Il vangelo di Cassandra – annunciazione di una genesi

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written by Dimitris Dimitriadis
by and with Gemma Hansson Carbone
movements and gestures curated by Gloria Dorliguzzo
light and scene Alessandro Panzavolta
technomage Francesco Tedde
costume Johanna Invrea and Damiano Bagli
poet Michele Montanari
translated by Gilda Tentorio
curator Ilenia Carrone
organization and promotion Veronica Arietto
a coproduction by Naprawski and Fondazione Fabbrica Europa
supported by PARC – Performing Arts Research Center (ITA), Olinda – Teatro La Cucina (ITA), Antropotopia (ITA), Ortographe (ITA), 42zone Hub (GR), Nerval Teatro (ITA)
duration 45 minutes

After more than four years of work across nine countries in Europe and Asia on Die Like a Country, a foundational text by Dimitris Dimitriadis, Gemma Hansson Carbone continues her journey of research into Dimitriadis’ work, exploring the power of words and voice as tools of evocation and invocation.
Cassandra’s prophecy becomes an announcement: Cassandra is no longer the prophetess of an unheard future, but the voice and body of a radically new present. This reversal lies at the heart of the creation of The Gospel according to Cassandra, which unfolds as an immersive experience where poetic language and movement merge to explore universal, human, and political themes of transformation and desire.
Through circular sequences seeking new gravitational planes and ancient gestural formulas, Gloria Dorliguzzo and Gemma Hansson Carbone pursue a physicality that oscillates between disbalances and chiasms, expressing the tension between genesis and destruction, between eros and negation, between past and present time. Cassandra’s movements become “logos,” reflecting Dimitriadis’ semantic revolution that transforms her prophetic, misunderstood, and incomprehensible voice into a divine, creative, and erotic verb.
The scenography, curated by Alessandro Panzavolta and Francesco Tedde, is designed as an open and immersive structure, where Cassandra and the audience become inhabitants of a magical place – the World of Now – where the sun’s orbits write a new alphabet on broken mirrors, where the skeleton of the past becomes a new snakeskin, and where myth and visions of the future converge, celebrating the power of creation and freedom.

ph. Alessandro Panzavolta