...et anima mea...(1996)

choreography Raffaella Giordano
dancers Didier Bastide‚ Raffaella Giordano‚ Lara Martelli‚ Bianca Papafava‚ Aldo Rendina‚ Anja Röttgerkamp

collaboration to the dramaturgy Danio Manfredini

music Johann Sebastian Bach‚ Luca Francesconi‚ Dmitrij Shostakovich

sound track Ruelgo

costume design Cidalia Da costa

lighting design Maurizio Viani

lighting technician Marco Cassini

general organisation Laura Stanganini

Co–production Centre National de Danse Contemporaine d’Angers L’Esquisse(Dir.Art. J.Bouvier–R. Obadia) – Associazione Sosta Palmizi

Like naked trees
alive from one hand to the other
with eyes open‚ surprised
from pleasure‚ modesty‚ shame.
I think of the look‚ mute
moved to take in for an instant
our passing of men‚ beyond any belonging.

Men circumscribed in a time‚ in a body‚
disguised‚ unsuspicious.
Carriers beneath their disguise
of a mistery; touched by the desire
and the fear of returning to
their state of having been
children‚ wounded under the eyes of all.

[notes of work by Raffaella Giordano
Angers‚ February ’96]