© Angelo Maggio ; Hanna Kushnirenko
BODY SWEATS (for Elsa)
BODY SWEATS (for Elsa) is an homage to Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874-1927), a poet and avant-garde artist, a pioneer of the Dada movement. The title is taken from her eponymous collection of poems, an erotic and proto-punk manifesto. Dance, lecture performance, poetry reading, workout: sweat will be a way to explore the intertwining of effort and pleasure, the binding force of a heterogeneous collage of dance and textual materials: love letters between friends and lovers. Waterless aqua aerobics in tiger-striped leotards. A poem for the Baroness. A split in her honour.
Credits
Choreography: Giorgia Lolli
With: Vittoria Caneva, Elena Grappi, Maria Chiara Vitti, Giorgia Lolli
Costumes: Eva-Liis Lidenburg, Sara Lando (tiger)
Sound work: Sebastian Kurtén
Dramaturgy: Piero Ramella
Production: Nexus Factory
With the support of the Emilia-Romagna Region, and the Municipality of Bologna
With the support of MiC and SIAE, within program “Per Chi Crea”, supportER - Rete Anticorpi Emilia-Romagna, Ira Institute, Operaestate/CSC Centro di Residenza del Veneto - Vene.Re, Piemonte dal Vivo in the frame of Residenze Coreografiche Lavanderie a Vapore, I Teatri di Reggio Emilia, HOME 2025 / Dance Gallery Perugia, TAIKE Arts Promotion Center Finland, City of Espoo Culture Committee, SKR Finnish Cultural Foundation, Festival Moving in November, El Graner (Barcelona), Nouveau Grand Tour (IIC Paris and Le Gymnase CNDC, Roubaix)
Giorgia Lolli
Giorgia Lolli (1996) is a dance artist from Reggio Emilia, with a degree in Choreography from the Theater Academy in Helsinki. Her practice weaves together dramaturgical–choreographic research and community-based processes. Her work has been presented in various platforms, including Anghiari Dance Hub, Vetrina della Giovane Danza d’Autore, Nuovo Forno del Pane (MAMbo, Bologna), and DNAppunti Coreografici (Romaeuropa). Since 2022, she has been a Dance Well – Movement Research for Parkinson’s teacher within the European project coordinated by Operaestate.