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ENVY

produced by MOTUS with the support of Regione Toscana Photo by Carlo Pennatini We live in the age of envy. Career envy, kitchen envy, children envy, food envy, upper arm envy, holiday envy. You name it, there’s an envy for it. Photo by Carlo Pennatini ‘Envy’ derives from the Latin invidere, ‘non-sight’. As the etymology […]

CHNOPS

Photo by Carlo Pennatini CHNOPS (Carbon, Hydrogen, Nitrogen, Oxygen, Phosphorus, Sulphur) is a journey through a “bodymedia” path that merges interactive movement, images and sounds. Photo by Carlo Pennatini Fluctuating between different visual and temporal scales, CHNOPS analyzes and highlights the continuous mutations of life. Its timeless aesthetic disintegrates, agglomerates and constantly reconfigures known […]

Unmindful

produced by MOTUS with the support of Regione Toscana «A people that has no memory has no future» Luis Sepulveda Photo by Caterina Di Perri Memory aggregates, it is the glue that keeps generations together, memory is the basis of history and civilization. Memory often changes depending on the shape and contexts. Arrogance and […]

Last Stop

produced by MOTUS with the support of Regione Toscana co-produced by Mulino ad Arte Photo by Carlo Pennatini Humanity is ungrateful towards Nature and promotes exploitation models, free from principles of solidarity. Such models increase environmental degradation and reduce the ability of the planet to meet the basic needs of its habitants, leading to perennial […]

INGRATITUDE

Produced by MOTUS with the support of Regione Toscana Photo by Carlo Pennatini Ingratitude is an ancient, almost genetic evil, and no one can claim to be immune from it.The lack of gratitude often degenerates and drives the recipient to negative feelings towards the benefactor, entering a spiral of real hatred. Psychologists define this phenomenon […]

The Divina’s

Produced by MOTUS with the support of Regione Toscana “THE DIVINA” is a choreographic project that, in the occasion of the 700th anniversary of Dante Alighieri’s death, looks at the modernity of some female characters described in the “Divina Commedia”, underlining their relevance to understand issues that are still present over the centuries The […]

“A≠B”

A is different from B a MOTUS production supported by Regione Toscana In social terms, ‘equal’ stands for ‘same’, ‘similar’, but the Latin etymology also refers to aequus, with a strong reference to the concept of ‘impartiality for those belonging to the same class of equivalence’. This establishes a definition of equality based on the […]

Walls

The campaign “stay at home” launched during the lockdown to fight the pandemic, was not a safe invitation for women that are victims of violence. For those women the home walls often turned into a prison and, in some cases, that meant their death sentence. The theme of domestic violence showed all its dramatic nature […]

PIA

A MOTUS project with the support of Regione Toscana “Pia” is a contemporary performance inspired by the symbolic character of Pia de’ Tolomei described in the Divina Commedia masterpiece, which brings to the stage an ancient story of an unjust and bloody domestic violence. The story took place in the Middle Ages but the […]

INTERFERENZE (Interference)

In physics, “interference” means the interaction between two or more waves, while in the political terminology the same word indicates the abuse of power of an authority in a particular field. In linguistic, “interference” is the overlap of a new meaning of a word among the original one. Therefore, through the mechanism of interference each […]