Elisa Sbaragli (IT)

Se Domani_studio

Villa Simonetta, Verbania
Spring 2025

Se domani_studio starts from an identity exploration to uncover and reveal our transversal, historical, social fragilities in front of a contemporaneity imbued with a plural crisis, economic, intimate, and climatic. It seems that to act, humans need to find themselves in a state of emergency and can only contemplate the existence of change when it is inevitable, where there is nothing left to protect them, and they must strip away all certainty. In If tomorrow, the crisis becomes body, sound, and movement. The word crisis is reinterpreted in its original meaning of choice and possibility, allowing us to find "the other," to change, renew, be alive, and not consider ourselves immortal. There are two bodies on stage immersed in a space on the brink of collapse. An undefined space that, in our imagination, continues to crumble moment by moment. These two bodies continue to advance, traversing the space as if on two rails. They slowly strip off their certainties, the crisis surrounding them also becomes their personal one: it creates energy, fills the space, and by breaking the rails, offers points of encounter between the two individuals. In advancing, will they fill the space between them, or will their space disappear with them at the end of the race? Will they turn their gazes? Two disturbing movements in the attempt to re-configure themselves and reconfigure even at the brink of the end. Accompanying these bodies on their path will be the sound, the bearer of the crumbling of space that will become an important narrative element to relate to. From fragmentation into ever smaller pieces until it becomes ethereal.
The project opens to the CROSS public with a workshop activity and a final performance.

FROM BODY TO WORD, FROM WORD TO BODY
Workshop
The meetings are a moment to reflect on the theme of "crisis" through exercises and processes that investigate the expressive, narrative, and symbolic relationship between the word and the body, starting from the research experience we are carrying out for the creation of the choreographic work "If tomorrow". Exercises that start from creating texts, from the search for words, becoming a foundational element to think about the theme addressed and to start a process of embodiment, not as a mimesis of the concept and the imaginary, but as an attempt to return the word to its original impact on the body.
This mode of study and artistic research will be the key to opening the work to different users, towards a wider community or towards existing groups.

Choreographer Elisa Sbaragli // dramaturgy by Eliana Rotella // performer Lorenzo de Simone // sound design by Edoardo Sansonne // lighting and technical design by Fabio Brusadin // costumes by Chiara Corradini // care and management by Marco Burchini // production Tir Danza // with the support of Citofonare PimOff, Scintille - Festival of Performative Arts, HOME Choreographic Creation Center 2023/Perugia residency project of Dance Gallery, Sosta Palmizi, Cross Project, Anghiari Dance Hub, Teatro della Contraddizione.

Elisa Sbaragli is a dancer and choreographer interested in the discovery of otherness, liminal places and spaces, and the possibility of deconstructing the forms of the body and codified movement. Since 2016 she has been pursuing her own authorial research by collaborating with artists from different backgrounds ranging from music, performing arts, and visual arts. Since 2017 her works, presented in various dance festivals, are produced by DanceMe (Perypezye Urbane) with the support of MiC – Ministry of Culture and the Creative Europe program within the DanceMe UP project. In the same year she concluded Azione, directed by Sosta Palmizi. Her other works are: Industrial Soundscape (special mention for CROSS Award 2019); Besides Me, with Sissj Bassani; Vacuo; Cambia-menti, with live music by Elia Anelli and Attraverso. In 2023 she is selected by CRISOL – CREATIVE PROCESSES for Boarding Pass Plus, working with Heine Avdal (NO) and Yukiko Shinozaki (JP) for the elsewhere&elsewhen project, performing at the Festival (((O)))utpost 2023 – Flørli (NO). Also in 2023, she opens the artistic research of If Tomorrow (Se domani) whose project is the winner of the call for residency Citofonare PimOff 23/24 and HOME Calling 2023.

Ph. Credits: Paolo Sacchi

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