QUADRI

Onstage, a metropolitan figure whose body takes on the role of absolute protagonist in a symbolic, dreamlike journey within an urban landscape. The sudden appearance of a female figure gives rise to an encounter in which gesture and dynamic quality combine in a multifaceted series of visual propositions.

A pas de deux that explores the unstable equilibrium between two bodies, built upon the tension that both binds and divides — upon attraction, and a continuous interplay of impulses and resistance. Through a choreographic language of contact and detachment, the two dancers enact the paradox of desire: the compulsive search for the other and the fear of being absorbed by them. In this emotional short circuit, the body becomes a battlefield between the need for belonging and the instinct for freedom, revealing that every true affinity resides precisely in the unstable equilibrium between an embrace and an escape.

“One has only to declare oneself free, and one immediately feels constrained. If one dares to acknowledge the constraint, one immediately feels free.”
(Johann Wolfgang Goethe – Elective Affinities)

choreography Ricky Bonavita | performer Francesca Schipani | music Horacio Vaggione

Allure Allure is a magnetic solo that stages the mystery of a female presence suspended between reality and suggestion. At the centre of the scene, a woman wears her high heels not merely as an accessory but as a rhythmic and psychological instrument: each step is a toll that measures the space, an imprint of identity. The protagonist moves along an invisible geometry, guided by an indefinite call that seems to emanate from the furthest corners of the stage space — or of her own memory. It is a dance that proceeds towards something that never fully reveals itself, and the only response to the call becomes the echo of one’s own footstep. The intensity of the search does not diminish, yet the call is merely a projection that transforms the dance into a solitary journey through the elegance of doubt — a continuous tension between aesthetic control, what is desired, and what one is.

choreography Ricky Bonavita | performer Francesca Schipani | music Daniel Teruggi

A choreographic tableau of essential, hypnotic aesthetics. The scene opens on a female figure in a deep sleep that speaks of abandonment and anticipation. Upon waking, movement propagates like a ripple across the dunes; the body moves as if summoned by distant horizons, in a dialogue with emptiness. Her loose hair becomes a living scenic element — a natural veil that often conceals her face: a beauty that does not seek the gaze, but the listening of itself. The energy of the movement, having reached peaks of vibrant intensity, slowly declines towards the initial stillness, suggesting that every journey is nothing more than the space between two silences.

choreography Ricky Bonavita | performer Andrea di Matteo | music Patrick Ascione

White Mood is a solo of precision and energy, a tribute to the force of the intellect and the body, a solitary challenge to dominate space and reduce it to its essence — leaving behind only the trace of a formal perfection within an architecture of muscular fibre and will, in which the body inscribes upon the white an unbreakable score of lines. White becomes synonymous with maximum tension and structural clarity, the sum of all possibilities; a colour becomes the space in which the body writes its own story.

choreography Ricky Bonavita | performers Claudia Pompili, Andrea Di Matteo | music Ake Parmereud

In a world governed by artificial rhythms, two figures move through the stage space, trapped in a mechanical geometry that leads them to brush past one another without ever truly perceiving each other. Until a crack splits the mechanics of movement and the bodies finally recognise one another in a freedom made of shared weights, yieldings, and impulses. Yet the fragility of the connection causes their trajectories to diverge, and the very fluidity that had brought them closest becomes the force that separates them.