Elisa Sbaragli
SE DOMANI
October 11, 2025 19:00
PARC Performing Arts Research Centre Firenze | IT
as part of the Fabbrica Europa 2025 festival
How do we, as individual human beings, confront crisis?
In Se domani, the word “crisis” is reimagined, returning to its original meaning: a choice, an opportunity to rediscover the Other, to renew ourselves, to be alive — not invincible — remaining open to what lies beyond us, allowing reality to pass through us.
It seems that human beings need to be pushed into a state of emergency before they can act, and that change is only acknowledged when it becomes unavoidable. Until then, survival is the only option: surviving by any means, ignoring, forgetting, moving forward along a path focused solely on the self, in a blindness — conscious or not — to the Other around us.
On stage, two bodies define the edges of a liminal space: a corridor moving endlessly forward, in constant confrontation with the audience’s gaze. Their repetitive journey depends on the act of showing themselves, of being seen, pushing their bodies to expose themselves more and more, until they cross the physical limits of humanity. In this binge of images, in this worship of individuality, the performers’ gaze collapses, plunging into a bodily and existential blindness. To recover, a reorientation of the gaze — of the self, of the meaning of the body, of the space it inhabits — becomes essential, in order to reconnect with the human and collective dimension: the act of welcoming, of moving together through the world.
The two performers, embodying a community trapped in a monad of patterns, walls, and defenses, encounter otherness — and, through it, themselves — until they meet, crossing together through a shared crisis.
Sound accompanies the bodies’ disintegration.
