E LA BELLA STANZA È VUOTA

Concept and choreography Gianmaria Borzillo
performance, creation and artistic collaboration Antonio Tagliarini, Barbara Novati, Fra De Isabella, Gianmaria Borzillo, Nicole De Leo
music Diamond Jubilee (Cindy Lee, 2024)
light and set design Cosimo Ferrigolo, Valeria Foti
curation and promotion Giulia Traversi, Irene Rossini
production corpoceleste_C.C.00#
with the support of ZEIT/ LeAlleanze Dei Corpi, mareculturale urbano – Milan

E la bella stanza è vuota was inspired by Cindy Lee’s album Diamond Jubilee, a series of suggestions that guide the creation of the work, as well as the energy and spirit of being on stage. The album is the first element of a dramaturgy that seeks to reflect on the elusive and imperceptible relationship with the other, attempting to dialogue, perhaps in vain, with the memorial need underlying the photographic action: Nan Goldin, for example, photographs in order to impossibly grasp her sister Barbara. The photo, which is a cast, captures the moment, restoring people who are gone; yet the mystery persists. All that remains is the testimony of this gathering of solitudes. The mystery of the relationship and a photo shoot with five performers: a work that attempts to construct a cross-section of a multiple and varied humanity that literally passes before us; almost a raw, vivid and subacid synthesis of a series of stories that manifest themselves through the relationship between bodies and identities and their metamorphoses, a becoming-looked-at and a looking that becomes dance. A movement that will ultimately leave only the aura of the memory of the people who have passed through this now empty room.

Gianmaria Borzillo is a dancer, performer and director. His creative research spans multiple languages: dance, performance, literature and cinema, driven by the need to create works dictated by a compositional freedom that can range across disciplines. After graduating as a dancer from the Paolo Grassi Civic Theatre School, he obtained a degree in modern literature and continued his studies in cinema and literature at the Sorbonne in Paris. He is one of the performers in Alessandro Sciarroni’s works and has also collaborated with Chiara Bersani, Antonio Tagliarini, Alessandro Carboni and Jacopo Miliani. His first work, under the influence, received a special mention in the Venice Biennale’s directors’ competition. His second project, Femenine by Julius Eastman, was among the winners of the IIC’s Nouveau Grand Tour in Paris and was supported by CENTQUATRE-PARIS, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection and Oriente/Occidente. Her latest performance research, E la bella stanza è vuota, was selected for the Nid Platform 2025.