The essay reflects on Emma Dante, versatile and unusual artist (theatre manager, actress-author, film and opera director). Her story condenses different and apparently conflicting experiences and knowledges (the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Rome, the teachings of Vacis in Turin, the laboratories with Cesare Ronconi) before the foundation of the Sud Costa Occidentale group in Palermo, in 1990, with its subsequent transformations until today. The result is an irregular figure of "matriarch", in the fruitful vein of the new Sicilian dramaturgy, which takes nourishment from the land of origin but with which she feeds a collective and authorial theatre, both dramatic (indeed tragi-comic) and post-dramatic, with European depth, not without arousing controversy and criticism, being awkward and uncomfortable. The analysis of her performance Cani di bancata (2006) aims to highlight themes and styles connected to a feminism that goes beyond gender (in the strict sense) but is able to become metaphor of a world and a human diversity that involves and disturbs us through an irreverent overlook

Ripensare a "Cani di bancata" di Emma Dante. I travestimenti androgini di Mammasantissima

Barsotti A
2019-01-01

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The essay reflects on Emma Dante, versatile and unusual artist (theatre manager, actress-author, film and opera director). Her story condenses different and apparently conflicting experiences and knowledges (the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Rome, the teachings of Vacis in Turin, the laboratories with Cesare Ronconi) before the foundation of the Sud Costa Occidentale group in Palermo, in 1990, with its subsequent transformations until today. The result is an irregular figure of "matriarch", in the fruitful vein of the new Sicilian dramaturgy, which takes nourishment from the land of origin but with which she feeds a collective and authorial theatre, both dramatic (indeed tragi-comic) and post-dramatic, with European depth, not without arousing controversy and criticism, being awkward and uncomfortable. The analysis of her performance Cani di bancata (2006) aims to highlight themes and styles connected to a feminism that goes beyond gender (in the strict sense) but is able to become metaphor of a world and a human diversity that involves and disturbs us through an irreverent overlook
2019
Barsotti, A
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