concept, choreography and performance Julie Botet, Simon Le Borgne/Eva Galmel, Max Gomard, Philomène Jander, Zoé Lakhnati, Ulysse Zangs
sound design Ulysse Zangs
costumes Thomas Santos
scenography Julie Botet, Simon Le Borgne, Max Gomard, Philomène Jander, Zoé Lakhnati, Ulysse Zangs
lighting design Dgiorgia Chaix
production and distribution Association MANDRAGORE - Emilie Dezeuze and Dora Pentchev

Aerowaves Selection 2025

With the support of the Fondazione Nuovi Mecenati - Franco-Italian foundation for contemporary creation

In a suspended balance, a front line advances inexorably, creating a dystopian space. Absurd or banal, a series of objects escape, like vestiges or traces of our passage on earth. Gush is Great is a tribute to slowness and simplicity in the face of generational anxieties. A real choice, almost political: relearning to dilate time, fighting against the speed of relationships with things and people, choosing sobriety, making movement full and simple, without emphasis.
In 2023, the second edition of De l'impertinence, an artistic and cultural laboratory in Sète (France), brought together artists from different backgrounds, from the Paris Opera Ballet to the Dance Conservatories of France, contemporary dance schools such as PARTS and the CCN of Roubaix, to training programs in France and Spain. These artists do not define themselves as a collective, but rather form an ecosystem, where some participate in the projects of others, also creating a space for support, collaboration and creativity.

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.

concept, choreography and interpretation Florencia Demestri, Samuel Lefeuvre
lighting design Nicolas Olivier
music Raphaëlle Latini
dramaturgy Arnaud Timmermans
general direction Aurélie Perret
costumes Vanessa Pinto, Natalia Fandiño
production LOG asbl
co-production Charleroi Danse, Les Brigittines, MARS - Mons Arts de la Scène, La Place de la Danse - CDC Toulouse Occitanie
residencies La Fabrique des Possibles, La Montagne Magique, Les Marches de l'Été, Peeping Tom support GRAND STUDIO, Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, WBI

Seeking to break out of anthropocentric automatisms in their search for movement, Demestri+Lefeuvre investigate in Troisième Nature the possibility of translating non-human movements through the body. They bet on the possibility of a body becoming a landscape, a surface for the inscription of different ways of existing. They therefore represent an exploratory journey that aims to translate non-human movements through the body. At the centre of a device around which is the audience, a sensitive, non-anatomical body is recomposed, made of a mirroring surface that accompanies the spectators on a journey through the randomness of forms.
Rather than a choreographic phrasing or a defined physicality, the images follow one another, evoking the phenomenon of pareidolia - that spontaneous transformation of the visible that can make us see a horse in a cloud, or a mountain range in patches of humidity. A modelling material that eludes any prefabricated interpretation, the metamorphosis of this ‘third nature’ is a movement of living poetry.

With the support of Wallonie Bruxelles Theatre Danse

with Fabio Pronestì, Diego Spiga
choreography Daniele Albanese
music Simon Balestrazzi
lights Yann Hamelin, Loïc François Hamelin
co-production Fuorimargine (Cagliari), Insulae Lab (Berchidda-SS), Altra Associazione (Milan)

The Sun, symbol of strength and energy, and its cyclical nature give Daniele Albanese the inspiration for this show. Appunti per il sole is placed on a sensorial level, trying to bring the relationship between the observer and the actor back to a primordial level. On stage, two performers develop a language made of repetition, accumulations and variations, creating a written but always unexpected dance, and a musician weaves a dizzying musical structure, with cycles of speed and intensity in progressive growth, and with intervals of sudden suspension. The result is an investigation into time, energy and the very nature of dance.