The third appointment of “Move Off”, the international contemporary dance festival organized by Motus in collaboration with the Municipality of Castelnuovo Berardenga and with the support of ChiantiBanca, hosts the show on 12 May, at 9pm, at the Teatro Alfieri in Castelnuovo Berardenga, on the Bologna massacre Lacuna by the Marcozzi Contemporary Theater company (Germany) created in collaboration with the Expedition Metropolis Theater in Berlin and the production center for the independent theater Theaterhaus Berlin Mitte.
Between 2015 and 2019 the choreographer, performer, director, trainer and researcher Daniela Marcozzi, of Bolognese origins, created the “Trilogy of power” in Berlin. It is a progression of shows of an autobiographical nature, of which the second chapter is precisely Lacuna, a work successfully presented in various cities around the world, including New York, New Orleans and Berlin itself and created with the artistic support of Peter Rose/Practical Works and dramaturgical support from Christina Kyriazidi.
The Lacuna show is inspired by the Bologna massacre which occurred due to a terrorist attack on 2 August 1980 with a bomb, placed in the waiting room of the central station, which killed 85 people and injured 200.
Daniela Marcozzi’s father, a railway engineer, should have been at the station at the very moment of the explosion, if it hadn’t been for a fortuitous delay that saved his life.
“Why does the Italian government create a memorial for the victims of an attack – asks Marcozzi – if at the same time it maintains state secrecy? What does the term state secret really mean? Where does the state hide that information? In a computer? In a person’s body?”
Lacuna explores the influence that political power has on the individual, on his physiology and psychology, on his entire existence. Far from the need to explain the attack or to claim one truth or another, Lacuna hinges on the idea that, just as a thought needs a body to inhabit in order to exist, a secret needs to be erased by the body it inhabits to be maintained.
The second part of the evening hosts the Atacama Company (Italy/Chile) directed by Patrizia Cavola and Ivan Truol which brings to the stage Io,Lei,Me, a solo performed by the dancer Valeria Baresi.
A woman, with her face hidden by a tin box, dances to Patrizia Hartman’s interrupted syllables: a sobbing interpretation of hidden femininity, trapped but evoked in every single movement.
In the silence, the box is abandoned in a corner and the dancer begins a process of self-discovery, in a grotesque but moving passage through the different facets of the human being, made explicit by a refined union of onomatopoeic sounds and gestures representative.
The next double appointment of Move Off at the Alfieri Theater is on May 23rd with the Petranuradanza Company (Italy) and with the Spanish L. Montes and M. Dallery, winners of the Move Off call for young choreographers.
The entrance ticket is €12.00 (reduced €10.00).
For information and reservations you can contact the number 0577 286980 (from Monday to Friday, from 3.00 pm to 7.00 pm) or send an email to [email protected].
