Femenine
Performance
Idea and creation: Gianmaria Borzillo
Performance and artistic collaboration: Max Simonetto, Emma Saba, Juri Bizzotto, Gaia Ginevra Giorgi, Johanna Robyn Closuit, Gianmaria Borzillo
Music: Femenine by Julius Eastman
Light: Valeria Foti
Poems: Gaia Ginevra Giorgi
Artistic research: Paola Granato
Visual research and graphics: Juri Bizzotto
Costumes and floral design: Max Simonetto
Care and promotion: Giuls Traversi
Administration: Chiara Fava
Production: corpoceleste_C.C.00#
With the support of CENTQUATRE-PARIS, Snaporazverein, Italian Cultural Institute of Paris, KilowattFestival, Festival Oriente/Occidente, MilanoOltre
Femenine is a place of listening and action, of discovery and beginning, a point of solitude and encounter. A queer space, a microcosm created for and by the music of Julius Eastman. A landscape that slowly comes to life and takes shape through a total dependence on music.
An African American queer composer and performance artist born in 1940, Eastman was a prominent figure in the musical avant-garde. Throughout his career, he highlighted the difficulties of acceptance and integration in New York society during the 1970s and 1980s, fiercely asserting his identity.
