Cross Festival 2025 - Storia di un ruscello

Storia di un ruscello

Erica Meucci (IT)

Dance
Duration: 30 minutes 

Walk in the woods

In collaboration with MAGGIORE DANZA

Storia di un ruscello is a story told through images, a dance written for a performer and a stone. In Erica Meucci’s debut project as author, the work draws inspiration from the ecological ideas of anarchist geographer Élisée Reclus who’s stating that reconnecting with other living beings requires recognizing our own vulnerability and exposure to danger –liberating ourselves from the notion of domination and instead engaging with the environments we pass through, allowing ourselves to be shaped by them. Reclus’ philosophy intertwines with a real event: the loss of an animal in the woods and its eventual discovery in the waters of a waterfall. The image of its suspended body, caressed by the flowing waters, and the time that seems to dilate without boundaries imprint themselves on the dancer’s body, oscillating between spatial and acoustic voids and solids, between the solidity of the stone and the transience of the watercourse. Throughout the performance, the dancer moves upon the stone without ever stepping off. This constraint forces the body to continuously rewrite its own geography and equilibrium, heightening its sensitivity to even the slightest changes. The figure stands out in the landscape and experiences the scene as a place of great vulnerability.

Credits

Concept and choreography: Erica Meucci | Music: Glauco Salvo | With: Erica Meucci | Lights: Andrea Sanson | Dress: PHASME archive – Chiara Corradini and Marianna Turano | Stone Restoration: Alex Bombardieri | Production – Laagam | Co-production: Pluraldanza | With the support of Oltrepasso Residenza, Spazio Voll, Giardino Chiuso – Festival Orizzonti Verticali, FLUIDUM2 at Fabbrica del Vapore, Danza Urbana – Rete h(abitat)/Sementerie Artistiche | Winner of: Life is Live announcement, a project of Smart with Fondazione Cariplo

Erica Meucci is a dancer, choreographer, and curator whose work focuses on the body in relation to open spaces, particularly wooded and wild environments. Her research is dedicated to developing sensory and subtle practices that explore the small and the invisible, treating the body in its raw essence as a field traversed by forces. She studied at the Paolo Grassi School of Theatre in Milan and, over time, engaged with artists such as Dominique Dupuy, Myriam Gourfink, Kat Válastur, Romeo Castellucci, Claudia Castellucci, and Chiara Guidi. In recent years, she has focused on studying minimal movement with Giovanni Campo and practicing yoga with Francesca Proia, earning certification as a teacher. Meucci has danced for Gruppo MK, Effetto Larsen, I Figli di Marla, JA Dupont, Daniel Abreu, Silvana Barbarini, Fattoria Vittadini, and Collettivo Baladam B-side. She has also collaborated with sound artist and Deep Listening facilitator Diana Lola Posani, as well as queer artist, DJ, and producer Splendour. Her works have been presented at Errant Sound, BAM, Mercurio Festival, Dot Festival, Danzare a Monte, Teatro Comandini, Fabbrica del Vapore, Festival Orizzonti Verticali, PARC in Florence, Festival S. Rocc, Teatro Niccolini, and Teatro Verdi in Padua. In the curatorial field, she has worked on the project ORA – Orobie Residenze Artistiche and the program Rami d’ORA, collaborating with Francesca Siracusa and Riccardo Olivier near Sondrio, on the edge of the Parco delle Orobie Valtellinesi.

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