Presentations of the performance:
20.05.2025 at 11.30 am and 3.30 pm
21.05.2025 at 11.30 am and 3.30 pm

Spectacle "Qualcosa nel mezzo"
Choreography: Vanessa Gajda
Music: Ernesto Toesca
Costumes: Adrianna Cygankiewicz
Production: Aleksandra Brzezowska, Andrzej Kryczka

Artists participating in the performance: Vanessa Gajda, Alex Montecchiani, Patryk Sojka, Alice Benetello, Beatrice Calearo, Morena Ciarafoni, Charlotte Majolino, Simone Martogli, Nicholas Di Tinco

"Qualcosa nel mezzo"

Suspension, chaos, surrender, instability, transgression, a state in between - trance, flow, something undefined. Liminality. A term coined by anthropologist Arnold van Gennep, it describes a transitional state - a moment between points A and B where transformation occurs. It is a space suspended between the sacred and the profane, between the known and the unknown, between order and chaos, fragility and strength, the individual and the collective.

Our artistic ritual is rooted precisely in this liminal space. It is a process that does not so much strive for a goal, but remains in constant motion, crossing boundaries and identities. Everything that matters happens in between.

Venue of presentation of the performance "Qualcosa nel mezzo" at the Castle of San Angelo in Rome:

The Dromos, a twelve-meter vaulted corridor on axis with the Sant'Angelo Bridge, represents the ancient entrance to the imperial tomb. Made of large blocks of travertine (originally covered with marble slabs), the corridor leads to a square cell: Atrium, or the entrance to Hadrian's Mausoleum.

At the end of this room is a niche that once housed a statue of Emperor Hadrian.

Supported by the Creative Europe Program, Action: CREA-CULT-2022-COOP-3, managed by the European Commission Education and Development Executive Agency / European Commission Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) European Commission.

Supported by funds from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage from the Fund for the Promotion of Culture - State Target Fund "Dancing Histor(y)ies - bonding local communities and cultural heritage through dance".

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