choreography, lights, costumes, scenery, direction by Nicola Galli

dance and action Margherita Dotta, Massimo Monticelli, Nicola Galli
performers Margherita Dotta, Massimo Monticelli, Nicola Galli
stage actions and movements Massimo Monticelli, Margherita Dotta
production TIR Danza, Nebula
co-production Oriente Occidente
artistic residencies TROIS C-L, Ballet de l’Opéra national du Rhin, Oriente Occidente
with the support of Network Grand Luxe
duration: 15 minutes

This is the second episode of Nicola Galli’s choreographic research dedicated to the desert and the broader notion of landscape. Starting from the research path that led to the first episode entitled “Deserto digitale” in 2018, the imaginative vision of the desert is reproposed in the renewed desire to investigate the features of contemporary society and the impacts of human activity on the world: increasing social isolation, human-generated speed and the dissolution of the concepts of distance and limit. The choreographer’s poetic style – which tends to erase hierarchies among the languages and elements that make up the scene – unites and condenses gesture, light and sound in an organic and interdependent relationship, generating a figurative archive that narrates the desert understood as an uninhabited physical space, a landscape of the body and an inner existential condition. On the stage, an abyss of places in the world and the human soul takes shape, criss-crossed by opaque and mute travelling figures that invite us to contemplate tactile and muscular images, to touch their blurred edges and to get lost in multiple perspectives that surface and dissolve in a sound magma capable of suspending the cadence of the everyday until it frays the perception of space – time.