choreography and dance, original texts and projections Vittorio Pagani
in the role of supervoice and dramaturgy support Pietro Angelini
lighting design Stefano Moriondo
consultancy Francesca Santamaria
production CodedUomo
co-production with Danza in Rete – Fondazione Teatro Comunale Città di Vicenza
Superstella was created within the framework of ResiDance XL – an initiative of the Anticorpi XL Network at L’arboreto – Teatro Dimora | La Corte Ospitale ::: Centro di Residenza Emilia-Romagna
Fondazione Armunia, Fondazione Teatro Comunale Città di Vicenza
Lavanderia a Vapore as part of the choreographic residencies project
Duration 40 min.
What does it mean to create dance today? Can the creative process truly exist independently of external judgment and personal experience? Continuing the research initiated with A Solo in the Spotlights (2022), Vittorio Pagani explores the mechanisms of dance production and distribution, the value of icons and their deconstruction, and the conflict between idealisation and reality. Superstella captures a moment in the artist’s career, suspended between past and future, between market demands, the creative process, and the context in which it unfolds. Inspired by the myth of celebrity and the great ‘stars’ of art history, the performance weaves together video, text and dance in dialogue with Fellini’s 81⁄2, the art of sampling and Joyce Carol Oates’ narrative devices. Fellini – through his dreamlike language and effective fusion of reality and imagination – becomes a guiding figure in the artist’s disorienting inner journey. The work oscillates between chaos and order, between the desire for fulfilment and the allure of becoming. In Superstella, dance and body become an expression of the tensions inherent in artistic creation: the alternation between a ‘fractured body’ and a ‘hyper-performing body’ reflects the pressures of the present where the artist wavers between authenticity and conformity. A central theme of the show is time: rhythm, succession, action and consequence. In the creative process, time becomes plastic and malleable. Each moment is both a starting point and a destination in constant renewal.
Time becomes a physical, tangible element – stretching, compressing and suspending. This fluidity enables an open dramaturgy in which the audience is not a passive spectator but a co-creator, invited to reconstruct the meaning of the work within their own inner time, through a play of perception, memory and imagination.