“a struggle hidden in between the folds of a jacket”
Denti is the Italian translation of teeth.
In many ancient cultures the loss of teeth is connected with the loss of a loved one, with the feeling of jealousy, and the urgency to leave one’s home country.
Denti makes a sensible journey through physical sensations and memories, a struggle between the impossibility to leave and the wish to forget.
Denti is the impossibility to let go, is the feeling of being trap, is the illusion to return back, is the sensation of falling, is the wish of receive attention, is the need to hide our self.
The piece has been made experiencing loss, absence of love and desire.
I looked how the body gathers sensations to then spread them out again, how the memory stores wishes and forgets nightmares.
I found a character lost in his own memories, too much sensitive to not fall down and too much impulsive to resist the wish to stand up again. A man that is incapable of not let himself being overwhelm and transformed, that like a tooth has a body made of a sensible stone.
I’ve filtered it through my personal physical vocabulary, translating all the sensations I’ve explored into movement; giving to my dance the possibility to guide and heal itself.
Denti is what remains;
it is the voice that we still believe to hear.
It is the wish to keep what is gone, to chase, to bite, to growl.
Denti is a Dramatic funny Piece.
