Italian premiere for “Over Dance”

Creating by looking at life – and especially the real lives, those of the performers – is not for everyone. One must start with a great awareness of one’s expressive means, a choreographic talent, and then arrive at a desire to tell us something.

Rachid Ouramdane does this by intruding with subtle nostalgia the awareness that we are always waiting, perpetually waiting, for something that will come. Perhaps.

Angelin Preljocaj enters with irresistible irony, mixed with a radical affirmation of beauty, into the lives of his performers. Dancers or non-dancers, their story is one of relationships, encounters and the strength that arises from them. Which is projected into the future and not into the past.

(Gigi Cristoforetti – director FND/Aterballetto)

FND Aterballetto – Birthday party by Angelin Preljocaj – ph. Christophe Bernard (1)

“It took talent to grow old without becoming an adult,” sang Brel/Battiato.

Perhaps it takes talent to just grow old. To enhance physical resources that fade but can still hold returns or even unheard of new designs, to build weavings of relationships as if they were light laces after a lifetime of interlocking.

The theme is that all this should not be seen as individual miracles within a disintegrating mush, difficult even to support – from the economic, to the symbolic, to the relational – but requires becoming a grand – and certainly in some ways new – collective story. Collective and global.

(Felice Scalvini – director Fondazione Ravasi Garzanti)