THE VALLEY

2023

Company
IVONA

Choreography
Pablo Girolami

Dancers
Lou Thabart, Guilherme Leal

Dramaturgy
Karen Stenico

Duration
10 minutes

Premiere
5th May 2023 – Festival Exister, Milano

Production
House of IVONA

With the support of
MIC (Ministero Italiano della Cultura)

Human, a strange obsession with power. Seeking it to control others. Influence. 

Human, your games and your distrust. Your waiting. Human, the hunter and the prey. Human, your infinite thirst.

Securing our protection and attachment; a ghostly presence in our relationships, desires, decisions, and behaviors; an uncertain promise of security; compelling and perilous.
Human, they spoke to you about power, but they never taught you how to handle it.
Power, shaping our experiences according to its image.
The Valley, a passing cloud that brushed the horizon, an insidious sense we felt of our own futility, gone in the presence of them.
The Valley, a place along the way where we created our infinitesimal worlds.
The Valley, a place we can never return to, leaving us with the invisible promises of power.
A pastime for our inner child, who had found his true desire in power.