
Girls just wanna have…THEIR OWN BODY
EPIPHANĪA – Mi rendo manifesta by Antonella Bertoni and Michele Abbondanza is the heart of Dance Week, celebrating female creativity and the feminine universe.
Three dancers from the Compagnia Abbondanza/Bertoni lose themselves in a labyrinth of visual rooms, engaging in a meticulous exploration of the female body—between gender stereotypes and individual emancipation.
A true feminine manifesto.
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By Michele Abbondanza and Antonella Bertoni
Concept, set, and costumes: Antonella Bertoni
With Sara Cavalieri, Valentina Dal Mas, Ludovica Messina Poerio
Original music: Sergio Beercock
Lighting design: Alessio Guerra
Technical direction: Claudio Modugno
Creation assistant: Eleonora Chiocchini
Tailoring: Manuela Gober
Organisation, strategy, and development: Dalia Macii
Administration and executive production: Francesca Leonelli
Communication: Erika Parise
Press office: Marilù Ursi
Production: Compagnia Abbondanza/Bertoni
Special thanks to Danio Manfredini
Additional thanks to Andrea Palamidese
“Like shadows of life, on a battlefield, the three dancers—suspended souls, poised in lucid sleepwalking—reveal themselves through visible and hidden layers in a symphony of actions that unfolds
like a forest of signs and meanings.
They are portraits suspended between identity display and visual exuberance. A carnal femininity, yet detached from the absolute protagonism of human matter, leaving room for the immaterial.
The subject becomes object, and only then is its sovereign status recognised.
Along the thread of detail and particularity, we brush traces, clots, and transparencies, disarticulating the sense that details embody within life.
Gesture points and suggests without stating—an expression of an almost pictorial thought, unsettling and charged with emotional intensity.
The dramaturgy concentrates on micro-moments; within an apparent chaos, it unfolds in chapters of an exploded book.
Appearances and disappearances, as if within a spatial trap, in a black that is the colour in which everything is generated—the colour from which we come into the world and to which we will return.
A non-place that is a room, a labyrinth of rooms dissolving into one another, an entire house, the world; hyper-frames that function through images and feed on pauses.”
— Antonella Bertoni
“Three women deep in my heart came to me.
A room of one’s own—the women’s corner. Scalene: needless to say. A testing box of total negation of secure grounding in space, where the female body manifests itself in an unconditional, shameless surrender to perspectival dystopia.
Women in pieces and pieces of women, inside a box of arts that—like a single organism—breathes, reproduces, and collapses: the disarmed creativity of bodies returned, in the end, becomes its sign.
From the trinity to the one, and from the one to a thousand feminine forms—far from flat, rich instead with folds and pleats that, like a pin-cushion, pierce the scene. Blade-bodies, glimmers, and coquetries compose a texture of appearance in which the warp becomes an act of seeing and fixing a first point—a cross-stitch, naturally—of beginning and stumbling, held together by a single thread of glory.
Now that women discover that man is no longer God, we hallucinate here an ideal recomposition of their scattered pieces.”
“Three women deep in my heart came to me: thanks to the generosity and unconditional trust of Valentina, Ludovica, and Sara.”
— Michele Abbondanza
Michele Abbondanza and Antonella Bertoni. From their New York experience at Alwin Nikolais’s school to their studies in France with Dominique Dupuy, passing through the “poetic” improvisations of Carolyn Carlson and the study and practice of Zen, Michele Abbondanza (co-founder of Sosta Palmizi and lecturer at the Scuola di Teatro del Piccolo di Milano) and Antonella Bertoni founded Compagnia Abbondanza/Bertoni. The company is recognised as one of the most prolific artistic realities on the Italian scene, for its creations, its educational and pedagogical activity, and its contribution to the dissemination of contemporary dance theatre.
Compagnia Abbondanza/Bertoni is in residence at Teatro alla Cartiera di Rovereto (Trento, Italy) and is supported by:
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Ministero della Cultura – Directorate-General for Live Performing Arts
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Comune di Rovereto, Department of Culture
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Provincia autonoma di Trento, Cultural Activities Service
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Regione autonoma Trentino-Alto Adige
TICKETS
Full price: €10
Reduced price (under 30, dance schools, Liceo Coreutico Matilde di Canossa, over 65, CRAL Comune di Reggio Emilia members): €6
Reduced price (under 8): €3
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.
CONTACTS
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