Dance of death is late-medieval tradition that combines visual art, architecture, poetry, and other media. It is one of the most widespread iconographic themes in the history of western art, extremely connected to the spread of the Black Plague, an epidemic which at the end of the Middle Ages wiped out millions of victims throughout Europe, but which also brought out a more complex thought about reality, which saw man tried to investigate deeply his relationship with the earthly world. It refers to the general idea that the movements of the stars, the gods, the spirits and nature are also a dance.

Danse Macabre! is an invitation to dance to this unknown beyond, making connections to today’s world through a mix of films, electronic music and light. The figures mirror and double themselves, like doppelgänger, penetrate their own image and become not only performers but also embodiments of movement on stage.

Through the inclusion of a film as the third element of the scenic construction, the performance seeks an experience of perceptive displacement of the spectator, probing the dark matter of the imagination. To imagine means creating internal images, without fixed rules, and connecting them to each other to generate fantasies or stories that exist within us and not in reality.

Part of the visual materials were designed together with the artist Roberto Fassone, creating another entity through texts that reflect together with the public on the concept of the afterlife. Dance manifests itself in changing forms, attempting to free from the violence of representation, oscillating between different poles, making the invisible visible in a hyper-conscious tension between life and death.