Love letters between friends and lovers. Waterless aqua aerobics in tiger-striped leotards. A poem for the Baroness. A split, in her honour.
BODY SWEATS (for Elsa) is an homage to Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874–1927), a poet and avant-garde artist, a pioneer of the Dada movement. The title is taken from her eponymous collection of poems, an erotic and proto-punk manifesto. Created by choreographer Giorgia Lolli, the work combines dance, lecture performance, poetry reading, workout: sweat will be a way to explore the intertwining of effort and pleasure, the binding force of a heterogeneous collage of dance and textual materials.
The performance is part of Moving in November 5.–15.11.2026. As part of the festival, Lolli will take part in an open Soup Talks discussion on the 7th of November at noon in Eskus.
Please note: loud music, proximity between audience and performers, liquorice candy (upon consent)
With: Vittoria Caneva, Elena Grappi, Maria Chiara Vitti, Giorgia Lolli
Costumes: Eva-Liis Lidenburg, Sara Lando (tiger)
Sound work: Sebastian Kurtén
Dramaturgy: Piero Ramella
Production: Nexus Factory
Supported by: MiC Italian Ministry of Culture and SIAE, within program “Per Chi Crea”, supportER – Rete Anticorpi Emilia-Romagna, Nouveau Grand Tour (IIC di Parigi and Le Gymnase CNDC), Operaestate/CSC Centro di Residenza del Veneto – Vene.Re, Piemonte dal Vivo in the frame of Residenze Coreografiche Lavanderie a Vapore, I Teatri di Reggio Emilia, Ira Institute, Home 2025 / Dance Gallery Perugia, Culture and Youth Committee of the City of Espoo, Arts Promotion Centre Finland, SKR Finnish Cultural Foundation, Graner (Barcelona), MOVIN’UP SPETTACOLO – PERFORMING ARTS 2025/2026, Emilia-Romagna Region, Municipality of Bologna
Within LANDING, a project supported by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and carried out by Santarcangelo Festival, in collaboration and with support of the Italian Cultural Institute in Oslo
Residency presented within the network R.O.M. (Residencies On the Move) for Reykjavik Dance Festival, at the invitation of Santarcangelo Festival, in partnership with La Balsamine (Belgium), le joli collectif – Théâtre l’Aire Libre (France), Théâtre Prospero and Théâtre Periscope (Canada)
The network R.O.M. is supported by the European Union through the Creative Europe programme, by the Conseil des arts de Montréal and by the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec
Photo: Hanna Kushnirenko
Visit supported by: Crossing the sea project, Culture and Youth Committee of the City of Espoo
Visit in collaboration with: EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art
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