Elena Cervellati, researcher and author of the recent publication Abbondanza Bertoni published by L’Epos – Dance for Word/Dance Forward series, will lead the discussion.
“Let us contrast analogy-metaphor with illustration, more by association than by description. We wander in the twilight of the shapes and movements around us, seeking in reproducing them those ‘living’ vibrations they generally conceal: shapes that beings and things do not normally reveal.”
— Antonella Bertoni and Michele Abbondanza
With Polis, Michele Abbondanza and Antonella Bertoni conclude their journey around the myth, in search of the essence of sacrifice as a tragic dimension of love.
The individual experience of eros, elevated to a universal experience through myth, reveals on one hand the inevitability of the bond of love capable of surviving the sacrifice of the lovers themselves, and on the other hand, the fragility of the boundaries between self and other, between personal feeling and common sentiment.
With this trilogy, the two dancers lead us through the trials of a love that irreversibly alters the consistency of time, the shape of bodies, the rhythm of movements, declaring the impossibility of remaining inert, of maintaining a detached, neutral, objective view of oneself and the world.
