Encounters. Sasha Riva and Simone Repele met at the School of the Hamburg Ballet and then again in the Ballet Company of Geneva, where they started creating small projects together and then founded their own company Riva&Repele, combining neoclassic and theatrical elements and gestures, while seeking a form of poetry for their works, so much so that they have been dubbed “poets of dance”. 

Their work Sinking too is the story of an encounter, of two devastated souls that meet again in a timeless space as two bodies following a catastrophe. A mute conversation that leaves room for pure body language. The two souls seek one another, find their shape by creating vivid images and gradually explode into more physical ones, like a sort of flashback. 

A choreography that leaves room for the spectator for them to personally interpret what happens on stage. To Riva & Repele this duet has meant a lot because, though maintaining dynamic and physical moments, it has enabled them to dwell on what is simple and the truth of small acts, while preserving an abstraction that nevertheless conveys strong sensations.