by Ilenia Romano/PinDoc
artistic residency in January 2026
open rehearsal + talk: January 31, 6:30 PM
Performance: March 3, 6:30 PM
Teatro Biblioteca Quarticciolo
Sky Castaways, two entities catapulted into the tunnel of eternity. Two Beings find themselves like fossils of what they were in the last instant of their conscious reality. Will they reach a destination, or is the reason for their absolute existence itself in a state of ‘becoming’? Their new transdimensional life seems mute and static, yet it is in continuous micro-macro adaptive transformation. Between déjà vus immediately contradicted and potentially infinite cycles of beginnings and endings, bodies crystallise into de-formations on the threshold of coming alive. Their orbits in perpetually shifting movement suggest the realisation of a sense of the eternal within an apparent stillness. As in a tessellation of events, the lived experiences of the bodies transform in a progression of interlockings and associations of images. Similarities and oppositions, displacements and inversions, rotations and translations mark the rhythm of dreamlike visions and mutating iconographies that structure the getting lost in endless instants. And then, who knows.
Ilenia Romano trained at the Accademia Nazionale di Danza in Rome. At her debut as a performer in La Compagnia dell’AND, she worked directly with: Pina Bausch, Cristiana Morganti, Jacopo Godani, Wayne McGregor, Ismael Ivo, Robyn Orlin. She then danced for Les gens d’Uterpan, Micha Van Hoecke, DEOS/Giovanni Di Cicco. She is a dancer and assistant for Compagnia Zappalà Danza, for ALDES/R. Castello and for Adriana Borriello Dance Research. From 2015 to 2019 she was associate choreographer at Scenario Pubblico/CZD CRID. With several projects as choreographer she is a winner of “L’Italia dei Visionari/Kilowatt Festival” (2016), “Bando SIAE Per chi crea” (2017), “Anghiari Dance Hub” (2018), MigraMenti–Teatro del Carro/Virgilio Sieni (2023), Toscana Terra Accogliente (2024/2025). Since 2019 she has been among the choreographers of the international project Crossing the Sea (Dance On–International Dance Exchange under the Hong Kong Arts Festival@Cattle Depot Creative Hub 2019, and Ramallah Contemporary Dance Festival 2022). She is choreographer for the Giovane Compagnia Zappalà Danza (2020), for the Teatro Stabile di Catania (2020/21) and for the Teatro Nazionale di Genova (2022/23). Her work “SOMEWHERE” in collaboration with Lucia Guarino (NEXUS) was selected for the Open Studios of NID Platform 2024 in Vicenza.
Michael Incarbone (1995) is a dancer, performer and author. He trained in the contemporary dance department of the Accademia Nazionale di Danza, graduating with the highest honours. As a dancer he has worked with Georgia Tegou and Michalis Theophanous (UK), DNA dance company and Giuseppe Muscarello. He currently collaborates with Kinkaleri, Compagnia Virgilio Sieni, ALDES Roberto Castello, Compagnia AB Adriana Borriello and Giselda Ranieri. As an author he has created: INSITEOUT, a site-specific project with the citizens of Caltagirone; “GO ASK ALICE”, a short film and winner of the Premio Roma Danza 2020; “Meta-morphin” with Mara Capirci and Edoardo Maria Bellucci (Nuove Traiettorie XL 2020); “About a Revolution” (Vetrina della Giovane Danza d’Autore 2021, Network Anticorpi XL); “Corpo itinerante”, a site-specific project in the portico of San Luca, Bologna, in collaboration with DNA and the Comune di Bologna. His most recent work is “FALLEN ANGELS” in collaboration with Erica Bravini. Since 2020 he has been part of the coordination group of SIR – Sharing in Roma.
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FROM THE WORKSHOP LO SGUARDO PERFORMATIVO
Spettatore 1: Due corpi, vestiti argentei e colletti vistosi. Sembravano arrivare da un altro tempo — o da tutti i tempi insieme. Caduta e volo, volo e caduta. Una ciclicità senza tempo sottolineata dall’elemento musicale, una Scala di Shepard che riempiva parte della performance.
Spettatore 2: “Sky Castaways” costruisce un immaginario sospeso tra epoche: i costumi metallici con i colletti barocchi introducono una tensione temporale che rafforza il senso di ciclicità inscritto nella drammaturgia e nell’elemento musicale. Il ritorno del gesto — mai identico, mai del tutto diverso — è la struttura portante.
Spettatore 3: “Sky Castaways” gira su se stesso come girano le stagioni — non si conclude, ricomincia, ma allo stesso tempo termina. I naufraghi del cielo non cercano terra: cercano il punto esatto della caduta precedente. Vederlo in prova dava l’impressione di essere entrati nel ciclo anche noi, a metà giro.
