Butchers Capsule

Butchers is a project that stems from the discovery of a word from ancient Greek and its etymology: Hasapikos, which literally means butchers’ dance. This is the starting point for Gloria Dorliguzzo’s choreographic research. What is the origin of a term that juxtaposes dance with meat cutting? How do you compose a rhythmic score enacted by real butchers, but subtracting meat and weapons? Butchers Capsule is a fringe event. Like a public assembly, Lucia Amara—who curates the dramaturgical threads of the project—delivers a veritable lectio, a discourse centered around sacrifice and the ritual cutting of meat in antiquity. In the sonorous half-light of the adjoining room, a butcher acts out a sequence of cutting meat, replacing the violence of that gesture with choreography.