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Madame Butterfly, la farlalla che smette di volare, ad Asti a Novembre
Cio-Cio-San, ossia Madame Butterfly, rappresenta uno di quei personaggi tragici e volutamente rassegnati nei cui panni la Storia ha voluto spesso imbrigliare donne troppo cieche, innamorate o ingenue per accorgersi della miseria di una realtà non cercata. Certamente non stupisce se il ruolo nell´opera spetta a una Geisha quindicenne, incapace di avvedersi che il ´suo´
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Goliath in the Water
Seen at Edinburgh Festival Fringe on the 24th of August 2019 Review by Federica Balbi – Sweet magic A woman and two men dance in a suspended atmosphere. They find a hundred ways of swimming without water. They get close to the art of miming to tell their story of life and loss.
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Hearty
Seen at Edinburgh Festival Fringe on the 23rd of August 2019 Review by Federica Balbi – Trans-power Iron wings with knives instead of feathers, and a long straight light-pink tale. This is the creature who moves on scene, this is the creature who fights for existing. A shelter is slowly built out of
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Unicorns, Almost
Seen at Edinburgh Festival Fringe on the 23rd of August 2019 Review by Federica Balbi – Sepia poetry Three weeks gone and the combatants gone returning over the nightmare ground we found the place again, and found the soldier sprawling in the sun. […] An homage to Keith Douglas, Unicorns,
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Taboo
Seen at Edinburgh Festival Fringe on the 22nd of August 2019 Review by Federica Balbi – Interesting story Most people ignore who Käthe Petersen was – who she really was. Even her Wikipedia page is extremely synthetic, and not exhaustive at all. In Taboo, a fictional talk show where it is talked about ʻthings
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From the Top
Seen at Edinburgh Festival Fringe on the 21st of August 2019 Review by Federica Balbi – Skilled and ironic Dance is power, in every sense. In From the Top, this is very clear: power is in the precise movements of the dancers, power is what is contended between the two of them,
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Floating Flowers
Seen at Edinburgh Festival Fringe on the 21st of August 2019 Review by Federica Balbi – Aerial blossoming 02Floating Flowers @Chou Mo If flying lanterns were floating flowers and floating flowers were humans, how would they dance? Inspired by a Taiwan’s Buddhist ceremony, this performance is a mesmerising encounter between ritual tradition
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Looping: Scotland Overdub
Seen at Edinburgh Festival Fringe on the 20th of August 2019 Review by Federica Balbi – Interesting experience Looping: Scotland Overdub brings audience participation to the next level. It is the dance of a community, between tradition and innovation. An impacting performance with a strong political message. No seats are to be taken
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Everything I See I Swallow
Seen at Edinburgh Festival Fringe on the 23rd of August 2019 Review by Federica Balbi – ʻBoundʼ to be critical A young woman, almost naked, hangs from the ceiling – the rope like lace draws diamonds around her chest and her leg. With this powerful image begins a show, which is to touch several
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Gone Full Havisham
Seen at Edinburgh Festival Fringe on the 20th August 2019 Review by Federica Balbi – Dramatic intensity A young Miss Havisham: orphan, cultured, about to get married… Emily’s normal life is suspended; she disappears, and her story becomes the one she tells through social media. She talks to her followers still keeping on her
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