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PHOENIX

Anna Savanelli
Compagnia Arearea
2026

Phoenix emerges from the encounter between dance and the visual research of Devid Strussiat, as part of the project “Soglie del Vivente – tra rito e contemporaneità, l’arte come soglia di trasformazione” (Thresholds of the Living – Between Ritual and Contemporaneity, Art as a Threshold of Transformation). The work explores the regenerative power of gesture and myth, positioning dance as a contemporary ritual capable of reawakening collective memory, ancient knowledge, and the rural roots of Friuli Venezia Giulia.

In the transforming body, one recognizes the traces of a land that has always known the cyclical nature of fire, destruction, and rebirth — like the phoenix, like fields after sowing, like communities that rebuild themselves.

Through contemporary artistic languages — dance, sound, image, installation — “PHOENIX” transforms marginal territories into cultural and narrative spaces, places where art gives voice back to what has been forgotten. Here, the dancer’s body becomes a vessel for archaic knowledge renewed in the present: a secular ritual in which art takes on the role once held by legends, folk tales, and communal rituals — tools of cohesion and spiritual transformation.

“PHOENIX” is a living threshold, where the contemporary meets the ancient, and the artistic gesture becomes a possibility for rebirth — for the individual, the community, and the land.