ConTatto [2025]
Performance
Concept and Choregraphy: Federica Dauri
Dramaturgy: Hanna Schaich
Performers: Luca Della Corte, Alain Nouchy
WITH THE SUPPORT OF:
Centro di Residenza della Toscana (ArmuniaCapoTrave/Kilowatt) Comune di Sansepolcro @kilowattfestival
Production Residency: Carrozzerie | n.o.t. @carrozzerienot
DANCE ON TOUR project by Tanzquartier Wien in cooperation with the Federal Ministry for European and International affairs.
Working with a real couple gave the piece its emotional grounding. Together, we explored archetypal postures of love—being supported and offering support, holding and being held, knowing how to give and how to receive. These gestures, drawn from everyday intimacy, carry both strength and vulnerability. Through repetition, they become poetic, symbolic, and deeply human.
An essential part of ConTatto is the dismantling of visual and spatial hierarchies. The performers are always on the same eye level as the audience—on the floor, close, equal. The wheelchair is intentionally absent from the stage, not to erase disability, but to shift focus: from the object to the relationship, from the visible marker of difference to the felt experience of connection. This choice invites the audience to meet the performers with openness, without assumptions, in a shared physical and emotional space.
ConTatto invites the audience into a suspended, intimate space where fragility becomes a quiet strength and stillness speaks with intensity. It is a performance rooted in the archetypes of love in all its forms—in presence and proximity, in support and care, in shared breath and delicate gestures. A profound reflection on the meaning of intimacy, care, and love.