Tecnicha: teatro

Ella Bottom Rouge/ Anti Diva

Super femmina, scopro il burlesque dopo anni di teatro fisico. Il mio è un passaggio, un
anti-canone, una liberazione dagli stereotipi. Dentro e fuori il mondo patinato e super
femminile del burlesque c’è anche un altro ambito. Femminile si, glamour, si, ma anche
tanto, terribilmente queer. ……………………………………………

Super femme, I discovered burlesque after years working in theatrical productions.
My character is an anti-canon transition, it’s breaking free the strereotypes.
Inside and outside the glossy and hyper feminine burlesque world there’s another side.
Which is femme, glam and queer as hell.

Senith

Senith is a queer drag performer, curator of workshops and events, and queer activist. Co-founder of Eyes Wild Drag, Senith works with the experimentation with roles, genders and the erotic imaginary, and has contributed to the first performative and critical construction of the Faux Queen in Italy, redrawing the queer imaginary around the feminine/femminile.  Senith has often captured the attention of national and international media. In 2012, she was involved in a international tour that took her in numerous European cities, as well as in the US. She is the artistic director of the festival GendErotica. In 2013, in the occasion of the festival, she organized the first Italian (and European) Fem Conference, which gathered together numerous artists, activists, and academics from various parts of the world. In the same year, the festival was hosted by Arte Fiera in the city of Verona, in the space curated by the organization CUNTemporary. In 2015, the “Erotic Lunch” was then born: a lunch-show dedicated to erotism, of which Senith is performer and art director. In 2016, Senith creates her first solo show, BAD ASSolo. In the same year, she plays a role as co-protagonist in the documentary Al di là dello specchio (Beyond the mirror), by Cecilia Grasso, which features in several festivals both in Italy and abroad. The film won the best direction award at the Newark International Film Festival (USA). Morover, Senith participates to the realization of the work La Luna in Folle by the Italo-Libanese artist Adelita Hosni-Bey (which was selected for the Maxxi Award 2016) by performing at the Museo Nazionale per le Arti del XXI Secolo on the 29th of Sept.

Lilly Lablonde

I am a perfomer, writer and director for theatre and cinema. My artistic interest focuses on the desire to represent stories that hardly find their own space in the art world. I have always been very passionate about the topic of gender identity and sexuality.

In my performative works I experiment with different languages of art communication (video, literature, sound and poetry). In the last two years I have been mainly focused in the realization of short films: Immaginare T (2014) and The Second Closet (2015).

Under the artistic name Lilly Lablonde I created the international art project Bibliothèque Érotique that has the goal to work on the topic of erotism and sexuality through literature and the live performance.

Marsala

MARSALA is an artistic collective born in 2013 from the meeting between Maralla Rita and Teresa Sala.  We develop multimedia projects of research about the relationship between body, gender, identity and space. In addition to produce audiovisual materials, “Marsala” promote a visual anthropology workshop aimed to explore the relationship between city and identities in the contemporary society. Rita is a visual anthropologist specialized in different forms of expression: video, collage, installation, photography and writing. Teresa works as a filmmaker and director, alternating commercial work in independent projects. Always interested in the performing arts, in 2015 she writes and directed her first play, “Sanificata”: a monologue about the obsession for cleaning body and spaces.

ZEGRA production

The art of ZEGRA explores the intersection of linguistic and bodily perception, in light of the Italian feminist philosophy of difference. This work attempts to bridge the divide between abstract moral values and their manifestation as relational, sensible, realities.

ZEGRA poetry production is primarily connected to Enrica Giannuzzi’s activity as a philosopher ((http://www.iaphitalia.org/) and theater reviewer (http://nucleoartzine.com/), but it is also made up of multiple dialogues with visual artists and translators.