Dance Show
November 1, 2025 4:00 PM
Villa Comunale, Acireale (CT)
Free admission
For info organizzazione@iterculture.eu or 3453753788
ERICA MEUCCI
“When you enter an environment where there are birds, insects, or animals, they listen to you completely. They receive you. For the creatures inhabiting that environment, your presence could mean the difference between life and death.”
— Pauline Oliveros
Storia di un ruscello is a tale told through images, a dance written for a performer and a stone. It marks the first authored work by Erica Meucci.
The piece draws inspiration from the ecological ideas of the anarchist geographer Élisée Reclus, who believed that in order to reposition ourselves alongside other living beings, we must recognize our own vulnerability and exposure to danger, freeing ourselves from notions of domination and entering into relation with the environments we cross, allowing us to be shaped by them.
Reclus’ thought weaves together with a real event: the loss of an animal in the forest and its finding in the waters of a waterfall.
“When you enter an environment where there are birds, insects, or animals, they listen to you completely. They receive you. For the creatures inhabiting that environment, your presence could mean the difference between life and death.”
— Pauline Oliveros
Storia di un ruscello is a tale told through images, a dance written for a performer and a stone. It marks the first authored work by Erica Meucci.
The piece draws inspiration from the ecological ideas of the anarchist geographer Élisée Reclus, who believed that in order to reposition ourselves alongside other living beings, we must recognize our own vulnerability and exposure to danger, freeing ourselves from notions of domination and entering into relation with the environments we cross, allowing us to be shaped by them.
Reclus’ thought weaves together with a real event: the loss of an animal in the forest and its finding in the waters of a waterfall.
Concept, choreography, and performance: Erica Meucci
Music: Glauco Salvo
With: Erica Meucci
Light design: Andrea Sanson
Stone restoration: Alex Bombardieri
Production: Laagam
With the support of: PerformingLands_Ass.cult. IdeAgorà, Oltrepasso Residenza, Spazio Voll, FLUIDUM2 at Fabbrica del Vapore, Danza Urbana – Rete h(abitat)/Sementerie Artistiche. Winner of the Life is Live call, a project by Smart with Fondazione Cariplo.
Erica Meucci is a dancer, choreographer, and curator who explores the body in relation to open and wild spaces, developing subtle sensory practices and approaching the body in its bare state as a field of forces. Her works have been presented at festivals in Italy and abroad, and she curates initiatives such as ORA – Orobie Artistic Residencies, a curatorial program dedicated to artistic residencies and creation in the natural spaces of the Orobie Valtellinesi, promoting performative and interdisciplinary practices in dialogue with the landscape and the surrounding environment.
Erica Meucci is a dancer, choreographer, and curator who explores the body in relation to open and wild spaces, developing subtle sensory practices and approaching the body in its bare state as a field of forces. Her works have been presented at festivals in Italy and abroad, and she curates initiatives such as ORA – Orobie Artistic Residencies, a curatorial program dedicated to artistic residencies and creation in the natural spaces of the Orobie Valtellinesi, promoting performative and interdisciplinary practices in dialogue with the landscape and the surrounding environment.