Dancing @ Szimpla

Me and Violet dancing during that very special night...

I feel addicted

Returned from a week full of Lynch ... I want more.

"I look at the world and I see absurdity all around me. People do strange things constantly, to the point that, for the most part, we manage not to see it. That's why I love coffee shops and public places – I mean, they're all out there."

David Lynch

Zodiac Show in Budapest!

Such a lovely, lovely night! Most of the european tribal talents were there enjoying dance, hugging around and spreading love. Love - a word so apt.

In this Zodiac-based show I played the "Virgo", improvising on a Dead Can Dance song I deeply love.

This is what came out...

Take a look at this playlist and watch all performances from Zodiac show!

click here

Back to the future

Well yes, finally back home. I have a bag full of memories and new projects, and so much love into my heart.
These days in Budapest and Viareggio were simply amazing. So many beautiful dancers from all over the world, so much good dancing energy and so many unexpected blessings. I feel inspired in a way that I never felt before, and I'm so truly happy - with a drop of melancholia that always accompanies my returning home...

In Budapest I had the chance to visit and dance in such an inspiring and "odd in a good way" place: the Szimpla club! 

A few pics from that night...

Violet in our dressing room

Mardi and Doriana playing 

beautiful crazy people

Giuliana's awesomeness

More Budapest and Viareggio:

somewhere in Budapest

vintage postcards from the flea market

"the little train of the heart" in Viareggio

Violet and Daria in "that phantomesque night"

still Violet and Daria (but never enough)

On the road...

my best friend yoga mat

some travel-mates

Weird days

Have you ever experienced when you suddenly find yourself in a place that you had not expected, at an hour that you had not planned on a day that you had not expected doing things that you had not anticipated? That's what happened to me and my friend Violet, shortly visiting Sicily, last friday.

us

It was a cool summer morning (6 am, more or less) when, after sleeping a little more than one hour during the night, we decided to venture ourselves into a territory so wild as old: "Thapsos", an island near Syracuse that seen in its turbulent history the arrival of the first Greek settlers thousands of years ago and the unfolding of the First World War a few decades ago.

the land

A forgotten land that hosts in its silence ancient tombs and relics of war. An abandoned place caressed by the sea, the soil burnt by the sun ...

violet exploring a tomb

By chance in our wandering we met a dear old man who so kindly guided the exploration: "Ciccio of the island", so he calls himself, has lived his entire life on this land bathed by the sea. 

He accompanied us through hidden tombs and structures belonging to the war, confiding his childhood memories: we had the opportunity to experience the history of the place through the eyes of this man, as if we could travel through the threads of time... Priceless.

our guide

After our careful exploration we salute our guide to continue alone in an area that seems straight out of a post-apocalyptical movie...

rusty stuff

violet and abandoned place (her element)

creepy on the way

still violet

close-up of a very old window

and that was the creepiest

wires, circuits, electronic boards

me

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Working on...

the book is "Planetary" by A. Cattabiani

Preparing myself for a full week of sewing and dance practice: next stop is "Zodiac" show with Mardi Love in Budapest!