dance by and with: Kea Tonetti
light design: Fausto Bonvini
costumes: Lucia La Polla and Brigitte Bergandhal
music: Arvo Pärt, Miserere and Für Alina, Antonio Castrignanò, Marco Della Gatta, Corri
duration time: 40’
I am my inner shadow laughing at the illusion I call reality, I am a simple shadow that transforms incessantly, insubstantial and elusive. My emptiness is this sacred cloak in which I wrap myself like a chrysalis. It has the strength and beauty of the absolute, of primordial chaos, of unknowable mystery. The shadow is the shadow of light, its complement; without one, the other cannot exist. This performance is an act of love for life, a rite of purification. It is letting oneself be crossed, losing oneself and finding oneself again. It is dying in order to be reborn.
“I belong to my body, to my flesh and to my blood… How can I not love that which possesses me affectionately? Just as I give myself to the Earth, I give myself to my flesh and to my bones. Just as I entrust myself to the oceans, I entrust myself to my blood. Just as I abandon myself to the air, I abandon myself to my skin; just as I commend myself to the stars, I commend myself to my hair. And overflowing with this radiant love to which I am bound, I act upon the world and upon myself… And at the center of my womb, now infinite, I receive and give birth to the light in its wholeness.”
(from “The Way of the Tarot,” by Alejandro Jodorowsky and Marianne Costa, Arcanum XVII, The Star)
Performance presented at: Pin Teatro, Milan (2008); Kulturraum Rosenhof Festival, Tegernau – GER (2008).
Photos by Laura Triscritti