Specially conceived for the spaces of the Museo d’arte della Svizzera italiana, this first part of Monumentum the second sleep by Florentine choreographer Cristina Kristal Rizzo consists of a solo dance performed by Megumi Eda, an interpreter with chiseled and neoclassical features.
On stage a body able to turn form into instinct, into flowing emotion while finding the innate meanings of language and give substance to other possibilities of presence.
Dance is always accompanied by a kind of philosophy that allows us to relate to the world, to connect ourselves to other bodies, to transform us and shape the spaces that envelop us, to help us understand that matter is neither stupid nor blind nor mechanical, but rhythmical, a language, an internal movement with its own organization, a feeling.
Full of chromatic visions and non-verbal bodily experiences, such as trance practices generated by guided hypnosis, Monumentum the second sleep is a tribute to the power of life, to multi-rhythmic relationships acting on the complex feeling of existence, a place where art, philosophy and form merge.