performanceSe ci fosse luce sarebbe bellissimoatto unico per dieci corpi e strumenti elettronici by Elena Bellantoni

Like threads from a single ball of yarn, bodies and fabrics meet in space, evoking the search for light that also arises in the shadows.

The site-specific performance takes shape within the museum space: the artist scatters the performers like a long ball of yarn throughout the different rooms of the museum. As if it were a relational weaving between the sculptural garments and the space, through a score of individual gestures and forms that culminate in a collective action, the artist explores the concept of habitus, or the set of spontaneous behaviours that contribute to defining the individuality of human beings.

The garments she has produced, worn by the performers, are made of pink linen to allude to the body and grey-blue velvet to recall work overalls. The clothes/sculptures have a trapezoidal shape reminiscent of the large skirts of dancing dervishes, futurist clothes and the tunics of Medea and Pasolini’s Decameron. The shape embraces both the male and female bodies, giving the figure a dreamlike appearance. The title borrows some words from Aldo Moro’s last letter (5 May 1978) written to his wife Eleonora Chiavarella: in his tragic situation of confinement and isolation, aware of his imminent demise, he expresses himself with these words: “if there were light, it would be beautiful”.

Elena Bellantoni and Francesca Romana Sestili choreagraphy
Gruppo Controchiave Danza: Laura Bisio, Federica Damiani, Laura Danieli, Raffaella Geraci, Lucia Marino, Jean Michel Marthey, Nicoletta Jannitti, Isabella Rossi, Giulia Vigo dancers
Alessio Gabriele ands Maria Cristina De Amicis musicians
Elena Bellantoni script
Garments produced in collaboration with Dino Zoli Textile