Performers shamelessly display their dancing bodies as radical human resistance.
Shame on stage is not a weakness, but a sign that something real is happening. Performers show their bodies as they are: powerful and vulnerable. They openly share their flaws, elevating the audience in the process. In a world that distrusts their art, they declare it essential. Where others fix identity, they open up new possibilities. While technology pervades everything, they seek humanity. Dancing bodies address the other, resist war, question gender, and enter into relationships with AI. They follow intuition as a radical choice to resist and surprise, here and now. The Artists Are Present. And Have No Shame.
— 8:15 PM, Frascati 1: Emio Greco | Pieter C. Scholten – WE, the SHAMELESS
In this heated “solo for two,” Eminem is answered by two dancers: sometimes they coincide, but each also maintains their own identity. Without shame, they share this discordance with the audience.
— 9:30 PM, Frascati 2: Triple Bill:
. Thais Di Marco – Birds of Paradise
Two dancers at the pole keep one foot grounded, the other lifted behind the body, spines curved like a sunrise. Suspended in a moment of grace, they engage in a shameless struggle against gravity.
. Lucinda Wessels – FLUID FIGURES
In this physical and layered duet, dance, sound, and performance merge into a hybrid whole. From a queer perspective, the body dissolves the shame of shifting and colliding forms and identities.
. Liza Sulaiman – Body:(Not)Found
In plain sight, warmongers shamelessly dispose of bodies. The spectators are empowered to make them visible again. Will they reclaim their presence? How long can they endure these unsettling images?
— 7:30PM and 8:30PM, Frascati 3: ICK Collective – Intuition Machine
A dancer and the audience face an AI system. Breaths, impulses, and reactions are registered by the machine; the body responds. AI knows no shame, but raw dance data makes it human and alive.
— Continuously, Frascati foyer: Ohmay Lee – Breathing Installation
In a slow pneumatic pulse of light and pressure, a silicone form breathes in an out of visibility, never fixed, only fleetingly present at the edge of perceprion.
