17 JUNE h 10.00 pm

CHIOSTRO DEGLI OLIVETANI

MOTUS

OF THE NIGHTNGALE I ENVY THE FATE dell'usignolo invidio la sorte

idea and directio Daniela Nicolò, Enrico Casagrande
with Stefania Tansini
dramaturgy Daniela Nicolò - live sound design Enrico Casagrande - soundscapes Demetrio Cecchitelli
light design and technical direction Theo Longuemare - music track R.Y.F. (Francesca Morello) -  latex props _vvxxii - dress Boboutic Firenze
a Motus production with TPE / Festival delle Colline Torinesi

For those of us who live at the shoreline

standing upon the constant edges of decision

crucial and alone

(Audre Lorde, A Litany for Survival)

To the animal sphere, the uncivilised, the wild, is traced Cassandra’s talent as prophetess. In the Oresteia, the coryphaeus compares her incomprehensible lament to the song of a nightingale: from the response of the “unheard young woman” comes the title of this performance-cry, where Cassandra’s battle is evoked by the body-voice of Stefania Tansini in the moments before her unfair killing as a slave/adulteress and ξένη/foreigner. A shamanic rite in which the stereotypical feminine fragility and her fiery spirit of vengeance merge, the funereal visions of the future, like animal prowess, the elegance of the gesture and the fluttering of the eyelashes – a nightingale hybridised by tropical feathers that refracts in an altered space – in dialogue with a mobile light (from beyond the world?) that chases and challenges her. Its language also oscillates, fluidly, between lucidity and animal mimicry that makes it shrill, obstinate and sweet. After the journey to the underworld, she returns to the surface transformed and nourished by the serpentine larvae of the earth, the light feathers gone, she emerges head down ready to continue, because once again, we were not meant to survive, as a fighter/Cassandra like Audre Lorde writes.

Motus was born in Rimini in 1991 by Enrico Casagrande and Daniela Nicolò, producing since the foundation shows capable of telling the harshest contradictions of the present. The company's work, made up of theatre, performances, installations, seminars and workshops is presented in Europe and all over the world. The directors of the company were artistic directors of the pandemic fiftieth anniversary of Santarcangelo Festival and curate Supernova, an exhibition of contemporary performing art in Rimini.

 
duration 45‘

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FESTIVAL OPERA PRIMA - XIX EDITION