Glossa

I’m Italian, I lived in Portugal for a couple of years, and I have travelled a lot. After this experience, I think that now I know what saudade is – at least my saudade. GLOSSA is a journey into my own saudade, a path between reality and imagination, an exploration of both physical and emotional geography, a search for orientation in the Portuguese territory and language. GLOSSA is an encounter with the audience in the form of a performance lecture where gestures, words, images from my own personal archive help me coming back over and over again to Portugal and other places. I turn fluid the different dimensions of my own saudade, I dive into my own private constellation of words, in search of orientation.

Creation and performance: Eleonora Marzani
External eye: Marta Rosa, Barbara Eforo
Production: Spazio T, CMÉvora, Artes À Rua, Universidade de Évora/CHAIA
Illustration and Animation: Marta Sales aka Ostraliana
Graphic Design: Alessandra Pergoli Campanelli & Elia Villani (Enrica Design)
Video: Pedro Grenha_Cooperativa CAL
Ph: Massimo Pinna
Portuguese premiere: Festival AAR 2021
​Italian premiere: Mamatita Festival 2022