MAYA is the new piece created by Stefano Fardelli with the E.D.C. – EurAsia Dance Company and that will be presented this month in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Africa, for the first time as a worldwide premiere.

/// WHEN & WHERE:

– April 29th for the International Dance Festival ME YA BE of Kinshasa at Institut Francais de Kinshasa at 6:30pm (followed by the solo Pachakuti, part of the project 600 BEATS, created by Michela Priuli (Italy) and danced by EurAsia Dancer Jesus Rea (Bolivia)): book your spot at festivalmeyabe1@gmail.com or by IG at @f.me.ya.be

– May 2nd at the Wallonie Bruxelles at 5pm followed by a showcase and a conference led by the Italian Ambassador along with Stefano Fardelli: book your spot here: https://forms.gle/72x7fjF8bjMSEXpU7

MAYA – does not want to be related to the ancient American civilisation, but MAYA is the word in Sanskrit used in Asian cultures to indicate the Indian religious and philosophical concept of ‘cosmic delusion’, embracing the entire non-existent and illusory world, as opposed to the only known recognized reality which is called Atman. 

The piece is inspired and dedicated to all those people forced to live a second life, hidden from the eyes of “the only recognized” society and rules of it, behind the curtain of their private lives, in the constant condition of fear, loneliness, misunderstanding and frustration.

Through the study of some specific traditional dances, originally based in specific countries, and of some dances performed in the past only by women in moments of entertainment for men, the dancers of the Company have acquired the technical elements of those techniques, the qualities, the rhythms, the body languages, the symbolisms , the rituality of the movements for then elaborate everything and create the new movement sequences that gives life to this new creation. All while remaining abstract, in the code, form and dramaturgy of the piece far from any form of judgment and comment on the vast and delicate topic chosen. The interesting process of “translation” and “transformation” of the basic elements of the traditional techniques that we examined also give us the possibility of experimenting and hypothesizing what their evolution could have been or what could be in the future and therefore an evolved form of the same movements but in a contemporary perspective. 

The tour in Kinshasa is brought by EurAsia Dance Project International Network, directed by Stefano Fardelli, and supported by the Italian Embassy of Kinshasa, EurAsia Partner DANCEHAUSpiú of Milan (Italy), Wallonie Bruxelles of Kinshasa and in collaborations with ME YA BE Festival of Kinshasa and the Institut Francais de Kinshasa.

MAYA, created for the EurAsia Repertory, is danced by EurAsia Dancers Marco Hernandez (Mexico) and Jesus Rea (Bolivia). Assistant for the rehearsal Tavishi Pownikar (India). Costumes by Marco Hernandez De La Croix (Mexico). Visual Artist Matteo Bittante (Italy).