LIMBÆ: a title that vibrates with primordial force, like an ancestral call to the matrix of life. “Lembo di terra” is the threshold from which everything takes its origin, the tongue that stretches out as a root, as a mobile organ, to touch the other, to articulate the world. But it is also a journey towards what precedes the word: a return to the sap, to that primordial liquid that flows in every living being, to the vital principle that binds everything, crosses everything, nourishes everything.
LIMBÆ is an idiom that builds a bridge between the deep roots of Sardinia, an island suspended in the heart of the Mediterranean, and Friuli, a land of transits and migrations, a hypocentre that has always welcomed migrations from the East. It is a language that is not limited to words alone, but vibrates in the sounds that evoke ancient stories of men and women who dialogue diachronically and whose fluctuating gesture has always amplified the strength of the human message.
LIMBÆ feeds on this sap in its journey back to the essence of gesture and word, sound and movement. The number three – earth, sound, gesture – becomes the sacred perfection of a performative act that interweaves contemporary dance and music, making the stage a primal womb, where the word breaks and dissolves to find its purest and most universal essence, connecting individual and community, microcosm and macrocosm, past and present.
By Elsa Martin, voice, keyboard, effects, sampler, percussion
With the dancers: Chiara Aru and Chiara Mura
Co-production: Insulae Lab and Fuorimargine