Pas Moi

Première: June 22nd 2025, Theater Formen Festival (DE)
The performance lasts 50 min and has no intermission.
Italian Sign Language, Slovenian Sign Language, written Slovenian and English surtitles

Concept, performance, visuals Diana Anselmo 
Sound, composition Antonio Dominelli 
Singsong lyrics Paddy Ladd 
Dramaturg Piersandra di Matteo 
Coach, researcher and creator of the performative material Saša Asentić 

Co-production Scuola Piccola Zattere (IT), Festival Theaterformen (DE), Gessnerallee (CH), Fuorimargine Centro di Produzione di Danza e Arti Performative della Sardegna (IT)

Supported by Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Oslo, Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Berlin, MIC – Ministero della cultura, DANAE Festival. 

Sustained by the network R.O.M (Residencies On the Move) at Reykjavik Dance Festival at the invitation of Santarcangelo Festival. R.O.M is supported by the European Union in the framework of the Creative Europe programme, Conseil des arts de Montréal and Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec. 

As part of LANDING, a project backed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and carried out by Santarcangelo Festival. 

CAST
Diana Anselmo, Daniel Bongioanni, Antonio Dominelli 

Pas Moi, Diana Anselmo's new dialogic lecture-performance, is the concluding chapter of a documentary and affective research that unravels the web of power and domination woven into the mainstream historiography. If Je Vous showed the re-educational implications of the first moving images, Pas Moi follows a parallel path and, from a Deaf and signing perspective, explores the genesis of the first instruments of sound recording, transmission and reproduction. 

Through minor archives, anti-histories and situated knowledge, transmitted body-to-body, the celebrated devices at the origin of the future film and music industry are revealed to be instruments conceived with an audist and phonocentric intent: to “heal” deafness. A disease to be eradicated or disappeared in the meshes of the hearing world, rather than an identity, a culture with its own language and community. Pas Moi tries to imagine where one can go if the starting point is in the other – beyond “the lack of hearing” towards a new horizon and possibilities.

The lecture performance performance is part of the conference by Maska Ljubljana Cripping Performance II  in collaboration with Maska Ljubljana and the Platform of Contemporary Dance, Zavod MOJA KREACIJA, Maribor.