On October 13 in Rome, as part of the District Dance Festival program
On October 13th at 9:00 PM, the Furio Camillo Theater in Roma (Italy) hosts the performance ‘IMMEMORI’ (‘Unmindful’) by MOTUS , as part of the 2023 District Dance Festival program.
“IMMEMORI,” created with the support of the Tuscany Region, was premiered in July 2023 at Estate Fiesolana (Firenze, Italy).
The show is about Memory as a value to be preserved and maintained as “a common goodness of humanity.” Remembering is considered as an act of high value, to be passed on to new generations, to allow maintainance of hope and to prevent the repetition of mistakes done in the past. This aligns with Luis Sepulveda’s assertion that “people without memories are people without future.”
MOTUS decides to bring on stage the Memory in this particular historical period, marked by new wars and conflicts threatening the international stability and the survival of million people. The concept is expressed through choreography by Simona Cieri to music by various composers and performed by Martina Agricoli, Paloma Biagioli, Giovanni Consoli, Roberta Morello, and Mattia Solano. The direction, as in all works of the Company, is overseen by the sisters Rosanna and Simona Cieri.
Onstage, the violence and aggression of the past are easily confused with those of today, pulling the audience into a suspended world where cruelty and oppression remain constant. The Memory which is the basis of history and civic duty, always hangs on the gestural narrative with its powerful ability to connect generations and to pacify the world, transforming action into fluid movements. In the end, the warning to stay vigilant remains, because arrogance and manipulation, leveraging ignorance, can at any moment dull and redirect memory, rewriting history, and once again dragging humanity toward oblivion.
The District Dance Festival, a project dedicated to contemporary dance, conceived and organized by the Atacama Company (Patrizia Cavola and Ivan Truol) takes place in Rome from October 6 to October 15, 2023. The festival will showcase performances by various Italian and international dance companies, presenting original works by contemporary authors offering new perspectives and languages to its audience.
District Dance Festival 2023 is realized in collaboration with La Scatola dell’Arte ETS, with the Dance History department of La Sapienza University in Rome, with the Association l’Archimandrita, and under the patronage of the Municipality of Rome VII.
Tickets:
Full price 12 € / Reduced 10 € (for individuals under 26 and over 65) / 8 € (for individuals under 12).
Tickets can be purchased at the theater box office.
For information and reservations, contact info@compagniaatacama.it.
