as part of the Fabbrica Europa 2025 festival
RRRRRIGHT NOW is not a biopic about Johnny Rotten, nor about the Sex Pistols, nor about the punk movement.
It’s about taking “Rotten” literally, in the very meaning of that chosen name: “rotten.”
Taking punk through its collapse — and through the collapse of the world.
Looking at the moon, not the finger.
And turning Rotten into a prophet, because, as Shakespeare said, “something is rotten in the kingdom.”
RRRRRIGHT NOW crosses punk as ruin and prophecy, transforming it into choreographic gesture. Rotten, ironic, and tragic figures emerge from the cracks of History, haunted by desires and lost futures.
On stage, four performers — dancers and musicians (Eliot Benoist, Mathieu Ehrlascher, Konstantinos Rizos, and for the Florence date, special guest Jacopo Jenna) — embody possible “Rottens”, figures moved by the same feverish irony, in the guise of a hypothetical punk and prophetic Richard III.
Paola Stella Minni (Bologna) and Konstantinos Rizos (Athens) are choreographers and performers. They met in 2015 in Montpellier during the exerce master’s programme in choreography (ICI–CCN / UPV). Since then, they have developed a shared artistic practice that weaves together dance, sound, and theory in hybrid forms.In 2018, they founded Futur Immoral, a dance company based in Montpellier that investigates the friction between disciplines, putting formats and languages into tension. Their works unfold across stage and site-specific contexts through a dramaturgy of poetic dissonance, irony, and risk. KILL TIRESIAS, RRRRRIGHT NOW, and VOUAR form La trilogie de la Voyance, a triptych that explores voyance as a choreographic gesture and poetic possibility in the face of the collapse of reality.
As co-artistic directors of Futur Immoral, they are engaged in choreographic research, collective writing, and long-term collaborations with artists, thinkers, and institutions across Europe. From 2020 to 2022 they were associate artists at the CDCN Le Pacifique in Grenoble. Since 2022, they have been associate artists at the Théâtre La Bulle Bleue in Montpellier, a creation centre that brings together a permanent ensemble of actors with diverse abilities. In this context, they are developing the project Euphoria, La Bulle Bleue danse le Sacre.
concept and choreography: Paola Stella Minni & Konstantinos Rizos
sound creation: Konstantinos Rizos
performance and live music: Eliot Benoist, Mathieu Ehrlacher, Konstantinos Rizos, special guest: Jacopo Jenna
lighting design: Bartolo Filippone
video design: Léo Vuoso
dramaturgical support: Marie Reverdy
creation assistants: Julian Gypens, Alice Consigli
costumes: Paola Stella Minni & Konstantinos Rizos, made by Clodine Renon / CostumoteK
reflections: Claudia Attimonelli
production: Futur Immoral
co-production: Théâtre La Vignette – UPV Montpellier (Scène conventionnée), La Place de la Danse – CDCN Toulouse / Occitanie (within FONDOC), Le Pacifique – CDCN Grenoble AURA, Théâtre La Vista – La Chapelle Montpellier
in collaboration with Dialoghi – Residenze delle arti performative a Villa Manin 2022 – 2024 curated by CSS Teatro Stabile di Innovazione del Friuli Venezia Giulia
residencies: Théâtre La Bulle Bleue Montpellier, 13 Vents – CDN Montpellier, La Briqueterie – CDCN Val-de-Marne
with the support of Direction Régionale des affaires Culturelles (DRAC Occitanie), Région Occitanie, La Ville de Montpellier et Montpellier Métropole, Spedidam, Adami
photo: Léo Vuoso
