On Sunday, March 3rd, 2024, MOTUS’s “Aperitivi in Danza” celebrates the International Women’s Day
“Thousand Shades of Freedom” is a special event of the “Aperitivi in Danza” series, organized by MOTUS in collaboration with Atelier Vantaggio Donna, to celebrate International Women’s Day through the arts. The event, included in the “Provincial Program for March 8th Celebrations” takes place on Sunday, March 3rd, at Centro Internazionale d’Arte (Via Mencattelli 5/7, Siena, Italy). The format of the initiative is always the same, hosting various forms of art interacting and blending in a convivial atmosphere.
The event kicks off at 6:00 PM with the vernissage of “SAMSARA,” an exhibition by the artist Maria Cristina De Amicis. Maria Cristina started her painting with oils when she was very young, later transitioning to watercolor and then acrylic techniques. With watercolor she enjoys observing the colors playing with water on paper, often not dwelling on the stroke to let them flow spontaneously, giving free rein to her lunar, dreamlike fantasy. With acrylic, on the other hand, the color explodes intensely and vividly, following strong emotions of solar energy. Art critic Giuseppe Ferro writes about her: “The works of Maria Cristina De Amicis are suspended between lyrical intimacy and aesthetic surrealism, while environments and natural landscapes become a projection and mirror of her own interiority. The two different souls take shape with the two different techniques and seem to belong to opposite personalities where the only true reality is imagination.”
After the exhibition, the evening continues with the collaboration between the MOTUS Company and Albalisa Sampieri, as already happened in 2023, giving rise to semi-serious stories of iconic women.
Albalisa Sampieri is well-known for her political engagement, which combines two great passions: women’s politics and theater. As a prominent representative of the Atelier Vantaggio Donna Association, she combines her activities in design, teaching, and research, with those of director and actress, resulting in an effective mix particularly in terms of communication of achieved results with the Association’s projects. Albalisa Sampieri is the main character of the recital “The World’s Wives,” inspired by Carol Ann Duffy, a Scottish poet who has been nominated several times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. In 1999, she wrote “The World’s Wives” a collection of 30 poems featuring real or imaginary women. They are the wives of famous men, such as Mrs. Pilato, Mrs. Aesop, Mrs. Freud, or traditionally defined through their men like Dalila or Eurydice. Imaginary heroines of stories whose protagonists are male, are also present, such as Mrs. Lazarus or Elvis Presley’s sister. In short, they are “the wives of the world,” reclaiming with scornful irony and a sense of ridicule a legitimate place in history by reconstructing the facts from a female perspective: a HER-story, as Anglo-American feminists usually define it. The “wives of the world” are echoed by other female figures evoked by Simona Cieri’s choreography in the ironic performance “Femminile Plurale,” interpreted by the MOTUS Company to point out prejudices and stereotypes.
The ticket price is 10 euros (reduced 8 euros), and reservations are recommended.
During the evening, as usual, a buffet will be offered to allow the audience to meet the artists in a convivial atmosphere.
For more information and reservations, send an email to info@motusdanza.it or call 0577 – 286980.