photo: Oliver Look

Francesco crafts dance, theater, and opera that brings together dancers, actors, singers and visual artists. His work seeks to weave artists and audiences into a living fabric on stage. Each performance becomes a unique meeting place where movement, sound, and narrative intersect, creating moments that invite new interpretations and inspire shared wonder.

Living stories

Creating a new piece always starts from something deeply personal for me, and I encourage the performers to do the same and bring their own stories into the process.

“Thanks to choreography I continue to meet and discover myself and, during the creative process, I invite each artist – weather dancers, actors or singers- to do the same. I strongly believe in the healing power of dance and, by extension, of the Arts. Our modern world tends to separate us more and more from each other, but inclusion is an intrinsic need of humanity. Our personal life stories mirror today’s society. And through dance and theater, we give expression to ideas and experiences that are alive today.

Dance and Theater are art forms that embody the Now.”

The dancers are the movement

Collaboration is at the heart of my creative process. Instead of dictating movement, I’m drawn to the artists’ individuality and how their unique interpretations shape the work. My role is to guide, to weave their expressions with my vision. As we develop the piece, I layer in my movements subtly, creating a blend of my voice and theirs.

Dancers are more than performers; they breathe life into the choreography, molding each moment and transition with their personal touch. In the studio, we search for a shared feeling. The work takes its true form when we meet at that collective emotional core.

When I begin a new work, I have a sense of what I want to evoke and communicate. Yet, the journey is about highlighting the distinct qualities of each dancer, letting their stories shine through, while the specific steps become secondary… a vessel for something deeper.

Like in a Dalí painting

I like to pull things to extremes, and explore where the tension between two contrasts can take me. Like in a Dalí painting I find it exciting how something familiar can suddenly be distorted and made surreal. This process opens up a multitude of surprising outcomes.

Dance can work as a magnifying glass on actions that we recognise. Dance can extend the time before we find the words to speak. And dance can reduce time, letting the worlds of two people collide when a duet starts in just a split second.

(text: Fabienne Vegt after an interview with Francesco Vecchione)

photo: Varvara Kandaurova

photo: Varvara Kandaurova