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The strength of women is staged in Boves with “The heart that beats, that hammers …”

Friday 19 August at 9 pm, the show of the “Theater of Episodes” curated by Elide Giordanengo.

An original production by a fledgling youth theater company, which combines the themes of sport and female empowerment.

“The heart that beats, that hammers …” is the first show made with the newborn youth company of Episodes.

At the request of the Skatch Softball Baseball Boves ASD group, which participated and won the national competition “IncludeAllenaMente”, we set up a show that talks about the theme: “Sport in support of female empowerment and against stereotypes and gender violence. Sport, Art and Female Life “.
The plot deals with the story of some of the pioneers and the great sportsmen who gave the start and prestige to sport in the world.

It starts with Cinisca, charioteer of 440 BC, to continue with the aviator Rosina Ferrario, the motorist Maria Antonietta Avanzo, the motorcyclist Vittorina Sambri, the cyclist Alfonsina Strada, the baseball player Jackie Mitchell, the obstacle player Ondina Valla, the high jumper Alice Marie Coachman, judoka Rena Kanokogi, sprinter Wilma Rudolph, tennis player Billie Jean King, marathon runner Kathy Switzer, swimmer Novella Calligaris, to get to 1969 with Nadia Comaneci and her ten, never realized before in a artistic gymnastics competition.

The story of these women, who have had to fight against prejudices and difficulties of all kinds, shows us how much strength, tenacity and determination the female world is.

Alternating with the story of these athletes is the staging of an extract from “Love and gymnastics” by Edmondo de Amicis.

Published almost clandestinely in 1892, Love and Gymnastics is a story full of humor, malice and psychological acuity.

It tells of the passion for gymnastics of Maestra Pedani, an athletic and dominating female beauty.

“Tall and sturdy, broad at the shoulders and tight at the waist, shaped like a statue”, she faces discussions with confidence and frown, defending gymnastics as a discipline capable of straightening and reinvigorating not only the body but also the spirit of young girls.

Pedani fights against the mentality and the laws of the time that did not allow schoolchildren to practice gymnastics like their colleagues.

Prejudices also widespread in families that prevented daughters from attending gymnastics lessons privately during extra-school hours.

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