2025

LA LUNA CROCCANTE

perfomance trio with Anna Rigamonti and Natalie Peters.

surreal cabaret, sounding images, and embodied poetry

dates:
12.04 Lugano- Villa Saroli what language do we speak?
Performance day 2025
02.08 Hegenheim- PANCH Event: LEGS
20.09 Museumsnacht Vebikus Kunsthalle Schaffhausen

Cie (o) scena – venere in (o)scena

Cie (o)scena:
creation and performance:sophie papais and yara mennel
outside eye: emerson vergel

Venere in (o)scena explores the limits of feminine representation and the act of posing. The pose is treated as a site of resting and resistance, a way to evoke the brutal vitality that lies within the image of Venus

residency at 4ever punk- Casale -Bologna, Casa Stanata and Ex Palazzo Comunale di Verscio

dates:
8.05 residency sharing at casa stanata
21.06 premiere- La Tre Giorni Festival, Bologna, IT

2023-2024

de/con/posa

december 2024
Fondazione Ghisla Art Collection, Locarno
art works: Renato Tagli
light mover: Sara Sonderegger
outisede eye: Natalie Peters

de / con / posa is a work of slow undoing. Working with Renato Tagli’s pieces Natura / Colore / Forma, which formed the scenography, the body was treated as something that can be taken apart and met again, one fragment at a time, in search of a relationship with the works.

The gaze breaks up to meet something else: a surface, a pigment, a shadow, a limb that no longer belongs to a whole. A body that cannot be read in its entirety leads the viewer elsewhere. The other is found by losing the unity of the one who sees.

Nature decomposes. It dissolves the fixed outline, the posture, the habit of being legible. What remains is a desire dense with colour, saturated, searching for its form.

s a l o t t o danza&musica

dance: Emerson Vergel, Sara Sonderegger, Yara Li Mennel

drums: Leonardo Degli Antoni

Sax: Grogor Vidic

Dicembre 2024,Casa Stanata,Locarno

photo credits: grungenoir

lydia´s flower

an installation of Rita Cotti Abrosis
performer on 21.10.2023: Yara Li Mennel

An alive dream inside the Haus of Lydia
performative act of the incorporation of Lydia’s universe
you can see more on Rita’s work here: https://amrita-ambrosis.com/lydias-flower/

video : https://vimeo.com/yarali

https://amrita-ambrosis.com/lydias-flower/embed/#?secret=YtbbgM4sYM#?secret=DPgx11gJbB

What can go wrong?

Performance with Amin Alavi,Natalie Peters and Yara Li Mennel

At the opening party of Roxy Bar/Roxy Theater, Basilea

1.09.2023

blu drop

22.06.2023 Casa Stanata opens the door for a day and night immersed in blu. The day starts with a workshop, followed by concerts, storytelling and performances.

For the occasion BLU DROP has been released
performance : Yara Li Mennel
Tela/ Canvas: Elia Gobbi

A shadow and light game, behind a blue canvas and between a huge window.
Image, movement,sound- poetry intermelt each other into a blu atmosphere that travel into a deep see of blue memory

The other day someone asked me
Why do you choose to live on a blue planet
Why do you love, people ?
My answer
Is
Because I’m blue
and sometimes I do water too…

Dorme una canzone in tutte le cose…
Sleeps a song in all things..

Project for “gardens in art” Monte Veritá Ascona, May 6-7, 2023

A collaboration with Carovana091 and the Monte Veritá Foundation.
The Carovana091 association was invited by the Monte Verità foundation to propose a creative project for “Gardens in Art,” an event that has been held in the Monte Verità park for several years now.
For more information about the project:
https://www.carovana091.ch/post/esibizione-riuscita-di-dorme-una-canzone-in-tutte-le-cose-al-monte-verità
Many thanks to Natalie Peters, and all the participants of Carovana091: Rita Cotti Ambrosis, Anna Rigamonti Hans Peter Wespi, Paride Guerra and Jacek Chmiel.
Thanks to Nicoletta Mongini and the Monte Verità Foundation. Thanks also to the large audience and all the sponsors.

BALAGIALD
performance by Yara Li Mennel
in collaboration with musician Paride Guerra

In the performance Balagiald the tennis court becomes a field of tension where the contradictions of life meet. The living body meets the plastic, the plastic becomes a body. It is a waking dream where fiction and personal reality are juxtaposed with a malleable intensity in which the artist finds an organic response to the complexity of life.

Photo Credits: Sheldon Suter e Nicola Cotti

2022-21

i tre capelli d´oro

MAGARI ACCADRÀ QUALCOSA DI MERAVIGLIOSO…

2022 – Museo Casa Anatta, Monte Verità, Ascona
Performance with Natalie Peters, Anna Rigamonti and Yara Li Mennel in the contest of the event EVOKING REALITIES: VOICES FOR A POLITICAL DESIRE conceived by Matteo Binci and developed in collaboration with Nicoletta Mongini.

CARA MOGLIA,

SPETTACOLOCO

2022 – Caffé della Posta, Casa Rosa, Museo Onsernone, Loco (Valle Onsernone, Ticino)
Performance with Anna Rigamonti, Natalie Peters, Yara Li Mennel, Christiane Tureczek, Agnese Z’graggen, Lilian Frei and Ursula Scherrer. In the context of Spettacoloco curated by Ursula Scherrer and Lilian Frei in Villa Rosa, Loco.
Photo: Johannes Rühl

SONATA STONATA: BOUQUET POETICO

13. PERFORMANCE REIHE NEU-OERLIKON 2022. Move and Continue – Verzerrung in Zeiten der Dissonanz
Sonata Stonata oder das poetische Bouquet Performance by Natalie Peters and Yara Li Mennel https://performancereihe.com/texte-gespraeche/texte/

Photo: Markus Goessi

PARLA PALMA

Art Performance from Anna Rigamonti, Natalie Peters and Yara Li Mennel at Panch Social Elegance in the context of Bang Bang exhibition at Tinguely Museum, Basel
27. 7. 2022 – Duration: 20min. more info and report: carovana091.ch

LATTEA

2022 – Intinerant performance in different public spaces in the city of Locarno (Ticino )
Performance by Rita Cotti Ambrosis, Yara Li Mennel e Anna Rigamonti. Curated by Natalie Peters.

A production of Carovana091.

Poet Heike Fiedler wrote about the performance: performance:http://apresperf.ch/heike-fiedler-lattea
photo: Michela di Savino, Nicola Cotti