Photo credit: Teatro in Quota

The body of the dancer is transformed into the landscape of the performance through live videography. Il Mio Corpo è (Come) Un Monte (my body is like a mountain) juxtaposes different aesthetics, inviting the audience to shift between different realities, blurring the boundary between the physical and the imaginative. The body becomes a medium that tries to merge with the rocks on the stage, a reminiscent symbol of the mountain. The live camera allows the visual narrative to focus on details and isolate them from their physical context, alternating corporeal and abstract dimensions. On Friday 20 June, Collettivo EFFE will also present a participatory project Io, montagna (Me, a mountain) with a selected group of local dancers and performers.

Credits

Il mio corpo è (Come) un monte (My body is like a mountain)

A project by Collettivo EFFE

Director and author Giulia Odetto

with Lidia Luciani, Daniele Giacometti, Giulia Odetto

sounds Lorenzo Abattoir

lights Daniele Giacometti, Elena Vastano

dramaturg and assistant director Antonio Careddu

mentor Filippo Andreatta

selected by Powered by REf 2021 and L’Italia dei Visionari 2023 

coproduced by Romaeuropa Festival and Mirabilia - International Circus & Performing Arts Festival, with the support of OHT | Office for a Human Theater 

in partnership with Romaeuropa Festival, section ANNI LUCE osservatorio di futuri possibili  and Carrozzerie | n.o.t

artistic residencies organized by Periferie Artistiche – Centro di Residenza Multidisciplinare della Regione Lazio 

In network with ATCL – Circuito Multidisciplinare del Lazio per Spazio Rossellini

supported by KOMM TANZ/PASSO NORD residency program by Compagnia Abbondanza/Bertoni in partnership with Comune di Rovereto

supported by OFFICINE CAOS anc TRAC Centro di Residenza Pugliese - Coop. Crest Taranto

With the support of Dancescapes/Mobility Grant, an initiative promoting international touring and training abroad, promoted by Danza Urbana ETS with the contribution of the Italian Ministry of Culture (MiC)

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Io, montagna (Me, a mountain)

Friday 20 June, 8PM

Collettivo EFFE also presents a participatory project with a selected group of local dancers and performers

A project by Collettivo EFFE

Direction and concept Giulia Odetto

with Lidia Luciani, Daniele Giacometti, Giulia Odetto

dramaturg and assistant director Antonio Careddu

With the support of Dancescapes/Mobility Grant, an initiative promoting international touring and training abroad, promoted by Danza Urbana ETS with the contribution of the Italian Ministry of Culture (MiC)

Biographies

Collettivo EFFE

Collettivo EFFE, active since 2018, investigates the intersection of applied technologies and a wide range of performative languages, both inside and outside traditional theatre. The collective is a collaborative endeavour led by Giulia Odetto (director/author), Antonio Careddu (dramaturg/author), Camilla Soave (dancer/video artist), and a diverse network of artists. From the outset, Collettivo EFFE has focused on three key elements: the creation of image-based dramaturgy (with a particular focus on live video), the central role of the human body and the exploration of its relationship with the “other” - often expressed through dialogue with the landscape or its fragments. By integrating multiple performance languages, Collettivo EFFE seeks to challenge and expand audience perception, making technology an organic extension of the human form. Supported by institutions such as Romaeuropa Festival, Teatro Stabile di Torino and the Venice Biennale, the projects of Collettivo EFFE span major collaborations as well as work in rural or marginal settings.

Giulia Odetto - director/author

In 2018, she graduated as an actress from the National Theatre of Turin. With a keen interest in both the performative and directorial aspects of creative processes, she directed Romeo & Giuliette and Avesta in 2016 while still a student. She was nominated as Best Emerging Actress at the Maschere del Teatro Italiano in 2018 and for the Virginia Reiter Award in 2019. Giulia has collaborated with the Mirabilia Festival since 2015. Since 2018, she has been part of the Collettivo EFFE, exploring the intersection of performance, sound, video and design. In 2020, she presented Onirica at the Venice Biennale's Under 30 Directors section and worked as an assistant director for Leonardo Lidi, Filippo Dini and Valerio Binasco on productions at the National Theatre of Turin. In 2021, she served as Antonio Latella's assistant in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and was invited to the Summer School at the Santa Cristina Theater Center. The same year, she won the call for under 30 artists Powered by REf.

Daniele Giacometti - video artist/performer

After graduating in Cinema Engineering, he has worked as a video maker, video operator, and Director of Photography (DoP). In 2012, he produced his first short documentary, The Kona Cloud Forest Sanctuary, which was filmed in Hawaii. He served as a video operator for the docufilm Cuervolucion, distributed by MTV Italia. In Mexico, he directed Félix Beltràn, a short documentary about one of the most influential graphic designers of the Cuban Revolution. In 2016, he worked as an operator for Vice México, contributing to several documentaries for the network and co-directed the documentary Vidas de Vidrio alongside Tommaso Valli. Since 2017 he has collaborated with Giulia Odetto as a video performer and light designer on projects such as Avesta, Kardias and Onirica.

Lidia Luciani - performer

Lidia began her journey in the world of dance at the age of nine. In 2010 she was accepted into the School of the Ballet of Tuscany, under the direction of Cristina Bozzolini. Two years later in 2012, she embarked on a new professional training program at Opus Ballet in Florence. In 2018, she graduated from the theatre dance course at the Paolo Grassi Civic School of Theater and collaborated with the Kaiser-Antonino Ensemble on the production "RADICAL ROOTS," which was showcased at the Akzente Festival in Duisburg. The same year, she presented her first choreographic project at the inaugural edition of CloseUP. In 2019, she was a resident artist at IntercettAzioni, the Artistic Residence Center of Lombardy. Also in 2019, she participated in Epizón with Collective EFFE and performed as a soloist in UndergroundRoof by Andrea Dore at the Anghiari Dance Hub.