Madeleine
Stefania Tansini
What is the starting point of this project?
Drawing inspiration from Marcel Proust’s madeleine, the piece explores how sensory experience can merge past and present, reawakening untamed bodies. Through this lens, the performers become instruments in a state of constant transformation, revealing overlapping temporalities.
What is its specific feature?
This project allows me to explore a body as an unstable, transformative organism. Oscillating between the raw and the refined, between the formal and the wild, Madeleine brings together fragments of the world: distances, colours, silences, absences, sounds, voices and skin.
Why participate in the Danse élargie competition?
The opportunity offered by Danse élargie to connect with artists from around the world, combined with the visibility it provides, represents a particularly valuable moment for the company.
Stefania Tansini is an Italian contemporary dancer and choreographer. She was awarded the 2022 Ubu Prize for Best Performer Under 35 and was a finalist for the 2025 Ubu Prize for Best Dance Performance. Her research explores the body as a space of transformation and tension, caught between control and surrender, fullness and emptiness.
Credits
- CONCEPT AND CHOREOGRAPHY
- Stefania Tansini
- SOUND DRAMATURGY
- Enrico Malatesta
- LIGHTS
- Elena Gui
- COSTUMES
- Chiara Venturini, Stefania Tansini
- WITH
- Ramona Caia, Lucia Sauro, Stefania Tansini
- DIFFUSION
- Federica Parisi
- PRODUCTION CONSULTANT
- Chiara Boscariol
- COPRODUCTION
- Nanou Association culturelle, Orbita-Spellbound Centre national de production de la danse
- WITH THE SUPPORT
- Production de la Fondazione Teatro Grande di Brescia, Torinodanza Festival/ Teatro Stabile di Torino - Teatro Nazionale, Fondazione I Teatri di Reggio Emilia | Festival Aperto, Centro Nazionale della Danza Virgilio Sieni, FREE SEED-sconfinamenti /Mosaico Danza Étape Danse network with Mosaico Danza / Festival Inter play, Fabrik Potsdam, Bureau du Théâtre et de la Danse, La briqueterie CDCN du Val-de-Marne en partenariat avec Lavanderia a Vapore / PDV et Torinodanza Festival/Teatro Stabile di Torino, ResiDance | Network Anticorpi XL (Lavanderia a Vapore I Teatri di Reggio Emilia, L'arboreto-Teatro Dimor a di Mondaino, C SC-Centro per la Scena Contemporanea/ Operaestate Festival), Lavanderia a Vapore/PDV, Oriente Occidente, Fondazione Armunia
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