within the Oltre le mura / Beyond the walls project

A workshop led by Silvia Calderoni and Ilenia Caleo, addressed to performers, experimenters of languages, dancers, and to those who wish to experience performative practices

Writing about the present, giving new bodies to the future within the apocalypse.
During the three days of the workshop we will simultaneously activate the body and the concrete imagination to study how they act on each other. We will experiment practices of improvisation and composition: physical actions, repetition, sweat, relationship with other bodies, human and non-human, and with the surrounding space.
Through the expanded use of the body, of listening and perception we will try other languages, different from the usual ones, to break the consolidated perceptions that organize the inside and the outside, the frame of the representation, the consequentiality. The workshop is a space to do research together, and to train the ability of composition and scenic writing. Who inhabits the scene is the author.
We are interested in the boundary between the sensitive and the imperceptible. On this threshold, we will work on the presence of the performer, on the variation of his/her intensity, but also on his/her precision.
We will work on action and occurrence, on instant dramaturgies, on the memory of the gesture. Making the unexpected happen, training the impossible. The scene as a place-glimpse from which to see.
– Silvia Calderoni, Ilenia Caleo

Silvia Calderoni is an actress and performer. She trained artistically from a very young age with choreographer Monica Francia and with the Teatro della Valdoca company, performing in several productions including Paesaggio con fratello rotto. Since 2006, she has been an active member of the Motus company and has performed in many shows including Rumore Rosa, A place, ICS – racconti crudeli della giovinezza, Crac, Let the sunshine in, Too-late, Iovadovia, Tre atti pubblici, Alexis. Una tragedia greca, nella tempesta, Caliban Cannibal, King Arthur, Tutto brucia, presented in numerous Italian and international festivals. She is the protagonist of The Plot is the Revolution alongside Judith Malina, historical founder of the Living Theatre. Since 2015 she has been on tour in the main international theatres and festivals with her solo MDLSX, for which she has collaborated on the dramaturgy together with Daniela Nicolò. In 2022 she will be on stage again with Valdoca with Enigma. Requiem for Pinocchio. Ubu Award 2009 as the best actress under 30, she is Kaspar in La leggenda di Kaspar Hauser, a cult film directed by Davide Manuli (2012), and then in Last Words (2020) by Jonathan Nossiter with Nick Nolte, Kalipha Touray, Charlotte Rampling, Stellan Skarsgard, Alba Rohrwacher, in the Romolus Sky series, directed by Matteo Rovere and in Non mi uccidere (2021) by Andrea De Sica.
She is an associate artist of the Queering Platform of the Kowloon Cultural District of Hong Kong.

Ilenia Caleo is a performer, activist and researcher. Since 2000 she has been working as an actress, performer and dramaturg in the contemporary scene, collaborating with various companies and directors, including Motus, Lisa Ferlazzo Natoli, Davide Iodice. She is a philosopher by training, she completed a research doctorate in performance studies and political philosophy at the Università La Sapienza in Rome. Her research focuses on corporeality, feminist epistemologies, experimentation in the performing arts, new institutions and forms of cultural work. She is a researcher at the IUAV in Venice and coordinator of the Arts Module of the Studies and Gender Policies Master at the Roma Tre University, and collaborates with the research group of the five-year project “INCOMMON. In praise of community. Shared creativity in arts and politics in Italy (1959-1979)”, ERC Starting Grant. She is the author of the volume Performance, materia, affetti. Una cartografia femminista, Bulzoni 2021 and co-edited In fiamme. La performance nello spazio delle lotte 1967/1979, b-r-u-n-o 2021.
She grew up politically and artistically in the scene of underground counter-cultures and social centers and is an activist of the Teatro Valle Occupato and in the movements of the commons and queer-feminists.

Oltre le mura / Beyond the walls is a project by Fondazione Fabbrica Europa aimed at activating some of the Florence peripheral contexts through performative actions at an international and local level that focus on the concepts of “body”, “sound”, “environment”,“community ”.

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[photo: Rebecca Lena]