THURSDAY, 3rd SEPTEMBER 2015 | 22.00 | 1h20′
FRIDAY, 4th SEPTEMBER 2015 | 19.00 | 1h20′
LA PELANDA | FOYER 2

theatre/performance

MDLSX

with Silvia Calderoni
directed by Enrico Casagrande and Daniela Nicolò
dramaturgy Daniela Nicolò and Silvia Calderoni
suonds Enrico Casagrande
in collaboration with Paolo Baldini and Damiano Bagli
light and video Alessio Spirli
production Elisa Bartolucci and Valentina Zangari
promotion in Italy Sandra Angelini
foreign distribution Lisa Gilardino
production Motus 2015
in collaboration with La Villette – Résidence d’artistes 2015 Parigi, Create to Connect (EU project) Bunker/ Mladi Levi Festival Lubiana, Santarcangelo 2015 Festival Internazionale del Teatro in Piazza, L’arboreto – Teatro Dimora di Mondaino, MARCHE TEATRO
with the support of MiBACT, Regione Emilia Romagna

www.motusonline.com

MDLSX is a little sound device, a lysergic and lonely hymn to the freedom of becoming, to the gender b(l)ending, being other beyond the body borders, the skin colour, the imposed nationality, the forced territoriality, the sense of belonging to a Homeland. In On Becoming Europeans Rosi Braidotti wrote about “open belonging to the Multiplicity”, suggesting the idea of a post-nationalist identity. MDLSX tends to escape categories, all of them, the artistic ones too. It is a Silvia Calderoni’s “shocking” theatrical coming-out that -after ten years together with Motus- ventures into this experiment in the apparent form of a dj/vj set, to begin the exploration of boundaries that will give birth to Black Drama. Who was Pilade? in 2016.

BIOGRAPHY

Motus, a nomad and indipendent collective, has investigated great classic to tackle current burning issues. In MDLSX autobiographical fragments clash with literary evocations: Cal is the contracted form of Silvia’s surname and the hermaphrodite character’s name Calliope in Jeffrey Eugenides’ novel from Gender Trouble to Undoing Gender – and MDLSX plays with the confusion between fiction and reality. Let us quote Judith Butler that composes the background of this monster-performance with A cyborg Manifesto by Donna Haraway, the Manifesto Contra-sexual by Paul B. Preciado and other cut-ups from the kaleidoscopic universe of the Queer Manifestos.