What comes naturally to the question is what is a dancing and especially who is Bruno.
To the first question the answer comes seemingly easy: a dancing is a dance hall before it is called a discotheque and after it has lost its definition of balera. Dancing is the middle ground where couple dancing opens up to rhythmic contaminations, cultures, forms and figures from other parts of the world. In common with the balera are the rules and, above all, the powerful voice of popular extraction, while the strain toward disco reveals a world that is broadening and opening itself to encounter and experimentation, looking at the foreigner with a fascinated and curious manner, imitating his movements, and ready to exchange its own.
Compagnia Sanpapié – Dancing Bruno – ph. Donato Aquaro
And Bruno? Who’s Bruno?
Bruno is the secret word,
it is the memory that one carries within oneself forever,
able to renew itself
with each generation.
He, too, is a clandestine idea: that of a theater where there is no barrier between audience and stage, the secret and intimate receptacle of a popular universe in which we sink our roots, the guardian of a world that is never completely lost but is transformed it is the pole that warns us when we are in danger, to give us time to move elsewhere, to be reborn changed, contaminated… it is someone we have all met, on any corner, between any two streets, who reminds us who we are, who we have been, who we could be… it is a question without the rush of the answer and the excitement of discovery…
Compagnia Sanpapié – Dancing Bruno – ph. Donato Aquaro