by Nicolò Abbattista and Christian Consalvo

supported by OPLAS/Centro Regionale Danza Umbria and theWorkRoom
a project by Fattoria Vittadini and Fondazione Milano

"You couldn't know, you couldn't understand, you couldn't appreciate. I had no right to expect it of you at all."

Oscar Wilde poet

O tells of an encounter, which is redefined each time according to its interpreters.

The two people on stage are divided by a soccer ball. They are two men, the teacher and the pupil, the adult and the young man, the expert and the shrewd. They are two strangers, in love. Together they discover each other in the other’s eyes. They go through desire, prohibition, mistake and what is politically incorrect. They observe and study each other, developing a relationship that grows through play, eroticism and aggression.

The aggressive and virile movements are transformed into a danced dialogue between the bodies. They begin to discover the other in a progressive abandonment that redefines the balance and leads to a frantic dance in which the poor ego becomes the cause of the loss of the relationship control, which ends up, in front of the audience, in a slow-dancing that consumes, extinguishes and strip them.

O is the representation of a love which struggle to discover the mutual identities on a football field, due to the tacit agreement that football is a heterosexual’s sport only. A taboo that arises from the widespread mentality that imposes a standardized attitude on those who are part of a locker-room. They have to show their heterosexuality, with no alternatives. Those who do not are sidelined.

O is a meeting, any meeting, between any two people.

YEAR
2018

CHOREOGRAPHER
NICOLÒ ABBATTISTA

DRAMATURG
CHRISTIAN CONSALVO

MUSIC
Goldmund, Yma Sumak

DURATION 17” 

WITH
Manolo Perazzi, Gioele Cosentino

ORIGINAL CAST
Samuele Arisci, Salvatore Sciancalepore

PREMIERE
November 18th, 2018
Abelianodanza Contest
MAT Laboratorio Urbano
TERLIZZI (BA)

OTHER PERFORMANCES:
  • February 27th, 2019
    Abelianodanza Contest
    Teatro Abeliano
    BARI
  • April 5th, 2019
    Racconti di Altre Danze
    Nuovo Teatro delle Commedie
    LIVORNO
  • July 25th, 2019
    Nessuno Resti Fuori
    Largo Giacomo Leopardi
    MATERA
  • September 29th, 2019
    Premio inDivenire
    Spazio Diamante
    ROMA
  • February 22th, 2020
    Gdańsk Dance Festival // Winter Edition
    Klub Żak
    GDAŃSK, POLAND
  • July 31st, 2021
    FLIC – Festival Lanciano in Contemporanea
    Polo Museale Santo Spirito
    LANCIANO (CH)
  • Septemebr 23rd, 2021
    Festival Sopravvissuti
    Teatro degli Atti
    RIMINI
  • October 9th, 2021
    Vuoti d’Aria
    CineTeatro San Filippo Neri
    SAN BENEDETTO DEL TRONTO (AP)
  • October 18th, 2021
    A Maglie Larghe
    Laboratorio Urbano Rigenera
    PALO DEL COLLE (BA)
  • May 20th, 2022
    Festival Up To You
    Auditorium di Piazza Libertà
    BERGAMO
  • August 20th, 2022
    Platform14
    Uferstudios
    BERLIN, GERMANY
  • April 28th and 29th, 2023
    Dance Horizons
    The Studio
    EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND
  • October 15th, 2023
    Festival Corrispondenze
    Spazio Agorà
    LADISPOLI (RM)
  • November 5th, 2023
    COMBO Festival
    Galleria Toledo
    NAPOLI
  • May 7th, 2025
    Rassegna It’s A Little Bit Messy
    Spazio Fattoria
    MILANO
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