CAMILLE

CAMILLE
Performance Installation *
The starting point for CAMILLE is the reproduction, translation, misrepresentation and betrayal of the series of Edgar Degas’ Nudes: ”Suite of female nudes bathing, washing, drying themselves, wiping themselves, combing themselves or being combed.”
The series of pastels and sketches by Degas is used as a choreographic score. Theoretical materials go with an investigation of the concept of intimacy in private versus public space.
The intent is to make an utopian gesture, to break into the anonymity of the body.
Camille – as I will call the bather of Degas – is a woman absorbed by her own intimacy.

* During the video installation the audience can get in touch with Camille and spy her through a webcam. The performer is also connected with a public webcam in Times Square, her private world looks out into the public and vice versa.

by and with Francesca Gironi
music by Luca Losacco
technical realisation: Matteo Mancini
chat: Monica Gironi

Costume design: Laura Bastianelli, Sara Costarelli

Artistic residency: Dance_B 2013 @ DanceHaus
Francesca Gironi is part of Progetto Matilde, a platform for the promotion of new theatre, sponsored by the Marche Region and AMAT, Italy.