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EAT ME

Concept and choreography: Giorgia Lolli
Co-creation and performance: Sophie Claire Annen and Giorgia Lolli
Sound design: Sebastian Kurtén
Costume design: Suvi Kajas
Light design: Elena Vastano
Light technician: Victoria De Campora

Winner of DNAppunti Coregrafici 2023, call promoted by Romaeuropa Festival, Triennale Milano Teatro, Gender Bender International Festival, Operaestate Festival Veneto, L’arboreto – Teatro Dimora, Centro Nazionale di Produzione della Danza Virgilio Sieni.

Developed in the frame of Nuovo Forno del Pane Outdoor Edition, residency project curated by MAMbo – Museo di Arte Moderna di Bologna.

Production: Anghiari Dance Hub, Nexus Factory.

With the support of: Padova Festival Internazionale La Sfera Danza, Fondazione Svizzera degli Artisti Interpreti (SIS), Boarding Pass Plus Dance (Santarcangelo Festival)​, Aalto University (Helsinki), MiC Italian Ministry of Culture, Regione Emilia-Romagna, Comune di Bologna.

EAT ME is featured in the “Aerowaves also recommends 2026” list.

Starting from a fascination for the Italian expression mangiare con gli occhi (literally: “eating with the eyes”, to desire, to crave), the creation aims at questioning the way the body is observed. EAT ME begun as a reflection on the portrayal of female bodies in visual arts and the consumption of images. Lying down and facing back, the choreographic score passes through an archive of historically charged yet ever-contemporary everyday gestures – tracing a leg, fixing one’s hair. Blatantly frontal but hidden images serve as an invitation to investigate the dynamics and politics of the gaze in the relationship between spectator and performer.

The continuous denial of satisfying the desire to see, finally, and—with the act of seeing—to conquer, leads the viewer into the abyss of movements limited to a foot, a wrist, overlapping legs sliding over each other, jolts as absolute as the actions of an animal, without hesitation, soft and decisive and, because of this ambiguity, elusive. read more…

Viviana Raciti

Through an ambiguous and powerful imagery where the female body is both subject and object, she offers a reflection on the condition of the female body, observed and portrayed, but also capable of reworking and subverting its own image through gestures of everyday emancipation. read more…

Francesca Giuliani

The observed body enjoys the captivation it imposes, in a continuous game of showing and hiding, whose sole purpose is to be looked at again and again. The essence of dance is the gaze. If it could speak to the audience, perhaps it would say: consume your own gaze. read more…

Vincenzo Carboni

There is no face, only pieces of flesh abandoned to themselves, which seem to vibrate with a life of their own in the constant but ever-changing repetition of small actions that invite the audience to feast their eyes on thighs, buttocks, and backs. read more…

Anna Battistella

Interview for FOG Festival: The performers in Eat me try to “free themselves from the floor”, to remove themselves from a crushing horizontality, that seems actually to be caused by the gaze of others. It made me think of Leonor Fini’s painting of a man lying asleep with an elegantly dressed woman sitting comfortably on top of him. read full interview…

Ludovica Taurisano