Michele Rizzo: HIGHER xtn.

Artist and choreographer Michele Rizzo brings together five dancers in a hypnotic performance whose minimal gestures merge into a unified flow. By emphasising nightclubs as spaces of communion and catharsis, Rizzo associates collective movement in social spaces with rituals of quasi-religious worship. By enhancing a kind of spiritual transcendence through dance, the artist incites the transformative power of techno music, whose repetitive rhythms temporarily blur the limits of the body’s perception.

The Italian multidisciplinary artist has been crossing media such as dance, performance or sculpture. In recent years, his work has been dedicated to the aesthetic translation of aspects of clubbing and rave culture.

This performance forms part of the programme for the first edition of Fogo Fátuo.

Concept and choreography: Michele Rizzo | Music: Lorenzo Senni | Performers: Juan Pablo Camara, Max Göran, Arad Inbar, Antonia Steffens, Julcsi Vavra | Support: Stedelijk Museum, Mondriaan Fonds, Het Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds | Produced by Dansco | Executive producer: Michael Scerbo. 2018

Photographs by Dinis Santos