choreography Virginia Spallarossa
direction Gilles Toutevoix
performersVittoria Franchina, Giuseppe Morello, Rafael Candela
lighting Giacomo Gorini
music Maurice Ravel
costumes Mirella Salvischiani
production Déjà Donné
with the support of MiC – Italian Ministry of Culture
Duration 50 min.
Rave.L is the spectacle of a timeless space, a project nurtured with passion after a long period of study and work around the visionary and dynamic staging, closely tied to the evocative power of Ravel’s music. In Ravel’s rave, dance unfolds between flight and abyss, conveying evanescence and restlessness, alienation and acuity. The body’s voice liberates itself from weight – the weight of having to explain or justify – allowing life to exist suspended between the human and the superhuman. A time experienced in the Aion. Dance and music trace the path of physical and mental exploration, as a metaphor for a life shaped by rhythm in continuous processes of research, liberation, and subversion. The rhythmic pattern is entrusted to a choreographic score that resists the sparse musical texture, finding its meaning in the deep neurobiological state of flow. It is a present that remains present, overcoming the time of Kronos and dwelling in the eternal and transcendent, capable of revealing the depth hidden beneath the surface of things. Through the ritual of the rave, the analysis explores the chaotic dimension of the universe and rediscovers an instinctive approach to existence. An unrestrained corporeal aesthetics accompanies the escape from the spatial and temporal constraints imposed by postmodern society. In its essence, spontaneity reveals the ephemeral, hedonistic joy of pure pleasure, centred on the simple, universal, and delightful act of dance.