Chor.
Simona De Tullio

Dancers: Ilaria Lacriola, Rita Giannuzzi, Marianna D’Agostino, Liliana Gelao, Francesco L’Abbate

Light design by Claudio Carulli

Ph. by Clarissa Lapolla.

Sud is a new work signed by Simona De Tullio for Breathing Art Company. The performance celebrates Southern spirit, idea, emotions and souls… everywhere you can feel southern, is not just south Italy is south of the world. How you can express your feeling from south? Visual artist have always painted and fixed southern subjects…what about Van Gogh?
The piece starts from south Italy to reach the world around, celebrating passion for life, souls lost in the world, deep solitudes and crazy hearts. This is a piece without limits, without states, something deep in Italian tradition that touches everyone’s spirit.

SUD will be presented in Great Friends Dance Festival in Newport next July, Skopje(Macedonia) and Haarlem (Netherlands)

“William’s Women” is a new production by The Breathing Art Company. It is focused on the role of the female characters in the works of Shakespeare and its reflection in today’s society.

Despite their differences, all of Shakespeare’s women are connected by a common issue – the consequences of the love choices that they have made. Juliet, Ophelia, Lady Macbeth and Desdemona– all of them went too far in the name of love. The question is, was it worth it?
In her new piece, Simona De Tullio explores the excess of love that each of these characters went through. When does love become destructive? When does a character lose their sense of reality? When do all these women realize that they are the victim of themselves, of their own choices? And once they have discovered this, why do they suffer through it again and again?

Following the thread of these women’s lives, one can clearly see that each of them, Juliet, Ophelia, Lady Macbeth and Desdemona were victims of violence and abuse. While the issue may seem fictive, 35 per cent of women worldwide do experience physical or sexual violence at some point in their lifetime. Daily, thousands of women are suffering physical and mental domestic abuse yet a high percentage of such cases remain unreported. It is the reality of the 21st century. Women of today have not moved far from the women of Shakespeare. They are still judged by her love choices, subjected to physical and mental abuse and are not shown justice in challenging situations.

Dancers: Ilaria Lacriola, Rita Giannuzzi, Marianna D’Agostino, Liliana Gelao e Francesco L’Abbate

Lights designer: Claudio Carulli

Music: Ivan Iusco

Chor.: Simona De Tullio