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Like an Acrobat upon Water

Valentina Saggin / Compagnia Arearea
2022

The Isonzo is a young river… Its beauty is also due to its youth.
Of course, we speak of a youth that is a million years old.
If humankind were to confront a history of such duration, it would realize how small it is — and yet its role is not negligible, unfortunately.

The Time of the River

Since time immemorial, the river evokes the inexorable flow of water; it embodies a dynamic, marks a rhythm.
When it encounters an obstacle, it has the capacity to divert its course, reshape itself, and continue onward, touching the most diverse places — from mountains to cities; it gathers, carries away, shifts, smoothes, cleans, generates life and death.

Some rivers become protagonists of momentous events: decisive battles, myths, legends, and stories that speak of the human being — political or immersed in nature.

LIKE AN ACROBAT UPON WATER is a walk that seeks to respect the river’s time, dictated by the flowing water. A walk made of balance and resistance, surrender and breath-hold.

The Isonzo is more than a river: it unites states, peoples, and cultures; it knows no borders and becomes a metaphor for delving into the time that belongs to each of us — past and future.

Two dancers move among images, memories, and sounds. Elements barely touch, in a continuous slipping away, carried by the current.

Second chapter of the border trilogy by Valentina Saggin: after “Attraverso” (2021) — an investigation rooted in geographical and political borders — this year the focus shifts to the natural environment, a springboard leading to the 2023 conclusion on the inner limit: man with and against himself.