Eros & Thanatos

“Eros & Thanatos” comes from Freud’s theory argued that, during childhood, the first things children discover are the sexual phases from which they determine themselves. This fact influences men even in their maturity; for people sex remains at the base of all the frustrations, fears, anxieties and joys experienced in their childhood. Furthermore, man is dominated by a continuous dualism between rational and irrational parts: Eros pushes men to create and satisfy all their pleasures while Thanatos pushes them to destroy themselves and the others.

The dancers move in an articulated path between the rooms of Villa Litta (Lainate) showing with their bodies and words how awkward, grotesque and full of frustration the sexual act can be. Water games and fountains become a symbol of sexual fluid inside the dualism between life and destruction, love and death, good and evil.