Memorie Rifugiate

Clown. When the laughter becomes a place where people can feel safe:

The clown is someone who's not very strong.

Clown falls, makes mistakes and gets back up again.

He does not have anything to hide behind no way to protect herself no power.

He only has her body, the way she moves and the fact that she can get hurt.

It is exactly this weakness that helps create something beautiful.

It is in this beauty that the clown can tell the truth and make people laugh at the time.

I laugh to deal with the pain not to hide it but to face it with the people watching to turn it into something that we all can understand something that's human and not so heavy. Even when it is really tough.

The clown does not try to explain the world. She just goes through it. She shows it to us. She feels it. She makes it feel alive.

We live in a time when words like running having to leave your home and borders are not just ideas.

Wars, people having to leave their homes and big losses are things that we see and hear about every day.

Behind all of these things there are people, stories and memories that need to be taken care of.

It was thinking about this that made me want to create the show Memorie Rifugiate.

I imagine a clown who is carrying around pieces of memories: things, movements, things that she remembers that do not have a place to belong anymore. Memories that are looking for a place in her body in the way she moves in the quiet moments in the small things she does every day.

On stage the way we communicate is simple and something that everyone can understand: comedy and acting with gestures.

Every time the clown falls every time she takes a step and is not sure every time she makes a mistake it tells us a bit of a story.

People laugh because it is funny because it is sad because the clown keeps trying when things are tough.

On this journey laughter becomes a place where people can feel safe:

a place where we can breathe see ourselves feel like we are not alone and at the same time feel like we can keep going.

Memorie Rifugiate is an beautiful piece about having to leave your home, memories and being strong.

A journey that reminds us that we all have memories that are looking for a place, inside of us.

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