DUO CO-WRITTEN AND CO-DIRECTED BY ERIKA ZUENELI & LAURA SIMI 2024 CREATION AT CANTIERI FLORIDA IN FLORENCE // IN MOVEMENT FESTIVAL – LES BRIGITTINES DURATION: 50’

Both hailing from Florence, Laura Simi and Erika Zueneli have known each other for a long time: their respective paths are parallel and similar. Here, they come together around a saraband, in the search for echoes, both ancestral and contemporary, of our historical and societal rituals.

Investing the body with the thickness of time, patterns, forces and memories, their respective paths meet in a push-me-pull-you of composition and decomposition. With a touch of irony, the show celebrates the energy of dance as a practice that creates spaces and utopias.

THE TEAM

DESIGN & INTERPRETATION: Erika Zueneli & Laura Simi LIGHTING SCENOGRAPHER: Sylvie Melis LIGHTING DIRECTOR: Oriane Trably SOUND CREATION: Perig Villerbu DRAMATURGY & EXTERNAL LOOK: Louise De Bastier COSTUMES: Laura Simi SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATION: Marina Nordera, dance historian

PRODUCTION – Tant’amati asbl in collaboration with Cie SILENDA (FR/BE/IT)

Coproductions : Les Brigittines, Brussels (BE); Charleroi Danse (BE); CCNT-Centre Chorégraphique de Tours direction Thomas Lebrun (FR); Arkanso cie-Festival Regards Dansants, in partnership with Le Trident Scène nationale de Cherbourg en Cotentin (FR); Chorège CDCN de Falaise Normandie as part of Culture-Santé (FR) Residencies: Les Brigittines, Brussels (BE); Charleroi Danse (BE); CFB Berlin (DE), CCNT-Centre Chorégraphique de Tours directed by Thomas Lebrun as part of a studio residency (FR); LCC-La Coopérative chorégraphique de Caen (FR); Cap-étoile Montreuil (FR); Le Studio 24 in Caen (FR); Armunia, artistic residency centre in Tuscany (IT). Support: With the help of the Fédération Wallonie – Bruxelles, Service Général de la Création artistique – Service de la danse, the Région Normandie, the Ville de Caen, the Drac Normandie. Erika Zueneli is supported by the Grand Studio.