By Cristina Kristal Rizzo, Diana Anselmo Choreography Cristina Kristal Rizzo Performance Diana Anselmo, Cristina Kristal Rizzo Text edited by Cristina Kristal Rizzo, Diana Anselmo e Laura Pante su scritture di Yvonne Rainer, John Cage, Simone Weil, Ilya Kaminsky e CKR Theoretical support Laura Pante, Sergio Lo Gatto Production Fuori Margine Centro di Produzione di danza e Arti Performative della Sardegna With the support of Tir Danza, MilanOltre Festival e Oriente Occidente Artistic residencies PARC - Performing Arts Research Centre, Kilowatt, Armunia.





Monumentum is a project by the choreographer and dance maker Cristina Kristal Rizzo, who ques-tions the forms of collective memory and the return of images by reflecting on the device of the Monument, as a living trace and corporeal matter.

After the first launch in 2022, Monumentum DA is a dissemination and a choreographic interweaving that transforms the compositional interaction with Diana Anselmo, bilingual deaf performer in Italian and LIS and activist/co-founder of the Al.Di.Qua.Artists.

Monumentum stands for memory, document, form of recognition. It is a delivery that comes from the past, to be cherished. Something that fixes the progression of the production flow, plots with depth and suggests anachronisms. In dialogue with Diana Anselmo it becomes a writing of the body that amplifies the creative and poetic possibilities of sign language, alienated and marginalized by phonocentric power processes. Throughout history, audism and oralism have attempted to abolish it as a living, corporeal language that does not speak of margins but of new forms. The LIS and Di-ana's body have an archive of documents in continuous dynamics and linguistic movements that al-low you to tune into another idea of listening in which a politics of the body flows into its material vi-tality and thus reconnect to the shared history of a momentary community . The performance is al-ready accessible, containing in its form the possibility of being enjoyed by a Deaf audience and a hearing audience.

“Opening surprising windows onto other modes of communication, such as sign language (...) Stra-vinsky's Sacre and Reich's Drumming, performed with only gestures, are pages of pure poetry, which resonate in our minds like silent scores beauty and refined grace.” (From Il Sole 24 Ore, 8 July 2024, by Roberto Giambrone)

"It is a silence that floods the ears and the mind, that at the start of Monumentum DA... What we try to explode here is the logic of the phonocentric syntax (the monument to the predominance of lis-tening) through new policies of understanding, for a performance accessible to all. " (DaTe-atro&Critica, 2July2024, by StefanoTomassini)

"There are two levels: the dance and the word. Held together by the gesture, by the presence on the scene. It is the key that allows us to enter the head of those who are deaf and to try, even just for a moment, to try to see how his ears don't hear and how it feels as a result. So, the use of sign lan-guage on stage makes Monumentum DA a living language creation that has the ability to redefine the world" (from paneacquaculture.net , 8 July 2024, by Matteo Brighenti)