Arsura - nanou group

Arsura - Photo: Lorenzo Pasini

Foto: Lorenzo Pasini Danza: Rhuena Bracci

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.

Photo: Lorenzo Pasini