SOMEWHERE
Lucia Guarino and Ilenia Romano
- Thursday 10th October 10am-12pm
- Teatro Comunale di Vicenza, Sala del Ridotto (Viale Mazzini, 39)
concept, creation, interpretation Lucia Guarino and Ilenia Romano
lighting design Gianni Staropoli
sound editing Leonardo Pucci
video Lorenzo Letizia
production Nexus Factory
with support for the artistic residency of CURA centro umbro residenza artistica-Spazio ZUT, Teatri di Vetro-Triangolo Scaleno, Home-Centro umbro residenze artistiche
- duration: 15 minuti
We don’t live in empty, neutral space. We live, die and love in a squared, cut out, diverse space, with bright and dark areas, slopes, steps, depressions and humps, with some tough regions as well as crumbly, permeable, porous ones.
Michel Foucault
Somewhere is the result of a reflection on how the spaces we live in influence human relations and to what extent some of these can intensify the sense of loneliness of bodies and their potential relational vacuums. Starting from research work on non-places, Lucia Guarino and Ilenia Romano investigate the relationship mechanisms present in these spaces and that, owing to their characteristics, fuel alienation, individualism, desolation and depersonalisation.
Ours are parallel lives that sometimes deviate and become intertwined in either actual or deceptive encounters, that perceive the Other starting from their inner boundaries. They unavoidably attract each other and interact between the visible and the invisible. They allow themselves be “touched” by a gaze, they exchange the pace of their steps, but not the real and imaginary personal existing path. They rebuild a common language with flawed choruses, lively gestures with an unsteady balance made of echoes and differences. They seek new paths. They reach many everywhere and many nowhere, getting lost in shady cracks and stretches of light, following a timeless time. Where Are We? Somewhere seeks to be a statement of hope that I and the Other, monads of the same system, can recognise each other, meet again and greet each other, anywhere… somewhere.
Biography
Lucia Guarino is a dancer and author. After studying ballet, modern jazz and then contemporary dance, she graduated in Architecture. She then continued working as a professional dancer in Italy, Belgium, Spain and Argentina. She has won national and international research and choreography training projects. As a dancer she has worked with R. Castellucci, L. Gruwez, S. Bertozzi and V. Sieni. Since 2017 she has been associate artist of Nexus Factory. As a choreographer she has worked with the drama company Baglioni/Bellani. Her projects have been presented at national and international festivals and institutions.
Ilenia Romano graduated at the National Dance Academy of Rome. As a performer she has worked with national and international choreographers such as Pina Bausch, W. McGregor, I. Ivo, M. Van Hoecke, DEOS/G. Di Cicco, the Zappalà Danza Company (as dancer and assistant). Today she collaborates with the Adriano Borriello Company (dancer and assistant) and ALDES/R. Castello. Since 2019 she has been one of the Italian choreographers of the Crossing the Sea international project and guest choreographer of the Dance On – International Dance Exchange under the Hong Kong Arts Festival@Cattle Depot Creative Hub, and in 2022 she was the guest choreographer of the Ramallah Contemporary Dance Festival. In 2022 she taught contemporary dance technique at Da.Re. and taught in the preparatory courses of the National Dance Academy. She was the choreographer of productions of the Teatro Stabile in Catania (2020/2021) and the National Theatre in Genoa (2022/2023).
