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SMALL TALK: Landscape of a Between (2024)


performance - 30 mins

teaser
 https://vimeo.com/1027333393
credits
conception, dramaturgy, direction, set and performance / Maria Luigia Gioffrè
external eyes / Giulia Currà, Anna Carrapetta, Nicolò Pianalto
sound landscape / Eleonora Pisati
first study on body sonification / Maria Lisa Bosi, Andrea Giomi
photo credits / Raffaele Diacono

preview and first studio sharing
Societas (June 2024, Cesena, IT)
Sumac Space (June 2024, Berlin, DE) 

 shows
Costellazioni Rassegna Teatrale, ASTERLIZZE, Spazio Antro (November 2024, Turin, IT)


Small Talks questions the liminal and political edge of the human interaction. Working in between dance and performance, it acts through intimacy, embodying a choreographic research on the deconstruction of the mimic gesture of human conversations. By investigating units of movement in non-verbal language, it develops a score of actions which manifest themselves in the very act of becoming. Through the use of scraps of discourses, voices and actions belonging to the realm of daily western communication, Small Talk sets itself as an attempt of building up an archaeological and muscular landscape of contemporary existence.

Decolonising gestures from intentions, but rather inhabiting movement as such, the performance plays fragments and scraps of discourse, voices and actions retrieved from daily conversations in whatsapp’s chat archives -  a uncatalogued archive of epistolary documents - setting up a human and non-human archaeological and submerged landscape.

Building on the theoretical notion of individuation as intended by Gilbert Simondon, the acting body inhabits a constant attempt of becoming without reaching a form, but dealing with the endless process of relation with the environment that surrounds it. In this framework, starting from the analysis of gestures belonging to the vocabulary of conversational mimics, the piece looks at choreography as a discipline of writing bodies, investigating movements of becoming that occur behind complete actions. It embodies saying as desire, a desire of expression that, in the moment of becoming an action, liquifies itself

                                                                                                                       

                                       2025  © Maria Luigia Gioffre