Trilogy in red
A female dance performance, where the protagonist is conscious of her role, sometimes victim, sometimes slayer. Definitely always strong and mysterious. Three images, three visions where the leitmotiv of the colour red warns us of hidden danger, of indefinable uneasiness. Three stories of blood and solitude stained earthly red. Three stories suspended in time, as if there were no tomorrow. The performance features three pieces:  

• L'Attesa
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  Choreography: Francesca Selva
  Dancer: Cristina Surace
• Opium
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  The poppy flower is dedicated to the goddess Demeter: only in drinking its juice did she find solace for the painful loss of her daughter. Only sleep makes reality bearable. A never-ending dream, a momentary death....but nevertheless a deception....
  Choreography: Francesca Selva
  Dancer: Laiza Pucci, Sara Catellani
  Direction: Marcello Valassina
  Costumi: La Sartoria Teatrale - Firenze
  Audio Recorder: Valerio Pasquini
• The kiss of the tarantula
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  A popular tradition in southern Italy tells of when a woman is bitten by a tarantula, the poison is neutralized by music and a wild dance. This was the only time a woman could express herself freely, sometimes even pretending to have been bitten, with the excuse that the poison justified her “madness”. This popular tradition of the Salentine Peninsula is represented here as a  spider-goddess, who with her bite liberates women who are prisoners and slaves of archaic laws which consider them in any case “mad”. A voyage in the roots of Italian popular music, finding unexpected similarities between pagan rites and ancient myths.
  Choreography: di Francesca Selva
  Soggetto e Regia: Marcello Deliva
  Dancer: Francesca Benvenuti
  Costumi: Il Gorilla-Firenze
  Audio recorder: Valerio Pasquini  
• Wounded
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  The piece stems from the urgent need to denounce our common indifference, an accomplice in perpetuating inadmissible situations and systems of power. In this case Africa (the primordial mother) is only a symbol of the emargination often close to us, of the exploited, of the deceived by the mirage of false needs and victim of indifference, of a lack of civil indignation, and of an increasingly dramatic cultural hiatus.  
  Choreography: Francesca Selva
  Music: autori vari
  Music consultant: Cinzia Cudai, Massimo Biliorsi
  Dancers: Laiza Pucci, Francesca Forgione
  Assistant director: Daniela Maggese
  Organisation: Marcello Valassina

Les bancs publics (Public Benches)
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Dance performance with projection of a black and white video. The choreography draws inspiration from the flow of human existence, which leaves indelible traces, much like incisions on a park bench. The performance alternates intense, lyrical moments with lighter, ironic ones, and is accompanied by music that ranges from Brassens to Newman and Bizet.  
The show was created in 2005 to mark the centenary of the birth of J.P. Sartre.  
“So I was in the park just now. The roots of the chestnut tree were sunk in the ground just under my bench. I couldn't remember it was a root any more. The words had vanished and with them the significance of things...; the root, the park gates, the bench, the sparse grass, all that had vanished ….. All is free, this park, this city and myself...”.
(J.P. Sartre, “Nausea”)
Choreography: Francesca Selva
Direction: Simone Durante 
riprese video: Arte-V Milano
Dancers: Annalisa Fontana, Paolo Gualdi, Laiza Pucci, Daniela Ricci  
Organisation: Marcello Valassina