DURATION: 90 minutes
TICKET: free admission
Paesaggi con figure is a dance performance that dissolves the distance between performers and audience, intertwining choreography with the everyday life of a typical Saturday morning.
The five performers blend into the flow of passersby, becoming part of the city’s rhythm, until they begin to perform small, unexpected gestures: light, delicate actions, slightly out of the ordinary.
Gradually, these gestures multiply, giving rise to moving images, like compositions of bodies that come together and transform. These actions emerge without force, following the rhythm of the place in a spontaneous and unpredictable way.
The audience is guided by voice instructions, yet remains free to move: they may stop, walk, sit down, move away, return, or change viewpoint. There is no privileged position from which to watch, but a multiplicity of possible perspectives.
Each person thus builds a personal and unique experience. The performance invites us to see public space anew, as a place open to creativity, lightness, and imagination.
The work, winner of the Danza Urbana XL 2026 call, is presented in collaboration with Centro Servizi Culturali Santa Chiara.
IN SHORT
A dance performance that intertwines with the square and its everyday life.
The audience is free to move and construct their own point of view, among small unexpected gestures and compositions of bodies in transformation.
Winner of the Dancescapes / Bodyscapes section 2023–2024, promoted by Danza Urbana Festival, Bologna
Winner of Danza Urbana XL 2026
Concept, choreography and direction: Marta Bichisao, Vincenzo Schino
Performed by: Marta Bichisao, Luca Piomponi, Beatrice Leonardi / Ilaria Pradella, Simone Scibilia, Elsa Pochini
Production: PINDOC, OPERABIANCO
Photo Stefano Scheda, Gino Rosa
Operabianco is an artistic research group founded by Marta Bichisao, dancer and choreographer, and Vincenzo Schino, director and visual artist. Since 2006, it has chosen the theatrical realm to explore multilingual practices across dance, performance art, visual arts, and video.
In both dedicated and non-dedicated spaces, it creates an open stage for complex dramaturgies: immersive experiences that challenge conventional forms of audience engagement, offering alternative postures and viewpoints.
It explores the tension between the comic and the tragic in the relationship between performer and stage, between the human and the universe. Cinematic language inspires its vision, through a continuous shift between close-up and wide shot, portrait and landscape.
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