Aurora Dini
Sola
France
Aerial hoop, contortion
THE PROJECT / The mind forgets; the body is raw stone, where every event is irreversibly engraved. Sola is a performance-diary of a body discovering itself as the guardian of memories.
From after-dinner conversations with her father, who works as an anaesthesiologist, and from her own experiences, Aurora explores the physical and sensory traces of a body in relation to pain. Within a dramaturgy of memory and a minimalist scenography — a taut cable, an aerial hoop, a video projector — Sola explores the subtle kinship between the crafts of the stage artist and the anaesthesiologist in the operating theatre.
Accompanied by Cédric Orain on the texts, Aurora blends her circus practice with the rhythms of everyday life, exploring slowness through contortion and endurance through suspension on the aerial hoop.
BIO / Aurora Dini is an Italian artist. A former gymnast, she discovered circus while writing her final dissertation at the University of Florence. She went on to train at Flic Scuola di Circo and later at CNAC, where she specialised in aerial hoop. During her time there, she initiated the creation of a collective of hoop artists, Vous Revoir Rise, and co-wrote Cha Cha Chabelita, a show that has toured internationally both indoors and outdoors.
With Corps Premiers, written and directed by Cédric Orain, she took her first steps into the world of theatre and was captivated by the expressive power of spoken word on stage.
She is currently involved in educational circus projects, working as assistant director on Brut by the company La Main de l’Homme, supported by the National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts–Weiwuying in Taiwan, while also developing and promoting her own project, Sola, a circus–theatre solo.