choreography Filippo Buonamassa
dancers Edoardo Brovardi, Martina Anniciello and Julien Guibourg
Thanks, Ilaria is a choreographic work that stems from a personal reflection on the process of redefinition triggered when an unexpected event radically interrupts the continuity of our existence, forcing us to confront a version of ourselves we had not foreseen. While rooted in an experience of illness, the project is neither framed as an autobiographical account nor as a narrative of the trauma itself. Instead, it focuses on what happens next, on that moment when we realise that ‘we do not always change to evolve; sometimes we change because we can no longer be what we were.’
On stage, three bodies coexist as manifestations of the same inner dimension. Free from fixed roles or defined identities, these presences continuously emerge, dissolve and mutate, capturing the complexity of a journey shaped by absence, loss, resistance and the ongoing redefinition of the self.
The title Thanks, Ilaria is a silent expression of gratitude to the therapeutic journey that accompanied this experience. Although Ilaria never appears on stage, she weaves through the entire work as an invisible, constant presence, creating an inner space where this process of observation, awareness and change first began.