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as part of Fabbrica Europa 2024

Fine is an investigation into the relationship with the biological, spiritual, artistic and symbolic mother. In the Andean religion, Pachamama, which in the Quechua language means Cosmic Mother, Celestial Mother, Mother Nature, is a form of gratitude that man makes to nature, it is the union between man and nature.

With Fine we suspend our gaze on an encounter, both with the human and with the world of nature. In this middle area, memories emerge without a temporal order, a metaphysical journey that lets in and makes possible and visible what already was, what already existed. End is A quantum leap that lives everywhere and nowhere. It is a final rite to thank what has been and which in its conclusion is preparing to be born in another form.
Fine thus becomes a rite of Pachamama, a form of recognition and gratitude that the author addresses to her artistic mothers, Milena Costanzo and Raffaella Giordano, women who with their words, their bodies full of knowledge, experiences and memories they acted as a guide on his artistic journey.
Today, their bodies are like Sacred Temples of a theater that has left a mark and which makes them essential witnesses of the final chapter of Olimpia Fortuni‘s trilogy where the author becomes the link between past and future, between mother and daughter, between memories and visions, where the body is the guardian of tools for knowing the other and the beyond.

Fine is the trace of an invisible line on which, at a certain point of the journey, the gaze rested for this creation, awakening the question of me as a child: “how do you create a show as beautiful as Nature?”
And my wanderings in places where nature is majestic and monstrous, between Namibia, Ecuador, Iceland and also the encounter with various shamanic practices, have trained my gaze in search of that secret. A dear theme, which retraces my artistic trajectory, persevering in this research on the observation of the relationship between man and Nature, a Mother nature that includes everything, an entity that embraces all living beings and makes them part of a single immense cosmic gear, of a universal plan that includes everything that has been created.

– Olimpia Fortuni –

Olimpia Fortuni is a dancer and choreographer graduated at the Paolo Grassi Academy in Milan and at the two-year course “Scritture per la danza contemporanea” directed by Raffaella Giordano. Starting from the body, her research has been based for years on the study of time as a quality of movement and on the observation of the relationship between man, nature and animal, which are the central themes of her creations. In 2010, together with 11 other artists, she created the collective Famigliafuchè. She worked as a dancer for Kiss by Tino Seghal and in Lo scorrevole by Vettor Pisani, for Costanzo/Rustioni, Arearea, Valdoca, Samotracia, Giorgio Rossi, Raffaella Giordano, Casa Strasse, Zerogrammi, Company Blu. She is co-author, together with Pieradolfo Ciulli, of Viale dei Castagni 16 (2014), awarded at the Next Milano competition. Soggetto senza Titolo, a solo selected at the Vetrina Giovane Danza d’Autore of the Anticorpi network, debuted at the Kilowatt Festival 2017 with the full version. Fray, a solo selected at the Vetrina Giovane Danza d’Autore of the Anticorpi network (2017), has toured in Italy and France. In 2018 she debuted with DO ANIMALS GO TO HEAVEN?, her first group choreography. In the same year she took part in the co-creation project Who cares? Ecologia del dialogo for Matera 2019 – European Capital of Culture. In 2020 she begun the research path Studio sull’Essere. With this project she was in residency at the Italian Cultural Institute in Paris and in Ísafjörður (Iceland) as part of the RoundTrip project. In 2022, together with the musician Katatonic Silentio, she created X, a profound human and artistic exchange where sound and body meet. An associate artist of Sosta Palmizi, she currently works for Ambra Senatore at the CCN in Nantes.

concept and choreography: Olimpia Fortuni
sound: Katatonic Silentio
human and artistic contribution: Milena Costanzo e Raffaella Giordano
dramaturgical contribution: Cinzia Sità
stage assistant: Elisa Spina
technical direction: Silvia Laureti
production: Sosta Palmizi
co-production: Teatro delle Moire/Danae Festival, Fabbrica Europa
residency support: IntercettAzioni – Centro di Residenza Artistica della Lombardia, Olinda/TeatroLaCucina, Danza Urbana – Rete h(abita)t/Sementerie Artistiche

Thanks to Corinna Ciulli for shamanic practices and to Pieradolfo Ciulli for video assistance during the creative process