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FUCK ME BLIND
Matteo Sedda
Running time: 40'
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Matteo Sedda, winner of a DNAppunti Coreografici grant, stages FUCK ME BLIND, a choreographic duet inspired by Blue, Derek Jarman's final, autobiographic film, shot shortly before the director's death from complications of AIDS. International Klein Blue, a symbolic color for Jarman, as well as the film's sole image, initiates a physical and sensorial exploration of the body, presented in a constant rotation projected towards infinity. Adopting the film's non-narrative idiom, FUCK ME BLIND creates a hypnotic experience immersed in a highly emotional and symbolic visual landscape in which the performers share a lone point of gravity. In a fluid dialogue between tension and abandonment, Eros and Thanatos, the two dancers brush by and pursue one other, transforming themselves within a fragile, mysterious equilibrium that evokes a new homo-folk dance
Matteo Sedda is a choreographer, dancer, and activist of Sardinian origin. He works as a freelancer with various artists, including Jan Fabre, Enzo Cosimi, Aïda Gabriëls, and Igor x Moreno. Since 2018, he has been developing a choreographic research deeply influenced by his experience with HIV. Exploring desire and vulnerability, he aims to create new representations of AIDS that renew the dialogue between historical memory and artistic reinterpretation. In his first solo, POZ!, his coming out as a person living with HIV became both a political and artistic manifesto. Winner of DNAppunti Coreografici 2024, FUCK ME BLIND premiered on October 19 at the Romaeuropa Festival.
Credits
Concept and direction: Matteo Sedda
Choreography and performance: Marco Labellarte, Matteo Sedda
Sound: Gio Megrelishvili
Dramaturgy and lighting design: Margherita Scalise
Mentorship: Igor Urzelai Hernando, Moreno Solinas
Production: Fuorimargine - Centro di Produzione di danza e arti performative (IT)
Delegated production: la Balsamine (BE)
Co-production: Théâtre de Vanves (FR), la Balsamine (BE)
Residencies: S’ALA – spazio per artist* (IT), with the support of Ad Lib - Residenze Belgio LIBITUM (BE), Destelheide (BE), Residency at Studio Thor with the support of the Thor / Thierry Smits company (BE), Festival Pedra Dura (PT), Bora Bora (DK), BAMP (BE)
Thanks to: FESTIVAL + DE GENRES (FR), Aids, archives, and arts assemblies in Belgium (BE), oester (BE), LILA Cagliari (IT), Benoit Van Aken
Matteo Sedda is accompanied by: Grand Studio (FR)
Winner project of DNAppunticoreografici promoted and supported in collaboration with: Fondazione Romaeuropa (IT), Gender Bender Festival (IT), Triennale Milano Teatro (IT), Centro Nazionale di produzione della danza Virgilio Sieni (IT), Operaestate Festival / Centro per la scena contemporanea del Comune di Bassano del Grappa (IT), L’arboreto - Teatro Dimora di Mondaino (IT)
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