Girls just wanna have… PLEASURE
Giorgia Lolli’s open rehearsal kicks off Dance Week, celebrating female creativity.
Can pleasure be a driving force in creation? Giorgia Lolli’s new project is a tribute to Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, a feminist artist and the “mother” of Dadaism.
By Giorgia Lolli
With Vittoria Caneva, Elena Grappi, Maria Chiara Vitti, Giorgia Lolli
Costumes Eva-Liis Lidenburg, Sara Lando (tiger)
Sound Sebastian Kurtén
Dramaturgy Piero Ramella
Production: Nexus Factory
with the contribution of the Ministero della Cultura, Regione Emilia-Romagna, Comune di Bologna
with the support of supportER – Rete Anticorpi Emilia-Romagna, Nouveau Grand Tour 2024 (Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Parigi and Le Gymnase CNDC), Ira Institute, Operaestate / CSC Centro di Residenza del Veneto – Vene.Re, Piemonte dal Vivo within the Residenze Coreografiche Lavanderie a Vapore project, I Teatri di Reggio Emilia, Dance Gallery Perugia (HOME 2025), City of Espoo Culture Committee, Graner (Barcelona)
within LANDING, a project supported by the Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale and produced by Santarcangelo Festival, in collaboration with and supported by the Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Oslo
artistic residency presented within the R.O.M. – Residencies On the Move network for the Reykjavik Dance Festival, by invitation of Santarcangelo Festival, in partnership with La Balsamine (Belgium), le joli collectif – Théâtre l’Aire Libre (France), Théâtre Prospero and Théâtre Periscope (Canada)
the R.O.M. network is supported by the European Union through the Creative Europe programme, the Conseil des arts de Montréal, and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.
BODY SWEATS is a tribute to Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874–1927), poet and avant-garde artist, pioneer of the Dada movement. The title is drawn from her collection of poems of the same name—an erotic and proto-punk manifesto.
Dance, lecture performance, poetry reading, workout: sweat becomes a pathway to explore the intertwining of effort and pleasure, the binding force of a heterogeneous collage of danced and textual materials. Love letters between friends and lovers. Waterless gymnastics in tiger-print leotards. A poem for the Baroness. A split dedicated to her. Dada(umpa).
My interest in her writings—bold and long overlooked—stems from their ability to weave subtexts into her poetry, particularly around female eroticism. A proto-punk, neurotic, kleptomaniac, and man-hunter, the Baroness left behind a legacy that paved the way for the eccentric divas of the 21st century (from Courtney Love to Lady Gaga).
Borrowing the title of her only poetry collection, BODY SWEATS, I imagine a choreography that seeps from bodily materiality. From this perspective, sweat becomes both a trace and a stimulus for investigating the interweaving of effort, pleasure, and empowerment. The project explores our relationship with systems of discipline—especially rich in subtext when viewed through the backgrounds of dancers, ranging from ballet to aqua gym and fitness culture. In the studio, the work revisits these familiar movement languages from a feminist “I,” reflecting on how their meaning can be rewritten through practice itself.
Giorgia Lolli
Giorgia Lolli (Reggio Emilia, 1996) earned a Master’s degree in Choreography from University of the Arts Helsinki (Uniarts) in 2025 and, over the past three years, has worked between Italy and Finland. Since 2022, she has been teaching Dance Well – Movement Research for Parkinson’s within the European project coordinated by Operaestate.
Her choreographic work has been presented on several national and international platforms, including Anghiari Dance Hub (2020), Vetrina della Giovane Danza d’Autore (2021), SIAE Per Chi Crea (2023), Nuovo Forno del Pane (2023), and MAMbo – Museo di Arte Moderna di Bologna.
With EAT ME, winner of DNAppunti Coreografici, she made her debut at the Romaeuropa Festival in 2024.
TICKETS
€3 for all / free admission for children under 6
TICKET PURCHASE
Tickets can be purchased online at www.biglietteriafonderia39.it.
The box office at Fonderia opens one hour before the start of the performance.
Tickets are unnumbered.
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