Carusə | sine Sole sileo by Pierandrea Rosato is a solo that moves through the much-debated dance of tarantism, but in its status moriendi. Inspired by Ernesto De Martino’s The Land of Remorse and in dialogue with Byung-Chul Han’s The Disappearance of Rituals, the performance approaches the rite in its melancholic, exhausted, and residual dimension, up to the extreme form of aquatic tarantism, in which the desire for healing could turn into a desire for death.
At the heart of the performance is a young male body: youth as porosity, as intuition not yet tamed, as the capacity to resonate with historical, political, and emotional memories that persist in the present as forms of haunting; masculinity as the displacement of a phenomenon traditionally associated above all with the female body.
The performer passes through states of trance, suspension, and melancholy, weaving his body together with children’s lullabies and funeral laments and with the only off-stage musical presence, “Poveri fiori” by Francesco Cilea, sung by Montserrat Caballé: a female presence that crystallizes loss into music, in complicity with the dying nature of the rite.
Carusə | sine Sole sileo thus takes shape as the unravelling of a ritual: a young body moves through what has been lost of tarantism, what still lingers in the present, and what, in its most extreme form, turns toward its own disappearance.
CREDITS
By Pierandrea Rosato
Co-created and performed by Gabriele Scarcia, dancer with BTT – Balletto Teatro di Torino
Duration: 45′
Music: Picoroso by Tosca (Albanese Waltz); Poveri fiori by Francesco Cilea, performed by Montserrat Caballé
Production: Koreoproject
With the support of BTT – Balletto Teatro di Torino
