Athletes + Le Palestriti

Address: Museo dei Campionissimi - 15067 Novi Ligure 16.30 – Athletes. Athletes is a project between dance, sport and vocality that places the athletic gesture of a community of women, or people who identify as women, at the center of research and practice, as an act of resistance and transformative strength. In its etymology and in the common imagination, athleticism is associated with the idea of competition and physical test: the body's ability to demonstrate strength, agility and endurance, but also to build alliances, agreements and paths of exchange. In Athletes, athleticism represents every degree of transformation that bodies can seek through gesture and its radiating outward in the performative act. 18.00 – Le Palestriti. The work is inspired by the mosaic of the Palestriti of Piazza Armerina, in Sicily, UNESCO heritage and a rare representation of female agonism from antiquity. Here, the athletes not only exalt the power of the individual gesture but celebrate the winner, transforming athleticism into an act of alliance and chorality. In the choreographic framework, the gathering toward a common and vertiginous experience of bodies emerges as an indispensable necessity. The performers dissem