Alfonsina

"Alfonsina" is a modern dance performance inspired by the magnetic personality of Alfonsina Storni, one of the most important Ibero-American poets of the postmodernism movement.

The performance offers a deep insight to Alfonsina's tragic death giving a positive and touching interpretation of her last poem, "Voy a dormer " (I'm going to sleep), written the day before she committed suicide by walking into the sea at Mar del Plata in Argentina.

Her death is seen by della Monica as an élan vital, an extreme act of love , of life, not as the end of everything, but a way to transfigure herself into another level of existence becoming part of sea.

Choreography Antonio della Monica

Music various Argentinean artists

Images Antonio della Monica & Andrea Aste

The Performance

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Everybody is Alfonsina...

the poet at la Boca, Buenos Aires

Alfonsina, you have left with your loneliness
What new poems are you seeking?
An ancient voice of the wind and the sea
Breaks off your soul and carries it away
And you follow, as in your dreams,
Asleep, Alfonsina, clothed with the sea

(excerpt from Alfonsina y el mar by Ramirez and Luna)

Alfonsina into the sea

The last moments of the performance, with the screening of "Alfonsina y el mar" by Andrea Aste


	Alfonsina "Alfonsina" is a modern dance performance inspired by the magnetic personality of Alfonsina Storni, one of the most important Ibero-American poets of the postmodernism movement. The performance offers a deep insight to Alfonsina's tragic death giving a positive and touching interpretation of her last poem, "Voy a dormer " (I'm going to sleep), written the day before she committed suicide by walking into the sea at Mar del Plata in Argentina. Her death is seen by della Monica as an élan vital, an extreme act of love , of life, not as the end of everything, but a way to transfigure herself into another level of existence becoming part of sea. Choreography Antonio della Monica Music various Argentinean artists Images Antonio della Monica & Andrea Aste The Performance click on a picture to see a larger version Everybody is Alfonsina... the poet at la Boca, Buenos Aires Alfonsina, you have left with your loneliness What new poems are you seeking? An ancient voice of the wind and the sea Breaks off your soul and carries it away And you follow, as in your dreams, Asleep, Alfonsina, clothed with the sea (excerpt from Alfonsina y el mar by Ramirez and Luna) Alfonsina into the sea The last moments of the performance, with the screening of "Alfonsina y el mar" by Andrea Aste

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