Venere vs Adone is Enzo Cosimi’s new creation that focuses on the famous Shakespearean poem.
The dramaturgical focus, curated by the choreographer together with Maria Paola Zedda, scholar and curator, is centred on the two Shakespearian figures: Adonis, emblematically represented by a fit body, obsessed not so much by the hunt as by the construction of his machine/body, and Venus, who desperately tries to ignite his desire. In a journey traversed by different languages and media, Cosimi reinterprets the poetics of the English playwright, creating a textual and visual mosaic of contemporary elements and philological aspects. The drama of unrequited, wild and feral love. The cult of the body image and the vitalistic force of man, the dominant relationship with nature, and the violence of death are traces that run through the compositional writing and arrive from the baroque-like echoes and ghosts to haunt the contemporary. The queer universe, which has been at the centre of Cosimi’s work from the outset in a critique of normativity and in his interest in the margins and the irregular, emerges powerfully and is highlighted in the metamorphosis of the characters who overturn themselves, challenging the anthropocentric relationship with nature, allowing themselves to be crossed by a living being that cannot be domesticated.