SHAKESPEAREAN SUGGESTIONS

The performance, freely inspired by the monumental literary and theatrical output of William Shakespeare, is a choreographic journey through the labyrinths of the human soul. Four tableaux composed of pas de deux and pas de trois explore the geometry of relationships. Not a literal narration, but a visual evocation of bonds that tighten, break, and transform. Shakespearean Suggestions distils the essence of the great dramas without following their plots step by step, but instead probing the emotional resonances that arise from the encounter between bodies. The relationship between the dancers is the fulcrum of every tension: bodies seek each other, support each other, repel each other, tracing a geography of human bonds that traverses the centuries to reveal itself, now, more relevant than ever. A tribute to the fragility and tenacity inherent in human beings, and to this difficult, unceasing game of equilibria.
OTHELLO – the Moorish general in love with the noble Desdemona, drawn by Iago into a suspicion that will transform love into blind obsession. The movement here recounts the drama of a soul that ceases to perceive the other and inhabits only the simulacrum of its own doubt.
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM – the duet between Oberon and Titania, King and Queen of the fairies, who clash in a contest of power and jealousy. Their quarrel, which upsets the very balance of nature, is resolved through enchantments and transformations, restoring harmony between the magical world and the human one. Theirs is a magnetism of power: bodies attract yet remain distant in their regal solitude; love is a force that unites but does not merge, a communion made of absolute and detached splendour.
ROMEO AND JULIET – a love that cannot endure is rendered eternal through the ultimate sacrifice of the two young lovers, who take their own lives as the final response to the stubborn opposition of their rival families.
THE TEMPEST – love reveals itself through emancipation. On an island that serves as both his exile and his kingdom, the magician Prospero exercises absolute control over his daughter Miranda and over Caliban, the rightful heir to that land. In this microcosm of submission, the equilibrium shatters when Miranda begins to claim an identity of her own, torn between fear of her father and attraction to the unknown. The story reaches its completion when Prospero understands that true power resides in forgiveness and detachment: by relinquishing his magic and freeing those he has subjugated, he allows Miranda to choose her own destiny, transforming a bond of possession into an act of love and freedom.