Elsa Martin / Chiara Aru and Chiara Mura
LIMBÆ
Elsa Martin / Chiara Aru and Chiara Mura
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 root, as 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
Elsa Martin
A vocalist dedicated to free improvisation and musical research, for years she has focused her work on the dialogue between music and poetry through original compositions, improvisation and a love of both tradition and experimentation.
Since 2016 she has been collaborating with Stefano Battaglia, deepening her research between 20th-century Friulian music and poetry, and since 2019 she has been a member of the Tabula Rasa ensemble, coordinated by Battaglia himself. Active in the theatrical field as an actress and composer of music for the show, she is involved in the context of solo performance with Vox Humana, a concert for voice, poetic word and electroacoustic sound plots. For years, she has combined her artistic activity with voice pedagogy aimed at fostering the revelation of the sound identity of the individual.
Chiara Aru
Chiara Aru, Cagliari 1993, performer and dancer. From the age of 10 to 20, she studied Acting at the Cada Die Teatro dell’Ex Vetreria di Pirri with Silvestro Ziccardi and later in Mauro Mou’s Cuori di Panna Smontata, developing her first solo theatrical short film ‘Il Calabrone’ inspired by the Aldrovandi Dossier when she was 18. She then moved on to the world of contemporary Dance and Performance, training at the Paolo Grassi School of Dramatic Arts in Milan, where she graduated as a Dancer in 2016. These years allowed her to train and work with several choreographers, including Paola Lattanzi (“Zoo:a struggle for life and death”) Enzo Cosimi, Maria Consagra, Silvana Barberini (“Uccidiamo il chiaro di Luna”), Compagnia “MK” (“Meteorologia”) and to create her first independent Performance “We E(x)ist”. Following her studies, she works for Sardegna Teatro and Spazio Danza, and creates in 2018 her own personal Movement Research, Improvisation and Choreographic Composition Workshop, Effort Movement Lab with which she creates several original and continuously developing Performances. In 2020/21 she has the opportunity to work in the Fuorimargine framework of Spazio Danza with tutor Jacopo Jenna, where she creates her Solo Performance “777” and “OHMYGAD!”, Debuting as a production of the Fuorimargine Dance and Performing Arts Production Centre in 2022. She is currently continuing her work as head of the Effort movement lab group and continues to research and study her aesthetics through tutoring also by Bush Harshton and Cristina Rizzo, tutors in a training project proposed by Sardegna Teatro that allows her to look towards new solo and non solo projects. Since the 23rd she has been part of DOM’s Darkness Picnic project.
Chiara Mura
Chiara conducted her contemporary dance studies at the Dancehaus Accademia Susanna Beltrami in Milan, graduating in 2022. During her years of study she participated in several productions by Susanna Beltrami herself and Paola Lattanzi, also taking part in events such as ‘Body in Space’ during the Milano Design Week directed by Stefano Fardelli.
She subsequently collaborated with several Italian choreographers including Virgilio Sieni, Simona Bertozzi, Lupa Maimone and Maurizio Montis.
He also participated in the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, with choreography by Maud La Pladec and Alexander Ekman.
