Contemporary Art and Fashion Festival “VIRUS’31” | Contemporary Dance from Italy

Event organizer: Šiauliai Art Gallery.

CHOPIN / INTO US – BRUCIARE (To Burn) | 5 min.

Can you burn away your fears, anxiety and pain, and release new creative energy in their place? Inspired by the music of Polish composer Frédéric Chopin, this choreographic work explores inner fire as a transformative force. Burning here is not merely destruction—it is also purification, liberation and the possibility of change. The emotional contrasts, unexpected rhythmic turns, silences and pauses characteristic of Chopin’s music form the basis of the movement’s dramatic structure. This is an intense, concentrated choreographic miniature about the passion of creation and the human ability to turn painful experiences into new energy.

Creative team:
Concept and choreography – Adriano Bolognino
Choreographer’s assistant – Rosaria Di Maro
Dancer – Laura Dell’Agnese
Costumes – Alessandro Vigilante
Music – Fryderyk Chopin
Video: https://youtu.be/nag5TAy4beI

NELLA NEVE (In the Snow) | 27 min.

“I began painting so that I could hang my ideas on a nail. It allows me to change them and thus avoid rigid thinking.” — Georges Braque, Cahier.

Two bodies in a snowstorm. How can a connection be preserved when the world around you loses its stability? “Nella Neve” is a choreographic story about the fragility of relationships, growth and inevitable change. Inspired by the artist Georges Braque’s thoughts on the need to continually reconsider one’s ideas, the work develops the theme of choreographer’s earlier work, “Come Neve.” Whereas before the snow was observed through the window of a safe refuge, now it bursts inside and becomes a storm. Two bodies that once maintained a fragile balance find themselves at the mercy of unpredictable forces. Their bond strains, breaks and is woven together again as they seek new ways of being together. The snowstorm becomes a metaphor for coming of age—a passage from childhood to awareness, from security to responsibility, from observation to action. This is a sensitive and physically intense duet about the need to accept instability as an inevitable part of life.

Creative team:
Concept and choreography – Adriano Bolognino
Choreographer’s assistant – Rosaria Di Maro
Dancers – Giovanni Karol Borriello, Lorenzo Molinari (MM Dance Company)
Costumes – Rosaria Di Maro, Rosalba Mercurio, Crochet Club
Music – Giuseppe Villarosa
Producers – Körper | Centro Nazionale di Produzione della Danza, MM Dance Company
With support from ART FEST
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2yYk_6YQss

GLI AMANTI (The Lovers) | 17 min.

Can love stop time? This work was inspired by the traces of human bodies forever frozen in Pompeii after the eruption of Vesuvius in 79. One of the most mysterious archaeological discoveries is the figures of people embracing, known as “The Lovers.” Who were they? Lovers, a mother and child, two young men? Their identities and the true nature of their relationship remain unknown. Yet their final embrace, preserved at the moment of historical catastrophe, has become a moving symbol of human closeness. Adriano Bolognino turns this frozen moment into movement, exploring love, memory, loss