Francesco Marilungo | Party Girl

with Alice Raffaelli, Barbara Novati, Roberta Racis
direction and choreography Francesco Marilungo
space and light Gianni Staropoli
technical direction Omar Scala
winner of International Prospettiva Danza Teatro Prize 2020

A reflection on the process of objectification of the female body and on the dynamics of power often associated with the sex market. A journey into the feminine through that figure that has always embodied its gender stereotypes, the sexworker. Starting from postures and movements capable of triggering desire in the collective imagination, the three dancers build a minimal dance, a stylized, slowed down, suspended alphabet. The sensual and erotic component is completely canceled by a body that gradually loses life, becoming an object, a mannequin. The gaze of the dancers takes us back to an intimate dimension, to the dimension of a one to one performance in which the audience is placed in an almost voyeuristic state. In Party Girl the look of the stripper, who usually leans outwards to address and arrest the customer with the ambition of a monetary gain, is characterized by an intimist nuance and opens the doors to an inner, human world, which contrasts with the apparent dehumanization that the body is undergoing. Three televisions on stage: abandoned artifacts that broadcast videos of landscapes, streets, night clubs, private apartments, frontier places where everything that is not ‘lawful’ can find space.