as part of Fabbrica Europa 2024
There is this magic word, Melancholia, which has an ancient origin.
It is a word that comes from Greek: μελαγχολία.
It is composed of: μέλας black and χολή bile.
In a nutshell, it means black bile. Hippocrates, a Greek physician believed that the ‘black mood’ was the cause of the spirit becoming gloomy and sad. A cohesive, lacerating, deep, unheard-of and inexpressible sadness, melancholy was often associated with women, considered a kind of ‘sin of weakness’ that had to be repressed. However, precisely through this contemplative sadness, the feminist avant-gardes of the 19th and 20th centuries embraced melancholy as a means to challenge the power structures of social norms and to express their struggle for equality.
ERWARTUNG is grafted in the passage of time onto the figure of a feminine double, evolving on the borders of abstraction and figuration, the real and the imaginary, what appears and what is hidden, a manifestation of a double-image inner complexity and a bodily languor where everything blurs.
Cristina Kristal Rizzo, dancemaker, has been active on the Live Arts scene since the early 90s. Based in Florence, she trained in New York at the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance, and attended the studios of Merce Cunningham and Trisha Brown. She is one of the founders of Kinkaleri, a company with which she has actively collaborated crossing the international contemporary choreographic scene and receiving numerous awards. Since 2008 she has undertaken an independent path of choreographic production, directing her research towards a theoretical reflection with a strong dynamic impact aimed at regenerating the act of creation itself and opening up reflections on the present time. Currently one of the main Italian choreographic realities, she is hosted in the most important festivals of the new international scene. The circulation of shows is accompanied by an intense activity of experimental proposals, conferences, workshops, advanced training and theoretical writing. Among her latest creations: ECHOES, TOCCARE the white dance (Danza&Danza contemporary choreography award 2020), ULTRAS sleeping dances, VN Serenade, Prélude, ikea, BoleroEffect. As a guest choreographer she has created choreographies for the main Italian and foreign opera companies and institutions, including the Teatro Comunale di Firenze – Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Aterballetto, Balletto di Toscana Junior, LAC Lugano, MACRO Roma, MUSEION Bolzano, Pecci Museum in Prato, Museo Novecento in Florence, Masi Museum in Lugano. She collaborated in the creation of the special project La Piattaforma della Danza Balinese for Santarcangelo Festival 14 and 15 and in the 21st edition of Live Arts Week with Xing. Since 2019 she has played an active part in the Sup de Sub project aimed at very young non-professionals from the suburbs of Marseille and Paris. In October 2021 she was a guest artist for the Juntarte project in Havana, Cuba, curating the Cuba>>Firenze 2032 project for Fabbrica Europa Festival. She is currently involved as a mentor in the Creative Campus project curated by Sardegna Teatro.
concept, choreography, costumes, ambience and sound: Cristina Kristal Rizzo
dance: Giulia Cannas and Cristina Kristal Rizzo
production: Fuorimargine – Centro di Produzione di Danza e Arti Performative della Sardegna
photo: Laura Farneti
