Beat Forward marks the collaboration between Igor x Moreno and Collettivo Mine.

This new creation stems from the reworking of BEAT, a solo created by Igor Urzelai and Moreno Solinas in 2019. Beat Forward is a work in which the original choreography is reinvented and multiplied in the bodies of the five performers, Francesco Saverio Cavaliere, Siro Guglielmi, Fabio Novembrini, Roberta Racis, Silvia Sisto.

Accompanied by a techno music soundtrack, Beat Forward is a celebration of the pleasure of dancing to a pulse, where the energy rises in intensity and the sensations, shared between performers and spectators, transform.

The movement vocabulary focuses on non-verbal communication, using and modeling it choreographically. The audience observes the transformations of the performers – the gestures, the nods, the posture, the facial expression. The choreography ranges from the movement of the whole body to the smallest details, from the abstract to the expressive, creating a rapid sequence of images, constantly upsetting the reading and interpretation of the beholder and creating a hypnotic effect.

Beat forward is a research on how we identify and how we relate, on how we recognize ourselves or not in others and on how we are able to project multiple images of ourselves.

Igor x Moreno is the name under which the works created by choreographers Igor Urzelai and Moreno Solinas – in collaboration with an extended group of artists – are presented. Igor and Moreno use choreography and mostly non-verbal languages to create experiences which can surprise, energise and unsettle. Their works – highly constructed whilst deeply concerned with liveness – visit and escape different genres and styles.

Collettivo Mine, the result of an artistic encounter between Francesco Saverio Cavaliere, Siro Guglielmi, Fabio Novembrini, Roberta Racis and Silvia Sisto, is an experiment of collective, horizontal creation and ten-handed choreographic writing which aims to carry out research work focused on sharing practices, experimentation, and languages.

direction: Igor Urzelai Hernando and Moreno Solinas
assistant director: Margherita Elliot
performed by Francesco Saverio Cavaliere, Siro Guglielmi, Fabio Novembrini, Roberta Racis, Silvia Sisto
music: various authors (mix: Igor Urzelai Hernando)
costumes: Rebecca Ihle
light design: Mattia Bagnoli
organization Elisa Godani
promotion Jean-François Mathieu
production: S’ALA, Fabbrica Europa
in collaboration with Amat and Comune di Pesaro within RAM – Residenze Artistiche Marchigiane and with Teatro Calderón Valladolid as part of the festival #meetyou 2023

photo: Luca Del Pia