Graces (IT) | 20:30 | 60’ | 03/10/2024
Graces (IT) | Performance
Silvia Gribaudi
03/10/2024 | Thursday | 20:30 (60’)
@Rialto Theatre
Graces is a project inspired by The Three Graces, a sculpture created by Antonio Canova between 1812 and 1817. The work draws from mythology: Zeus’ three daughters – Euphrosyne, Aglaea and Thalia – radiated splendour, joy and prosperity.
Three male figures take the stage in a space and time suspended between the human and the abstract: a place where male and female meet without roles and dance to the rhythm of nature itself. On stage there are three male performers – Siro Guglielmi, Matteo Marchesi, Andrea Rampazzo – together with the author Silvia Gribaudi, who likes to define herself as ‘author of the body’ because her poetics elevates imperfections to an art form with a direct, cruel and empathetic comic style without any boundaries among dance, theater and performing arts.
Over the past ten years, Silvia Gribaudi has been questioning gender stereotypes, female and male identities and the concept of virtuosity in dance and daily life, expanding beyond clichés and appearances.
Winner of Danza&Danza 2019 award ‘italian production of the year’
Winning CollaborAction#4 2018/2019
Finalist Rete Critica 2019 award
Selected by NID Platform 2019
Credits
choreography Silvia Gribaudi
dramaturgy Silvia Gribaudi and Matteo Maffesanti
performers Silvia Gribaudi, Siro Guglielmi, Matteo Marchesi and Andrea Rampazzo
light design Antonio Rinaldi
technical director Leonardo Benetollo
costumes Elena Rossi
production Zebrac
co-production Santarcangelo Festival
supported by MiC – Ministero della Cultura, Italian Ministry of Cultural Affairs
📷Matteo Maffesanti
Graces is presented as part of the collaboration between Dance House Lemesos and Rialto Theatre.
The performance is supported by the Italian Embassy Cyprus.