Superstite

concept and choreography Lucia Guarino
dance Lucia Guarino
light and space Gianni Staropoli
music Stefano Pilia
dramaconsulting Emma Tramontana
costumes Hilary Bockham
duration 45 min

organization, administration Nexus Factory
with the contribution of the Ministry of Culture, Emilia-Romagna Region, Municipality of Bologna
support artistic residency CURA umbrian center artistic residencies, Spazio Zut, KilowattFestival – Kilowatt All Year Round, Home choreographic creation center, Strabismi
special thanks to Cinzia Sità, Luca Del Pia, Lorenzo Letizia, Paolo Pinaglia, Futura Tittaferrante, Micheangelo Bellani

duration: 40 minutes

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Superstite is a reflection on what remains after a mutation, a change, and takes on a history that at times appears faded or mutilated. A body alone explores the infinite declinations of the “emptiness that remains.” The fragment is not dross, quite the opposite. Small part that tells you about a possible “whole” of a possible wholeness that opens to the imagination of a hidden time and a possible diversity. What moves the missing part? What boundaries and forms does it try to redraw? The surviving body narrates an emptiness and both itself and the viewer are enveloped in a continuous movement of inquiry into this lack. A choreographic action where movement, the medium of life, stands in relation to a larger dynamic that belongs to the constant instability and precariousness of the state of survival. And it is precisely in this tending to believe, to cross over, to open the body to the void, to the unknown space, that dance appears. Mysterious movement, present in intensity and quality, living in that limit between specificity, form, posture, space, time. A continuous readjustment of the body in the void, true living space, as a tension to a possible being.

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