1) The title of the season is Vertigo. What is vertigo for you?
I think of vertigo as a condition triggered by an event, pleasant or even unpleasant, that moves me inside and surprises me. I associate it with those junctures when I am displaced from my comfort zone and do not know what may happen. A moment when I can choose whether to react by contracting and thus rejecting what comes or by welcoming in total openness, in a state of surrender, that feeling of disorientation.
2) What power does dance have to change the imaginary and/or act the world?
Dance moves in a physical but above all imaginative space, and those who act it have the possibility of taking the observer to an elsewhere dense with meaning. When this happens the outcome is a sense of vertigo given by an extraordinary leap, beyond the limits of what we observe in the everyday. In those cases we have a chance to pick up a message of meaning to make it our own. As an author I like to pose questions in my work and I believe that when these take shape they can act on the space and the viewer. Dance is a flow of happenings in the world.
3) Agape is an investigation around a complex concept. How is it returned by the body and what dialogue is triggered between the bodies on stage and the musical score?
Àgape is a concept that recalls both the human and spiritual dimensions of our being. The deep relationship of listening and contact between the two performers is based on a mutual care, a being-together in a spatial and sonic journey. When such an intimate and loving relationship manifests in life we are present to ourselves but at the same time we lose our ‘attachment to our Ego to immerse ourselves in listening to the other. An experience of balances then, which will be enveloped and acted out in a sound environment structured ‘ad hoc’ and improvised live.