Eufemia

Concept and choreography: Giorgia Lolli
Co-creation and performance: Sophie Claire Annen, Vittoria Caneva, Giorgia Lolli

Winner of Bando Abitante – Centro Nazionale di Produzione della Danza Virgilio Sieni and Fondazione CR Firenze.

Selected for Vetrina della Giovane Danza d’Autore 2021 – Network Anticorpi XL.

Production: Anghiari Dance Hub 2020

With the support of: SdFactory Laboratorio Creativo (Reggio Emilia, IT) and blueFACTORY (Fribourg, CH).

Eufemia, from Greek (she) who speaks well, well-spoken of, is a creation for three dancers and a typewriter that explores the themes of communication and identity from a feminine perspective. It is Giorgia Lolli’s first creation as a maker and it’s inspired by theories of sex positivity and radical softness, with an autobiographical touch from the proudly all-women collaborating team. A non-romantic vision of romanticism meets a nostalgia for never-experienced times. On stage, a non-romantic vision of Romanticism meets a nostalgia for eras never lived. By furnishing the rooms of a utopian world, the performers build – between the abstract and the concrete – a dimension in which everything becomes both subject and frame. They cultivate an “imperfectionism” free of approximation, opening up new possible viewpoints and oversights. Eufemia: heavenly, moody, eloquent, intimate, sophisticated, light-hearted. She is all you decide her to be.

A femininity enters through the front door, waiting to be discovered and perhaps perfected in the presence of things and eyes, of the mind that intends to define them. Reality is three-dimensional; in a word, it is ineffable. Eufemia speaks, Eufemia endures words, Eufemia is. read more…

Giusi Arimatea

There is not just one story in that typewriter, and among those games with an Adidas sock, but many. And many more are created after the confrontation with the viewer who seeks their own story there. Each of us finds our own Eufemia in the show, or finds ourselves directly in Eufemia. read more

Emanuela Giorgianni

The word, which is a graphic sign where each letter is linked to the other by invisible connections, becomes typewritten writing and transforms into body language. The refined density with which the bodies dance precisely and punctually never satisfies the eye; the intertwining of contacts and glances continually redefines the relationship between the three dancers, who express themselves with attitudes that remind us of childhood games and suggest a pleasant, intimate, and sensual dimension. read more

Matilde Cortivo

From choreography frozen in precious moments to theatricality that explodes when the performer sits on the edge of the stage. From the refinement of a mechanical relic of Italian industrial greatness to the pop of Elvis’s most saccharine and warmest refrains. Continuous shifts, hooks, surprise engagements or traces of empathy, in a crossover game that mixes languages and forces the viewer to strive to find meaning, coherence, openness, and satisfaction. Which is what they will then take home with them. read more