Concept, choreography, dance and scene
Valeria Geremia
Soundscape karmek
Light design Franco Adorna
Photos Lucrezia Bonaventura, karmek
“Viaggio attraverso la materia; dalla dimensione macro a quella micro. Mondo organico in continuo mutamento. Trasformazione, movimento, ciclo di vita in un flusso perpetuo. Come in un ipotetico viaggio nel mondo delle cellule, un’energia si evolve e crea”.
Gli spettatori vengono assorbiti da un’atmosfera suggestiva per il forte impatto audio visuale; nei primi momenti della performance la luce quasi impercettibile, accentua questo effetto mimetico, dando la sensazione di materia in movimento. La scena e’ costituita da due teli, cadauno di 3mx3m decorati con un motivo organico particolare di colore bianco e nero, un telo e’ posto al suolo e l’altro sullo sfondo. In spazi all’aperto una grande proiezione della stessa texture bianca e nera , viene proiettata nelle pareti posteriori sia che siano di un palazzo o di un monumento. Il corpo della danzatrice e’ decorato con lo stesso motivo, e questo da un forte effetto ipnotico di mimesi.
All’inizio il corpo appare come una macchia dentro un “liquor” inchiostrato; la danzatrice e’ seminuda, eppure la sua pelle e’ istoriata e protetta da “filamenti” che riproducono visceri e vibrazioni insieme.
Nella seconda parte, l’energia creata si rivela attraverso un nuovo essere, la cui danza si evolve nella scena in modo diretto, a tratti crudo, conducendo lo spettatore alla parola, al suo epilogo.
“Journey through matter; matter within and without, from the macro to the micro dimension. Organic world in continual change. Mutation, transformation, life cycle like perpetual flow like in an hypothetical trip in the cells world, an Energy develops itself and creates”. The spectators are absorbed by an atmosphere of suggestive audio-visual impact; in the opening minutes of the performance the almost imperceptible lighting accentuates this effect, giving the sensation of matter in movement. The scenery consists of two cloth sheets both 3mx3m in size decorated with a particular pattern of plastic form in black and white; one of the cloths is placed as a background and the other on the ground, everything else is completely black. The dancer body is decorated in the same way, this gives a strong hypnotic effect of mimesis. At the beginning the body appears as a shade in an inky liqueur; the dancer is seminude yet her skin is decorated and sheltered by filaments that produce viscidity and vibrations together. The separation happens in a gradual way, but its completion is marked with great intensity by the dancing, a rebirth is in act and the public becomes witness of its mutation. In the second part, the energy created reveals itself through a new being, whose dance is liberated on stage in a direct, sometimes crude way, and touches the extremes, lingering there. Its evolution takes us to words and then to the epilogue.The scenery and the dance are by Valeria Geremia, the soundtracks are specially created for the performance. MIMESI was performed at the 5th edition of the international festival “Barcelona en Butoh”, and also in Valencia, Madrid, Berlin, Palermo, Catania, Salerno and at the KIAF Kathmandu International Art Festival (Nepal), at the International Art Expo in Edinburgh, at TIAF The Independent Artist Fair London and at the IX International Thailand Butoh Festival in Bangkok.