October 9, 2025 21:00
Teatro Cantiere Florida di Firenze | IT
as part of the Fabbrica Europa 2025 festival
It is only a matter of time. The body is like a glacier: the drop of water that penetrates between the cracks in the ice, expanding them and moving them imperceptibly downstream, becomes a drop of sweat that penetrates between the bodies, breaking them down little by little until they are exhausted, finally falling to the ground.
“Rimaye” is a term derived from a Latin word meaning ‘crack’ and is used in mountaineering terminology to describe the empty space in a glacier between the moving ice and the adjacent rock face.
Rimaye by AZIONIfuoriPOSTO is a dance piece that, by comparing the human body with the body of the glacier, reflects on themes such as climate change, memory between present, past and future, and the passage of generations.
In an atmosphere of enchantment, nostalgia and irony, through a score of gestures, words and sounds, the dramaturgy – enhanced by sets and costumes – represents the memories linked to the mountains, revealing how both humans and glaciers are fragile elements of a changing environment and custodians of memories, stories and experiences destined to disappear.
The project by Silvia Dezulian and Filippo Porro combines performative-choreographic research with scientific and historical studies of changing mountain landscapes. During the development of the project, the company took part in a series of excursions and field research on several glaciers in the Alps, with the participation of glaciologists and mountain guides.
The dramaturgy is based on the dancers’ personal memories of the mountains – fragments expressed through monologues, dialogues and music. Like the glaciers, the memories will sooner or later disappear, but they will leave traces, just like the vanishing glaciers in the landscape.