AMARSIAMORSI Teaser

"Elegant, poetic, delicate. AMARSIAMORSI is a constant succession of these three adjectives. The scene is naked, only inhabited by a white tree that in its simplicity dominates the space and marks the passing of time. The two protagonists travel across a sophisticated narrative arc, intertwining a love story based on silence and stolen looks. The feeling is that of a constant expectation that leaves you breathless throughout the piece. From the first moment, you realize that these two fascinating figures will surely lead you to a tragic destiny. Sounds, colours and smells drag you inside the piece, until you realize that this game of seduction will evoke a direct confrontation with Death: a Death that has the body of a beautiful woman and the face of tradition. AMARSIAMORSI is a delicate Renaissance painting." Federica Amatuccio Artistic Director PoverArte Festival Bologna, Italy AMARSIAMORSI (derived from the Latin words “love” and “death”) is a physical and musical theatre performance about the love encounter between two migrant women. Departed from different places and for different reasons, they end up on the same path, toward the same horizon, unknown and desired. It is in the garden of Pina, old and crazy women at once, where love and death cross their paths in forms of passion, violence, freedom, defeat, joy and hope. “The wind is drawn by the petals of a cherry tree that gently fall to the ground“ PIA PERA AMARSIAMORSI is the result of a 3 years long transdisciplinary and intercultural artistic project around the theme of “death”, developed in Brazil and Italy. Two elements mainly have influenced the creation of AMARSIAMROSI: The first element is the migrations from sub-Saharan Africa to Europe, which BILOURA met in an artistic work with asylum seekers from Nigeria in Italy. During this experience, they met several stories of immigrants and chose one in particular: the escape of a Nigerian engineer who had to leave his country because his homosexuality put him in danger of death. The second element is the book "I haven’t told my garden yet" by Pia Pera. The author, who wrote this book while dying of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosi, continuously links her disease with the garden, creating a metaphorical image of great beauty. That of the garden as a place of balance between life and death. A PRODUCTION OF BILOURA Intercultural Arts Collective