PARASCEVA

PARASCEVA a female name, derives from "paraskeue," which in Greek means "preparation." The performers follow a path of practices aimed at building actions that train resistance and power, power as a momentum towards the ability to act, through an unstoppable call to presence. They engage in a process of preservation and transformation over 4 hours, subjecting themselves to the gaze of the spectator and seeking sustained dynamics. Parasceva questions the value of practice by pushing the exercise to its purity, encountering the act of performance in its duration and unpredictability.

"In every act of creation, there is something that resists and opposes expression. To resist, from the Latin 'sisto,' etymologically means 'to stop, to hold firm,' or 'to come to a halt.' This power that restrains and arrests potency in its movement toward the act is impotence, the power-not-to. Power, therefore, is an ambiguous being, capable not only of accomplishing one thing but also its opposite, and it contains within itself an intimate and irreducible resistance."

Giorgio Agamben

Performers

Ilaria Bagarolo, Valentina Milan, Michela Lorenzano, Marianna Andrigo