as part of Secret Florence 2025

SENTIMENTAL POLIGONO is a happening that takes place inside the 50 m shooting range of the historic Società del Tiro a Segno of Florence, founded in 1859 in the Parco delle Cascine in Florence where it is still based.

This unexpected place, a geometric space of boundaries and precision, becomes the habitat of a bodily and emotional exploration. The performance is an invitation to slow down, observe and feel the bodies immersed in an expressive wave that passes through the environment and those who observe it, like a like a flickering glimmer, a sweet stillness, a wish for innocence.

The spectator is actively involved in the observation, is invited to take aim, like a shooter with the target, until the moment when the gesture becomes vibrant. The shooting range, usually a space of control, transforms into a field of emotional resonance and affective intensity, a pure passion!

Concept: Cristina Kristal Rizzo in collaboration with Annamaria Ajmone and Silvia Calderoni
Thanks to the Tiro a Segno Nazionale of Florence for the collaboration

SECRET FLORENCE, established festival of Estate Fiorentina, reaches its tenth edition. The project, carried out by five internationally active institutions based in the City of Florence’s urban area, Fabbrica Europa, Lo schermo dell’arte, Musicus Concentus, Tempo Reale, and Centro Nazionale di Produzione per la Danza Virgilio Sieni, is conceived for a series of scenic spaces that are mostly not previously used or not habitually used by the public, or for well-known spaces that are reinterpreted in surprising ways, where dance, music, art, and cinema performances adapt to the architectural and acoustic characteristics of different places each time. All the artistic initiatives are part of a territorial unicum, and in certain cases are even an actual complete novelty in the international scenery of contemporary artistic research.

photo: Andrea Macchia, detail