NOBODY, NOBODY, NOBODY. It’s Ok Not To Be Ok

Concept and dance Daniele Ninarello creation support Elena Giannotti
Drammaturg consulting Gaia Clotilde Chernetich
Music Daniele Ninarello
Sound processing Saverio Lanza
Technical director Eleonora Diana
Production Codeduomo / Compagnia Daniele Ninarello co-production Oriente Occidente
In collaboration with Mart – Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Atelier delle Arti Livorno.
With the support of Fondazione Piemonte dal Vivo/ Circuito Regionale Multidisciplinare di Spettacolo dal Vivo, Lavanderia a Vapore/ Centro di Residenza per la Danza, Centro per la Scena Contemporanea – Bassano del Grappa e DiR – Dance in Residence Brandenburg, a cooperation project of fabrik moves Potsdam and TanzWERKSTATT Cottbus.
In cooperation with ProPotsdam, Bürgerhaus am Schlaatz, fabrik Potsdam and the Brandenburg State Museum of Modern Art | Dieselkraftwerk Cottbus and Supported by DIEHL+RITTER/TANZPAKT RECONNECT, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of the NEUSTART KULTUR initiative, the State of Brandenburg, the City of Potsdam and the City of Cottbus
Duration 50 minutes

Realised in the framework of the research on didactic innovation of the project Media Dance – Lavanderia a Vapore di Collegno.

NOBODY NOBODY NOBODY. It’s ok not to be ok unfolds through a series of performative actions, danced narratives that function as a stream of consciousness of the body as it revisits sensations and memories, a personal reflection on the traces left by a culture of violence and offense. A new narrative of the present that replaces that of the past by reprocessing sensations and tensions contained within the body.
NOBODY NOBODY NOBODY . It’s ok not to be ok begins in the autobiographical sphere, where I retrace my personal experience as a “bullied body,” and extends it to a broader external context. The intention is to connect the intimate space of bodily experience with the public sphere, with the aim of exposing the body in its most vulnerable state—in those moments when it surrenders to the traces that have forced it into a posture of control, defense and fear. A series of dances created to give voice to the skin, to those parts of us that are publicly cloaked in shame and judgment, deemed outside the norm. Giving voice to the skin, then, means bringing to the surface what too often remains hidden beneath it.

ph Sara Deidda