The unmissable appointment with aerial dance at the Festival will lift the audience's gaze to admire the performance under the dome of MART Cafelulé. The company, founded by four enterprising young women and previously hosted at Oriente Occidente three editions ago, is among the few in the Italian scene dedicated to this style of vertical dance, favoring rooftops and urban walls over traditional stages.
The curious name Cafelulé is an acronym formed from the initials of the dancers’ names: Caterina Oneto, Federica Madeddu, Lucia Taietti, Eleonora Merisio. They, often accompanied by other performers, enchant large audiences in public squares with the mix of vertigo and poetry that characterizes their shows.
The brand new aerial project for the majestic dome of MART is titled Fragilità. Manuale di giardinaggio (Fragility: A Gardening Manual) and features them on stage with another dancer from the company, Yuri Plebani. The creative inspiration comes from The Gardener of the Soul, a book by poet and Jungian psychoanalyst Clarissa Pinkola Estés, in which a professional gardener and prodigious storyteller tells fairy tales that serve as metaphors for the search for happiness. The writer reminds us that "life repeats itself, renews itself, and, despite being trampled by wars and conflicts, it regenerates if we can maintain the ability to cultivate hope."
Thus, in the center of the museum square, Cafelulé sets up a stylized garden. This will be a place to get our hands dirty and sow connections, as well as the starting point for flight and suspension. In the void, the bodies will be able to overcome their fragilities by pruning memories and making space for new shoots. Because, it is worth remembering, while it is impossible to avoid falling during life, we can always refuse to stay on the ground.
