Contemporary dance performance at Piazza Rampi

Dancer: Siria del Pomo

Coreographer: Siria Del Pomo

The performance is entirely inspired by the book “Decomposition Summary” by Emil Cioran.

“We all believe in many more things than we think, we harbour intolerances, we cherish bloody prejudices, and, defending our ideas with extreme means, we travel the world like ambulatory and irrefragable fortresses. Each of us is a supreme dogma to himself; no theology protects its god as we protect our self; and if we assail this self with doubts and call it into question, we do so only be a pseudo-elegance of our pride: the case is already won.”

“How to escape the absolute of oneself? One would have to imagine a being without instincts, without a name, and to whom his own image would be unknown. But everything in the world gives us back our own features; night itself is never dark enough to keep us from being reflected in it. Too present to ourselves, our non-existence before birth and after death influences us only as a notion and only for a few moments, we experience the fever of our duration as an eternity, which falters but which nonetheless remains inexhaustible in its principle.
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So, we only live because we can’t help but live and life is, in the end, a more or less long, more or less agonizing wait for death.”

PHOTO (copyright Marco Vannini)