After the success of Femina, a finalist at the 2023 Ubu Award in the “Best Dance Show” category, Viro takes the stage, dedicated to the male counterpart. A character in the head, two dancers on stage. Equal, opposite mirrors that confront each other. Two who are: a bit grown-up boys and a bit men who don’t know how to give up eternal youth. Liquid, feminine, self-indulgent in their depression, males. Contemporary males? They certainly belong to the genre of male ostentation without breath and spirit, inessential and empty. Minimalism, dim lights expose the male in a choreographic form. Gray hair and ambiguous clothes dress him.
Stereotypes and clichés strip him before the spectator’s eyes. The man is Viro, a bifronted, broken, and melancholic creature. The choreography is accompanied by Olaf Bender, aka Byetone, with “Death of a Typographer”. Techno sounds, imperative and radical rhythms but still “human”, fluid, close to the body’s flows, capable of generating emotions. Thus Abbondanza/Bertoni capture the modern male: wounded, centaur, accepted and recognized only when he asserts himself in his intrinsic and splendid banality. Among the unmissable events of the 2025 season, Viro is certainly one of the most important.
