credits

Created and performed by: Vittorio Pagani
Produced by: The Place London, LARVÆ
Executive Production by: Equilibrio Dinamico Dance Company
Exterior Eye and Support: Hannes Langolf, Martin Hargreaves
Original Lighting Design: Mark Webber
Special thanks to: Sigrún Ósk Stefansdottir
For: Amy, Norma and Kurt.
The performance at Spring Forward 2024 is supported by: Istituto Italiano di Cultura Berlino

Vittorio Pagani/LARVÆ

A Solo in the Spotlights

Italy The Twenty24

A Solo in the Spotlights follows a performer questioning his place on stage.
Are the answers he seeks hiding in plain sight? Might they be residing under rays of artificial light?
With the support of different media, he faces the challenges of a body in the spotlight, traversing acts of compliance, disobedience, and rebellion; with, towards and against the act of creating dance in non-sustainable ways.

Biography

Vittorio Pagani (2000) is a Dancer and Choreographer from Milan, Italy. In 2018 he joined Ballet Junior de Genève, where he danced works by internationally acclaimed choreographers including Hofesh Shechter, Roy Assaf, Marcos Morau and Jan Martens.
In 2021 he created Around 5:65 that was later selected for RIDCC2022.
In 2022 he graduated with a Masters in Expanded Dance Practice (LCDS – University of the Arts London). From 2023 he’s been part of the LARVÆ Collective, a multidisciplinary project that focuses on performance and education supported by Equilibrio Dinamico Dance Company. A freelance dancer and creator, his choreographic works focus on themes of performativity and subversion, developing a movement research where precision and physicality build a dance articulated in metaphors and symbols.

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