





ISTITUTO DON BOSCO
4:30PM
DURATION 25′
ITA
ROSSOCREPA (working title) is a reflection on the fissure in the female body.
The female body that exposes itself in its condition of being both matrix and consequence of a rupture. Liminal is the place it inhabits. The given images of the female body – sensual, generative, deformed, hunched, enslaved by anthropological and political duties, fleshy and gaunt, tear, fissure, breach, laceration, rejection and residue, duplicity.
This project is a “fissure” (a branch) of the work begun with Arianna Ulian. It deepens the reflection on the body’s fissures already explored in CrePa in its duo version, which emerged from the encounter between two bodies. Here, however, the focus shifts to the transformation of the individual female body during the generative state of motherhood: to the internal and external fractures it is called upon to welcome and endure, to its defective perception, and to the shadow of imperfection, anomaly, deformity, and incapacity that looms over this body, both socially and professionally.
With the support of MiC and SIAE as part of the “Per Chi Crea” program
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By and with: Sara Sguotti
Video: Gabriele Ottino
Set and lighting design: Mattia Bagnoli
Texts: Arianna Ulian
Costumes: Eva di Franco
Produced by: Centro Nazionale di Produzione della Danza Virgilio Sieni
With the support of: OperaEstate, Lavanderia a Vapore, IRA Festival, Cromot
Sara Sguotti is an italian artist interested in the individual and collective body. She is drawn to all forms of micro-collectivity and loves tangles of thoughts. Her choreographic practice ranges from research into solitary and intimate spaces to the imaginative elsewhere. She works and collaborates with and for: Compagnia Virgilio Sieni; Compagnia Anton Lachky; Damien Jalet—as dancer, actress, movement creator and movement coach for SUSPIRIA, a film directed by Luca Guadagnino; Roberto Magro on contemporary circus creations, researching movement for the circus universities Codarts, Esac, and Flic; Simona Bertozzi; Cristina Kristal Rizzo; Nicola Simone Cisternino; Tommaso Serratore; Company Blu; Attivisti della Danza, with whom she founded the project DANCE FOR DANCE; Jacopo Jenna and Annamaria Ajmone.
Her personal research began with S.solo (winner of DNA Appunti Coreografici and the Vetrina Anticorpi 2017). Her other works include S.rituale, Space Oddity, and Dedica Lontana. Since 2020, she has been collaborating with the Dance Well group in Bassano del Grappa, for whom she created HOP, a community-based work, in 2021. That same year she curated the production VENTIVENTI for the young company OpusBallet, in collaboration with POLIMODA Firenze. In 2022, after being selected for N.I.D. in the Open Studios section, she premiered S.O.P. at the Brighton Fringe Festival. In 2021 she was awarded the R.A.T. Prize for the creation It’sHardToBeHuman, for which she held a residency at K3 _ Kampnagel, in collaboration with the IIC Hamburg.
Over the past two and a half years, she has been working with writer and performer Arianna Ulian on their creation CREPA, which was in residence at Tanzhaus Zürich in collaboration with the IIC Zürich, and was selected for the Open Studios section of N.I.D. 2023. In 2024, she won the prestigious UBU Award as Best Under-35 Actress and Performer. From 2025, she is an associate artist with the Centro Nazionale di Produzione della Danza Virgilio Sieni.