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Saudade is a tightly wound knot in the past, a branch of the present.

Saudade is to look forward to everything that does not exist yet or that will probably never exist.

It is like feeling the life in every pore of your skin, learning to give the right value to everything that surrounds you. Saudade is a swing. An atmosphere, a state of mind, painted by the infinite power of the images.

Studying how this feeling found expression, I investigated Fernando Pessoa’s poetics and his great aesthetic creation:

the invention of heteronyms. The four main literary personalities of the Portuguese writer inspired me to stage four dancers who will represent different heteronyms of autonomous personalities.

Every one of them has sensed and crossed their own intimate form of Saudade and so they put them into relation.

With this work my aim was to experiment a particular feeling, which one can experience with others or on his own.

It is a creation based on both absence and desire.

Agony and tenderness

THE PROJECT IS THE WINNER OF THE ORSOLINA28 CALL FOR CREATION 2021,
IS SELECTED IN 2021 FOR THE NID PLATFORM IN THE OPEN STUDIOS SECTION,
AND DEBUT AT TORINO DANCE FESTIVAL IN SEPTEMBER 2022.



 

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