IN SHORT⟶ A performance that encourages experiencing dance as a mode of listening. Timelessness Dances integrates choreography, instant compositions, musical scores, and live sound to create a scenic trajectory fueled by timeless interactions.
Timelessness Dances intertwines bodies choreographed by Adriana Borriello, set to a musical score by Thierry De Mey with live sound captured by Edoardo Maria Bellucci. The interplay, resonance, and dynamic formations among acoustic dimensions, space, and movement evoke diverse emotional responses.
This performance emerges from an ongoing research process, conceived as an ever-evolving collection of materials, unfolding through intensive yet distinct phases. Each creation, exemplified by Timelessness Dances, gives rise to a performative entity that evolves, persists, distils, and progresses from a central inquiry. This periodically involves varying performers and thus, diverse embodiments.
Aligned with recent compositional trajectories, Adriana Borriello’s direction oscillates between meticulous composition and instant creation, culminating in a “music of movement” heightened by interactions between bodies and a live acoustic feedback system. This setup invites audiences to perceive dance as a mode of focused listening.
Adriana Borriello is a dancer, choreographer and pedagogue, who graduated from the Accademia Nazionale di Danza in Rome and from Béjart’s Mudra in Brussels. She participated in the founding of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s Rosas company. In 1986 she formed her own company in Paris which she then moved to Italy. She published the volume Chiedi al tuo corpo (A. Borriello, A. D’Adamo, F.B. Vista, Ephemeria, 2017) based on her research activity between choreography and pedagogy. Since 2018 she has been designing and directing Da.Re. Dance Research – Dynamic systems for transmission and research in contemporary performing arts, advanced training and research courses funded by the MIC. In 2022 she won the Lifetime Achievement Award for Choreography, in the third edition of the Ivo Chiesa International Award, Teatro Nazionale of Genoa. Since the 1980s she has also been active in the field of training, collaborating with important institutions both in Italy and abroad as well as implementing training projects conceived and directed by her.
Thierry De Mey is a composer and director. He developed a system of writing music for movement used in pieces where the visual and choreographic aspects are as important as the gestures that produce the sound. Much of his musical production is intended for dance and cinema. He was (more than) a composer for the choreographers Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Wim Vandekeybus and his sister Michèle Anne De Mey. He creates installations that combine music, dance, video and interactive processes, and his work has been recognised both nationally and internationally (Bessie Awards, Eve du Spectacle, UNESCO Forum des compositeurs, FIPA, among others).
Edoardo Maria Bellucci is a composer, sound engineer and sound artist based in Rome. As a composer he specialises in contemporary electronic and electroacoustic composition and his artistic activity includes composing music for cinema, art installations, sound sculptures and site-specific performances. As a sound engineer, he has edited various record productions, including a classical repertoire.
concept and choreogrphy Adriana Borriello
music Thierry De Mey
motion amplification system Edoardo Maria Bellucci
dance Adriana Borriello, Erica Bravini, Michael Incarbone, Ilenia Romano
lights Elena Lunghi, Gianni Staropoli
lighting console Elena Lunghi
production AB Dance Research, Eroïca Productions, Diacronie Lab
in collaboration with Dialoghi – Residenze delle arti performative a Villa Manin 2024
with the support of MIC – progetto speciale 2023
organisation Margherita Kay Budillon
administration Chiara Marianetti
thanks to Michele Ermini, Donatella Morrone
ph Salvatore Pastore
