The Silent Waltz of Shadows

Direction & Choreography: Francesco Vecchione

Dance & Co-choreography: Maria Anzivino, Sophia Otto, Antonio Tello

Sound Design: Jan van Triest

Stage Design: Francesco Vecchione

Lighting: Julio Escobar and Francesco Vecchione

Costume Design: Leandro Fabbri and Francesco Vecchione

Text: Manuela Barbato and Francesco Vecchione

Photo credit: Milan Nowoitnick Kampfer

A Production by Francesco Vecchione

In co-production with Theater INSEL Wuppertal, Art Garage danceco

With the special support of The Pina Bausch Zentrum, Kulturbüro Wuppertal, Spaarkasse Wuppertal

Step into the house of the self, a space of mirrors, shadows, and multiple identities.

This is not a theatre piece to be watched, but a world to be entered, a choreography of the self, or rather, of the selves: unstable, layered, constantly observing and observed.

In this third chapter following La mia amica Ombra, choreographer Francesco Vecchione continues his poetic inquiry into identity, the subconscious, and the ever-shifting nature of being.

The work transforms the stage into a living philosophical and psychological laboratory, a threshold space where identity is not discovered but staged, interrogated, and shared.

Blurring the line between performance and participation, The Silent Waltz of Shadows invites the audience to become part of an evolving creative process.

Through workshops, open rehearsals, and moments of interaction during the performance, the borders between performer and observer dissolve. Each story, each hesitation, each shared laugh becomes part of the choreography… a quiet affirmation that life itself is relational, unstable, improvisatory.

Here, what begins as intimate, personal material unfolds into a collective ritual. Shadows that might seem to bind instead become companions, leading us through the corridors of selfhood.

Music acts as a philosophical interlocutor, weaving a web of contradictions: the sublime and the grotesque, the melancholic and the playful, the solitary and the communal.

In this space of coexistence, mirrors do not simply reflect, they converse.

The self is never solitary. And the audience itself becomes a shadow, a dancing presence within a shared existential experiment.

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