WITH VANESSA GRAVINA, GRAZIANO PIAZZA
AND IN VIDEO BENEDETTA CEDROLA
SET AND DIRECTION BRUNO GAROFALO
COSTUME DESIGN MARIA GRAZIA NICOTRA
VIDEO RESEARCH AND WORK CLAUDIO GAROFALO
CHOREOGRAPHIC MOVEMENTS GENNARO GUADAGNUOLO
ORIGINAL MUSIC JOAQUÍN NIN Y CASTELLANOS
ADAPTED BY SALVIO VASSALLO
PRODUCTION STUDIOSEDICINONI
IN COLLABORATION WITH IMMAGINANDO
DATES 12 JUNE (H. 21.30),13 JUNE (H. 19.30)
VENUE TEATRO NUOVO
RUNNING TIME 1H 20MIN
LANGUAGE ITALIAN
Best known for her erotic literature, Anaïs Nin was also a dancer, poetess, model and psychoanalyst. Perhaps most importantly, she was also a great observer of the human soul, of the dynamics of sentiment and the relationship between the sexes. Her life spanned the 1900s and she lived between Paris and New York, spending time with Henry Miller and Otto Rank, to name just two of her famous lovers. And it is to this great woman who had the courage to challenge the conventions of her period that Luca Cedrola and Bruno Garofalo dedicate their performance Diario di sé: «For Anaïs Nin, her father’s abandonment of the family when she was just 11 years old was the start of a process of idealisation and identification. For her, having many lovers was a way to feel herself a conqueror, just like her father. But for Anaïs Nin sex was also self-analysis, experimentation and above all a source of artistic inspiration. It is difficult to distinguish between her own experiences and her creative works. A formidable example of the magical fusion between life and art with the backdrop of Paris of the 1930s».
