Letizia Renzini / Marina GiovanniniLa bambola di carne
from the movie Die Puppe of Ernst Lubitsch, 1919 direction: Letizia Renzinichoreography: Marina Giovanninivideo and live audio mix: Letizia Renziniwith: Marina Giovannini, Letizia Renzinivoice (on video): Sabina Meyerset design: Paolo Fiumicostumes: Giulia Pecorarilight design: Pieter Jurriaanse, Moritz Zavanmotion graphics, animations: Raffaele Cafarelli, Gregory Pétitqueuxtechnicians: Claudio Cantini, Federico Del Lungo, Saverio Damiani production La Biennale di Venezia, Dance Umbrellawithin the projectENPARTS - European Network of Performing Arts executive production Vortice - Teatro Fondamenta Nuove in collaboration with Comune di Venezia -Assessorato alla Produzione Culturale, Goethe Institut - Rom, ISR - Spazio Culturale Svizzero di Venezia, CAB008 with the support of the European Union Culture Programme
Die Puppe (The doll of flesh) is a silent movie of Ernst Lubitsch's German period, one of the great directors who emigrated from Germany to the USA during Nazism (together with Lang, Von Stroheim and others) and who contributed to the grandeur of Hollywood in the '30s and '40s. Die Puppe, a masterpiece of satire and disillusion, in the caustic and subtle style that characterizes Lubitsch's cinema, explores the themes close to German expressionism and to Hoffman's romanticism (the double, the psychoanalytic fable, the artificial creature) but overreaching them in an unusual female direction. The film, reworked in video, is post-synchronized and accompanied by the interventions of Marina Giovannini (dance), Letizia Renzini (electronic, voice, instruments), Sabina Meyer (voice, on video). The challenge, on stage and during the Entr'Acte, is to create a choreography and a symbolic dramatic canvas which face the film's narration and its technical reworks. On each occasion, the video-cinematographic image will be the counterpoint, the score, the background or an additional active element in the relationship with the performers. On stage, there will be three flesh dolls who will join the two other virtual dolls of the cinematographic narration. To the film's ambiguous universe, in which doubled characters act towards an unity identity, corresponds the composite and alien universe of the scene. The Doll's House designed by Paolo Fiumi, is the symbol and context of a contemporary expressionism through gestural and composition interventions, where images, bodies, voices and music participate in an ironic, dramatic, significant and feminine synthesis.