Starting from the author’s own autobiographical experience, the work NOBODY NOBODY NOBODY. It's ok not to be ok manifests itself as a totally open process, a discourse in dance which investigates memories and traces left on the body by culture of control, violence and offences.
The work, subtitled Appunti, celebrazioni e proteste di un corpo vulnerabile (Notes, celebration and protests of a vulnerable body), was developed by Daniele Ninarello during a first artistic residency in September 2020 both in the spaces of Oriente Occidente Studio and in the Mart Contemporary Art Museum of Trento and Rovereto and then resumed in 2021 during several rehearsal periods in Rovereto.
NOBODY NOBODY NOBODY - It's ok not to be ok focuses on the body in its intimacy and in its relationship with the public space. Solitary and meditative dance actions, born during isolation, become protest, denunciation and sharing of a body in transformation.
The work is articulated on several actions, which the author defines as protests, and has firstly led to the creation of an art installation open to the public and realized in the halls of Mart during the 41st edition of Oriente Occidente Dance Festival. In it, a series of danced statements tell a stream of consciousness of the body that re-crosses sensations and memories, the traces left by the culture of violence and offense, to allow them to be replaced instead by fluid and permeable gestures.
Then, still in 2021, NOBODY NOBODY NOBODY. It's ok not to be ok also took the form of a solo performance interpreted by Ninarello and presented in a dedicated room inside the Mart in Rovereto.
In 2022, moreover, the performance meets the educational field thanks to the sharing of the residence with students from three schools of Trentino in the project NOBODY NOBODY NOBODY. It's ok not to be ok Collective Experience.
I allow for all of the images to flow, I celebrate them, I let them go. I allow all defences to collapse. I allow the memories of the flesh to rise to the surface, the memories that are here now disappear. No more resistance: I name every wound, and I let the skin pronounce all traces which remain. I will care for this fractured body. I fuse with everyone, with every thing. I remain silent while everything around me responds. Empty empty empty empty, the whole front wall of my head, of my chest.
- Daniele Ninarello
