Violetta Cottini
Do fairies have a tail?
Violetta Cottini
Like coagulated air, dissolving, yielding space to all that appears small or distant, invisible and ephemeral. In an endless choreography of precise manifestations, like spells shattered into a thousand fragments. A presence and an absence that flakes off and disassembles, just like our own perceptions.
The question is constant: how to transform, to become, to vanish, to grow small, to imagine ourselves elsewhere, fairy tails?
Through a process that sharpens how we relate to the world and to the mirages that inhabit it, the attempt to rewrite our own mythologies turns into a hologram, a depth that pierces the backdrop and invites us to inhale its scent.
And if all this were a portal?
What lies beyond the threshold?
This inquiry takes the crooked shape of a riddle, a forest, a hole and a tail, an abandoned house, its remnants and their “vitalism.” The evocation of a secret place, the effort to forge a perceptual experience beyond the human dimension, becomes tangible matter.
The title itself, like a magic formula, tries to usher in whoever wishes, into the folds of something mysterious that cannot be fully known. Perhaps only by sharpening our senses will we glimpse the creatures that hover in our softened memories.
Concept and artistic direction: Violetta Cottini
Artistic and choreographic collaboration and performance: Alessandra Indolfi and Roberta Indolfi
Sound: Violetta Cottini, Alessandra Indolfi, Roberta Indolfi
Video shooting: Olimpia Pierucci, Alessandro Gagliardo, Violetta Cottini, Fototrappola
Set design and costumes: Diana Magri
Video editing: Violetta Cottini, Alessandra Indolfi, Roberta Indolfi
Production: Fuorimargine – Centro di Produzione di Danza e Arti Performative della Sardegna
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.