11^th of August 2010 h. 21.30 in the Parco delle Terme in Latronico.

text written and told by Sista Bramini
viola music composed and played by Camilla Dell’Agnola

Once the humankind, in the journey that was taken her away from the nature – her native home – still felt as a part of her; it was the time when the dialogue with rocks, trees, deers, rivers, caves was still alive and alive were the reactions, the questions about the sense of being immersed in a natural world as much poignantly beautiful as terribly strong. Questions caused by the astonishment of senses, troubled by the perception of a relationship and by the feelings almost swallowed up in it, tempted to abandon themselves in the life's flux. And in love with living beings, stones, bird, lake.

In the “aquatic metamorphosis” by Ovid we recover the fragments of this lost love where the world of human passions and that of natural elements still live in a contact rich of extraordinary reflections. Springs, rivers, living lakes, inhabited by 'local genius', they tell us about the irreducible value of the places from where the stories of Aretusa, Ermafrodito, Atteone, their images and the music derive. They are fresh waters that through their clear surfaces joke with light and reflections; deep waters that through cloudy whirlpools sing about fertile and unconscious darknesses; waters with a infinite breath.
In the living presence of a natural place, the listening to a myth and to the derived melody can evoke a pure, unusual emotion, that tell us about a mutual belonging which maybe is forgotten: between what flows inside of us and what flows outside, in the sorrounding nature.
For this performance, Sista Bramini was recommended among all the best actresses in 2004.
(Garrone-La  Repubblica) for the UBU prize.

Here the critics:

“Not a simple performance, but a theatrical one tha directly involve the spectator (….). A narrative for voice and viola (composition by Camilla Dell’Agnola), who tells about the falling in love of the Alfeo river with the Aretusa river, that sank in the ground to escape from the lover, reappearing as an holy spring in the isle of Ortigia. Mythology and popular tales, which fascinate the adults and amuse the children.”

Domenico Nucera, IL CORRIERE DELLA SERA

“… on last Sunday, the first day of the theatrical routes in the park, those who listened to Sista Bramini evoking water myths taken from the Metamorphosis by Ovide, accompanied on the viola by Camilla Dell’Agnola, will hardly forget the emotion.”

Nico Garrone, LA REPUBBLICA