BY TERESA FIORE
The impalpable partition between
light and darkness, the rim of the bed
morphing into a trampoline to jump
into the void, the invisible edge where
the sea meets the sand: Emma Dante's
"Le Sorelle Macaluso" ("The Macaluso
Sisters," 2014) asks us to see borders,
to see how they provoke sparks and then
inexorably dissolve. In theater, film,
fiction, opera and children's stories, her
artistic vision is about discerning and
standing over these boundaries, not so
much as an act of defiance but as a
gesture of creative questioning. Sicily,
the (is)land she is from, is a lush source
of inspiration for her art: a place between
geographies and civilizations, a
light-filled space replete with shadows,
a baroque corner plagued by paucity.
H E R S I S T E R S
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