GIORGIA MARETTA
Still Figure With Life
(2007)
20:00 min

Concept / direction: Giorgia Maretta
Choreography / performed by: Giorgia Maretta, Erika Faccini
Stage director: Silvia Cantoni
Direction-collaboration, text / sound-design: Andrea Cavallari
Light-design: Sebastiano Leddi
English tutor: Claudia Pitto
Stage photographer: Federico Ambrosi

Supported by: Dance Point Milan
Thanks to: Marni Theatre Bruxelles

Project realized with the support of Azione Movin'up

About the performance:

First, let us describe one of Balthus’ paintings Cat of the Mediterranean. A man with a cat face man is sitting at a lunch table: a fish on the plate. He is eating the fish. Behind him, a rainbow is “fishing”, fish landing on the man’s plate, or the rainbow dissolves in the fish: both solutions could be right.

In the sea, there is a girl, Bataille’s daughter and Balthus’ lover to be. She is on a tiny boat, which is going away and the girl is waving not the cat man, but to an outside character. The boat is sailing towards the rainbow and it is supposed that it will be going to follow the rainbow, landing on the plate.

The performance took part at the XIII Biennial of the Young Artists from the Europe and the Mediterranean, Puglia 2008.

About the author:

Giorgia Maretta is a choreographer based in Milan, Italy. Her pieces were presented in Italy, Croatia and Poland. At present, she is working on a new piece supported by Summer Studios in Brussels.

Erika Faccini, dancer, she lives between Italy and Bruxelles. In Italy she performed with Virgilio Sieni Danza Company. At the moment she is working with T.P.O. company and Giorgia Maretta.