C’è vita su Venere – Abbondanza/Bertoni Company – ph. Tobia Abbondanza
Compagnia Abbondanza/Bertoni, one of the most prolific companies on the Italian scene for its creations and for the diffusion of contemporary dance theater, presents a show that sees the return on stage of Antonella Bertoni.
C’è vita su Venere is a solo that investigates the diversity of the body, particularly the female body and its evolution with age and time. A journey on Venus, where gravity is dense, where in its slow going the body will reveal itself in a final metamorphosis.
Two perfomances: at 7.00 p.m and 9.00 p.m
C’È VITA SU VENERE
By Michele Abbondanza and Antonella Bertoni
With Antonella Bertoni
Lights Andrea Gentili
Sound elaborations Orlando Cainelli
Technical Claudio Modugno
Mask and props Nadezhda Simenova
Dress Chiara Defant
Organization, strategy and development Dalia Macii
Administration and coordination Francesca Leonelli
Press office Susanna Caldonazzi
Communication Francesca Venezia
Photos Tobia Abbondanza
I had long been away from the scene, (pandemic outcomes aside) shyly listening to and respecting the transformations that age digs into my body.
Passing years in which I hesitated to take the step of taking steps to make a transition: to show myself.
Then perhaps the very special moment we are living in prompted me, as if instinctively, to re-engage in a practice that I know well and yet feel new. A practice, physical and otherwise, that was immediately sensitive to a vocation I felt in me primary: yearning for the moment of encounter, of the “moving” of making theater.
And in doing so, I could not disregard a strongly personal marker: persona, that is, literally “the mask of a character (actor),” which I have tried, and I still do not know if vainly, to peel off my face. Thus I landed on another planet, finding there an infinity of life and other lives. Of all of them it would have been worth telling and dancing the contours: I went through only and curiously some of them convinced that no woman is “every woman”. I did it with the form that this present time has given me and gives me: silver, oak and Venus.
This me being, this me being is the only way I feel the ephemerality that sops us up fade a little.
I am here in one piece.
Mammal agèe,
slow,
knotted doing,
smelling of interlocking.
Alone and double,
Still as the water of a trembling stream, always.
