PIANO-FORTE

Choreography
Roberto Tedesco

Music
Fryderyk Chopin

Sound design
Giuseppe Villarosa

Lighting Design
Davide Cavandoli

Costumes
Santi Rinciari

Debut November 21, 2025, Fonderia, Reggio Emilia

Two bodies move through space like opposite poles: presence and absence, nearness and distance, tension and surrender. Their dialogue reveals that every gesture already contains its opposite and that each polarity exists only thanks to its counterpart. This paradox is not a contradiction, but the very condition of their relationship. Set to Chopin’s Nocturnes—music suspended between tenderness and torment—the stage becomes a space where oxymorons take shape: silence becomes sound, fragility becomes strength, and falling becomes elevation. The performers do not represent two separate entities, but rather two facets of a single unity that constantly divides and reunites. The performance thus becomes a danced meditation on the mystery of opposites: what seems irreconcilable proves essential, and in the final embrace, we recognize that life is the tension holding all polarities together. 

Duration 20 minutes