PUNK. Kill me please
- Dance & performance
- +16
- Part of the CONNECT Contemporary Dance Festival
60 min.
19.09.2025
Friday
19:30
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Inspired by the Punk Revolution, PUNK. Kill me please stages two female bodies undergoing an incessant and iconic transformation.
Bodies are self-generating and almighty, sensual and passionate, funny, electrified and monstrous. Sharing the same protest, the same anger and passion for life, they stand for rebellion and craziness, love and equality, and perform a living manifesto of feminism, courage, force, irony and freedom.
PUNK. Kill me please emerged from our fascination with Punk Rock, the revolutionary weapons of its aesthetics, and the political questions it shouted, all of which remain open today. At the heart of the story from which the choreographic exploration begins is the legendary and destructive relation between Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen: Britain’s iconic punk rock couple. The performance feeds on readings, listening, visions of the day, and critical studies, such as those of William Tsitsos, David Bloustien, and Lauren Langman, that bring us to a deeper, wider awareness of the historical phenomenon and the desire to explore the “method”, intended as an aesthetic/ cultural-political perspective in contemporary key.
It investigates that combination of aesthetic-artistic practices and philosophical-political ideas that are typical of Punk Rock: the uninhibited use of the body, rebellion against mainstream aesthetics, the use of essential equipment, the tendency to “Do it Yourself”, and all those aspects, now historicized, that in extreme synthesis seem right to define as the “Punk method”.
The work, in its deliberately fragmentary dramaturgy and constructed piece by piece as in a rock concert, stages – in the transfigured space of an alcove furnished merely with two tartan blankets, a record player and a few strips of adhesive paper that together become essential and self-governing instruments of representation – two female bodies subject to continuous and iconic transformations; self-generating and omnipotent, sensual, funny, electrified, monstrous bodies that, sharing the same protest, anger and passion for life, stand as paladins of rebellion and madness, love and equality, and stage a living manifesto of feminism, courage, irony and freedom.
Concept and creation Francesca Foscarini & Cosimo Lopalco
Performing Francesca Foscarini & Beatrice D’Amelio
Co-creating Valentina Dal Mas & Melina Sofocleus
Lighting design Maria Virzì
Technical care Filippo di Dio
Voice coaching Debora Petrina
Executive Production ZEBRA
Co-production Associazione Culturale VAN, Festival Danza in Rete-Teatro Comunale Città di Vicenza
With the support of
Centrale Fies_art work space, Teatro delle Rane
With the contribution of
ResiDance XL – luoghi e progetti di residenza per creazioni coreografiche azione della Rete Anticorpi XL – Network Giovane Danza D’autore Coordinated by L’arboreto – Teatro Dimora di Mondaino: Arteven/Festival Prospettiva Danza e Teatro, Centro di Residenza della Toscana (Armunia – CapoTrave/Kilowatt), CSC Centro per la Scena Contemporanea Bassano del Grappa, Santarcangelo dei Teatri
The performance is presented with the support of the Italian Cultural Institute in Bucharest.
The event is part of the cultural project CONNECT Contemporary Dance Festival, 4th edition, organized by the Delazero Association, with the support of the National Center for Dance Bucharest and co-financed by the Administration of the National Cultural Fund (AFCN). The project does not necessarily represent the position of the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. AFCN is not responsible for the content of the project or the way in which the project results may be used. These are entirely the responsibility of the funding beneficiary
