Is it possible to move beyond the objective image of the stairs — of ascending and descending, of a beginning and an end? With the site specific performance LAVATRIX Marianna De Sanctis revisits the verticality of the Scalone d’Onore through the centrifugal motion of the hoop: a movement that does not eliminate weight, but transforms it. Circularity opens up a continuous flow — escaping from the center while remaining with the center. The author of Mother.Woman.Artist places courage back at the core, together with her practice of autobiographical circus, in a site-specific performance where resistance is not a clash with gravity, nor a detachment from rigidity, but a transformation of verticality into circularity. To resist is to be, simply, a laundress of the stairs.