PERFORMANCE
Words were how Antonia Pozzi, a pivotal figure in 20th-century Italian poetry, constantly sought to navigate her overwhelming emotional life. A poetic tension emerges in his verses that stretches far beyond the biographical facts, her unrequited loves, and her suicide in Chiaravalle in her early twenties. Against all expectations, her verses and letters reveal a vivid, luminous material that hints at infinite possibilities of movement.
Drawing from her poems, letters, and diaries, Michele Ermini constructs a dialogue between word and body, presence and absence. A delicate yet intense reflection on desire, memory, and the possibility of giving shape to what is no more.

COMPANY AND CHOREOGRAPHER
Michele Ermini belongs to a new generation of dance makers navigating contemporary dance by intertwining performance practice and dramaturgical research. In 2025, he was selected for the Advanced Training Program for Contemporary Theatre and Dance Makers, promoted by ArtistiAssociati and coordinated by Roberto Castello.
With his debut piece, Pozzi, Ermini develops a research focused on translating poetic material into a bodily experience, creating a performance framework capable of bringing out new resonances between writing and movement.

PERFORMANCE
In Nulla dies sine linea—a Latin phrase pointing to the necessity of daily practice, without which no goal can be achieved—whipcracking (the art of the acrobatic whip) becomes a sonic and symbolic gesture through which to question the feminine. The whip—an instrument historically laden with imagery of power, control, and violence—is reclaimed by a female body that shifts its meaning: the gesture does not dominate, it listens; it does not impose, it measures. A composition for body, whip, and voice, where movement emerges from an exploration of sound as choreographic matter.

COMPANY AND CHOREOGRAPHER
A choreographer, dancer, and performer, Roberta Racis develops a research that intertwines movement, voice, and practices of transformation. Following her time with the Balletto di Toscana, she has worked in Italy and abroad, collaborating with leading artists and companies on the contemporary scene, including Alessandro Sciarroni, Chris Haring/Liquid Loft, Balletto di Roma, Francesca Pennini, and Enzo Cosimi. She was a co-founder of Collettivo Mine, creating works presented in international contexts such as Aerowaves and the NID Platform. With Atto Bianco, she inaugurates a new phase of her research, centered on the female gaze and the ritual dimension of gesture.