Project and choreography
Marco Valerio Amico, Rhuena Bracci
With
Rhuena Bracci
Lights and colors
Marco Valerio Amico
Set
Marco Valerio Amico, Rhuena Bracci
Costumes
Rhuena Bracci, Arianna Gasparotti, Alberto Groja
Production
Nanou Cultural Association,
Shocking Pink / Festival Tendance
Contribution
MIC, Regione Emilia-Romagna, Comune di Ravenna
Rhuena Bracci and Marco Valerio Amico's choreographic solo on stage at the XXII edition of the Pesaro International Contemporary Dance Festival.
Arsura is an essential and radical choreographic solo signed by Marco Valerio Amico and Rhuena Bracci, in which body, light, sound and space emerge as true co-protagonists, dissolving any conventional hierarchy of the stage
The dancing body, wrapped in a red costume that suppresses somatic features, becomes a pure sign: a veiled face that cancels identity, shifting the focus to the essence of movement .
Light, designed by Friend himself, becomes matter, a "body-light" that shapes the architecture of the stage space, generating dense perceptual tensions .
The soundscape acts as "body-sound," layered with voices, noises, song fragments or evocative DNA sounds: a constant tension between what is seen and what fades .
Stefano Tomassini, in Theatre and Criticism, describes Arsura as "a burning, a black tension, a heat immersed in darkness," an action that decenters the body, suspended between material lights and a final silence that blocks the temporal flow.