September 5, 2025
Three Silhouettes. In a Day, in a Night, in a Life
September 5, 2025
Three Silhouettes. In a Day, in a Night, in a Life
Saturday, 6 September 2025
h. 2.30 - 6.30 pm
h. 11 | Sala Bianca, Teatro Sociale di Como
BODY | THRESHOLD
PUBLIC CONVERSATION
With philosopher Florinda Cambria and choreographer Roberto Castello
The experience of the living body as a taut thread stretched between action and passion, between impulse and gravity, between being and having.
The experience of the body as a shifting threshold of every here and every elsewhere.
Free admission with reservation required
Florinda Cambria is Associate Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Insubria and teaches Philosophy and Epistemology at the School of Comparative Psychotherapy in Genoa. She is a board member of the online journal Nóema and serves on the scientific committees of Mimesis Journal. Writings on Performance and Il Pensiero. Since 2015, she has coordinated the transdisciplinary research center Mechrí – Laboratory of Philosophy and Culture – APS in Milan. Her philosophical work focuses on the relationship between performative art, corporeality, representation and the praxical dimension of knowledge. Her major publications include studies on Antonin Artaud, such as Far danzare l’anatomia. Itinerari del corpo simbolico in Antonin Artaud (2007) and Antonin Artaud: il corpo esploso (2021), as well as monographs on Jean-Paul Sartre, including La materia della storia. Prassi e conoscenza in Jean-Paul Sartre (2009) and Leggere L’universale singolare di Sartre (2017).
WORKSHOP
h. 2.30 pm | Sala Bianca del Teatro Sociale di Como
In the Best of All Possible Worlds
Open workshop led by choreographer Roberto Castello
This workshop offers the opportunity to share over four decades of reflection and practice in the world of contemporary performance. A time in which life, work, artistic and political thinking have intersected, giving rise to projects that span dance practice and teaching, choreography, direction, stage technologies, production, event programming, publishing, and intercultural dialogue.
Experiences that may seem distinct, yet are all rooted in the search for a conscious and responsible approach to artistic practice.
Participation fee €30 per person – registration required
Roberto Castello
is a dancer, choreographer and teacher, considered one of the pioneers of contemporary dance in Italy. In the early 1980s, he performed in Venice with “Teatro e Danza La Fenice” directed by Carolyn Carlson, where he also created his first choreographic works. In 1984, he was among the founders of Sosta Palmizi. In 1993, he founded ALDES, through which he has carried out extensive experimentation across dance, visual arts, and new technologies, producing numerous stage and non-stage works. Since 1996, he has curated various festivals and series. From 2005 to 2015, he taught digital choreography at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan. Since 2008, with ALDES, he has led the project SPAM! – network for contemporary arts in the province of Lucca, hosting artist residencies and a multidisciplinary program of performances, workshops, educational activities, and public events. In 2017, he launched the blog 93% – materials for a non-verbal politics, a platform for reflection, exchange and dialogue on non-verbal language. In 2021, Altreconomia published Trattato di economia – Riflessioni semiserie sulla dimensione economica dell’esistenza, co-written with Andrea Cosentino. That same year, he contributed to the volume Nel migliore dei mondi possibili. Intorno all'opera di Roberto Castello, edited by Valentina Valentini with Chiara Pirri and Valeria Vannucci (Ephemeria Edizioni). Throughout his career, he has collaborated with artists and institutions such as Peter Greenaway, Eugène Durif, RAI3 / Fabio Fazio and Roberto Saviano, and Studio Azzurro. He has consistently advocated for the recognition of contemporary dance and for a fair, efficient, and sustainable performing arts system. He has received four UBU Awards (1985, 2003, 2018, 2022).
