GRINDHOUSE_cosa sanno i film horror di noi?

concept and direction Teodora Grano
with Teodora Grano
with the support of CollettivO CineticO
with the support of Lavanderia a Vapore, Armunia Teatro
project realized with the contribution of ResiDance – places and residency projects for choreographic creations – action of Network Rete Anticorpi XL

The research takes shape through an assemblage and copy-paste of horror film fragments to explore the concept of the horror genre as a dismembered body and to analyze, challenge, confront, overturn and reinvent the cultural mythology of femininity and gender in relation to monstrosity.
The dismembered and reassembled body becomes a new body: a landscape, no longer an “organic whole” but a monstrous form, creating a space of possible incorporation of desires, ambivalences, fears and pressures that come out into the open.
Mixing film criticism, fandom, feminist analysis, anecdotes of film productions, unsolicited opinions, biographical stories and news events, horror is evoked as a vital and ambiguous presence, as a power that constitutes a break with the everyday world, transgressing its boundaries and questioning the validity of rationality.

Performer and author, Teodora Grano is active in projects of the contemporary circus and dance scene. She has collaborated with Studio Matejka/Grotowski Institut in Conflict of apathy and HPP-Polska (Wroclaw), Katarina Brestovanska/Nowy Priestor in Kali un-suspended reality (Bratislava), Kai Evans/the KEE Ensemble in Use you head! (Berlin). She collaborated as author of texts and assistant director for Piergiorgio Milano in WHITE OUT. She currently works as a dancer for CollettivO CineticO. She leads movement training and aerial disciplines in Italy, Greece, Poland.