MALACARNE – Past Concerts

MALACARNE is an experimental dance and performance ensemble with the mission to co-author transformative performance rituals that fight reductive ideas regarding class, sexuality, gender, ability and ethnicity. During Mussolini’s fascist regime, “malacarne” was a derogatory term assigned to women who did not conform to the fascist ideals of “exemplary” wife and mother. These women’s physical bodies were deemed inadequate to uphold fascist assertions of Italian biological superiority, and their emotional exuberance threatened the ideologies upon which fascist power resided. These malacarne were institutionalized by the state and often placed in solitary confinement. We are MALACARNE.