Flavia Dalila D’Amico: In music In Levare is placing the accent on a weak note, that relieves us for a moment from a continuous beat. In Levare, however, is also to rebel, to rise up together. For your vocation and artistic research, do you find yourself more in the first or in the second definition? What does ‘In Levare’ refer you to?
Roberto Tedesco: In Levare is a double possibility, of chiaroscuro, of an oxymoron, of the ability to enrich the starting point. The possibility of not just focusing on one aspect but having the ability to surprise by anticipating what one would have expected. Experience labels me as a rebel, sometimes I wish I didn’t wear this label, sometimes I realise it is the only way to resist. I guess it’s a matter of the time of life, thinking about me now, standing up to noise sounds quite familiar.
FDD: What is the relationship between word, choreography and awareness in your performance?
RT: If we talk about the choreographic material, Decisione Consapevole is a work that is based on the identification of four key words: Intimacy, Community, Isolation and Communication. The research on the single word saw us first improvise, then analyse and make decisions until the individual pictures that make up the performance came to life. In the creative process, in order to avoid improvisation sessions where anything goes, I asked the dancers to consciously choose the word to work on and to transform into danced action whatever idea was relatable to the chosen word for them. Today, the performance proposes a succession of defined and fixed scenes, and the whole thing was enveloped in an atmosphere reminiscent of childhood and adolescence. So if at first the piece was intended to be the transformation of an exercise into a real choreographic work, today I would say that we are staging a journey through fragments of past, present and, perhaps, future life.