"Captivating duet Maiorino-Giacomini......"
(premiere, CADANCE festival, Den Haag, 6 November 08, VOLKSKRANT,
Annette Embrechts and Mirjam van der Linden)

Co-production of DansWerkplaats Amsterdam (NL) and Devir-CAPA, Faro (Portugal). Premiere in November in the Festival CaDance in The Hague (NL) and performed in several venues in Italy as well as in The Netherlands, such as the 25^th edition of Springdance Festival 09 in Utrecht (NL).

Prayers is a dance and music piece that opens the doors of the unconscious and presents itself as an ongoing flux of sensations, emotions, sounds, atmospheres, wishes, dreams, fears and struggles.
The piece contains the double effort to elevate up and dig deep down, putting together absolute transparency and sensual carnality; it recalls a movement towards "other than here and now" that contains the constant struggle of living a real life as artists, constantly creating new-imaginative worlds that abandon the consistency of the reality and belong to the magic of unsaid.
Prayers is also an intimate journey into the interior spiritual and emotional lives of the artists.

After the well acclaimed and visionary dance piece ZOO, Maiorino and Giacomini want to bring back their languages, movement and sound, to their original pure source, beyond and against the over-use of any conceptualism, and the abuse of burocracy in the art world.
They let go of all the conventions and expectations surrounding a modern dance performance, and radically return to the instinct and emotion of the subconscious and to the evocative power of the relation between the live sound and the alive body in movement, through an emotional vibrant landscape.
Dramaturgy, staging, and conceptualisation are dispensed with as much as possible. They let art come to full fruition by leaving the path of logic.
                            

"We don't want to produce or get meanings to consume like fast food.
We don't want fashion (pret a porter) art-philsophies.
We don't want words and analysis. Just emotional facts."

Reviews:

"Outstanding duet of Maiorino with musician Giacomini

Gabriella Maiorino, a talent of Danswerkplaats Amsterdam, lets herself go to the maximum in Prayers, animpressive duet with musician Giacomini, which throws his guitar, electronics and voice in to the game. Maiorino lays in a spot of light, her muscles extend and shake like a young, awaking bird.

(…) Her body seems driven by uncontrolled physical impulses set by the music. She waves and spins and never stops moving (…)"

in Volkskrant, Annette Embrechts en Mirjam van der Linden. Premiere, CADANCE festival Den Haag, 6 November 2008.

“…in a choreography full of grace and at the same time charged of sensuality. A performance strongly emotional and double: solemn and sacred and materic at the same time. Wonderfully supported by the music both aerial and mysterious from the guitarist Simone Giacomini''

PRAYERS/ performances:

23 April 2008 studio Ite Boerema, DWA, Amsterdam (NL) - try out
24 April 2008 studio Ite Boerema, DWA, Amsterdam (NL) - try out
25 April 2008 studio Ite Boerema, DWA, Amsterdam (NL) - try out

11 July 2008 julidans, openluchttheater, Amsterdam (NL)
26 July 2008 devir-CAPA, Faro (Portugal)
27 July 2008 devir-CAPA, Faro (Portugal)

6 November 2008 Spui theater, CADANCE festival, Den Haag (NL) -premiere
7 November 2008 Spui theater, CADANCE festival, Den Haag (NL)

3 December 2008 Melkweg theater, Amsterdam (NL)
4 December 2008 Melkweg theater, Amsterdam (NL)

27 March 2009 PIM Spazio Scenico, Milano (IT)
28 March 2009 PIM Spazio Scenico, Milano (IT)
29 March 2009 PIM Spazio Scenico, Milano (IT)

16-26 April 2009 DIALOGUES: Springdance Festival, Utrecht (NL)

24 April 2009: Europe in Motion, Springdance Festival, Utrecht (NL)

9 October 2009:  Festival Differenti Sensazione, Biella (IT)

11-13 December: Danswerkplaats, Amsterdam (NL)