ROMA / Parco di Torre del Fiscale
Via dell’Acquedotto Felice 120
21 june 2024
h 19.30
Biglietti in vendita dal 3 maggio
PERFORMANCE | SITE SPECIFIC | DANCE
Metis is a choreographic and sound action. The project investigates issues related to gender geography, a field of study that questions, among other things, how the bodies of not binary people and women live and relate to the urban space. Métis (μέτις), in ancient Greek literally “advice, cunning,” is a strategy of relating to other people. It consists of “putting oneself in the other person’s shoes” by adopting for a moment the other person’s worldview in such a way as to imagine “what she sees that escapes me.” The performer’s bodies are moved by a sound scape composed of the heterogeneous network of stories, noises, questions, readings and sounds activating actions, dances and atmospheres that open toward an alternative vision and stimulate the creation of new urban worlds.
Duration: 40 min
Creation and performance: Francesca Penzo and Mariagiulia Serantoni
Sound composition: Andrea Parolin
Drawings: Mario Serantoni
Production: Micce
Bio Artists
Francesca Penzo is a choreographer and performer, she works to build spaces of sharing and activism with intersectional feminism issues at the center. A graduate of the Paolo Grassi Academy in Milan, she has gained experience in the field, in Italy and abroad, as a performer and co-produced creator. A degree in Cultures and Human Rights from the Faculty of Political Science in Bologna enabled her to develop expertise on issues of law in migratory contexts and gender issues. She has been the artistic director of the Th!nk P!nk Festival since 2018 at the Fabbrica del Vapore in Milan and Cantieri Meticci in Bologna. In 2021 he founded Micce.
Mariagiulia Serantoni, is a dance artist with a degree in choreography and research from Master Exerce, Montpellier. Based in Berlin since 2014, she collaborated with dance companies and choreographers like Laborgras, D. Hernandez, Keith A. Thompson and Jule Flierl. Her work Eutropia was nominated for Equilibrio prize in 2018 and premiered at MilanOltre Festival in 2019, while Underground Memoirs received the Vivo d’Arte prize, presented at Romaeuropa Festival 2019. Since 2020
is part of the association Micce. In 2022, she receives the research fund Tanzpraxis by Berliner Senat.
Micce which means Sparks in Italian, was born in 2021 out of a desire to propose a vision of art intertwined with social issues. Micce is made up of all-female team of women artists and designers who believe in the importance of art as a tool for activism, participation and building a social and cultural vision. A group of women artists and activists come together to create an association that has members from five different countries within it. Micce is concerned with carrying out activities related to the world of performing arts, education, sociality, and active citizenship with an accessible and plural transfeminist approach. Since 2024 Micce is a member of IETM – International network for contemporary performing arts.
