NO

Creator and performer Annalisa Limardi
Sound Design: Saverology
External Eye: Penelope Morout
English translation: Aldo Vittorio Grassi

With the support of Centro Servizi Culturali S. Chiara, AriaTeatro ETS, Pergine Festival, Tuttoteatro.com

Solo Theatre · Annalisa Limardi · Ages 14+ · 35 mins · Italy

NO is a performance that explores the difficulty of defining personal boundaries, the guilt we carry that compels us to be obedient in order to be accepted, the desire to connect with others, and the need to first establish that connection with ourselves.

ANNALISA LIMARDI
My name is Annalisa Limardi and I am an Italian performer and author.

My artistic formation began at the Contemporary Dance Course of the Civica Scuola di Teatro Paolo Grassi in Milan, where I had the opportunity to interface with different techniques, deepening the study on the body and investigating my personal quality of movement.

After graduating in 2018, I moved to Florence where I studied acting at the two-year Orazio Costa Acting Course at Teatro della Pergola.

In 2020 I then began working as an actress, performing in several Italian theaters.

At the same time, I began to develop a strong interest in the field of authorship, so much so that in 2024 I decided to dedicate myself to it personally.

Thus was born my first show, entitled “No,” which is strongly characterized by experimentation with languages such as contemporary dance, rhyming writing and the interaction between the recorded word and electronic music.

The focus of my research is on the structural dynamics of power in the social sphere, with special attention to the condition of the feminine.

ABOUT HER WORK

Awards

– Hollywood Fringe Exchange Award – invited to perform in Hollywood, June 2025
– Special Mention at the Prague Fringe Festival – “For Most Innovative Show”
– Special Mention at the Avignon Fringe Festival
– Valentina Nicosia Fund Award for Emerging Artist
– Claudia Lombardi Foundation for Theatre Awards (Lugano)
– Invitation to Toplocentrala – Centre for Contemporary Arts, Sofia (Bulgaria)
– Winner of the Non Addomesticabili 2024 Grant
– Audience Award of the 2024 Tuttoteatro.com Dante Cappelletti Prize

Press / Awards

Finalist Festival Teatri Riflessi 2024, for which it wins:
– “Valentina Nicosia” Fund Award for emerging artist
–  Claudia Lombardi Foundation Award
– Winner of Bando NON ADDOMESTICABILI 2024

(Centro Santa Chiara di Trento, ariaTeatro ETS, Pergine Festival) Mention of the popular jury of the Tuttoteatro.com “Dante Cappelletti” Award 2023, led by Fabrizio Pallara ed Enoch Marrella:

“For investigating with a plurality of languages her own sometimes desperate urgency and for forcing us to be there with her.

For the courage, effectiveness and maturity of expressive language. For creating empathy of a universal kind in relation to the specific condition of the feminine in a clear generational cross-section.  And finally for embodying the paradoxical co-presence of the yes in the no and the no in the yes, in empty space, as a moving point.”