People deported to Nazi death camps were called “pieces (pezzi)” by their executioners. Human beings reduced to numbers and things became easy targets for torture and harassment, making it possible to enact atrocities. Dehumanizing is the easiest way to feel no compassion, to kill mercilessly.
PEZZI is a series of short choreographic actions that can be presented in non-theatrical venues.
PEZZI was born from the transmission via audio of the description of some postures in the solo by Paola Bianchi [...] KZ and the instantaneous and direct passage from the word to the body (heterodirection), a passage from body to bodies mediated by the word. A word that has been the driving force behind [...] KZ and that becomes a vehicle of transmission between bodies: from the voices recorded on audiotapes of 51 Italian people deported for political reasons to Nazi death camps during World War II to Paola Bianchi's body-from Paola's body to her recorded voice-from Paola's voice to the bodies of the dancers. A continuous oscillation between voices and bodies. A passage of memories that, through the bodies on stage, brings attention back to all genocides, past and present, in order not to forget and not to let our guard down, ever.