as part of Primavera dei Teatri 2023

 
Roberta Racis, after a period of residency, presents a Study of her new creation Atto bianco.

With this work the choreographer and performer investigates the “white act” of romantic ballet as a scenic device for representing pain.
A solo that reflects on mourning and fragility, a coming of age that passes through the exploration of the shadow zones of a dancer’s journey.
Here, the forest of villi is an enchanted wood but also the place where a woman remembers the park below the house where she first lost herself as a child.
A journey into the unconscious in which the focus is on the body, which exposing itself to the vulnerability of life goes through change by dancing.

Roberta Racis is an Italian dancer, performer and dance maker. She completed her training as a dancer at the Scuola del Balletto di Toscana and at MAGDA at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale. In Lisbon she has worked for the CPBC (Companhia Portuguesa de Bailado Contemporaneo) under the direction of Vasco Wallenkamp for the production Fado. In Brussels she has collaborated with several choreographers such as Natalia Vallebona, Amanda Xuehai, Yassine Payne. From 2015 to 2018 she was part of the Italian company Balletto di Roma, dancing in productions of numerous choreographers such as Alessandro Sciarroni, Chris Haring (Liquid Loft), Itamar Serussi Sahar, Paolo Mangiola, Francesca Pennini, Giorgia Nardin. Since 2017 she is one of the five dance makers of the European project Performing Gender promoted by Yorkshire Dance Leeds, City of Women in Ljubljana, Paso a 2 Certamen Choreography in Madrid, Theaterfestival Boulevard’s Hertogenbosch, C.S.C. Bassano del Grappa and Gender Bender Festival. Since 2018 she has collaborated with Alessandro Sciarroni for the Augusto project and for the Turning project. Since 2018 she has been collaborating with choreographer Masako Matsushita and since 2019 with the choreographer Francesco Marilungo. She is one of the founders, authors and performers of the Collettivo MINE, whose debut work “Esercizi per un manifesto poetico” was been selected for the 2022 NID New Italian Dance Platform and Aerowaves Twenty22. Since 2020 she has collaborated with the choreographer Enzo Cosimi and she has been part of the European networking project Dance&dramaturgy for Theatre Sevelin 36 in Lausanne, La Bellone Brussels, Bora Bora Aarhus and C.S.C. Bassano del Grappa. In 2022 she was one of the dance artists selected for the CRISOL – creative processes project.

project, choreography, dance: Roberta Racis
music project: Samuele Cestola
dramaturgical collaboration: Dea Merlini, Martina Badiluzzi
vocal coaching: Alessandra Diodati
set, scenography: Cmf Scenografie
costume: Rebecca Ihle
production: Fabbrica Europa, Primavera dei Teatri, Oscenica

[photo: Robin Mercuri]