Madeleine
Madeleine seeks to open up matter and observe its interior, to bring together and stitch pieces of reality, to live dance as the closest instrument to that which remains unspoken, that which bodies emanate and places conceal.
Drawing inspiration from the famous passage of the madeleine by Marcel Proust, in which a sudden,vivid, and involuntary memory is evoked by tasting a madeleine dipped in tea, Stefania Tansini investigates how sensory experiences can collapse past and present, reawakening untamed bodies. Through this lens, the three presences become instruments capable of revealing the overlap and dissolution of hidden realities and temporalities. Madeleine, as La Maddalena, is also an ambiguous figure, both sacred and profane, who disrupts the established order. At the core of the project lies Tansini’s distinctive physical language: an exploration of the body asan unstable and transformative organism. Her work draws the audience into a state of heightened perception, where what appears ordinary becomes charged with intimacy and intensity. An experience that exists between the raw and the refined, between the formal and the wild, continuously assembling and reassembling fragments of the surrounding world: distances, colors,silences,absences, noises, voices, skins. Moments of lucidity and formal clarity give way to moments of dissolution, creating the sensation of being anchored in the present while at the same time slipping into a space beyond ordinary time.Madeleine seeks to open up matter and observe its interior, to bring together and stitch pieces of reality, to live dance as the closest instrument to that which remains unspoken, that which bodies emanate and places conceal.
credits
concept, choreography: Stefania Tansini dance (3 performers): Stefania Tansini with Liliana Benini, Chara Kotsali, Alice Raffaelli, Lucia Sauro sound dramaturgy: Enrico Malatesta light: Elena Gui costumes: Chiara Venturini, Stefania Tansini prop: Crisiplastica, Chiara Venturini organization and promotion: Federica Parisi production consulting: Chiara Boscariol
co-produced by: Nanou Associazione Culturale, Orbita | Spellbound Centro Nazionale di Produzione della Danza with production support of: Fondazione Teatro Grande di Brescia, Torinodanza Festival/TeatroStabile di Torino-Teatro Nazionale, Fondazione I Teatri di Reggio Emilia | Festival Aperto,CentroNazionale della Danza Virgilio Sieni, FREE SEED-sconfinamenti/Mosaico Danza with the support of: Étape Danse network with Festival Interplay/Mosaico Danza (IT), Fabrik Potsdam (DE), Bureau du Théâtre et de la Danse (DE), La Briqueterie CDCN (FR), in partnership with Lavanderia a Vapore/PDV and Torinodanza Festival / Teatro Stabile di Torino, ResiDance-Network Anticorpi XL(Lavanderia a Vapore, I Teatri di Reggio Emilia | Festival Aperto, L’arboreto-Teatro Dimora di Mondaino, CSC-Centro per la Scena Contemporanea/Operaestate Festival),Lavanderia a Vapore/PDV, Oriente Occidente, Fondazione Armunia;
Acknowledgements: Umberto Angelini,Chiara Organtini, Carolina Ellero, Valentina Foschi,Teodora Grano, Vincent Giampino, Ramona Caia
Performance selected by Danse Elargie 2026
Performance selected for the Open Studio of the NID Platform 2025. Artist winner of the UBU 2022 award for Best Performer Under 35
trailer
utility & links
press
07/10/2025
NID PLATFORM 2025, Artribune
/ Laura Bovione
11/10/2025
NID PLATFORM 2025, Krapp’s last post
/ Carlo Lei
12/10/2025
NID PLATFORM 2025, Gagarine Magazine
/ Mario Bianchi
28/09/2025
PANEACQUACULTURE
/ Olindo Rampin
Gioco, poema, rito: l’atlante corporeo del Parma Moving Festival
“[…] Studi per M, assolo in costruzione scritto e interpretato da Stefania Tansini, è, forse, tra quelli inseriti in spazi non teatrali, lo spettacolo che interpreta con maggiore complessità lo spazio con cui è chiamato a misurarsi. Il piazzale di ingresso e poi le sale del Museo d’Arte Cinese ed etnografico sono il set di una angosciosa fuga: da minacce esterne, da sortilegi improvvisi, da immaginarie epifanie o da conflitti intrapsichici. Pallida come un’eroina da romanzo, stretta in una divisa deep purple di artistocratica allure, la performer è come inseguita da spettrali immagini della propria mente lungo la tortuosità delle sale del museo, buie o freddamente illuminate, errante tra le teche dove riposano figurazioni di divinità orrifiche e maschere dalle smorfie funebri o scaccia-demoni.[…]”
agenda
10 –11 october 2026
Sala Piccola Fonderie Limone, Torino Danza Festival, Moncalieri
Madeleine | Anteprima
28 October 2026
Teatro Grande di Brescia
Madeleine | Debutto Nazionale
8 November 2026
Festival Aperto, I Teatri di Reggio Emilia
Madeleine
1 - 2 december 2026
Festival Danse dense, Atelier de Paris CDCN, Parigi
Madeleine | Debutto internazionale
touring
10 – 24 november 2025 workshop Madeleine: time traces Seoul Institute of Arts, Seoul
appendix
Studies for M is a series of experiments involving different places and people, often taking shape as site-specific actions. Studies for M are traces and flashes of Madeleine.
