Hugs
The performance " Hugs" started from the need of real contact between human beings.
It was practiced in many places and contexts by a small group of performers in Italy and in particular in Milan during the 2014/2015 season, but "Hugs" doesn't belong to anyone, it is from the humanity for the humanity and everybody is invited to try this experience.
It starts just as an appointment between two people, they choose the place and time, then the performance lasts all the time it needs; that is until the two attendees are able to keep embracing without moving. It is not a fight, it is not a competition, it is a meditation position. They are together, they are interdependent, even the position leads them to togetherness, they need each other to keep in balance, because they are in a special position; the two participants have to be in the dance position "first" with the left foot above the right one. They understand, listening to each other, when it's time to stop, no one has to force anyone and then they dissolve the hug and leave the place, each one on his own way.
"Hugs" can take place everywhere, all over the world, but it was designed for the cities mainly because there the spirit of doing a temporal limitless thing is more in contrast with the frenzy of contemporary life and also because these places are more often the target of other despicable human actions.
It is also a test of our energies in the wish to discover something we don't know about ourselves and the others. We shouldn't give up at the first difficulty, at the first sign of fatigue because we need all our strength to change ourselves and then the reality.
"Together we stand, divided we fall"
performers: Francesco D'Amelio and Margherita Dello Sbarba
foto by Gianluca Mazza
video by Giorgio Carella
It was practiced in many places and contexts by a small group of performers in Italy and in particular in Milan during the 2014/2015 season, but "Hugs" doesn't belong to anyone, it is from the humanity for the humanity and everybody is invited to try this experience.
It starts just as an appointment between two people, they choose the place and time, then the performance lasts all the time it needs; that is until the two attendees are able to keep embracing without moving. It is not a fight, it is not a competition, it is a meditation position. They are together, they are interdependent, even the position leads them to togetherness, they need each other to keep in balance, because they are in a special position; the two participants have to be in the dance position "first" with the left foot above the right one. They understand, listening to each other, when it's time to stop, no one has to force anyone and then they dissolve the hug and leave the place, each one on his own way.
"Hugs" can take place everywhere, all over the world, but it was designed for the cities mainly because there the spirit of doing a temporal limitless thing is more in contrast with the frenzy of contemporary life and also because these places are more often the target of other despicable human actions.
It is also a test of our energies in the wish to discover something we don't know about ourselves and the others. We shouldn't give up at the first difficulty, at the first sign of fatigue because we need all our strength to change ourselves and then the reality.
"Together we stand, divided we fall"
performers: Francesco D'Amelio and Margherita Dello Sbarba
foto by Gianluca Mazza
video by Giorgio Carella
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