In this mind–blowing theatrical trip, platinum-maned punk god/dess Silvia Calderoni uses her family’s home videos to blur fiction with her own life story. Part performance-art monologue, part DJ set (featuring music from The Smiths, Vampire Weekend, R.E.M. and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs), part erotic floorshow; MDLSX is a visually ravishing, confronting, empowering hymn to androgyny.
From Rimini’s acclaimed dance-theatre outfit Motus, this is a show that, like its subject, proudly defies classification. It bombards and seduces your senses. Give yourself up to it.
Italian theatre company Motus was founded in 1991. A nomad and independent company, in constant movement between countries, historic moments and disciplines, the company burst onto the scene in the Nineties with productions wielding great physical and emotional impact and has always anticipated and portrayed some of the harshest contradictions of the present day. It has experienced and created hyper- contemporary trends in the theatre, performing authors such as Camus, Beckett, DeLillo, Rilke or their beloved Pasolini. They have received several acknowledgements, including three UBU Prizes and prestigious special awards for their work. Silvia Calderoni – their tireless protagonist – has worked with Motus since 2005 and is the winner of many awards that include “Best Italian Actress” honors UBU Prize, Elizabeth Turroni, Marte and Virginia Reiter Awards. Motus has performed all over the world, from Under the Radar in New York, to Festival Trans Amériques in Montreal, Santiago a Mil (Chile), the Fiba Festival in Buenos Aires, as well as all over Europe.
“Created and performed with fearless vulnerability by Silvia Calderoni, it remixes Jeffrey Eugenides’ novel Middlesex into a high-intensity multimedia exploration of identity”
New York Theatre Review
“Surely no body of mortal flesh could undergo the quicksilver transformations achieved by this remarkable performer in MDLSX”
The New York Times
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