VIOLETTA COTTINI

Do fairies have a tail?

13/02/2026, Collegno (TO)

⟶ Friday 13 February, 9pm
Dark Matters, Lavanderia a Vapore, Collegno (TO)

Like coagulated air, dissolving and making way for everything that is seemingly small or distant, invisible and ephemeral. In an endless choreography through precise manifestations, like spells in a thousand pieces. A presence and an absence that disentangles and decomposes like our own perceptions.

The question is constant: how do we transform, become, disappear, make ourselves small, imagine ourselves elsewhere, fairy tails?

In a process of raising awareness of how we stand in relation to the world and the mirages that populate it, the attempt to rewrite our own mythologies becomes hologram and depth, pierces the backdrop and allows itself to be smelled.

What if all this is a portal?What is there once you cross the threshold?

This enquiry takes the crooked form of a riddle, a forest, a hole and a tail, an abandoned house, its remains and their ‘vitalism’. The evocation of a secret place, the attempt to create a perceptive experience beyond the human dimension becomes material. The title itself, like a magic formula, seeks to let those who wish to enter into the folds of something mysterious that is unknown. Perhaps only by sharpening our senses will we be able to glimpse the creatures that hover in our blurred memories.

Concept and artistic direction: Violetta Cottini
Artistic, choreographic and performance collaboration: Alessandra Indolfi and Roberta Indolfi
Sound care: Violetta Cottini, Alessandra Indolfi, Roberta Indolfi
Video shooting: Olimpia Pierucci, Violetta Cottini
Set design and costumes: Diana Magri
Video editing: Violetta Cottini, Roberta Indolfi, Alessandra Indolfi
Production: Fuorimargine – Production Centre for Dance and Performing Arts of Sardinia
Winner project ERetici 2024, promoted by Centro di Residenza Emilia-Romagna, consisting of L’arboreto – Teatro Dimora di Mondaino and La Corte Ospitale di Rubiera.
Selected for the Showcase of Young Author Dance eXtra 2025 – Network Anticorpi XL

Photo: Laura Farneti