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On ResExtensa
Il Quotidiano Di Bari
Valentina Mancino
19 August 2003
"The music is interrupted, there is an electrical black
out, but the magic does not break. Elisa Barucchieri and
Victoria Sogn are on stage without losing the intensity
of their presence and the harmony of their bodies. And it
is exactly in this moment that one understands even better
the truth of their dance, their ability to go beyond...
...in fact, who sees them dance even for the first time
understands immediately that their dance manages to express
something that words cannot say, a knowledge of how to comunicate
with the body, a body that is not only matter but also and
especially awareness of matter...
The bodies of Elisa and Victoria are always in perfect harmony,
whether they are moving in unison or following different
directions, whether they are distancing each other or coming
so close as to become one single body (on the visual level,
in Soliloquy!, a long skirt is all they need to manage this).
And it is in their eyes, mirror of the soul, that the truth
of this dance is in fact most expressed, a dance in which
matter is energy, and manifests its power in every single
movement, involving the body from the hair to the tips of
feet and hands."
Laagendals Posten
Paul Nordseth
8 December 2003
on the performance in collaboration with Tango Pez:
"A performance completely out of the ordinary
(the performance) is a cultural experience too good to pass
up...
ResExtensa and its dance elevated the total atmosphere of
the concert...
The two dancers Elisa Barucchieri and Victoria Sogn of the
company ResExtensa move between dance and theater, and dance
against, with and on top of each other,giving body to the
music..."
Laagendals Posten
Paul Nordseth
22 December 2003
from the list of the top ten performances for 2003 —
second place:
"Tango Pezis already known for high quality tango,
but in December they presented the collaboration with ResExtensa,
that presents contemporary dance and film, and they went
up one more notch...
We hope this performance is the beginning of a long collaboration.."
PROVE APERTE mensile di spettacolo
Sergio Lacavalla
January 2001
(from il Sipario Strappato)
"in the choreography of E. Barucchieri, one can intuit
how the matter Body can be in depth the last possibility
to reconstruct within one’s self the whole universal
plane—so concrete as to become mystical. (...) mystical
and erotic tension: ecstasy of saints, erotical ecstasy
in the libertine playfulness of Eva Prima Pandora... the
archaic meaning of the traditions of Apulia (Southern Italy):
past and present (Exei Mesa) in those danced words,
filled with deep sufferance, repressed but explosive, filled
with passion.
It is a dance made to touch the essence of life:that is
nothing other than the synthesis of particles — and
in this is all its sense (...)
tutto in una danza rarefatta e potente, pregna di suggestioni
e impressionante nella sua modernità, che nella sintesi
tra senso antico e primordiale e attuale trova quella contemporaneità
che può essere tale solo fuori dal tempo…
all in a rarefied and powerful dance, rich with evocative
power and impressive in its modernity, a dance that through
the syhnthesis of ancient and primordial with the present
finds that contemporaneity that can be such only out of
time..."
On Soliloquy!
Corriere del Mezzogiorno
Nicola Viesti
Friday 16 January 2004
" ...the two dancers, looking at the suspended and
rarefied world of another great such as Joseph Nadj have
produced Soliloquy!, a piece given only to movement
and centered on the theme of the double, for an ironic,
completely female incursion into the seven deadly sins..."
La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno
Nicola Signorile
Sunday 18 January 2004
" And in fact, the presence of Soliloquy!
in the midst of overbearing theatre of words appeared as
a healthy disturbance in the large dominion of the reciting-narrating...
...the two dancers -technically very refined, and very precise
in their gestures-pick up again their game of attraction
and repulsion, with movements that are now doubled, now
specular, now simultaneous, now different. Only at the end,
as if a scalpel had cut the common muscles of these siamese,
the one and her double exit the stage in opposite directions..."
Il Quotidiano di Bari
Italo Interesse
Tuesday 20 January 2004
"In a private dialogue with the mirror, a warm and
sensual pantomime takes place, rich in playful cues, and
narrates the emotion of catharsis with constant feeling"
Life Gate
Gian Maria Tosatti
from 19/01/2004
" It was also a debut for Soliloquy!, of the
company ResExtensa, formed by the choreographer and dancer
Elisa Barucchieri from Bari and her Norwegian colleague
Victoria Sogn. A particularly interesting work because presented
at a focal moment of its development...
...an adolescent beauty, a not yet perfect form...and yet
this catching itself in the critical moment of change gives
the possibility to the audience to sit at the edge of this
fundamental difference of state..." |
