Of the nightingale I envy the fate 

(Dell ‘ usignolo invidio la sorte)

Photo: Andrea Macchia

For those of us who live at the shoreline standing upon the constant edges of decision crucial and alone. 

(Audre Lorde, A Litany for Survival) 

To the animal sphere, the uncivilised, the wild, is traced Cassandra’s talent as prophetess. In the Oresteia, the coryphaeus compares her incomprehensible lament to the song of a nightingale: from the response of the ”unheard young woman” comes the title of this performance-cry, where Cassandra’s battle is evoked by the body- voice of Stefania Tansini in the moments before her unfair killing as a slave/adulteress and ξένη/foreigner.

A shamanic rite in which the stereotypical feminine fragility and her fiery spirit of vengeance merge, the funereal visions of the future, like animal prowess, the elegance of the gesture and the fluttering of the eyelashes – a nightingale hybridised by tropical feathers that refracts in an altered space – in dialogue with a mobile light (from beyond the world?) that chases and challenges her. Its language also oscillates, fluidly, between lucidity and animal mimicry that makes it shrill, obstinate and sweet.

After the journey to the underworld, she returns to the surface transformed and nourished by the serpentine larvae of the earth, the light feathers gone, she emerges head down ready to continue, because once again, we were not meant to survive, as a fighter/Cassandra, like Audre Lorde writes. 


October 6th, 6:00 PM 
October 7th, 7:00 PM 

TICKETS

Don’t miss the trilogy offer!

For those of you who want to see the entire trilogy of Motus at Turteatern this fall, we have a deal: buy a ticket to the show Tutto Brucia and get a discount code that gives 30% on the remaining two shows.

ATTENTION! To take advantage of the offer, you must first buy a ticket for Tutto Brucia: on the ticket, you will receive a discount code for You Were Nothing but Wind and Of the Nightingale I Envy The Fate, which you can then use at kulturbiljetter.se. The discount applies to both regular and reduced prices.

Photo: Lorenza Daverio

Idea and direction: Daniela Nicolò, Enrico Casagrande with Stefania Tansini
With: Stefania Tansini
Dramaturgy: Daniela Nicolò
Live sound design: Enrico Casagrande
Soundscapes: Demetrio Cecchitelli
Technical direction and light design: Theo Longuemare
Music track: R.Y.F. (Francesca Morello)
Latex props: _vvxxii
Dress Boboutic: Firenze
Assistant costume and set designer: Susana Botero
Illustrations: Lilsis.art
Graphics: Federico Magli
Video: Vladimir Bertozzi
Production: Francesca Raimondi
Organization and logistics: Shaila Chenet
Communication: Dea Vodopi
Promotion: Ilaria Depari
Press office: comunicattive.it
International distribution: Lisa Gilardino
Production: Motus with TPE / Festival delle Colline Torinesi
Artistic residencies: hosted by Lavanderie a vapore Torino, Centro nazionale di produzione della danza Virgilio Sieni, AMAT Marche
In collaboration with: ATER Fondazione and Regione Emilia-Romagna
With the support of: MiC, Regione Emilia-Romagna
Duration: 45 minutes
Language: Italian with English subtitles