Fragmentation + Ancestral Echoes
Andavamo tutti (Anteprima)
Fragmentation + Ancestral Echoes
Andavamo tutti (Anteprima)
Friday, August 28
7.00 pm | Villa Saporiti, Como (entrance from via Borgovico)
L’ombelico dei limbi
promenade performance
By and with Stefania Tansini
Co-produced with Fondazione Teatro Grande di Brescia, Romaeuropa Festival,
Tpe-Teatro Piemonte Europa/Colline Torinesi, Nanou associazione culturale
With the support of Residenza artisti nei Territori Masque Teatro, Boarding Pass Plus
Dance/Santarcangelo dei Teatri, Olinda residenza artistica, residenza da Centro nazionale
di produzione della danza Virgilio Sieni, progetto Air_Artisti in residenza 2023/Lavanderia a Vapore
The Navel of Limbs — an early text in which Antonin Artaud condenses the pain of alienation and the fragmentation of identity — becomes, for Stefania Tansini, the trajectory of a singular performative project. It is not a representation, but an occurrence.
The performance aims to empty the space, to strip it of habit and utility, paring it down together with the body. Rereading space each time means opening other spaces, remaining without skin or shelter, establishing with the place an intimacy that is not enclosure, but pure relation.
In a tension that is constantly contradictory between the impulse to break oneself apart and the desire to reconstitute oneself, it is the real that activates the action, it is matter that cries out. Here, absence and distance are not voids, but the primary conditions of encounter.
Dancer and author Stefania Tansini is one of the most highly regarded choreographers in Italian contemporary dance in recent years. Winner of several awards, including the 2022 Ubu Prize for Best Under-35 Performer, she develops her choreographic research through a material and sensory investigation of the body as a site of transfiguration and tension, between form and dissolution, control and surrender, in a constant dialogue between fullness and emptiness.
In her works, Tansini explores the possibility of the body as a layered and unstable territory, traversed by a movement that delves, opens, and brings presence into being. She is currently collaborating with Motus, Silvia Rampelli, Cindy Van Acker, and Raffaella Giordano on a reinterpretation of Giordano’s iconic solo *Tu non mi perderai mai*, which premiered in March 2024 at the FOG Festival in Milan and was selected as a finalist for the 2025 Ubu Prize for Best Dance Performance.
TICKETS
Full price €8
Reduced (people with disabilities and children under 12): €5
3-day all-inclusive pass €35
The all-inclusive pass grants access to all performances, free workshops, and the meeting with Roberto Castello.
Paid workshops and the children’s show are excluded.
