‘Kokoro’ è una singola parola giapponese che possiamo tradurre come il nostro ‘essere interiore’ ma che letteralmente abbraccia due parole/concetti, quali ‘la mente’ e ‘il cuore’. Questo assolo è la personale ricerca di un unicità dell’essere, un percorso interiore divenuto percorso fisico nello spazio, durante il quale il corpo nudo, attraverso la sua esposizione e specifica architettura, si trasfigura e diviene veicolo poetico facendo emergere immagini appartenenti e non ad un ‘mondo irreale’. Queste immagini, radicate nella coscienza collettiva, si sublimano nel racconto di un’esperienza personale, per poi tramutare questa stessa, attraverso la scena, in un esperienza collettiva.

 

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PERFORMANCE

 

April 24, 9:30 p.m., Spazio Franco

 

KOKORO

choregraphed and performed by Luna Cenere

music by Gerard Valverde

ligthing designer Gaetano Battista

management and distribution Domenico Garofalo

Production Körper

Production in cooperation with Virgilio Sieni/National Center of Production

 

‘Kokoro’ is a single Japanese word that we can translate as ‘inner being’. However, literally, it encompasses two words/concepts, mind and heart. This solo performance is a personal

search for the uniqueness of ‘being’. An inner journey that has morphed into a physical one through space, during which the naked body, through its exposure and specific architecture, is transfigured and becomes a poetic vehicle bringing out images, some belonging, some not, to an ‘unreal world’. These images, deep rooted in a collective consciousness, are sublimated in the story of a personal experience and then transmuted, through the scene, into a collective experience. The research for this solo begins with the reading of the book ‘The Invisible Actor’ by Yoshi Oida and Lorna Marshall. This book, where we find the concept/word Kokoro, was a reading of profound inspiration and methodological guidance during the creative process.