T.I.N.A.

(There Is No Alternative) – 2017

ph Ilaria Scarpa

concept and performance GISELDA RANIERI
artistic collaboration SANDRO MABELLINI
production ALDES
with the support of MIBAC – MINISTERO per i Beni e le Attività Culturali / Direz. Generale per lo spettacolo dal vivo, REGIONE TOSCANA / Sistema Regionale dello Spettacolo
in collaboration with Teatro della Contraddizione (MI)

A short piece, neither serious not funny, involving speech and gesture, epic and ordinary, orderly and chaotic.
Inspired by the acronym coined by M. Thatcher (that stands for “There is no alternative”), T.I.N.A. reflects on a situation that brought those premises completely up side down: we moved from that “There is no alternative” to the nowadays situation, where we are submerged by a multitude of opportunities, information, data, indexes, likes…
We claim for the silence, but, at the same time, we are terrified by it.
A reality that provokes anxiety: a condition of confusion that disturbs the subject up to the dissolution of its point of view.
T.I.N.A. does homage to those who are sharing this emotional state.
A tribute given with criticism and irony in order to create a conscious distance to better balance our reality and to come back to a certain self awareness.

review

Lucia Medri - HYSTRIO - ott-dic 20 / Teatro e Critica - 24/09/20

“…in the performance of TINA, Ranieri is captivating and through her body and voice she explores the impossibility to escape the overdose of incitements that we receive daily… (…) Giselda Ranieri is an ingenious artist who works for ALDES company and her movements evolve through distractions and glitches, while presenting herself as someone else, compared to what was before and after, violating any pre-established idea of linear narrative…”

Ilenia Ambrosio – Il Pickwick - 02/08/2020

“…Giselda Ranieri’s parable of movement in her T.I.N.A. (There Is No Alternative), an ALDES production, encloses in thirty minutes of performance all the communicative significance of dance-theatre, of which the company is a masterful example in Italy since 1993…”

Andrea Pocosgnich - Teatro e Critica - 30/07/2020

“…the highest moment in language experimentation could be found in Giselda Ranieri’s T.I.N.A. (There Is No Alternative), precisely for the ability of being central in a series of directions which seem to be far away: the performance, the dance, the comedy, all moved by a vivid talent and always through a body capable of transforming itself at a swirling rhythm…”

Andrea Porcheddu - Gli Stati Generali - 28/07/2020

“[…] the constant cleverness of Giselda Ranieri, in T.I.N.A. bestows a brilliant choreography, all together sharp and capable of mixing up the narrative levels, body and voice, social criticism and individual derivations, daily banalities and tensions which have no escape. […]”