A film and a dance solo, two artistic languages meet to trace the extraordinary journey of a Chinese adoptee. Bai Li Wiegmans invites us on an intimate exploration of her own life in search of a sense of belonging. Home is not just a personal story, but a tribute to those who face the difficulties of adoption and dual identity. An evocative and delicate show that gives voice to those without a fixed sense of home and offers comfort and understanding to those who are caught between two worlds. 

Winner Mittelyoung 2024

Home, chosen for opening up the artist’s private world, revealing emotion through a delicate and impeccable gesture.

Curatores Mittelyoung 2024

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MITTELYOUNG AWARDS 2024

TOURNÉE

The current and sensitive issue of international adoptions proposed in a format that
combines an autobiographical documentary and an intimate dance thought.
Original and emotional

HOME

The Jury
Alberto Bevilacqua, Veronika Brvar, Roberto Canziani, Elisa Marcon

The sea is a soul unfolding without borders. From waves come giants, from fish come mermaids, from uncertain transparencies come monsters and visions. Two acrobats and dancers move on a vertiginous structure, evoking the extreme conditions of sailing. Dance, circus and live music come together in a throbbing show that throws us into silent abysses and untameable waves. The sea voyage and the shipwreck as metaphors of life and as concrete references to the turmoil of our world. Who will land? 

Confirmed in Piazza Duomo
From now on, indoor shelter will no longer be possible

The full moon, the end and beginning of its cycle that becomes rhythmic structure, danced time, and then jazz, with its often forgotten dance component and its African roots. Hungarian choreographer Josef Nadj starts here and creates a bewitching, visceral performance that pays tribute to great jazz musicians such as Cecil Taylor and Art Ensemble of Chicago. Holding the moon and music together is a puppet: a counterpoint to the living body, a figure that is disordered vitality, harnessed in form. 

Music by
Fritz Hauser
Famoudou Don Moye & Tatsu Aoki
Art Ensemble Of Chicago
Malachi Favors Maghostut & Tatsu Aoki
Peter Vogel
Christian Wolfarth
Lucas Niggli 

Italian premiere  

Can one dance the landscape? COSMORAMA is a universe of gestures that open up to the audience in a journey between humans and nature. The audience is guided by an invisible and mimetic dance of two bodies trying to become the crossroads between the natural and artificial elements of the landscape. Between distant and close views, proximity and panoramic distance, COSMORAMA takes us into a dance experience in nature, overturning the usual hierarchy of gaze.

Itinerant show, comfortable shoes and water are recommended

A film and a dance solo, two artistic languages meet to trace the extraordinary journey of a Chinese adoptee. Bai Li Wiegmans invites us on an intimate exploration of her own life in search of a sense of belonging. Home is not just a personal story, but a tribute to those who face the difficulties of adoption and dual identity. An evocative and delicate show that gives voice to those without a fixed sense of home and offers comfort and understanding to those who are caught between two worlds. 

Italian premiere  

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Citciat

Bai Li Wiegmans (Home) and Sinking Sideways (René) meet the public on Wednesday, July 17 at 9:15 PM at the Church of Santa Maria dei Battuti
Hosted by curator Christina Lancione

Free entry

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WINNER MITTTELYOUNG 2024

Home, chosen for unlocking the artist’s private self, revealing emotion through a delicate and impeccable gesture

Curatores Mittelyoung

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MITTELYOUNG AWARDS 2024

TOURNÉE

The current and sensitive issue of international adoptions proposed in a format that
combines an autobiographical documentary and an intimate dance thought.
Original and emotional

HOME

The Jury
Alberto Bevilacqua, Veronika Brvar, Roberto Canziani, Elisa Marcon

MANual is a direct attack on the representation of masculinity. A performance that is at once a manifesto, a collage of quotations, a collection of clichés, a questioning of the subject. MANual are five bodies moving on stage, changing clothes, identities, turning into surprising objects and tools. An ironic user manual for contemporary masculinity, with political and surreal elements, on the border between ritual and eroticism, freedom and constraint, a dressing room and a dark room.  

Italian premiere  

The show features stroboscopic effects

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Citciat

The Chalibares Company (Son tutte palle) and Platform13 (MANual) meet the public on Wednesday, July 17 at 4:00 PM at the Chiostro Centro Civico
Hosted by curator Christina Lancione

Free entry

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MITTELYOUNG AWARDS 2024

PERFORMER

A female figure stands out from four examples of toxic masculinity and dominates the scene.
A critique of gender stereotypes and their pervasiveness.
A great and ambiguous talent

ANCA STOICA

in MANual

The Jury
Alberto Bevilacqua, Veronika Brvar, Roberto Canziani, Elisa Marcon