maria teresa tanzarella
nordified (2015-2016)
with Alessandro Sollima (Sicily Made) and Maria Teresa Tanzarella
with the support of Long Life Burning Wild Cards, Cullberg Ballet and Riksteatern (Stockholm, Sweden)
A schizophrenic piece in three acts.
On one hand we have common ways to think, develop and research; on the other hand we are very different, but somehow complementary to each other.
Two solos (con)fusing themselves in a duet.
Structures, patterns, repetitions, difficult things, tiring things, things that we don't like so much, free material, survival strategies, exhaustion, confusion, states of mind and our common southern Italian origins in a nordified version.
How can we bring together two solos that are so personally linked to our individualities? How much do they really have in common? What will happen if they meet? How can they reinforce eacht other?
The fantastically trivial Nordified. Perhaps dance is always a ritual of simple pleasure.[...]
It’s delightful to watch two artists work together with a genuine freedom of concept. [...] The result is wonderfully unrestrained, moving through its loose juxtapositions [...] expressing nothing in particular, beyond a particular childish curiosity with the question of ‘how do we fit together?’.
[...] It’s fair to say that the piece fulfills all of this sprawling, irreverent promise. [...] Nordified expresses a burden-less joy, which may be conceptually shallow, lacking in some bigger target. But it’s the best kind of shallow – one almost comically concerned with surfaces and the pleasure therein, limiting itself to a simple project and within that, achieving a distinct reminder of the particular freedom that dance has perhaps always been there for.
(Richard Pettifer, THEATERSTÜCK, 25.5.2016)