On the occasion of the International Day of Dance and as part of the activities organised around the exhibition Tracce/Huellas | Arte italiana. Opere dalla galleria Giorgio Persano 1970 – 2021 (Traces/Huellas / Italian Art: Works from the Giorgio Persano Gallery 1970 – 2021), the Italian Cultural Institute of Madrid will present the show ‘CUTE’ by the Matroos DanceTheatre Company.
Presented at the 2015 Rome Fringe Festival where it was nominated for Best Director and won the Special Off Award, CUTE is a living painting, a tale of images and metaphors linked to the sensations and experiences of the surface of the skin, the boundary between the inner world and outer reality. On the fabric of an enormous canvas the interior movements appear, the folds of the skin, wounds like furrows, narrating the transformations, separations and memories, visions necessary for the recurring change of skin. The scenography takes cues from Arte Povera artists in the use of recycled materials assembled according to pictorial inspiration. The dance moves in communication with the fabric in a continuous dialogue of stimulus and response to the music and sounds that track the events through improvisation and experimentation.
Matroos Dance Theatre Company is a dance theatre company with national and international experience, directed by Lisa Rosamilia since 2005 by. It seeks to explore the relationship between choreographic language, scenography and sonic environment. The company produces shows which have featured in festivals and theatres in Italy and abroad, including: the international art exhibition The Body Language 2020 in Venice; the Istanbul Fringe Festival with the support of the Italian Cultural Institute of Istanbul; the International Festival of Contemporary Dance of Mexico City FIDCDMX 2018 and the Coffi Festival Interdisciplinary Art 2017 in Berlin.
More information at: iicmadrid.esteri.it.
