Ruccello e Picasso, le anteprime di Akerusia Danza al Teatro Serra

At the Teatro Serra in Naples, Akerusia Danza offers a double proposal: the new adaptation of “Anna Cappelli” by Annibale Ruccello and the dialogical “Io e Picasso.” From March 14 to 16, in Fuorigrotta, at Via Diocleziano 316. Info: teatroserra@gmail.com, 347.8051793

Two Akerusia Danza performances at the Teatro Serra in Naples: it begins on Friday, March 14 at 9:00 PM with “Io e Picasso” – texts, music, and direction by Mario and Ludovico Serra, actress Giorgia Palombi, dancer Maria Rosaria Napulano – and continues on Saturday, March 15 at 9:00 PM and Sunday, March 16 at 6:00 PM with a new “Anna Cappelli” by and with Patrizia Eger and Sabrina D’Aguanno. Lighting by Gianluca La Rosa. Artistic direction by Elena D’Aguanno. At Via Diocleziano 316. Info: teatroserra@gmail.com, 347.8051793.

“Every art is available to other creative forms and is the protagonist of its own,” explains artistic director Elena D’Aguanno, introducing the double proposal that weaves together theater and dance, starting with “Io e Picasso,” a veiled depiction of an imaginary relationship between a contemporary artist (Mario Serra) and the Catalan Master, through a dialogue in the form of a reading, conducted as a vision of music and dance. From the meeting and confrontation between the two artists emerge considerations and contradictions, both personal and professional, where the dancer represents, in a sort of moving canvas, the Picasso character.

“Anna Cappelli – CanticOpera Assolo,” realized in collaboration with Varco Attivo, offers a play of echoes and intertwining that enriches the narrative texture of a text now considered a contemporary classic. The protagonist is a woman raised with common ambitions, almost becoming a stranger to herself, trying to preserve an identity that is falling apart, speaking to absent interlocutors. A monologue in full Ruccellian style, obsessive, crowded with inaudible voices to answer to, set in a timeless place where everything has already happened. An 'here and now' acted and experienced within the corners of a table set for no one. Only the dance is liberating, with its representations of dizzying ascents and unpredictable emotional falls; narratives of the catastrophe of love where sounds, words, breaths, and gestures are sharp, reduced to a mathematical essentiality. The staging strips the protagonist of the petty-bourgeois costume, sinking her into a swamp of memories, fantasies, obsessions. Black dominates, the color of the protagonist’s tragic life, to which the narrating voice, dark and cavernous when rendering Anna's real thoughts, anonymous when confronting a world that seems to violate her essence continuously, gives body and soul, filling it with nuances.

“Io e Picasso”
Direction, texts, and music by Mario Serra. Musical interventions by Mario and Ludovico Serra. Choreography by Elena D’Aguanno. Actress: Giorgia Palombi. Dancer: Maria Rosaria Napulano. Production by Akerusia Danza in collaboration with Itinerarte
Friday, March 14, 2025, at 9:00 PM

“Anna Cappelli”
Original text by Annibale Ruccello. Interpretation and direction by Patrizia Eger. Dancer: Sabrina D’Aguanno. Coordination and artistic direction by Elena D’Aguanno. Lighting design by Gianluca La Rosa. Production by Akerusia Danza in collaboration with Varco Attivo
Saturday, March 15, 2025, at 9:00 PM
Sunday, March 16, 2025, at 6:00 PM

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