dance choreography project
Roberta Racis
sound and music performed live Samuele Cestola
dramaturgical collaboration Martina Badiluzzi
dramaturgical consultancy Dea Merlini
technical direction Mattia Bagnoli
costume Rebecca Ihle
vocal coaching Alessandra Diodati
texts Gaia Clotilde Chernetich
photo Fabio Artese
general production Pietro Monteverdi
promotion, curation Jean-François Mathieu
production Oscenica
in co-production with Primavera dei Teatri, Fabbrica Europa
with the support of Inteatro Polverigi, Teatro Politeama Mario Foglietti, Fondazione Armunia, Operaestate Festival / CSC di Bassano del Grappa

Roberta Racis presents a site-specific version of her work Atto Bianco, rethought for the spaces of the Church of San Giovanni. Dance, voice and song synergistically structure the action, composing a tribute to the maternal and the white act of romantic ballet starting from a reflection on the elaboration of mourning. The white act is generally the second act of shows whose libretto narrates events between the world of the living and an otherworldly dimension. These are acts in which, after the death of a character, usually female, the afterlife manifests itself in the form of immaterial creatures dressed in white, who appear at night and are the representation of altered states of consciousness, of loss of boundaries between real and imaginary, between hallucination and dream, between life and death. The white act is now predisposed to an investigation like that of Roberta Racis who reflects on the feminine by making the personal investigation on fragility and mourning explode in a wider series of possibilities.