FULL CREDITS

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Written, directed and performed by Irene Fiordilino

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Produced by Movimento Danza

 

The project was realised within the Art Residency Program "Residanza – La casa della nuova coreografia 2018"

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Performed at:

2020, Paesaggi del Corpo Festival, Casa delle Culture e della Musica, Velletri, Italy

2019, Second Hand Dance Festival, Sala Assoli, Napoli, Italy

2019, FIND Festival Internazionale Nuova Danza, Teatro Civico Sinnai, Cagliari, Italy

2019, Presente Futuro Performance Art Festival, Teatro Libero, Palermo, Italy

2018, Finale Residanza 2018, Sala Assoli, Napoli, Italy

2018, Abeerance #12, London, UK

2017, Zagreb Dance Centre, Zagreb, Croatia

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Awards:

Residanza 2018

Anghiari Dance Hub - Artist Residency and Mentoring Programme 

Audience Award at Presente Futuro Festival

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Synopsis: 

"Self-portrait in yellow shades" originates from an intimate reflection on the nature of self-portrait, and it results in a highly ironic piece on the concept of identity, and on the relation between 'being' and 'being seen', 'looking' and 'interpreting'. The antinomy contained in the concept of self-portrait (author and character, painter and portrait, subject and object) reveals the profound conflict within our human nature, eternally chasing a paradoxical image of ourselves which (as we often realise) we are the only ones seeing.

By dancing her own self-portrait, the artist explores the idea of a fleeting identity, which exists only in the very act of its transformation, in time and space.

 

'Representing' is - according to the artist - a necessity that manifests in many ways in all of us. Every day we build new images of ourselves, often projecting what we do (a sport, a hobby, a profession, a habit, a way of behaving) into what we are. This solo - between an ironic attempt to glorify the exchangeability of those qualities and flaws which characterise her personality, and a provocation directly addressed to the audience - invites to reflect on the difference between the verbs 'seeing', 'looking' and 'interpreting'. What we see, if we look at it, and how we interpret it, has a lot to say on who we are, on our experience, and on the way we unconsciously judge the world - quoting the artist "a self-portrait for a self-spectator". 

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