Shows at Zo

NO

NO

Performed in Italian.No is a performance that explores the difficulty of recognizing and therefore expressing and defending one’s personal and intimate boundaries. On stage, a performer encounters the questions and demands of the external world, personified by a microphone.This project arises from the need to process wounds related to situations of abuse, in which my personal boundaries were crossed without my ability to defend myself. However, it also investigates the difficulty within me in recognizing and thus establishing these boundaries.NO is what I too often wanted to say but didn’t, perhaps out of shame, fear, unconsciousness, or naivety. It concerns me personally, but I feel it also relates to a broader, more general discourse. In fact, let’s say it’s even “gendered.” Because I believe the roots of this fear of raising my voice, of this need to be obedient and devoted in order to be accepted, are social in nature and have a more violent impact on those socially recognized as female.

Zo • 24 Oct 2024 - 27 Oct 2024
Alter_Azione

Alter_Azione

"To tell of bodies changed into new forms is what inspires my spirit. O gods, if these transformations are your doing, inspire my project, so that the song may unfold from the beginning of time to the present day." Thus begins the prologue of Ovid's Metamorphoses.  The transformation of the substance and appearance of things, of a condition, is the very essence of life and, therefore, of art. The chrysalis that becomes a butterfly, leaves and flowers, Daphne who transforms into a laurel tree, forever dear to Apollo, Gregor who turns into a cockroach. Metamorphosis is change, an alteration that generates and creates. In death, life; in life, death. Nature is the starting point. In both nature and art, metamorphosis is the tool through which each being creates its own distinct, defined, and unique identity, one with which it can fly, travel, dance. Create by resisting, or resist by creating?Nature provides us with examples every day, as do culture and art: the butterfly, flowers, blades of grass, birds, the rainbow—all use transformation to adapt to life in nature, evolving. These are images in motion, nature in motion, where each form generates an element that evolves and grows to become its own. No story, no life, ever has a single meaning.  What shapes the personality, the character, the soul of a man or woman throughout their life helps to establish the boundary between what is good and what is evil, both for oneself and for others.

Zo • 24 Oct 2024 - 27 Oct 2024