Leonarda – An Occult Theatre Performance // VonPiderZuHeiss

Leonarda Cianciulli (1893 – 1970) is known as “La Saponificatrice di Correggio” – the soap maker of Correggio. Driven by superstition, she killed three women to save her sons from death in World War II and worked the corpses up as soap and pastries.
In the play Anna Heiss, Nora Pider and Sophie Wegleitner are ressurecting Leonarda through a performative invocation to question her about femininity and motherhood.
The premiere takes place on 8th of March 2017 in Anreiterkeller (Dekadenz), Brixen (IT).

Performance: Anna Heiss, Nora Pider, Sophie Wegleitner // Music: Julian Angerer, Raphael Landthaler // Photo: Joop Justus

VonPiderZuHeiss (IT/AT) is a group of artists who have been working together since 2009. They constantly join forces with different people with backgrounds in theatre, dance, music and theory in order to create plays for theatre, concert halls and art spaces. They used to work on contemporary drama, but lately they prefer to work without a script. Instead they depart from their biographies, curious stories, interesting places and funny figures. They like to work with glittery costumes, stuff they find in their parents homes and popsongs. Sharing common interest in entertainment culture is what brings them together. The pieces they produce are a fun pastiche based on their love for the present.

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