Rough Cuts: La Plaza
La Plaza is a choreographic project that explores how bodies build, share, and transform common space. Starting from the public square, it investigates how people inhabit and shape shared environments through everyday and collective practices.
Inspired by Wim Wenders’ Wings of Desire and Fernando Pessoa’s heteronyms, the project explores the relationship between individual and collective through a solo performer. The dancer embodies shifting identities and traces of experience, suggesting multiple perspectives within a single body.
The audience is invited to engage with this plurality and reflect on their relationship to community and shared space.
Credits:
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Choreography: Elisa Sbaragli
Performance: Rafael Candela
Sound: Edoardo Sansonne
Dramaturgy: Lorenza Guerrini
Technical Director: Fabio Brusadin
Creative Direction: Marco Burchini
Production: TIR Danza
With the support of CROSS Residence; Teatri di Vita as part of the Progetto CURA 2025; L'arboreto – Teatro Dimora | Emilia-Romagna Residency Centre; Teatro Petrella di Longiano; Capotrave/Kilowatt; IterCulture / INNESTI 2026; AMAT & the Municipality of Pesaro for RAM, within ResiDance – an initiative of the Anticorpi XL Network; IntercettAzioni – Lombardy Artistic Residency Centre / Teatro delle Moire (Milan); and South East Dance (UK), with the support of the Italian Cultural Institute in London.
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