16-12-2006
Recensito.it
Sartre is again among the “public benches” performed by the  Francesca Selva dance company. The epiphany of reality overshadows routine, like a sudden revelation that breaks the ordinary course of things. The bench, representing expectation, is the starting point for the transformation of man and is witness to his whole history. This realisation is not only individual, and the bench becomes the place where the dancers come together as spectators of life that runs in images on the screen. The video produced by Arte-V Milan, the two-dimensional, didactic support of a reality that is more than just staging, is in contraposition to the live bodies that move onstage. The sudden explosion of truth is synthesized in the relationships, and the highest point of the revelation is genuinely lyrical; the music guides the narrative, and the spoken word is only heard in the title piece. The poetic climax is reached with the embrace of the dancers in a whirlwind of unrestrained joy; sentiments are expressed by rounded, sensual gestures, whereas routine is represented by more angular geometries. The marked expressivity of the whole is sustained by stage lighting that skilfully dramatizes or softens the shadow of men and things. Dozens of oranges thrown on the stage at the start of the performance symbolize the material richness that can be unleashed by an unexpected revelation.
E. Ritondale