also scheduled on
September 26, 2026 18:00

as part of the Fabbrica Europa 2026 festival

Carusə | sine Sole sileo by Pierandrea Rosato, presented here in a study format, is a solo performance that explores the silenced dance of tarantism in its status moriendi, drawing inspiration from Ernesto De Martino’s The Land of Remorse. The ritual is observed in its melancholic, exhausted and residual dimension, leading to the extreme form of aquatic tarantism, in which the desire for healing could turn into a desire for death.

At the centre of the performance is a young male body: youth understood as porosity, as an intuition not yet domesticated, and as the capacity to resonate with historical-political and affective memories that persist in the present as forms of haunting; masculinity as a displacement of a phenomenon traditionally associated above all with the female body.
The performer moves through states of trance, suspension and melancholy, intertwining his body with children’s and funerary lullabies, and with the only offstage musical presence, Poveri fiori by Francesco Cilea, performed by Maria Callas: a feminine presence that transforms loss into form, in complicity with the ritual’s dying character.

Carusə thus takes shape as the disintegration of a ritual: a young body moves through what has been lost from tarantism, what still persists in the present, and what, in its most extreme form, turns towards its own disappearance.

Pierandrea Rosato is a dancer and choreographer based in Lecce. Graduated in Modern Dance from the Folkwang University of the Arts, he has worked with companies including Tanztheater Wuppertal / Pina Bausch, El Conde de Torrefiel, Gob Squad, FTS, and Zerogrammi.
In 2023 he became an associated artist of Sosta Palmizi and Koreoproject. He was selected for Vetrina della Giovane Danza d’Autore with the solo Infieri, received a research grant from Anghiari Dance Hub, and the Komm Tanz Award by Abbondanza/Bertoni for Light Leaks from a Black Moon.
In 2025 he received the Italian Ministry of Culture Grand Tour grant with the project BACO | by a childlike omnipotence. Recent works include Shining Bruises | a burnout’s dark-love story (finalist at the 2025 Prospettiva Danza e Teatro International Competition) and Carusə | sine Sole sileo (Winner of the IndipenDanse Find Danza & Interagendo Festival 2026 open call).
His research explores hauntology, memory, and power structures through the body as a site of transformation, passage, and embodied resistance.

by Pierandrea Rosato
with Gabriele Scarcia
music: Poveri fiori by Francesco Cilea, performed by Maria Callas
production: Koreoproject

At Fabbrica Europa Carusə | sine Sole sileo is presented with the contribution of