Inspired by Plato’s famous dialogue, Giovanni Leonarduzzi’s new work investigates the continuous tension in the search for a total, unique, and fulfilled body.
Starting from the “hermaphrodites”, the supernatural figures in strength and form narrated in Aristophanes’ speech, Sympósion gets to the analysis of current social dynamics: the difficulty of finding, maintaining and cultivating a relationship in a society that pushes towards an increasing individualism, where it is less and less likely to accept to make “compromises” in a couple.
Hence the attempt to recreate a lost harmony by evoking moving figures born from the fusion of two bodies.

Compagnia Bellanda & Giovanni Leonarduzzi

Giovanni Leonarduzzi’s story as a dancer began in breakdance, where he has been active and recognised at the Italian and international level since 1997. He founded Bellanda company in 2012 with the aim of developing a deep research on movement and language moving from urban roots towards a choreographic writing of contemporary dance. In 2017, Giovanni Leonarduzzi and Claudia Latini decided to pursue this research together, exploring new points of contact between breakdance and contemporary technique.