INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM OF CERAMICS – FAENZA
Contemporary dance performance at MIC

M.M.M (Met.Meet.Melt) is the first artistic project of Collettivo Os and involves the creation of different gestures and sounds with the aim of creating a work made of different words, of silences, of absences, of unions.

What can I see? Where are my eyes?

I hardly breath, in the distressing black, the unknown.

please turn on the light for me.

let me glimpse, let me understand.

I swallowed my own desires and placed them close to yours.

I hear the things you do not say,

a Midnight sun.

what darkness scares us if we have love beside us?

we are a group of words, pronounced and held

suspended, turned off.

please turn on the light for me.

let a new glow be and may the night not fall upon our living eyes.

“the poetry of the encounter, barely escaped. the ties that return, horizontal hugs. hands kissing, silent kisses, naked eyes.”

M.M.M aims at investigating the dimension of the encounter, meditating on expectations, “on the anxiety of expectation”, on what happens to bodies before an encounter, on how to prepare for the other person: “what comes first? before a kiss, before a date, before a dance? what is the behind the scenes of love?

The structure of the performance is a game of images and actions that try to restore universally recognizable everyday sensations. It has been divided into three macro-sections: Wait, Love, Separation/Memory. Their musical correspondences are Tension, Opening, Memory/Enchantment. The scene is not meant to be a duality of music and dance. Dance and music take place at the same time, independent but together. The performance will not be made by dancers but by dancing voices, moving words, gestures that sound in perfect tones. In the scenic studio, light plays an important role, which will often be the protagonist, another voice in the entire creation. Dance, sound, and lights will gather to best show memories and suggestions. The different rhythms will refer to multiple meanings and visions.

Among the many questions that arise and lead to an inexhaustible flow of more questions, the very conception of art lies among them, considered here as a self-awareness process where small sprouts of consciousness awake.

…So, what is the function of reality in the world of the visible imagination? What is the boundary between idea and act, scene, and real world? Doesn’t everything happen at the exact moment life begins and ends? Everything is already happening. Let’s try to meet, even just for an instant, silently screaming, in this subtle limbo.

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Photo by: Simone Cascone