The dancemaker Cristina Kristal Rizzo in residency at PARC with her new choreographic project SENTIMENTAL 1, which will premiere in September at the Short Theatre Festival in Rome.

A solitary figure moves across space, composing a choreography of gestures, poses, and instantaneous dances.
It is a romanticism of beginnings, an original movement that takes shape at the very moment it occurs. Her presence unfolds entirely within the sentimental, choosing to expose itself with an open and disarmed gaze to the tensions that inhabit the boundary between private and public, accessible and forbidden, tenderness and despair. Within this choreographic practice, the body declares an immeasurable trust in the politics of movement itself, in its simple happening, free and manifest, as intimate and creative resistance, a space of emergence and radical exposure against the death and aridity of the world.
Within this horizon, the notion of the sentimental is positioned not as emotional excess but rather as a perceptual device that allows the body to receive affective oscillations and tensions without translating them into rhetoric. The sentimental thus becomes a form of calibrated openness, a condition of attention that renders legible the micro-variations of human experience and, at the same time, brings forth its political dimension.
The creation thus takes on a poetic form, free and open to encounter, transforming artistic action into a collective and situated device, standing in opposition to the logics of closure and aridity that permeate the present. The choreographic constellation and its processes take shape as a research organism in which connections and materials function as tools of inquiry into the theme of exposure. To expose oneself means to make the body permeable, to entrust its sensitive data to circulation, and to allow what was once guarded to enter a state of visibility, relationality, and transformation.”
To expose oneself means to make the body permeable, to surrender its sensitive data to circulation, and to allow what was once guarded to enter a mode of visibility, relationality, and transformation.

Cristina Kristal Rizzo is a dancemaker based in Florence, active since the 1990s. She is the co-founder of the historic collective Kinkaleri, with whom she shared numerous international tours and received major awards, including the Premio Ubu. Since 2008, she has pursued an independent choreographic path, directing her research toward a theoretical reflection with a strong dynamic impact, aimed at regenerating the very act of creation and opening up reflections on the present time. Currently recognized as one of Italy’s leading choreographic voices, her work is presented at major festivals of the new international scene. Alongside the touring of her work, she is active in advanced training, lectures, workshops, and theoretical writing.

concept and performance: Cristina Kristal Rizzo
a production by Fuorimargine Centro di Produzione di Danza e Arti Performative della Sardegna
creative residencies: PARC Performing Arts Research Centre

photo (detail): courtesy of the artist