Winner of the 2019 Danza&Danza Award for Italian production of the year, Graces is a performance by choreographer Silvia Gribaudi that pays tribute to the poetic value of imperfection. The work draws inspiration from the sculpture and the concept of beauty and nature that Antonio Canova created between 1812 and 1817: the three daughters of Zeus – Aglaia, Euphrosyne and Thalia – were divine creatures who radiated splendour, joy and prosperity.

On stage, three male bodies, three dancers within a sculptural work symbolising beauty, embark on a journey of skill and technique that takes them to a place and time suspended between the human and the abstract. Here, the masculine and the feminine meet, far from stereotypes and roles, free, dancing to the very rhythm of nature.
Also on stage is the creator Silvia Gribaudi, who likes to describe herself as an ‘author of the body’, as her poetics constructively transform imperfections, elevating them to an art form with a direct, cruel and empathetic humour, in which there are no boundaries between dance, theatre and the performing arts.
Over the last ten years, Silvia Gribaudi has explored gender stereotypes, the identity of the feminine and the concept of virtuosity in dance and everyday life, going beyond outward appearances to seek lightness, irony and humour in physical transformations, in ageing and in the softening of bodies as they engage with the passage of time.