Body Sweats

Choreography: Giorgia Lolli
With: Vittoria Caneva, Elena Grappi, Maria Chiara Vitti, Giorgia Lolli​
Costumes: Eva-Liis Lidenburg, Sara Lando (tiger)
Sound work: Sebastian Kurtén
Dramaturgy: Piero Ramella

Production: Nexus Factory
with the support of the Italian Ministry of Culture, the Emilia-Romagna Region, and the Municipality of Bologna

with the support of supportER - Rete Anticorpi Emilia-Romagna, Nouveau Grand Tour 2024 (IIC di Parigi e Le Gymnase CNDC, Roubaix), Ira Institute, Operaestate/CSC Centro di Residenza del Veneto - Vene.Re, Piemonte dal Vivo in the frame of Residenze Coreografiche Lavanderie a Vapore, I Teatri di Reggio Emilia, HOME 2025 / Dance Gallery Perugia, City of Espoo Culture Committee, Graner (Barcelona)

within LANDING, a project supported by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and carried out by Santarcangelo Festival, in collaboration and with support of the Italian Cultural Institute in Oslo

residency presented within the network R.O.M. (Residencies On the Move) for Reykjavik Dance Festival, at the invitation of Santarcangelo Festival, in partnership with La Balsamine (Belgio), le joli collectif – Théâtre l’Aire Libre (Francia), Théâtre Prospero and Théâtre Periscope (Canada)

BODY SWEATS is an homage to Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874-1927), a poet and avant-garde artist, a pioneer of the Dada movement. The title is taken from her eponymous collection of poems, an erotic and proto-punk manifesto. Dance, lecture performance, poetry reading, workout: sweat will be a way to explore the intertwining of effort and pleasure, the binding force of a heterogeneous collage of dance and textual materials. Love letters between friends and lovers. Waterless aqua aerobics in tiger-striped leotards. A poem for the Baroness. A split, in her honour.

Giorgia Lolli (Reggio Emilia, 1996) holds a Master's degree in Choreography from Helsinki Uniarts (2025) and has been active between Italy and Finland for the last three years. Since 2022, she has been teaching Dance Well - Movement Research for Parkinson's as part of the European project coordinated by Operaestate. Her choreographic work has been featured on various foreign and national platforms (Anghiari Dance Hub 2020, Vetrina della Giovane Danza d'Autore 2021, SIAE Per Chi Crea 2023, Nuovo Forno del Pane 2023, MAMbo - Museum of Modern Art in Bologna). EAT ME, winner of DNAppunti Coreografici, premiered in Romaeuropa Festival 2024.