MADELEINE
Project, choreography Stefania Tansini
dance Stefania Tansini
sound dramaturgy Enrico Malatesta
lights Elena Gui
costumes Chiara Venturini, Stefania Tansini
organisation and promotion Federica Parisi
co-produced by Nanou Associazione Culturale, Orbita | Spellbound Centro Nazionale di Produzione della Danza
with the production support of Fondazione Teatro Grande di Brescia, I Teatri di Reggio Emilia | Festival Aperto, Torinodanza Festival
with the support of Étape Danse | network of Fabrik Potsdam (DE), Bureau du Théâtre et de la Danse (DE), La Briqueterie CDCN (FR), MosaicoDanza/ Festival Interplay (IT), in partnership with Lavanderiaa Vapore/ Piemonte dalVivo and Torinodanza Festival /Fondazione del Teatro Stabiledi Torino, L’arboreto Centrodi Residenza Emilia-Romagna
thanks to Chiara Organtini, CarolinaEllero, Valentina Foschi, TeodoraGrano, Vincent Giampino• PRODUCTION PARTNERS IN DIALOGUE – Madeleine2026 FOG Performing Arts Festival | Triennale di Milano, Centro Nazionale della Danza Virgilio Sieni, Bolzano-Danza, Romaeuropa Festival, Oriente Occidente
Inspired by Marcel Proust’s famous passage on madeleines, Tansini explores how sensory experiences can collapse the past and present, awakening untamed bodies. Through this lens, presences become instruments capable of revealing the continuous change, overlapping and dissolution of hidden realities and temporalities. At the heart of the project is Tansini’s distinctive physical language, an exploration of the body as an unstable and transformative organism. Her work draws the audience into a state of heightened perception, where the ordinary becomes charged with intimacy and intensity. The performance space is not merely a backdrop, but an integral part of the choreography. The result is an experience that lies “between the crude and the refined, between the formal and the wild”, continually assembling and reassembling fragments of the surrounding world.
Winner of numerous awards, including the 2022 Ubu Prize for Best Performer Under 35, Stefania Tansini develops her choreographic research based on a material and sensory investigation of the body as a place of transfiguration and tension, between form and decay, between control and abandonment, in a constant dialogue between fullness and emptiness. Her works have been presented at numerous festivals, including the Romaeuropa Festival, FOG Festival, Santarcangelo Festival, Gender Bender Festival, La Democrazia del Corpo Festival, Interplay Festival, Bolzano Danza and Emergentia Festival. She is supported by the Fondazione Teatro Grande di Brescia for the period 2022-2024 and by Mosaico-Danza/Interplay for the period 2024-2026.
