Lento Violento begins with liscio, the traditional Italian couple’s dance, using its swaying rhythms and sliding repetitions for exploring delay, tension and endurance. The lento waltz becomes a slowed-down study of suspension, where movement stretches toward its own breaking point.
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Elena Francalanci: Lento Violento
Elena Francalanci: Lento Violento
Inspired by the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, the performance moves between darkness and light, impulse and restraint, revealing the emotional charge of what remains hidden – what can be sensed but not fully seen.
Two performers navigate spirals, turns, unison, and solitude, building a physical dialogue of closeness and fatigue. The body becomes an instrument that sweats and trembles, suspended between pleasure and pain. The devil appears as icon and metaphor, a playful yet unsettling figure that destabilizes notions of good and evil, seduction and fear. Lento Violento reflects on endurance as a poetic state, a dance that resists resolution and lingers in desire.
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Dates
January 2026
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