we’re too young to write a memoir (WIP)
We grew up doing everything together. From dance to gymnastics to piano to being homeschooled, we were inseparable, and despite our 3-year age gap, we were constantly being compared and contrasted. Through the creation process of we’re too young to write a memoir, we are searching for diverse ways to exhibit (and even exploit) our sister dynamic. The danced fusion of our ongoing linguistic, psychological, and theatrical research empowers us to explore our incontestable similarities and radical differences together. The piece will be equal parts humorous and reflective, incorporating home videos from our childhood which serve as inspiration for the narrative flow. The full version of the piece will be ~50 minutes long.
“In we're too young to write a memoir, the two performers give body to a choreographic research that is born from the most radical intimacy: that of blood bonding and shared childhood. The title is already a statement of poetics: we are too young to write an autobiography, but not to explore how the constant confrontation - between sisters, between bodies, between styles - leaves traces in the way we move, express ourselves, relate. One is the mirror and the limit of the other and on stage their dialogue develops like a two-handed writing that, instead of merging into a single style, claims diversity, primarily in choreographic language. The performance alternates moments of technical precision with playful, almost buffoonish drifts, in which you can feel the shared background of physical theater, contemporary dance and circus art. The gesture is now light, now pointed, but always exact, supported by an authentic relationship that manages to involve and entertain the public of the square. The game between imitation and rupture, symmetry and divergence, generates a tension that keeps the scene alive.”
Excerpt shown at Festival Opera Prima, 2025
