Lucrezia Maimone/Zerogrammi – SIMPOSIO DEL SILENZIO

choreography Lucrezia Maimone
dancers Lucrezia Maimone, Damien Camunez
sound and music Lorenzo Crivellari
violin Elsa Paglietti
choreographic and dramaturg advice Stefano Mazzotta
magic effects Jonathan Giard
light design Tommaso Contu
production Zerogrammi

with the contribution of Interconnessioni 2018/Tersicorea (Cagliari)
with the support of Regione Piemonte, MIBACT – Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali e per il Turismo

The dream is the gateway to a fairy-tale world of anthropomorphic
clouds that flirt, orcs and giantesses, fantastic animals, black rabbits and rapacious birds.
Lorenzo Mattotti

Youth is over, imagination is fading away, dreams wander off and become memories, and thoughts mix with reality. A series of large enigmatic books inhabit the scene creating controversial fantasies, telling of our anxieties, our hopes, showing us the fears that we keep in our hearts, asking us eventually not to let the magic of childhood escaping even when we will be old. Simposio del silenzio is a fairy tale about precariousness: weight, balance, risk, the dualistic conflict and the ineluctable desire for an unattainable unitary harmony, a fairytale journey into the dark world of the unconscious, where our implicit self is necessary to be discovered to be able to know our depths, our own complexity, diving into the darkness of our own essence in the hope of re-emerging into, a new unitary and integrated self.

Didactic notes
In the complex process of growing up of each individual, the search for a personified and interpersonal harmony sometimes seems to be an unreachable goal. We cross a path full of pitfalls and small betrayals in a world / a society that does not always reflect our expectations. In the awareness that the perception of the world is created by our mind and cannot be objective, we will then realize that although the arrival point can be a mirage, it will be exactly that imaginary point that has given us a stimulus towards integrity, leading us to the discovery that harmony lies in the movement itself towards research. In the same way in the journey (fairytale), finding ourselves led back to the starting point, we will have understood that precisely the journey, and not the destination, is the value through which we return to ourselves with new eyes.

Symposium of Silence comes from the observation of the gesture and of the daily “body”, which is deep, meaningful and intelligible in its simplicity. The imperfection of the body in action and its fragility are explored and re-elaborated in the oppositions, in the passages, in the places of transformation, to return to the poetry of the contradiction: the doubt in the answer, the smile in the tragedy, the uncertainty and the obstacle, the loss and the need to belong, so clearly expressed in Mattotti’s work which the project is inspired by.