They are figures—bodies—that inhabit or arrive upon foreign shores, resting on their edges, shipwrecked. According to Homeric myth, three founded three cities: Parthenope, in her shipwreck, gave birth to Naples. Virgins who refused marriage, barren beings to whom myth nonetheless entrusted the creation of communities. Feathered or scaled, they have always embodied the in-between—incarnations of difference on many levels. Dissident and dangerous for all these reasons, they once lured the curious with their song, and later with their bodies, into the greatest disobedience of all: to leave homeland and family in pursuit of knowledge.
They seduce not to consume, but to let one die of hunger. Yet they are also wise, prophetic beings—and it is precisely this wisdom that draws those who encounter them.

This is the story we have inherited. Their form has shifted over time because the gaze upon them has shifted.
Every place, every gaze, reinvents them. And so the Sirens remain singular in their history—and astonishingly contemporary.

project and choreography by Luna Cenere

assistant and performer Ilaria Quaglia

music Renato Grieco

technical management Mattia Santangelo

logo Giovanni Frasconi

project manager Fulvia Orifici

cameras Luca Ciriello, Ivan Mazzone

editing Fulvia Orifici

executive production Associazione Culturale Zebra

with: Laura Arcudi, Maria Betteghella, Barbara Cerrato, Floriana D’Ammora, Daniela Di Mattei, Eleonora Fardella, Angela Ferretti, Laura Gagliardi, Luca Laudante, Anna Orabona, Stefania Palumbo, Claudia Ottavia Piccolo, Serena Serino, Dara Siligato, Ludovica Sorrentino, Martina Starace, Guendalina Zanghì

Location Monte Echia, Napoli 24.07.2025

Original project for the Dance and Body Language section of the Extra Fringe Special Projects category of the first edition of the Napoli Fringe Festival 2025, celebrating the 2500th anniversary of the founding of Neapolis, under the artistic direction of Laura Valente