From Inside - Sicilia, Vie di Gibellina

Thierry De Mey has asked the choreographer Manuela Rastaldi to present the theatrical framework of a choreography for six dancers in the labyrinth of the deserted streets of Alberto Burri’s monumental work.

For some time, Thierry De Mey had wanted to get closer to the old dream of dance being seen from the danced space. In the 1980s he started exploring the fine line between the choreographic gesture and the musical gesture, taking the project to the next level in 2004 with Light Music, an interactive device in which a performer generates musical sequences with the help of movement sensors. De Mey then extended the concept to that of a video installation: From Inside. Immersed in darkness, spectators move wherever the urge takes them in three geographically and stylistically distinct dance worlds: that of the mathematical complexity of William Forsythe, the “real” gesture captured in the streets of Kinshasa and the resolutely narrative universe of Manuela Rastaldi in the spans of the Gibellina mausoleum.