This triple bill performance night will close Mill Co’s female led program for International Women’s Day.

Discover solo 3 works performed and made by women that celebrate womanhood, survival and female strength.

“Woman / Mythology” by Mai Nguyen Tri / Mai Butoh Dance

A Butoh journey of a woman between life and death. Duration: 12 minutes

Music by French composer Jean Basile Sosa : “Mythology”

“Maa” by Aishani Ghosh @_aishanighosh

Maa is an extract from an ongoing exploration as a part of Aishani’s masters thesis. It explores how colonisation and migration have impacted the female body and the subsequent lack of growth within Indian Classical Dance. The piece is rooted in Bharatanatyam, an Indian classical dance originating from South India, and simultaneously explores how to break tradition while staying rooted to the culture.

Duration: 15 minutes

“You Might Find You Somewhere – an irrational experiment” by Sara Maurizi

• Recorded voice: Sara Maurizi
• Sound design: Dudj Doubleday
• What’s left in the body?
• Which scattered molecules belong to me? And made me who I am now?
• Where does memory live?

Inspired by the practice of Marina Abramović, particularly the triptych ‘Freeing the Voice’, ‘Freeing the Body’, and ‘Freeing the Memory’ (1975), and the essay The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk, this research arises from the desire to explore the physical, irrational, visceral, and untamed memory that inhabits us, and makes us who we are.
In an act of purification and expulsion of memories, words, movements, and images, attention is directed to what emerges, what comes out and leaves the body, and to what remains, like an indelible trace, an essence.

This journey comes from the urge to reconcile and connect the scattered pieces of a life divided between two countries, two languages, two cultures, and the ongoing challenge of inhabiting a female body.

This solo was produced by Umbria Danza Festival- Dance Gallery and premiered in Perugia (Italy) in July 2024

Photo credits: Claudia Ioan 2024