We resume for the second year our artistic experiment which aims to play down a hateful prejudice, according to which having a "rebel brain" must necessarily correspond to a condition of forced exclusion from enjoying beauty and sensuality in all their manifestations.
The theme of this edition would like to take us back to the climate of ancient myth, proposing an artistic performance of life drawing that evokes Damia, the Greek goddess who took the name of Bona Dea in Rome.
Damia was a divinity similar to a "Great Mother", venerated especially in Argolis, and also in Aegina, Sparta, Thera and, in Italy, in Taranto. Here Bona Dea became Fauna's companion to Faunus, divinity of sheep farming and the woods, who predicted the future of women. From Taranto the goddess passed to Rome, when that city fell into the hands of the Romans in 272 BC. C.
In this evening of ours Damia will come back to life in Damiana Ardito, or Rose Selavy when she animates the Burlesque nights of La Conventicola Degli ULTRAMODERNI, native of Cerignola and transplanted to Rome as an adult, Damiana-Damia dedicates this interactive performance to the service of drawing from life to its connection with these places, staging a ritual dance around the planting of a Cerignola medlar seed in Roman land.
The costumes and the setup are self-produced with natural materials and dried plants: primitivism and the ancestral spirit marry the burlesque aesthetic when the Bona Goddess enters wearing a lush headdress of brushwood, just as when at the end of the ritual we find her covered only with little soil instead of tassels and sequins.
The performance is made up of moments of stage action and sudden blocks functional to life drawing, from two to twenty minutes per pose. Sior Mirkaccio, Mirko Dettori, will give a sound guise to this mythological setting by testing himself with a twelve-stringed Celtic harp.
It is a happening dedicated to those who want to draw and can also be enjoyed by a passive audience, who will be able to enjoy a staging on multiple levels, both of the ritual dance of the Bona Goddess of interaction with music, and of the spectacle given by drawing and 'interaction between model and designers.
