Eclipses
performance / 45 min / 2023
co-created with ReveRso and Isabelle Chladek aka Yotta Baka
co-produced with the Centre d’Art Contemporain de Genève, Flux Laboratory Genève
Eclipses is the first performance created by the trio Glitters of Darkness (ReveRso, Nagi Gianni, Yotta Baka). The piece takes on contemporary grotesque elements to rise against the failures of a society obsessed with perfect appearance and transparency. The work explores the theme of the body through the lenses of aging, mortality, gender, and resilience. In a movement oscillating between pain and pleasure, the bodies, both imprisoned and fortified, undergo a series of rituals that stretch them far beyond traditional limits, reaching the extreme, exhaustion. Isolated yet united, they silently express their unquenchable desire to exist.
creation, masks, prosthetic bodies, costumes, set design: Nagi Gianni / Creation, performance, and choreography: ReveRso / Creation, performance: Yotta Baka (Isabelle Chladek) / Sound universe: Mad Kate / Lighting: Thibault Villard / Wigs: Katrine Zingg
production: Cie Folledeparole, Cie Hyena / Executive production: Ars Longa / Co-production: Centre d’Art Contemporain de Genève / Supported by: City of Geneva, Loterie Romande, Ernst Göhner Foundation, Flux Laboratory
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previous iterations:
13.05.2023 - Flux Laboratory Genève, Switzerland
7.09.2023 - Loftas Fest' Vilnius, Lithuania
13.04.2024 - Bally Foundation Lugano, Switzerland
Still Crashing
performance-installation / 70 min / 2022
co-produced with Arsenic – Centre d’Art Scénique Contemporain Lausanne, Théâtre de l’Usine x ANTIGEL x Fonderie Kugler, Geneva
After a vehicle crash in the desert, time stops, and a temporal rift opens, at a distance from our world. Between life and death, its crew of displaced and disoriented beings reincarnates as half-human, half-hyena creatures, close to a fantasized state of nature to be re-explored. Like a living painting in suspension, inspired by the filming of a fantasy movie about the end of the world, Still Crashing inhabits the ruins as fertile ground to re-cultivate and re-imagine possibilities. The wandering characters, like zombies, attempt to navigate this episode together. Trapped in an emptiness to be filled at the dawn of an afterlife, they share confessions, memories, and laughter to let go in the face of the absurdity of their condition.
previous iterations:
9-12.06.2022 - Arsenic - centre d'art scénique contemporain Lausanne, Switzerland
16-18.02.2023 - Festival Antigel x Fonderie Kugler x Théâtre de l'Usine Genève, Switzerland
concept, direction, set design, masks & costumes: Nagi Gianni / Original texts: Jen Rosenblit / Choreography in collaboration with the performers: Tatiana Baumgartner, Andrius Mulokas, Bastien Hippocrate / Choreographic guidance: Sonja Jokiniemi / Dramaturgical guidance: Mateusz Szymanowka / Theoretical guidance: Laura Spozio / Soundscape: Chaos Clay / Lighting: Jacqueline Sobiszewski
production: HYENA / co-production: Théâtre de l’Usine, Genève ; Arsenic – Centre d’art scénique contemporain, Lausanne; Festival Antigel, Genève / supported by: City of Geneva, Loterie Romande, Engelberts Foundation, Leenards Foundation, Fluxum Foundation, Fondation suisse des artistes interprètes SIS
Body Rising
2024 / sculpture-installation / acrylic resin, fiberglass, pigments, woods / 110 x 200 x 160 cm
open studio Atelier Genève, Wiesenstrasse 29 - Berlin
Figures On Sticks
Antilopes
dance-performance / 90 min / 2020-2021
co-produced with Théâtre de l’Usine, Geneva / Arsenic – Centre d’Art Scénique Contemporain Lausanne
Antilopes is a play for surviving, thriving and imagining a possible future, facing a crisis, finding comfort, collaborating on solutions, reaching out to the world and giving it all. Nagi Gianni’s choreographic work transports an emancipatory desire into a universe between laboratory and video game, where physical, emotional and social landscapes are redrawn, making unexpected and free assemblages appear as starting points for a relationship with the other. The white arena becomes a playground for five performers, whose bodies are returned to an embryonic state. Our knowledge about these organisms and their affects is developed in a set of semi-friendly, semi-aggressive interactions, producing a certain distance from the norm. The boundaries between curiosity and necessity, between humanity and animality, between flesh and metal are blurred in order to attempt the invention of a new history…
previous iterations:
19-22.05.2021 - Théâtre de l'Usine Genève, Switzerland
8-11.07.2021 - Arsenic - centre d'art scénique contemporain Lausanne, Switzerland
concept, direction : Nagi Gianni / choregraphy in collaboration with the performers : Elie Autin, Marius Barthaux, Chienne de Garde, Florian Schlessmann, Katarzyna Sikora, Nancy Stamatopoulou / dramaturgical support : Laura Spozio / assistant : Natasza Gerlach / exterior eye : Simone Aughterlony / soundscape : Chienne de Garde / sound engeneer : Stephen Band / lights : Jacqueline Sobiszewski / set-design construction : Christophe Bozet / costumes : Irène Schlatter, Aline Courvoisier & Nagi Gianni / masks : Nagi Gianni
production: HYENA / co-production: Théâtre de l’Usine, Genève, Arsenic – Centre d’art scénique contemporain, Lausanne / Supported by: City of Geneva, Loterie Romande, Fondation Nestlé pour l'Art, Fluxum Foundation, Fondation suisse des artistes interprètes SIS
2024 / sculpture-installation / acrylic resin, fiberglass, pigments, steel bars / variable dimensions
open studio Atelier Genève, Wiesenstrasse 29 - Berlin