JENTU

“(...) Quite simply, it is the journey toward one’s aspirations, one’s passions, one’s beauty. This is what the two protagonists of Jentu attempt: they fail, begin again, and never lose heart. Like contemporary Don Quixotes, anti-heroes pursuing their ideals, they travel side by side, encouraging one another. It is within this poetic metaphor of the journey — and of refusing to surrender to the world — that the success of Jentu resides (...)”

— Maria Luisa Buzzi | DANZA&DANZA

“(...) a tale in stages, composed of powerful gestures and broad dancing steps, almost stretched like elastic from a window — a place of encounters and departures. The hidalgo is an anti-hero, fighting against worldly illusions, glory and power. In its rounded and complete form, Jentu succeeds in telling all this with poetry (...)”

— Marinella Guatterini | Il Sole 24 Ore

“(...) The choreographies created by Stefano Mazzotta evoke different emotional states, offering themselves to both the eyes and the hearts of those who watch.”

— Miriam Arensi | La Voce

“(...) The fluid score of contacts and lifts, of complicity and brotherhood (how rare it is to see a duet that does not evoke love between man and woman!) alternates with melancholic moments of suspension at the window: as though reality, impossible to ignore, always ended up calling the two heroes back to itself. And even if Chiara/Sancho never stops urging her knight onward (‘get up! run! fight!’), Stefano/Quixote, having hung his coat on the hook, walks away. Outside the stage, after all, it is far more difficult to give substance to dreams.”

— Maddalena Giovannelli | Stratagemmi