PUNTO DI FUGA

PUNTO DI FUGA constitutes the first stage and prologue of the broader project dedicated to THYESTES, the work by the tragedian Seneca.

What may be considered the harshest and most merciless of Seneca’s tragedies becomes the pretext for exploring through dance themes such as the abuse of power, desire pushed to excess, and the absolute suspension of morality that so often manifests itself in human relationships when confronted with the seductive banquet of possession.

Here, the narrative opens onto an empty and silent space: modular, geometric and still under construction, like a sort of Monopoly board whose buildings and streets have yet to be built and conquered — a chessboard gradually revealing itself, where roles and powers remain to be assigned.

Four “shady” figures enter this untouched territory from its four corners. Each, in their own way, appears determined to claim ownership of it, to dispute every centimetre.

They take measurements, studying tactics and possibilities, testing one another’s strength and elaborating personal strategies of domination in order to obtain, seize and exercise Power.

Each encounter between these potential kings becomes a futile attempt at coexistence, destined to dissolve miserably before the effortless simplicity of oppression.

The exercise of power at the expense of the other reveals within them an inability to share and to engage in dialogue; an incapacity to question one’s own perspective in order to encounter difference; a difficulty in breaking and dividing property so as to offer part of it away and receive in return something that might wound, weaken or transform them.

The vanishing point evoked by the title — that point in perspective toward which parallel lines appear to converge — seeks to express precisely this paradox, this “fiction”: the illusion that it might one day become possible to touch one another, to draw closer, thus enabling encounter and the difficult dialogue of differences.

An open question at the heart of the Year of Cultural Dialogue between Italy and Russia, within whose framework this creative project came into being.