Hi again dear Earthlings:
as promised, here goes the second visit of my mentor and initiator Franca Rame.
Enjoy!
The Initiatory Magic of Franca Rame
The second visit was on the occasion of the Nobel Prize in
Literature to Dario, in 1997. His
awareness of his wife’s talent and lack of embarrassment at publically
recognizing it turned on my interest in them again. I never had the shadow of a doubt that the
Prize was deserved. I just realized how
often collaborative efforts are overlooked in the arts and humanities. And was
impressed with his eagerness to
redress this. I thought, “well, perhaps
now he knows his wife is an author, and they’ve co-evolved as a dyad to feel
comfortable about it.” This compelled my
attention for an article on the integration of their respective creative
energies in works that neither could have managed without the other. The result was the article “From The Lady Is to Be Disposed of to An Open Couple: Franca Rame and Dario
Fo’s Theater Partnership.” In Open
Couple, I felt an affinity for Franca’s character, and her obsessions with
her partner’s affair-persons. Their
pheromones were in the air, and “pussies” were hiding everywhere: in a shoe, on
the soap bar. She sensed their sadness
and felt called to rescue them, as I also have in my early experiences of
amorous inclusiveness. This guided me to
appreciate the rhetoric of polyamory, a responsible form of non-monogamy that
assuages competition and rivalry. The
lovers of one’s lovers are called “metamours,” or lovers by interposed
person.
In the interim period between then and now, I became
interested in the creative output of their son Jacopo Fo. I designed a research project around the
intentional community
of Alcatraz, visited repeatedly and wrote about it. I was curious: “how would someone growing up
in a theater family handle communal life?”
As I found out, Jacopo invented Alcatraz as the answer. It combined the joy of living in nature with
the expanded sense of “family” that theater companies are organized
around. It offered education in the arts
of loving and sexual expression within a closed dyad. And training in the arts of keeping one’s
personal ecosystem healthy and well balanced.
It was for me a step in the path of exploring forms of sexual fluidity
and amorous inclusiveness that respect the integrity of dyadic relationships,
and their respective cultural variants. That
resulted in the article “Holistic (Dis)Organizations: Gaia at Alcatraz, Italy,”
in the open-source journal Rhyzomes,
2005. All of this helped me assess a
cross-cultural understanding of intentional and open lifestyles and eventually
coalesced in my overarching interest in Ecosexuality.
To be continued a week from now. Come back for the "second visit" on December 2, 2014.
Namaste,
SerenaGaia
Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio, PhD
Author of Gaia, Eros, and many other books about love
Professor of Humanities, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez
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