A punk collective history about our messy bodies
Once upon a time there was a plastic body. Maybe 2, maybe 10, maybe a 100… Or maybe a 101!
There were once a lot of little cyborgs that brightened the lives of little girls, allowing them to imagine all the possible worlds, places, and moments that those inanimate creatures could materialize and experience.
There’s Morgana. And there are the Barbies: my friends, my doubles, my audience, my enemies, my superpowers, my bullets…
There’s Franchina. And, of course, there is Ken…
Miss SBarbie (a punk collective history about our messy bodies) is a solo-not solo of contemporary circus by and with Morgana Morandi, together with:
-101 Barbie dolls,
-8 kg of Barbie pieces,
-Franchina the (remote-controlled) toy car,
-4 plastic Kens and 1 human Ken…
It is a show that is a little bit punk, a little bit political and very energetic, actively involving the bodies of the people in the room, human or plastic ones, in a universe that comes to life, changes and makes change whoever encounters it, taking and giving something…
It is work on the body, play and power that focuses on the re-appropriation of a symbol, that of Barbie – the first doll with an adult body in the hands of a little girl – which has imprisoned the female imagination with its aesthetic canon but which is also a symbol of liberation for the imagination.
Morgana launches an invitation to observe what surrounds us, analyze it and then free ourselves from it, welcome external input to create ourselves, exploring all possibilities, even and especially the ones denied!
INFO GENERALI:
- Version for Theatres and Chapiteau – Duration 55 min – 3 persons on tour
- Open Space Version – Duration 45 min – 2 persons on tour
- Minimum space 6mx6mx5m height
- Frontal show (max 270°)
- Circus techniques: aerial hoop, hula hoop, contortion, jester
- Possible languages: Italian, English, Spanish
- Maximum 2 shows per day
CREDITI:
Title: Miss SBarbie (a punk collective history about our messy bodies)
By and with: Morgana Morandi
Tecnichian on stage: Vittorio Catelli Lasagni or Simone Di Biagio
Musics: Swati Nogi
Voices: Veronica Solari and Iuna Iaccino
Costumes: Morgana Morandi and Nastasja Jagodic
Light plan: Flavio Cortese
Graphic: Vittorio Catelli
External eyes – research: Marianna De Sanctis and Teresa Noronha Feio
External eye – creation: Chiara Marchese
External ear – voice and texts: Ulisse Romanò
Strategic tutor : Annalisa Bonvicini
Co-produtions: FLIC Scuola di circo – RSGT Residenza Surreale (IT), Dance Gallery – Residenza HOME (IT), SOLO BUT NOT ALONE (IT), Quattrox4 – La parola ai corpi (IT), MOVIN UP – GAI (IT), CIRCUS NEXT
Supports: Latitude 50 Pôle des arts du cirque et de la rue (BE), INAC (PT), Spazio Liquido (IT), UP – Circus and Performing Arts (BE), Dynamo Workspace (DK), La Breche (FR), Tollhaus (DE), SHAM (FR), Circaire (ES), Erva Da Ninha (PT)