PLAY THE CLAY
What shape does thought have? And on what scale does matter vibrate?
Play the Clay is a sensory and visual journey into the heart of the creative process, where gesture becomes language and clay becomes body.
Two dancers, in dialogue with the material, embody the sculptor’s thoughts, transforming them into movement, rhythm, breath. In this alchemy of flesh and earth, the artwork comes to life not only as an object, but as a living, ever-changing experience. Just as the hands that mold clay give shape to an image, so the mind molds reality, shaping emotions, transforming intuitions into actions.
The stage becomes a laboratory of the soul, a space where stillness and turbulence coexist, where every gesture is a question about the relationship between idea and form, between impulse and matter.In a silent dialogue between bodies and clay, a dynamic statue is born: fragile and powerful, unfinished and perfect in its becoming.
Play the Clay is a journey into the deepest self, an invitation to contemplate creation no as a final act, but as a continuous process of transformation.
ON LINES
Two bodies inhabit a threshold: the space between the tangible and the digital. Through dance and their interaction with screens and projections, the performers move across real and virtual worlds that mirror, overlap, and intertwine with one another. The stage becomes a hybrid territory where technology and human presence merge into a choreography of images, movement, and emotion.
The recognition and acceptance of the double through dance, a supreme act of love that allows the mask of mutual identification to be cast aside, enabling two beings to become one.
In the transition between different planes and dimensions, gesture transforms into form and becomes a bond; from the horizontal line that drives us toward matter, we move to the vertical one that leads us toward the spirit.
A duality that finds a different destiny only through the search for balance between the masculine and the feminine, fulfilling the Heraclitean principle: “What is opposed converges, and from discord arises the most beautiful harmony.”
An inner journey guided by the powerful energy of two dancers, leading to the discovery of oneself in the other.
HAIR F*CK
“HAIRFUCK” is a performance art piece that sees five women connected by a single braid of hair desperately trying to reach the “wild woman” she who lives freely from society’s expectations.
The length of hair is often equated with beauty, and beauty, in turn, becomes synonymous with youth, vitality, and ultimately, fertility. By weaving the dancers together with a single braid, the piece visually expresses the weight of these expectations, as well as the inherent strength and vulnerability that come with navigating them.
The braid itself becomes a symbol of how women are not only measured by these standards but are also bound by them in ways that affect their sense of identity and belonging. The “wild woman” walks freely into the future, never reached and never moulding.
2025
Performed at
Alberto Di Fabio Atelier, Roma.
Direction
Vittoria Rizzardi Peñalosa
Movement Direction
Arianna Balestrieri
Performers
Arianna Balestrieri,
Chiara Borgh,
Alessandra Fontana,
Flaminia Amoroso,
Dana Lozada Cortez and
Giulia Alvear Calderon.
Music Composed Live
Massimiliano Frateschi
Wigs
Giulia Giorgi
(Baburka Production Factory)
Hair Styling
Michela Pezzarossa &
Gaia Santoro
Bodypaint Vision
Developed with
Silvia Castellucci
Executed
Jacqueline Mancini
Assistant
Stefania Bartola
