concept, choreography, costumes, environment and sound Cristina Cristina Kristal Rizzo dance Giulia Cannas e Cristina Kristal Rizzo Lighting design Gianni Staropoli Production Fuori Margine Centro di Produzione di danza e Arti Performative della Sardegna





There is this magic word, Melancholia, which has an ancient origin
It is a word that derives from the Greek: μελαγχολία.
It is composed of: black μέλας and χολή bile.
Simply put it means black bile. Hippocrates, a Greek doctor, believed that the "black mood" was the cause of the alteration of the spirit which became dark and sad. A constant, lacerating, profound, unprecedented and inexpressible sadness, melancholy has often been associated with women, considered a sort of "sin of weakness" that needed to be repressed. However, precisely through this contemplative sadness, the feminist avant-garde of the 19th and 20th centuries embraced mel-ancholy as a tool to challenge the power structures of social norms and to express their struggle for equality. ERWARTUNG is grafted over the passage of time onto the figure of a feminine double, evolving on the borders of abstraction and figuration, the real and the imaginary, what appears and what is hidden, a manifestation of an internal complexity with a double image and of a bodily languor where everything fades.