La mano sinistra

The performing and visual arts collective Industria Indipendente has written and directed La mano sinistra. A space for exploration across various practices and imaginations, a realm of possibility, a disused studio-stage that has no intention of ceasing to divert, or rather, “to change direction”.

The title draws on a meaning that, over the centuries, has referred to the left hand as ‘mancus’ – that is, lacking, wrong, crippled, mutilated, overturned, inverted, deviant, diabolical, devoted to magic and the occult, a harbinger of danger and difference, and incapable of ‘correct, right-handed’ writing that does not smudge the ink.
The Left Hand takes shape to the rhythm of its song; it opens and closes, swells and then fades, darkens and then shines. Writing becomes formula, poetry, spell, allusion, invocation and evocation, in a relationship devoid of hierarchies between body and matter, knowledge and action, subject and environment, sound and luminous physical appearance.
A variety-theatre revue that summons magic as a technique of another form of knowledge, the analogy that makes the repressed visible, the wonder that can unveil and rewrite the mechanism of reality.
With the artistic and on-stage participation of Annamaria Ajmone, Silvia Calderoni and Iva Stanisic, La mano sinistra unfolds as a theatre/space of the symbolic, suspended between reality and fiction, between technique and imagination, inviting us to look, feel and resonate.