Like a landscape in transformation, the layers that will make up the 20th edition of Short Theatre are beginning to rise to the surface. From the first flashes we can already glimpse the presences of some artists, who arrive at Short Theatre 2025 thanks to the convergence of precious energies. The collaboration with Romaeuropa Festival takes new shape, opening the Roman September by bringing for the first time in Italy a work that is itself the result of a special encounter and sharing. At the invitation of the Festival d’Automne in Paris, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Rabih Mroué – two of the most significant artistic figures on the international contemporary scene – join forces for the first time in the play A little bit of the moon.
8–9 September
ANNE TERESA DE KEERSMAEKER, RABIH MROUÉ
A little bit of the moon
co-realized with Romaeuropa Festival
national premiere
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, a fervid and rigorous Belgian innovator in the field of choreography since the early 1980s, and Rabih Mroué, an author and theatre director from Lebanon, creator of a multimedia and political theatre, shared for ten months their thoughts, doubts and questions on politics, art and life. This encounter resulted in A little bit of the moon, a performance that moves on the border between dance and theatre in an attempt to generate an intimate space between two people. In the openness generated by friendship as a political gesture in a present of death and terror, movement and word coexist without any one element prevailing over the other. Stories, music, poetry and choreographic fragments intertwine in a collected dialogue made up of archive materials, texts and gestures suspended between ephemeral pasts and a dark future, between the personal and the universal.
concept, directed, performed by Anna Teresa De Keersmaeker and Rabih Mroué
technical director, sounds and lighting Thomas Köppel
produced and commissioned by the Festival d’Automne à Paris, December 2024
co-production MC93 and Fondation Fiminco
ph. Herman Sorgeloos
