Gossip Body

Gossip Body  is the dance of a body that harbours memories, fantasies and secrets, suspended between fiction and reality. Inspired by the historical evolution of the term gossip, the project chal lenges its derogatory connotation and invites us to nurture the multiplic ity of female alliances in our time. Historically, gossip, from the Old Eng lish godsibb (God+ sibb “relative”), referred to neighbours, godmothers, friends, the social network of women who cared for each other, but it was negatively transformed during the witch hunt, associating it with women who engage in idle chatter. Gossip Body started from the desire to explore storytelling by drawing on human relationships as a material for composition. Encounters are collected and transformed into scenes and characters that mingle, ap pear and dissolve. The project portrays a body attempting to tell a story inspired by words exchanged, encounters with friends and people who share everyday life.

Choreography and performance: Ottavia Catenacci
Original Sound: Eliza Bozek/moltamole
Dramaturgical support: Amelia Tan


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Excerpt Gossip Body

Presented at:
05/2023, work-in-progress ONE HIT WONDER#11, Dance Theatre Heidelberg (DE)
09/2024, Vetrina della giovane danza d’autore eXtra 2024 - Network Anticorpi XL, Ravenna (IT)
10/2024, Short & Sharp, Bora Bora, Aarhus (DK)