Francesco Marilungo | CANI LUNARI

Choreography and Direction Francesco Marilungo
With Vera Di Lecce, Barbara Novati, Roberta Racis, Alice Raffaelli, Francesca Linnea Ugolini
Costumes Lessico Familiare
Music and Vocal Coaching Vera Di Lecce
Lighting and Space Gianni Staropoli
Technical Direction Gianluca Sacco
Photos and Video Luca Del Pia
Production Körper | National Dance Production Centre
Co-production SNAPORAZVEREIN, IRA Institute
with the support of ResiDance – action of the Anticorpi XL Network
Residency Centre of Tuscany (Fondazione Armunia Castiglioncello -CapoTrave/Kilowatt Sansepolcro), AMAT – Associazione Marchigiana per le Attività Teatrali, Consorzio PUGLIA CULTURE – Regional Consortium for Arts and Culture in collaboration with Associazione Menhir / LE DANZATRICI en plein air festival in Ruvo di Puglia and Ass. Cult. TEATRO MENZATI’/ TEX – Il Teatro dell’ExFadda in San Vito dei Normanni (Puglia).

with the support of Cross Festival, Fondazione Egri Centro di Rilevante interesse per la Danza and Primavera dei Teatri Castrovillari
with the contribution of Marosi Festival, Teatro delle Moire, Centro Coreografico Nazionale Aterballetto

During the winter months, when the moon is full or nearly full, its light can be refracted by ice crystals in high clouds, creating a circular halo around the satellite with two symmetrical glows on either side: moon dogs. These atmospheric phenomena were traditionally interpreted as omens of storms, but they were also signs of passage, visual gateways to the invisible. The show is a choreographic project that crosses these gateways and immerses itself in an imaginary world rooted in archaic femininity, magical knowledge and ecstatic bodies. It is a sensitive investigation into the figure of the witch, the healer: not as a folkloric remnant or demonised stereotype, but as an emblem of marginal and powerful knowledge that resists the logic of utility and visibility.