photos Antonio Ficai - Fondazione Armunia

ideation, choreography and dance Ilenia Romano
music Edoardo Maria Bellucci
light designer Leonardo Badalassi
video Lorenzo Letizia
vocal coaching Virginia Guidi
costume Ilenia Romano and Svetlana Mikova / realization Liuba Dounaeva
production PinDoc
co-production Umbria Danza Festival
with the support of MiC, Regione Siciliana, Armunia, Home Centro Creazione Coreografica, SPAM! Rete per le arti contemporanee, Anghiari Dance Hub, Viagrande Studios, IterCulture

VACUUM. La conquista del vuoto is a solo that takes inspiration from the changing nuances of the mythical character of Helen of Troy (without revealing her in a descriptive way) to trace her archetypal traits and their possible evolution-resolution. Elena is an "irregular" woman, contradictory, modern and surprising in a predominantly phallocentric world. She arouses different feelings: love, attraction, hate, condemnation, understanding. Of semi-divine origin, she appears beautiful and dangerous, at the mercy of events and a divine will against which nothing can. Her fault does not seem to lie in an act but in a non-action, in a withdrawal. In her name, at the same time victim and "obscure object" of the same desire, massacres and deceptions are carried out.
The work is an ode to those who never feel at home, to those who float in their own emptiness saturated with images of others, to those who seek their own 'Word'. It is a game about annulling and reinforcing parts of oneself in an attempt to rediscover, deform and reform oneself, according to Necessity. It is a journey through iconographies of the sacred feminine, of the bestial, of the Greek world: images that come alive and dialogue in an almost dreamlike landscape in the liminal film between inside and outside. It is a search movement, as ancient as it is current, of (im)possible and permanent self-liberation from oneself.