Presented as part of the ninth edition of the ORME Festival, *Graces* is a performance by choreographer Silvia Gribaudi that pays homage to the poetic value of imperfection; it won the 2019 Danza&Danza Award for Italian Production of the Year. 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 beings who radiated splendor, joy, and prosperity.
On stage, three male bodies—three dancers within a sculptural work that symbolizes 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 call herself an “author of the body” because her artistic vision constructively transforms imperfections, elevating them to an art form with a direct, cruel, and empathetic sense of humor, in which there are no boundaries between dance, theater, and the performing arts.
Over the past ten years, Silvia Gribaudi has explored gender stereotypes, feminine identity, and the concept of virtuosity in dance and daily life, going beyond outward appearances to seek lightness, irony, and humor in physical transformations, aging, and the softening of bodies as they interact with time.
In collaboration with
ORME Festival 2027