STUDI PER M
project, choreography Stefania Tansini
lighting Elena Gui
costumes Chiara Venturini, Stefania Tansini
organization and promotion Federica Parisi
co-produced by Nanou Associazione Culturale, Orbita | Spellbound Centro Nazionale di Produzione della Danza
with the support of Étape Danse
project supported by Fabrik Potsdam (DE), Bureau du Théâtre et de la Danse (DE), La Briqueterie CDCN (FR), Mosaico Danza/ Festival Interplay (IT), in partnership with Lavanderia a Vapore/ PDV and Torinodanza Festival / Fondazione del Teatro Stabile di Torino, Lavanderia a Vapore | choreographic residencies, Mosaico Danza as part of the FREE SEED -sconfinamenti project, funded under the Torino che Cultura! public notice
“Studi per M” is a preliminary draft, consisting of clues and glimpses of a process aimed at investigating the relationship between places, the human figure, and the temporalities hidden in materials. Within these activities lies a dance production that expands sensitivity towards places, landscapes, and everything that surrounds and welcomes the body, implementing a process of connection between apparent spatial and temporal boundaries within the body. It is like searching for where and when choreographic artifice and the concreteness of reality converge to create a third dimension, an encounter that overflows.
The process moves between the physical plane and the context. Outside or inside the theater, it is a matter of removing the utilitarian function from materials and bringing out what they are, eliminating superstructures or intentions.
The project aims to open up materials and observe their interior, to bring together and sew together pieces of reality, to experience dance as an instrument closer to the unspoken that bodies emanate and places conceal. It seeks to insert itself into a temporal threshold, a gap, a place out of place and out of time, a present state rich in possibilities.
Stefania Tansini, dancer and author, is one of the most respected choreographers in Italian contemporary dance. Winner of several awards, including the 2022 Ubu Prize for Best Performer Under 35, she graduated as a dancer from the Paolo Grassi Civic Theater School in Milan and, since 2020, has presented her work at numerous festivals, including the Romaeuropa Festival, Festival FOG (Milan), Festival di Sant’Arcangelo, Festival Gender Bender (Bologna), Festival La democrazia del corpo (Florence), Festival Interplay (Turin), and Festival Emergentia (Geneva).
“L’ombelico dei limbi” (2024) is her latest solo project. Her choreographic research is rooted in the concept of openness, presence, and limitation, in the constant dialogue between fullness and emptiness, between the subtraction of matter and the stratification of visual, auditory, and emotional stimuli. In her work, she seeks a constant tension between precision and liberation, allowing presence to be transfigured.
She is currently collaborating with Motus, Silvia Rampelli, Cindy Van Acker, and Raffaella Giordano to reinterpret the historic solo by the founder of Sosta Palmizi, “Tu non mi perderai mai” (You will never lose me), which debuted in March at the FOG festival in Milan.