TORNAVEU 

Tornaveu is a performance research project on the bell and its relationship with sound, the body and memory. Its title in Catalan means ‘echo’, but it also functions as a poetic imperative: ‘come back, voice’. At this moment, the project presents a preview in performance format for five strings, five female performers and a sound atmosphere that integrates all the elements. The action took place in the cloister of the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome as a receptacle, a symbolic interior under the open sky, and expands towards themes such as seduction and eroticism in Christian iconography, the role of women in contemporary society, or violence and war in the present.

This work has the support of Maec-Aecid Scholarship of the Ministery of Culture of Spain. The research took place in a seven month period residency in the Accademia di Spagna a Roma. 

Images of June 14th at the Cloister of the Accademia di Spagna a Roma

with Serena Zaccagnini, Agnese Trippa, Giulia Castoro, Giulia Pagnotta, Alessia Rossi

direction, choreography, space design: Ester Guntín
sound design and music composition: Uge Pañeda
artistic support: Joan Morey
bell poem: Sofia Gallarate 

acknowledgments: Paula Errando, Xavier Pallàs, Campaners del Pi, Federazione Campanari Ambrosiani, Fonderia Allanconi, Emanuelle Allanconi, Unione Campanari Bolognesi, Accademia di Spagna a Roma, Luca, Íñigo García, Adrián Salvador Candela, El Primo de Saint Tropez, Joel Blanco

pictures: Daniel Cao