AVANT-PREMIERE “O.” – Francesca Saraullo
FR/EN
May 26 at 8pm at Garage29
It’s a return to the POINT. To the point of ORIGIN. “Who am I? Who are we? Based on a personal search for the sacred feminine, I call upon my pelvic matrix. I settle down and open myself to listening. I follow the flow of breath, which becomes sound, voice, song. Body segments become supports that open up personal and universal memory spaces, human and non-human, beyond verbal language. I traverse archaic and surreal landscapes on a transidentitarian journey where unity becomes multiple, where the “I” converges in the “we”.
In this solo, Francesca becomes the guardian of personal and universal memories from the pelvis. Through the magic of words and the power of the pelvic body, she revisits the traditional monologue – centered on a single male subject – to give voice to a plural femininity, starting from singular experiences to include all lives.
Francesca Saraullo
Francesca is an Italian choreographer, performer, visual artist and teacher based in Brussels. With a multidisciplinary background, she graduated in ISAC and AeSP at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels, and in Performing Arts and Film Engineering in Turin. She trained in dance, theater and singing with international masters such as Nina Dipla, Raffaella Giordano, Loïc Touzé, David Zambrano and Meg Stuart. She also took part in the highly influential “Transforme, Se prolonger” training course run by Myriam Gourfink (Fondation Royaumont) and in “Atlas” ImPulsTanz.
She has thus nurtured her practice and her curiosity with a variety of languages and approaches, until she has embraced the broad and infinite field of investigation that is the body. Attentive to human beings and their fragility, her research fuses collective practice and individual exploration. She integrates her approach with somatic practices such as Danse Sensible with Claude Coldy and, currently, Fasciatherapy for dance with Anja Röttgerkamp.
In 2017, she created her first choreographic work La Sospesa. This was followed by ANAMNESIS (2019), LUX (2019), Et toi… (2018); and the visual works W. (2020), RACCOLTO (2017), Ballerina (2013), …Since 2020, she has benefited from research support by the Belgian French Community (Charleroi Danse, FWB) by participating, among others, in the residency programs “GINcubator2021”, garage29; “Around a process of making 2022”, Marosi Festival; and “AiR2022”, ŻfinMalta Company.
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