GUARDASENTI

At the moment I reveal myself on stage, the one who listens watches; sometimes the one who watches listens. Each gives priority to their own inner perception. At times music carries the gesture; at other times, the reverse occurs. Occasionally, unexpected connections and brief syntheses emerge. Everything is very simple, within its inevitable complexity—without any complication. Look-and-listen, precisely.

Three listening tableaux, three “rooms” shaped by the work of three different contemporary composers. To immerse oneself in the listening of a musical piece and draw from it a compositional impulse. To observe differences and connections in rhythm, timbre, and form. To seek an understanding of what musical writing and choreographic composition have to say to one another—formally and in terms of an economy of signs. What they evoke.

To attempt to locate, or imagine, a neutral zone: a space where music and choreography step away from pure formal abstraction and instead embrace a more direct, emotional descriptiveness.