IMPRISONED APHRODITE
In 2000, the Jubilee year, the MOTUS are asking themselves about the meaning of soul. Soul is considered like a door between the inner world and the external one, link between the individual consciousness and the collective one, between rationality and nature.
Aphrodite, as in Plotino and Marsilio Ficino, is the soul of the world, the one that governs the sensible world. She is the beauty that creates wonder and the place where everything smiles.
She is the beauty of the things as they are, over the scientific or philosophic theorizations, over every kind of moral judgment and of every religious creed.
The beauty, in that way, has been forgotten by the laic societies bent on the planned efficiency, the bureaucratic formalism, the exhalation of consumers, the cultural leveling, the boredom. Moreover, the societies of religious inspiration, have reduced the concept of soul to the individual immortal part, the one that tends to the divinity, whether narrowing her to an individual range, or associating her to the idea of sin and guilt and for that reason contaminating her with a moral judgment.
The few meanings, as in the case of the Indian of America societies where the idea of soul mundi is very present, are been destroyed.
For all these reason Aphrodite is imprisoned. Imprisoned in the metaphysical space of our limited conceptions of beauty, laic or religious. Imprisoned in the physical space because relegated in the ghettos of beauty, like museums, musical academies, art galleries, theatres.
The door between heart and soul of the world has been closed.
| Choreography | Simona Cieri |
| Subject, script content and screenplay | Rosanna Cieri |
| Costume design | Emanuela Bianciardi |
| Voice | Martino Convertino |
| Music | various authors |
| Musical advice and editing | Roberto Nannetti |
| Light design | Massimo Falchi |
| Directed by | Rosanna and Simona Cieri |