BODY SWEATS (FOR ELSA)
By Giorgia Lolli
with Vittoria Caneva, Elena Grappi, Maria Chiara Vitti, Giorgia Lolli
costumes Eva-Liis Lidenburg, Sara Lando (tiger)
sound Sebastian Kurtén
dramaturgy Piero Ramella
production Nexus Factory
with the contribution of the Ministry of Culture, Emilia-Romagna Region, Municipality of Bologna
with the support of MiC and SIAE, within program “Per Chi Crea” and supportER – Rete Anticorpi Emilia-Romagna, Nouveau Grand Tour 2024 (IIC Paris and Le Gymnase CNDC, Roubaix), Ira Institute, Operaestate/CSC Centro di Residenza del Veneto – Vene. Re, Piemonte dal Vivo as part of the Lavanderie a Vapore Choreographic Residencies project, I Teatri di Reggio Emilia, HOME 2025 / Dance Gallery Perugia, City of Espoo Culture Committee, Arts Promotion Centre Finland, Graner (Barcelona)
as part of LANDING, a project supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, produced by Santarcangelo Festival, in collaboration with and with the support of the Italian Cultural Institute in Oslo
artistic residency presented as part of the R.O.M. (Residencies On the Move) network for Reykjavik Dance Festival, at the invitation of Santarcangelo Festival, in partnership with La Balsamine (Belgium), le joli collectif – Théâtre l’Aire Libre (France), Théâtre Prospero and Théâtre Periscope (Canada)
BODY SWEATS (for Elsa) is a tribute to Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874-1927), poet and avant-garde artist, pioneer of the Dada movement. The title is taken from her collection of poems of the same name, 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 agent of a heterogeneous collage of dance and textual materials. Love letters between friends and lovers. Waterless gymnastics in tiger-striped bodysuits. A poem for the Baroness. Dedicating a split to her. Dada(umpa).
Giorgia Lolli holds a Master’s degree in Choreography from Helsinki Uniarts (2025) and has worked between Italy and Finland for the past three years. Since 2022, she has been teaching Dance Well – Movement Research for Parkinson’s as part of the European project coordinated by Operaestate. Her choreographic work has been featured on various foreign and national platforms (Anghiari Dance Hub 2020, Vetrina della Giovane Danza d’Autore 2021, SIAE Per Chi Crea 2023, Nuovo Forno del Pane 2023, MAMbo – Museum of Modern Art in Bologna). With EAT ME, winner of DNAppunti Coreografici, he made his debut at the Romaeuropa Festival 2024.
