Motus in Switzerland with performances and workshops
Since last December, Motus theatre company has been in Switzerland for a research workshop with the students of the Master of Arts “Expanded Theatre” of the Bern Academy of the Arts (HKB - Hochschule der Künste Bern).
The research path chosen is an eclectic immersion in the "Frankenstein matter", that is vast and overwhelming, and will be later the subject of Motus's new show debuting in Autumn 2023.
The result is the performance Frankenstein's shadows, on stage at the Südpol in Kriens (Lucerne) on January 19, 20 and 21 (8pm), that will feature ten students of the master's degree and the "phantasmatic shadows" of the Creature.
The title originates from Chris Baldick's famous text In Frankenstein's Shadow: Myth, Monstrosity, and Nineteenth-Century Writing, a study of the ways in which class struggle has been encoded through Mary Shelley's novel.
Meanwhile, in Geneva, Motus takes part in the GO GO GO festival curated by Le Grütli, an event which is portrayed as “a moment of curiosity, sharing, mixing genres and audiences to discover the best of the contemporary independent scene’.
The company presents Of the nightingale I envy the fate (January 13-14, 6:30 pm), a performance created for the 2022 Festival delle Colline Torinesi, which dedicated a monograph to Motus.
It is a “performance-cry” investigating the figure of Cassandra, present in Western culture from Homer to Christa Wolf: the prophetess of disasters who envies the happy destiny of the nightingale. Cassandra is evoked by Stefania Tansini’s body-voice in the moments before her unjust killing as a slave/adulteress and foreigner.
Le Grütli – Centre de production et de diffusion des Arts vivants