Andavamo tutti is a creation for five performers inspired by Giancarlo Majorino’s poem *Andavamo tutti come fosse un’emigrazione* (“We Were All Moving as if It Were an Emigration”). A visionary and deeply powerful text, capable of condensing the present, the near future, and that “continuous near future” that seems never to resolve itself.

The poem portrays a humanity deprived of its axis, having lost its center: ideologies, religions, and even the relationship with the natural world that contains it. A chaotic and surreal migration runs through Majorino’s verses: humans and animals advance together, alarmed and disoriented, blending until distinctions of species, role, and memory dissolve. “Transitare occorreva” — “it was necessary to move through”: movement becomes necessity, urgency.

On stage emerges a humanity perhaps only pausing after a frantic and disordered advance, driven toward an undefined yet inevitable direction. An immense collective march in which animals, humans, and objects merge without conflict, crossing a devastated landscape no longer capable of sheltering or nourishing life. The proximity of fierce yet vulnerable bodies, the confused struggle of paws and legs, the smell of burning, and the loss of orientation shatter the rules of survival and territory as we know them.

From these images arises a choreographic language that is highly dynamic and urgent, marked by disorientation, by being overwhelmed, and by sudden stillness — as though gestures themselves could overlap and become interchangeable. The action is dominated by an inescapable sense of “going”: a migration without a clear direction, yet driven by an unavoidable destination.

Bodies traverse space overturning planes and perspectives, overwhelming the gaze of the observer in an attempt to restore the image of a multitude in full motion. Nature, though wounded, seems to suggest a call toward togetherness in the face of emergency: a salvific imperative urging toward a possible recomposition.

Andavamo tutti takes shape as a manifesto of life: when necessary, we flee together; we become cohesive or, at the very least, are forced into coexistence and intermingling. The well and water become symbols of a search for salvation, of a stubborn attempt at resolution. Resilience and continuity run through the work as vital forces.

The creation explores the sense of belonging between human beings, animals, and nature, revealing a profound equality: alike among alike, particles composing and decomposing themselves, generated by the same urgency. An urgency felt directly beneath the skin, questioning a humanity called upon to save itself, awaken, and reassemble itself.

DIRECTOR’S / DRAMATURGICAL NOTES

The performance asks not to fall into the trap of the title or into an immediate reading connected solely to migration. The interest lies not in representing a phenomenon, but in observing what happens when humanity reaches such a state of emergency that it is forced into intermingling — into an unexpected and profound form of belonging, even within separation.

The stage is inhabited by overturned perspectives and shifting viewpoints, by the dismantling of hierarchies, and by an obsessive movement “toward”: dynamism, breathlessness, movement without memory.

The scenography is built through objects and signs evoking a march without escape: traces of the animal world and remnants of consumption, objects no longer useful or functional. No dominant structure, only fragmented presences: tails, heads, paws.

A central element of the project is the lighting design, conceived as a sensitive landscape. Naturalistic, almost colorless lights, with tones recalling dawn and dusk, accompany radical environmental shifts, constructing a continuously transforming place/non-place.

Andavamo tutti emerges from the desire to translate the visionary force of Majorino’s poetry into choreographic form, recognizing within it an urgent reflection on contemporary humanity: disoriented, driven by an unstoppable collective movement, yet still capable — in the midst of emergency — of rediscovering an unexpected sense of communion.

A work that proposes itself as both a political and poetic act: a shared escape, forced yet vital.

KEYWORDS

paws/legs, well, belonging, intermingling

disarming and wondrous

suspended time

no place, no direction

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES

* *Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution* by Pyotr Kropotkin — Elèuthera Editions

* *Torme di tutto* by Giancarlo Majorino — Mondadori Editions

* *Collected Poems* by Wisława Szymborska — Adelphi Editions

* *Atlante delle migrazioni* by Giovanna Ceccatelli, Stefania Tusini, Stefania Tirini — Clichy Editions

* *Geografia delle migrazioni* by Maria Luisa Gentileschi — Carocci Editore