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HOW TO_ just another Boléro

is a short duet on the renowned one-movement orchestral piece “Boléro” by the French composer Maurice Ravel. This famous straightforward composition inspired the two authors and performers to create an ever-changing-bodies-landscape within the limited and confined space of a carpet. Here, 18 ephemeral images merge into each other in a suspended tempo as if detached by the surrounding reality. The two performers, as domesticated animals in a zoo-cage and depending on one another, are observed and gazed from the outside. “HOW TO _ just another Boléro” aims to become a portrait of different attempts at re-learning how to behave, touch, cooperate, help, love... constantly shifting between dramatic and ironic tones.

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Credits

Concept, choreography, performance: Emanuele Rosa, Maria Focaraccio

Lights: Michele Piazzi

Dramaturgical support: Carlotta Jarchow

Coproduction: C&C company, S'ALA Produzione

Supported by: Morphine Raum, Berlin (DE), CURA - Centro Umbro Residenze Artistiche

(IT), Corsia Of Centro di Creazione Contemporanea (IT), Micro Teatro Terra Marique (IT)

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Awards and recognition: production prize award Call from the Aisle 2021, selected creation

Vetrina della giovane danza d'autore 2021 - Network Anticorpi XL, selected creation at Peru

Bienal 2026