Lena is a performance that arises from an investigation into the gesture of pushing, understood as a multifaceted relational gesture.
The object to which this research refers is the swing: an object of ancestral simplicity of which we all know the sensation and condition. An object capable of providing us with a specific and exclusive dynamic of movement. Starting from these premises and from the investigation around the swing object, of which the playful dimension is also mentioned, the performance focuses on the search for that gray area between play and violence, between playful and sadistic, between joke and spite. The push, in its repetition, changes meaning, unleashes different imaginaries, acquires new values: it is a gesture that in the relational sphere often defines roles of power and strength.
This research aims to investigate the different meanings that this gesture carries with it, encapsulating them, showing them, and transforming them through the repetition of a dynamic. In this physical dialogue, a mechanism of pushed and pushing bodies is composed, a human machine made of actions and reactions, in which the intention behind the gesture is lost and confused.
The research has developed through the exchange in the studio, at different moments of the process, with the performers Teodora Grano, Chiara Luccisano, Michael Incarbone, Erica Bravini, Daria Greco, Elena Bastogi, Luca Della Corte
And with the Light Designer Francesco Tasselli
Performers Giulia Cannas, Claudio Larena, Marta Magini
Artistic Consulting Sofia Naglieri
Sound Designer Lorenzo Minozzi
Light Designer Francesco Tasselli
Project supported by Artisti Associati; Associazione Culturale Chiasma; Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto
CLAUDIO LARENA
A young author and performer who explores the languages of installation, dance, and performance. After the studio debut of his first work at the RomaEuropaFestival 2020, he continues his creative path with the conception of three new projects: -LENA; Le Spinte; Stiamo Lavorando per voi (ci scusiamo per il disagio). He trains by participating in workshops with national and international artists, with particular attention to the performative field. His authorial projects always take different formats: urban performance and scenic writing; word performance and choreographic research. A craftsman by training, he often questions the entity of objects, their meanings, and the physical, historical, or conceptual relationship that arises from our connection with them.
