kawabate/edoardo sansonne

002 → se domani

contemporary dance - composer/producer

It seems that humans need to find themselves in a state of emergency to act and can only contemplate the existence of change when it becomes inevitable, when there is nothing left to protect them, and they must strip away all certainties. Until then, the only option is to survive as best as one can—ignoring, forgetting, proceeding on a path with the self as the only center of interest, in a blindness, more or less aware, of the Other around them.

On stage, two bodies, two trajectories marking the boundary of a liminal space, a corridor advancing in constant confrontation with the gaze of the observer. A repetitive trajectory that bases its "moving forward" on the performativity of being seen, of making oneself be watched, forcing the body to expose itself more and more until it surpasses the physical limit of the human. Soon, this all-encompassing tension towards the outside will unravel the boundaries of identity, forcing those who are exposed to reckon with this disintegration, this crisis of the Self and the ego.

In this bulimia of the image, in this cult of individualism, the gaze of the performers annihilates, sinking into a bodily and existential blindness. It will be necessary to reposition the gaze and oneself, the meaning of one's body and the space one occupies, to reconnect with the human and collective dimension of welcoming, of moving together in the world.

The two performers, representatives of a collectivity enclosed in a monad of schemes, walls, and protections, encounter otherness and thus themselves until they touch, traversing a shared crisis together. What does it mean to make the body vulnerable in front of another's gaze? How to be seen or not seen, in discovering one's fragility in the face of reality?

The sound accompanies the disintegration and repositioning of the bodies and, in its rhythmic and incessant progression, transforms into a song that frames the reunion of the performers.

PRESS

Among the Open Studios presented at the NID Platform in Vicenza, the surprise was "Se domani" by Elisa Sbaragli: a powerful duo featuring Alice Raffaelli (the best performer in Italy today) and Lorenzo De Simone (perfectly at ease in this unconventional partnership). Their bodies move slowly, almost always remaining in place, searching for a gestural gigantism that eliminates any expectation of performance, in a gradual and still hypothetical quest for connection and closeness to one another (in reality, they never touch or look at each other: this is truly emblematic of the fears and superstitions of today’s generation; hence the need for a tomorrow capable of connection, and therefore of a future…).
Stefano Tommasini - Teatroecritica

CREDITS

Choreography: Elisa Sbaragli

Sound: Edoardo Sansonne

Dance: Lorenzo De Simone and Alice Raffaelli

Dramaturg: Eliana Rotella

Voice: Elena Griggio

Technical Direction: Fabio Brusadin

Costumes: Chiara Corradini

Curation and Promotion: Marco Burchini

PRODUCTION

Production by Tir Danza, with the support of Citofonare PimOff, HOME Centro Creazione Coreografica 2023/Perugia, residency projects by Dance Gallery, Sosta Palmizi, Cross Project, Anghiari Dance Hub, Teatro della Contraddizione, Scintille - Festival delle Arti Performative, ArtGarage

TOUR

10.10.2024 - NID - Vicenza (IT)
02.06.2024 - Se domani - Cross Festival, Verbania (IT)
01.06.2024 - Se domani - Cross Festival, Verbania (IT)