Creazione 2022
Conception, choreography, staging, costumes Cristina Kristal Rizzo Dance Megumi Eda Live sound processing Cristina Kristal Rizzo Cinematographic reference Dreams by Akira Kurosawa Production Fuori Margine Centro di produzione di danza e arti performative di Cagliari Co-production Torino Danza Festival and the support of Tir Danza and Lugano Dance Project





Monumentum stands for: memory, document, sign of recognition, something that comes from the past. Something that lingers and that, stopping the continuous progression of the production flow, moves into the depths of memory, in a sort of temporal anachronism.

Crossed by dreamlike visions and non-verbal bodily experiences, such as guided hypnosis practic-es, this first part has a progression contained in a solo danced by Megumi Eda, former historical dancer of Karole Armitage and interpreter with sharp and neo-classical expressive implications. A body therefore in a vital impulse, in an attempt to open other levels of memory and reconnect with its own history. There is always a certain delicacy in dealing with the solitude of a body, despite the quantitative solidification it is possible to understand that matter is not stupid, nor blind, nor mechan-ical, but that it has a rhythm, a language, an internal movement and its own organization: a feeling.

The work debuted in the theatrical version at the TorinoDanza Festival and in the site-specific ver-sion at the Masi Museum of Contemporary Art in Lugano and was then a guest in the Domus Aurea in Rome and the Pavilion of Modern Art/PAC in Milan and La chiostrina at Maggio Musicale in Flor-ence.

Megumi Eda is a dancer and filmmaker. Her career began with the Hamburg Ballet when she was 17, and over the next 15 years she joined the Dutch National Ballet and the Rambert Dance Com-pany, where she appeared in most of the classical ballet repertoire and worked with many choreog-raphers contemporaries including John Neumeier, Christopher Bruce, Jiri Kylian, Lindsey Kemp, William Forsythe, Twyla Tharp, and David Dawson. In 2004 she moved to New York as a founding member of Armitage Gone! She dances and participates in the creation of over a dozen new works as a principal dancer. In 2004, she won the Bessie Award for Best Performer of the Year. He has been living in Berlin since 2019, where he currently focuses on creating his multimedia works across theatre, dance and film.