – Bologna – December 2023
Athletes – Paris – June 2024
Athletes – Perugia – July 2024
Athletes – Reggio Emilia – September 2024