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Sep 12 2025 - 17:30
Sep 12 2025 - 19:00

Mart

The Fridas

Artista associata

The Fridas, Sofia Nappi | ph Claudio Montanari

Two dancers move through different emotional states on stage and in doing so convey the complexity of existence. Their gestures reveal a sense of intimacy and vulnerability, defying conventions about masculinity. Their bodies are mirror-like but divergent and embody conflicts and harmonies, just as Frida Kahlo was able to unite in her body and in her art darkness and light, spirit and matter. The inspiration comes from The Two Fridas, a representation of the multitude each of us contains.

One glimpses a very interior listening of the body, which is externalised by the evocative movements of the two performers, decisive and, at times, even ironic in a multifaceted immersion in the poetics of Frida Kahlo in order to enhance the complexity of the human essence.

- Laura Guarducci, Il Giornale di Vicenza
The Fridas

Choreography Sofia Nappi
in collaboration with the dancers Paolo Piancastelli, Adriano Popolo Rubbio
Choreography assistant Glenda Gheller
Costume design Adriano Popolo Rubbio
Costume making Adriano Popolo Rubbio, Adelaide D’Ago
Light design Alessandro Caso
Music various authors
Production Komoco
Co-production Festival Danza in Rete - Teatro Comunale Città di Vicenza
With the support of Oriente Occidente, Centro Coreografico Nazionale/Aterballetto
Project resident at the Centro di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale per la Danza Scenario Pubblico/CZD

Duration 25'


The performance is part of D.Arte, a comprehensive collaboration between Oriente Occidente and Mart.

The performance is part of the thematic path Radici. To find out more, visit the box office page.