Silvia Albarella & Anne Tismer
Silvia Albarella and Anne Tismer have taken paths that are both different and complementary. One of them is Italian and has lived in Berlin since 1996, while the other, a German Swiss born in France, with a globe-trotting childhood, divides her life between Berlin and Lomé. For Non-Tutta, Silvia Albarella is taking the reins of a theatre project for the first time. A costume and set designer, working in the independent German theatre scene as well as in that of ensemble theatres,, until now she has worked for dance-theatre collective and companies like TanzZeit-Jugendcompany and Riki von Falken. For her first foray as director, she asked Anne Tismer to write the text for this performance and to be its incandescent centre. The public of the Festival d'Avignon knows Anne Tismer very well, having discovered her magnetism in the title role of Nora and in Concert à la Carte by Thomas Ostermeier presented in 2004 and once again in 2010 alongside Stanislas Nordey and Laurent Sauvage in My Secret Garden by Falk Richter. A performer and plastic artist, she has continuously broadened the field of performing art with what she calls her “actions”, stage and plastic objects that open the way to new experiments, which she primarily conducts today in Lomé with young Togolese artists.
MS, April 2013.