The first idea of this duet emerged during the Genealogia Research Project, a project undertaken in 2019 within which the shows Genealogia_Time specific and Zoé were born as well.

Inspired by the surrealist photographic current and by the images of authors such as Ren Hang, Eveline Bencicova, Adey, the sculptor Milena Naef, and the writer Eleonora Marangoni author of ‘Viceversa’, I would like to continue my research on the body, posture and gesture and experience a narrative and compositional overturning, inserting new dramaturgical elements in my poetics.

Maintaining the creative urge to give life to landscapes made of bodies that subtend meanings in continuous transformation and scores that reveal the symbolic and not only anthropomorphic nature of our body, in this work, still in the state of a choreographic note, new insights appear that guide compositional practice in a new trajectory. Without betraying the rigor and poetics that have always guided my research, I need to de-construct and bring my practice into an even more performative dimension by turning my gaze towards ironic and pop nuances.

The title ‘W / \ M’ is made up of graphic signs and letters which like mirror elements enter into relationship with each other. They symbolize duality, space-between, overturning. This relationship translates visually and choreographically into an architectural investigation of the bodies, observing their characteristics and posture, in the spatial interaction, but above all in the relationship between the two performers Davide Tagliavini and Michele Scappa.

Unlike previous works, in which the narrative was built around a body or more bodies and their inner landscape, in this case the urgency to investigate the relationship between the two bodies and the two individualities immediately emerged.

– Where you go?
– I do not know.
– Commissions?
– No.
– Do you have a particular destination?
– No, I thought I’d go around a bit.
– I was about to do the same.
– Oh, yes, I had forgotten: it is your occupation.
– Don’t you think it’s a waste of time for both of us …?
-… turn separately?
– Ah -ah!
– You can go around alone. Two always go somewhere.
Alfred Hitchcock, The Woman Who Lived Twice

Production Compagnia Körper.
with the support of AMAT Marche

selected by DNAppunti coreografici 2021