Detentio Corporis
concept, choreography and dance
A woman, genius of 20th-century sculpture, confined to an asylum for thirty years, condemned to atone for the “crimes” of an overly emancipated life. Detentio Corporis is a dance work rooted in Camille Claudel’s life and art, delving into the detention of the female body into our contemporary society.
The work unfolds as an initiatory journey through pain and transformation: from the purity of body and soul into the abyss of passion, fragmentation, and loss, in search of rebirth.
Blending dance, song, music, and poetry, the performance explores physical and psychological confinement as a descent necessary for renewal. Camille’s story becomes a universal voice for marginalized women and artists, restoring dignity to madness and honoring fragility as a space of strength and transformation.
In Lumine
author of the artist’s book
“I walked, barefoot, through the corridors and cells of this place, with the memory of everything I had read and seen about Camille. Then I closed my eyes; it was the light streaming in through the windows that guided my steps. In Lumine.”
Starting from a choreographic research around the life and work of Camille Claudel the artist’s book In Lumine moves through the darkness of the former women’s ward of the psychiatric hospital in Udine, following the path of light.
Home
concept, choreography and dance
“We are not only rational adults, engaged in an endless competition to surpass one another. We are also children of the same land. Something holds us together. We need to heal from the same illnesses, to find in music a shared remedy.”
— Franco Cassano, Dancing Against Solitude
Home, the end is my beginning, the performative outcome of the project Home, is a choral dance that leads us back home. A dance against solitude, against isolation, against the illusion of being separate individuals. We are not autonomous entities trapped in infinite competition, but children of the same Earth, united by the same vulnerability.
Danza e versi d’Oriente
choreography and dance
Across the centuries, extraordinary human beings have shown that we can create something different: another kind of knowledge, other gestures, other words – powerful enough to unsettle the fate of a planet that seems destined for the abyss.
“Two worlds,” writes Cristina Campo, “I come from the other.”
We too come from the other world, and we move toward that field where Rumi has been waiting for us for more than seven hundred years (but what is time?), beyond right and wrong.
It is there that we await you.
Detentio Corporis
concept, choreographies and dance
A woman, a genius of 20th-century sculpture, interned for thirty years in a mental asylum to atone for her sin of an overly emancipated life, not conform to the morals of her time. Detentio Corporis is a dance-theater piece rooted in the study of Camille Claudel’s life and art. It delves into the experience of a body in captivity, seeking to restore dignity to madness and recognize human fragility as a space of value and transformation.
In Lumine
artist book
“I walked, barefoot, through the corridors and cells of this place, with the memory of everything I had read and seen about Camille. Then I closed my eyes; it was the light streaming in through the windows that guided my steps. In Lumine.”
Starting from a choreographic research around the life and work of Camille Claudel the artist’s book In Lumine moves through the darkness of the former women’s ward of the psychiatric hospital in Udine, following the path of light.
Home
concept, choreography and dance
“We are not only rational adults, engaged in an endless competition to surpass one another. We are also children of the same land. Something holds us together. We need to heal from the same illnesses, to find in music a shared remedy.”
— Franco Cassano, Dancing Against Solitude
Home, the end is my beginning, the performative outcome of the project Home, is a choral dance that leads us back home. A dance against solitude, against isolation, against the illusion of being separate individuals. We are not autonomous entities trapped in infinite competition, but children of the same Earth, united by the same vulnerability.
Danza e versi d’Oriente
choreography and dance
Across the centuries, extraordinary human beings have shown that we can create something different: another kind of knowledge, other gestures, other words – powerful enough to unsettle the fate of a planet that seems destined for the abyss.
“Two worlds,” writes Cristina Campo, “I come from the other.”
We too come from the other world, and we move toward that field where Rumi has been waiting for us for more than seven hundred years (but what is time?), beyond right and wrong.
It is there that we await you.
