Choreographer, performer and community dance artist Aristide Rontini lands at the Romaeuropa Festival, staging a national premiere at the Rome’s Mattatoio. The piece engages with the legacy of Pier Paolo Pasolini, drawing on the famous “Articolo delle lucciole” (Article on Fireflies) published in Il Corriere della Sera in 1975.
Based in Imola, where he came into contact with various contemporary theatre practices, Aristide Rontini graduated from Codarts - Rotterdam Dance Academy. His works have been presented at renowned festivals and theaters in Italy and abroad, including Oriente Occidente, ERT - Emilia Romagna Teatro, Holland Dance Festival and Gender Bender. In 2020, alongside other Italian disabled artists, he co-founded Al.di.Qua. Artists, the first Italian association advocating for the autonomy and rights of artists with disabilities.
In Lampyris Noctiluca, Rontini moves through the space between memory and perception, between matter and vision, exploring the body as a place of metamorphosis and revelation. Pasolini’s “fireflies” do not appear as literal images but as a poetic posture guiding the movement. Their absence turns into light, a glow that transforms the body into a multiplicity of presences, escaping any fixed definition. Between inner experience and shared perception, the stage opens up to an ever-expanding horizon of possibilities.
Photo Romaeuropa Festival © Federica Musella
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