FOG Performing Arts Archives

Dance in the Desert

In Sahara, Claudia Castellucci’s choreographic and philosophical research grapples with the dimension of the desert, where the extreme lack of materials and relationships pushes dance to consider only what one has: oneself, as the only—first and last—instrument. The empty desert forces a radical visual relationship with one’s shadow, which, perpetually projected, cannot be ignored. Barely tolerated, it forces one to seek the company of the only things that can be found in total solitude: the products of the mind. These are the subjects of the dance, which asserts its very essence in Sahara.

March 7th – 8th, 2025 FOG Performing Arts Festival, Milan
80 minutes

A Sort of Negative of Crowd

Crowd, one of the most explosive shows by Gisèle Vienne, is the representation of a ritual: that of the party, a collective practice pertaining to all eras and societies. In the hallucinatory simultaneity of the lights, shadows, sounds and moving bodies of a rave party, the artist outlines a series of fascinating and deeply human portraits, focusing on the emotional experience—rather than the actual experience—of time. Gisèle Vienne returns to FOG with Etude 6, a performance that acts as a sort of negative of Crowd, sharing the experience of two characters marked by a lack and a vital need for the crowd. All of Gisèle Vienne’s works are political, not only through their artistic and philosophical stakes but also through formal research, questioning culturally constructed perceptions and the possible shifts in those perceptions. This work offers a direct and visceral response to immediate and profound pain—the kind of pain experienced by bodies constrained and restricted by political systems of domination, in which something that deeply concerns us emerges.

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