Salerno

Imagine a flick through a 13th-century poem about the preservation of health ending up with a 21st-century experimental music group. Alongside  choreographer Ondine Cloez, Anne Lenglet, Clémence Galliard and Vic Grevendonk interpret Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum. The work written by the school of Salerno in Italy in the Middle Ages is a didactic poem intended as a guide to maintaining health. It contains recommendations for plant based medication, the relationship to food, to air, the seasons and one’s intestines: a string of precepts on all that influences the living body. Spanning the centuries, the four performers use voice, movement, and music to impart the 800-year-old advice with lively mischievousness. Words and moods are conveyed through song, questioning the issue of  healthcare and our relationship with the living.

Source: programme of the CND