The dance occupies the space in its contemporary and abstractive dimension through compositions and ruptures in constant evolution that do not allow a linear narrative, but open to a common, emotional, energetic and empathic feeling. The shaping of the performance on the specific characteristics of each place and the inclusion of the people moving in the choreographic design and in the musical composition, create a space of common freedom where you can choose and change point of view, position and relationship with the stage action.

AMIGDALA deals with the mechanism of trauma, defined as that event produced in the organism by any agent capable of sudden and very rapid action, which causes general alterations, change, transformation, evolution. The organism is meant as the human body, the social body, common space and perceived time. It could be an illness, an accident, an earthquake, a social or economic crisis, a birth or a death, but each time we would be faced with the need to reorganise and recreate a system that has shattered and split in order to generate itself again.

AMIGDALA, as the title suggests, explores what happens in our cerebral amygdalae at that point of rupture and transformation, investigates what our common dynamics of reaction and perception are, and goes on to investigate how our emotional, bodily and social intelligence behaves in the face of change.

AMIGDALA is an emotional exploration, a choral work, a pagan and contemporary dance that celebrates the individual as a fundamental part of extended systems that break down and rebuild in the carousel of existence and time. It is a unique dancing organism, a fragmented social body in continuous metamorphosis that challenges itself in the fall and in the change, exorcising with the body the fear of diversity and of the unknown, losing identities and inventing new ones. There is no single style or form for dance: the body continuously loses and reshapes itself in response to external stimuli, becoming the scene of elusive dynamics.

The music, composed by Francesco Arcuri, comes from a composition he made during the first lockdown in 2020, then opened, fragmented and recomposed through rhythmic and sound explorations made with “broken” objects and musical instruments, that is, that have lost their main function but are provoked to a new sound and rehabilitated in the music.
Voices and testimonies of real people who have offered their own stories following a trauma and words directed to the spectators, enter the sound fabric and then leave it in an attempt to generate in the audience a direct experience of the functioning of their amygdalae and the emergence of emotions.

TAV- cluster of Lombardy for living environments, supported the first phase of topic research through workshops with experts, clinicians, psychotherapists, neuroscientists and caregivers, while the patients of the We Will Care project, created the bridge with reality, giving Amigdala their time, their stories and their voices.

AMIGDALA, before being a performance, wants to be a shared experience: a way to experience the real space through the ephemeral presence of dance in order to imagine it as well as see it, to inhabit it as well as go through it. It is a provocation and a game, an invitation and an occupation, a macabre dance to exorcise fear and re-establish the ritual of celebration.