“ANIMA IF”, BETWEEN FIGURE THEATER AND DANCE, THE REVELATION OF “LUPA”

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There is strong emotion in discovering the ability to invent, the inspiration and control of the body of Lucrezia Maimone, aka "Lupa", grappling with daring and spectacular evolutions. Author of flawless dance, the young artist also adds an innate theatrical presence. In his expressive window he takes up a piece from "Zoology" - under construction - in which he will show a bestiary of horrid and fantastic wonders. Dressed in a large man's suit, she initially performs a dance made of harmonic fluency, ringing figures with reckless aerial movements. Ambiguous looks and mimicry suggest characters from improvised stories, part of a dance theater that touches the sky.

Back on stage to show a very tall puppet with a very small head, half body, head and one arm, wrapped in a white shirt. He performs evolutions and jeers by blowing off the puppet's head like a champagne cork.

But she is sitting on a chair that "Lupa" improvises a bewitching and hypnotic dance of the four arms (two obviously fake and "sewn" on the back" are not perceived). Two plus two. Two that become three, four and two again. The artist composes impossible yet authentic plots. A piece of extraordinary impact that transforms the dancer and actress into the icon of Shiva, the Hindu deity of destruction, also known by the name of Natarajà, or the "Lord of the dancers". Dance, theatrical invention, circus art, puppetry and acrobatics. All this is concentrated in the art of "Lupa", or Lucrezia Maimone, future star of sure success, thanks also to "Anima If" which confirms the propensity to be an incubator of new talents and a showcase for a puppet theater that seeks confrontation with other worlds and languages.

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WALTER PORCEDDA / The States General