In this performance Alicé and Kmila travel through intimate and distorted galaxies to talk about what is so hard to explain. They create a utopian dimension where chronic illness is no longer an invisible shadow but a tangible creature. Their main concern is to alter states of pain and pleasure and transform them into super powers, enlivened through two sci-characters, and to reveal the invisible and stigmatized labor attached to such health conditions. Diving into Spoonieland, a horizontally damaged epidermis-like surface, they can finally transform into their dismissed and imperceptible chronic conditions: they become autoantibodies rebelling against compulsory healthiness; they become grub-lovers melting into sleep, chronic pain and panic attacks. They play each other's guardians in search of care and pleasure. 

 

Alice Giuliani and Camilla Strandhagen met in 2020, during their MA studies at the Institut Supérieur des Arts et Choreographies in Brussels, where they are currently based. They soon discovered an uncanny kinship and hidden sisterhood as spoonies living with chronic illnesses. With this project they were selected for the Live Works Fellowship vol 10 in Centrale Fies, Italy.

 

Alice Giuliani (IT/BE) describes herself as a spoonie* and invisible crip*.  Trained as a dancer since the age of 5, she uses interdisciplinary languages in her work placing the body at the center as a site of fantasy, vulnerability and revelation of hidden narratives. She studied at DAMS of Roma TRE, Dance department of Paris VIII Université, and PACAP3 at Forum Dança, Lisbon. In 2023 she created her first solo work called A.room.poured.over.me. In recent years she collaborated as performer for several productions with Alessandro Schiattarella, Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe, Annie Hanauer among others. 

 

Camilla Strandhagen (NO/BE), whose work resides in the field of dance and performance, attempts through choreography to give attention to the unstable, weak and seemingly invisible. They have performed and presented works in festivals and venues such as Beursschouwburg, Bâtard Festival, Nah Dran Festival, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter and Hausmania, Oslo.

​

Click here to watch the teaser.

​

​

Concept, creation and performance Alice Giuliani & Camilla Strandhagen 

Sound design, creation and performance Antonella Fittipaldi

Light designing and scenography Cathrin Jarema and Maureen Béguin 

Production and artistic support Pierre-Louis Kerbart 

Make-up & Textile work Zoé Hagen & J BOY

Dramaturgical support Sophie Guisset 

Co-production Beursschouwburg (BE), kunstencentrum BUDA (BE), workspacebrussels (BE), Produzione Live Works/Centrale Fies (IT)

Supported by Aldes (IT), Operaestate Festival (IT), L’Estruch fàbrica de créatio (ES), ISAC - Institut supérieur des arts et chorégraphies (BE), Plat(e)forme (BE)