GLI UNIVERSI TRASPARENTI DI MARIA FUX 

di Maria Laura Arupe e Jessica Sanchez Voci 

Fotografie di Lucila Heimberg

Like the authentic creators have, Maria Fux has the gift of an exquisite analogy which allows her to understand the human condition in order to turn body limits into amazing aestethic possibilities.

To be able to see this in that, establishes a sort of relationship system that brings light to reality and expands is to new possibilities that were out of mind. This has always been the task of Maria Fux.

“A visual stimulus can replace in deaf people an auditory image and promote movements, in the same way it does on people who can hear perfectly. Colour, lines and shapes provoke movements – explains Maria Fux - If I am deaf I can rhythmically connect myself to the strength of a diagonal. If it breaks, if it goes on, or up, those rhythms get inside the body. If the line is a circle, then the movement is circular. On the other hand colours, produce the quality of the kind of passion the movement requires. For deaf people, a line is an alive thing”.

“ONLY BECAUSE I KNOW MY

 LIMITATIONS I CAN GET TO KNOW 

OTHER PEOPLE ONES”

At the end of September people ovationed her once again in Buenos Aires in the Centro Cultural Borges, due to the choreography and the plasticity of the group of Dancing therapy. However, Maria Fux produces a true revolution in the Contemporary Dance through her work not only with deaf people but also with people with movement problems as well, followed by Down syndrome people, or mental disabled ones. Having a very well known international background she affirms: “Only because I know my limits I can get to know other people ones”.

A long time ago, the Music therapy department of the Hospital Ferrer her to dance in front of poliomyelitic children auditory in hospital and for those connected to breathing machines too. When she finished she was completed exhausted, she lied on the floor and said to her audience: “My body can’t do more …”. She put a candy in every child’s mouth and left away. The same night she dreamed of being herself connected to a breathing machine. The next morning she got a phone call from the hospital. The enthusiastic voice of one of the psychologists repeated: “You made did it Maria! They dreamed they were moving….”. Some years later she confessed: “That time, in the Ferrer, I danced my fears.”

Maria Fux has been teaching in training centres for 3 decades in Italy, in Torino, Milan, Trieste, Florence and Asis. These centres are named after her and are supported by their City Halls.

Something similar happens in  Spain and in France where they were invited by the Sorbona of Paris to train dancing therapists.  

IN SEARCH OF A HUMAN REPLY  

In her dance studio in Buenos Aires, she attend people devoted to overcome their difficulties, attend also people of more than 80. Many of these students are granted by Maria. “In this last period the artist has gone to the media asking for help. So that she can have a continuity of more than 45 years on her duty”. The studio nowadays is in need of the sponsorship of a company or any help from any governmental department. The real conditions make it very difficult for us to continue our work. It is a task of recovery through art, in people with different limits.” Maria Fux’s voice should be heard, so that her work on others can be continued.

(Verano 2000/01 Summer)

a cura di Cristina Ciofini marzo 2001