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STABAT MATER

Compagnia Artemis Danza

Monica Casadei

STABAT MATER

choreography, direction, lighting, costumes Monica Casadei 
music Gioachino Rossini 
live painting Giuliano Del Sorbo 

performers Michelle Atoe, Angelo Attila, Julia Canard, Monica Castorina, Arianna Cunsolo, Sally Demonte, Alfonso Donnarumma, Chiara Falzone, Costanza Leporatti, Enrico Luly 

Chiara Materazzo, Mattia Molini, Minami Michiwaki, Christian Pellino, Clarissa Pizzo, Carlotta Quercetani 

rehersal assistant Salvatore Sciancalepore 

production Compagnia Artemis Danza 

in collabration with Comune di Pesaro & AMAT per Pesaro Capitale della Cultura 2024 

with the support of MiC – Ministero della Cultura 

Regione Emilia-Romagna – Assessorato alla Cultura, Comune di Parma 

Duration 60 min.

This creation by choreographer Monica Casadei is dedicated to Gioachino Rossini’s Stabat Mater – a choral tribute to the soul of women, to their universal love, embodied by the mother par excellence. Stabat Mater is a collective, timeless prayer for a sorrowful mother, a woman’s heart shattered by grief, crystallising in the instant of mourning the tragedy of losing a child. The body becomes the medium for narrating the emotional experience of those who face the transformation of the primordial bond between mother and child. The performance turns into a cry and a whisper, mixing roar and silence, giving voice to a love that transcends loss and never ceases to illuminate. 

‘The pain, the love, the despair. It’s all in that being, in that posture. Enduring, facing the most painful happening. A mother, many mothers have experienced and are experiencing an injustice, a loss. Bodies of mothers bewildered, astonished, pleading and at the same time resilient, ready to stand in that posture becoming the symbol of life in the face of death and life beyond death. Human beings, at every moment, are in their ordeal, in an endless via crucis. Death and life, life and death, an indissoluble union.’ Monica Casadei 

Compagnia Artemis Danza

Founded in France in 1994 and based in Italy since 1997, Artemis Danza was in residence at Teatro Due Teatro Stabile di Parma e Reggio Emilia from 1998 to 2007, and at Teatro Comunale di Bologna from 2014 to 2019. Today, the company, in addition to Monica Casadei’s creations, produces and promotes many works by young creators and runs numerous training initiatives, aimed both at professional development for dancers and at introducing the public to contemporary dance. In 2005, Artemis meets Other Cultures (AICA) was launched: a project of artist residencies and international tours for the company (Brazil, Cuba, Mexico, India, Turkey, Vietnam, Korea, Japan, Indonesia, Singapore, Philippines, Malaysia, Algeria, Ethiopia, Tunisia, South Africa, Lebanon) which resulted in performances, workshops, publications, videos, reports, and photographic exhibitions. In the three-year period 2022-24, her creations centred on the themes of gender violence with the productions Corpi Violati, Private Callas and Puccini’s Opera–Voci di donne.

Monica Casadei

Born in Ferrara, Monica Casadei after a degree in Philosophy, studied ballet and modern dance, first in Italy then in London and in Paris. Her training was influenced by choreographers Doussaint and Doubouloz, and by master André Cognard, thanks to whom she discovered the practice of Aikido and Aikishintaiso. In 1994, she founded Artemis Danza. To date, Casadei has created over forty-five shows for the Company. The theme of the feminine is central to her research and often becomes a symbol of Platonic ‘tymoidés’, representing resilience against all forms of abuse. She also leads the Patrimoni Umani (Human Heritage) project, where leading figures of Italian culture inspire works intended for an international audience.

Data e luogo

Friday 3 October 9.15pm
Fermo, Dell’Aquila Theater

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