The performance calls back the spirit of tarantism, a myth born in Puglia, south Italy. Connecting to my roots, I found out about this phenomena: the performance shows the resurrection of the spider archetype in each women. As a tribute to all the women that worked hard on the fields, raising children and fulfilling all of the needs of their husbands: Their suffering made them think the bite of a spider caused hysteric reactions in them. To release all collective suffering, they performed a ritual, in the Chapel of S. Paul in Galatina, on the 28. and 29. of June (the days of S. Peter and Paul), drinking the sacred water of the source in the chapel and dancing for hours begging the Saints to release them from their suffering. Some of the women where released and returned back to their normal lives. Others needed to dance every year. The performance begins with the archetype of the "dead woman", the deprived, hopeless and suffering body. As the music gets intense, the woman awakens to dance and release the pain, finally elevating to the "highest incorporated form of consciousness" – she reached the spider archetype, the mother, the elevated individual and connects the dots. By "spinning" the "web of consciousness" she involves everyone around her to elevate their own inner healing powers.
Photo/Video Credits: Andrea Macchia
Music Credits: Flavia Laus
Special thanks to: Leonie Radine, Leonardo Rubboli, Emanuele Masi and Bolzano Danza Team
Performed at Museion Museum for Contemporary Art Bolzano
The performance calls back the spirit of tarantism, a myth born in Puglia, south Italy. Connecting to my roots, I found out about this phenomena: the performance shows the resurrection of the spider archetype in each women. As a tribute to all the women that worked hard on the fields, raising children and fulfilling all of the needs of their husbands: Their suffering made them think the bite of a spider caused hysteric reactions in them. To release all collective suffering, they performed a ritual, in the Chapel of S. Paul in Galatina, on the 28. and 29. of June (the days of S. Peter and Paul), drinking the sacred water of the source in the chapel and dancing for hours begging the Saints to release them from their suffering. Some of the women where released and returned back to their normal lives. Others needed to dance every year. The performance begins with the archetype of the "dead woman", the deprived, hopeless and suffering body. As the music gets intense, the woman awakens to dance and release the pain, finally elevating to the "highest incorporated form of consciousness" – she reached the spider archetype, the mother, the elevated individual and connects the dots. By "spinning" the "web of consciousness" she involves everyone around her to elevate their own inner healing powers.
Photo/Video Credits: Andrea Macchia
Music Credits: Flavia Laus
Special thanks to: Leonie Radine, Leonardo Rubboli, Emanuele Masi and Bolzano Danza Team
Performed at Museion Museum for Contemporary Art Bolzano