Aurelio Di Virgilio (1995, Pescara) is a performer and dance-maker who lives and works between Rome and Milan. He graduated from the school of Piccolo Teatro of Milan – Luca Ronconi (2017).
His choreographic and performative research is focused on heterogeneous tools such as choreographic scores, somatic practices, plastic elements and drawings to access personal memories and to reflect on the present we are living. Bodies are invited to relate each others by reconsidering their identity and their gestural codes to get in touch with the other.
Since 2020 he has presented his works in theatre, museums and art foundations, including Cango – Cantieri Goldonetta (Florence), La Fondazione – Fondazione Nicola del Roscio (Rome), Nuovo Teatro delle Commedie (Livorno), Fondazione smART (Rome), Museo della Città (Livorno), Sala Santa Rita (Rome).
He partecipate to Prender-si cura 2021 residency program, curated by Ilaria Mancia at the Mattatoio (Rome).
In 2022 he won the Più Erbacce research grant promoted by CIMD in collaboration with BASE (Milan).
He has collaborated as a performer for Collettivo Treppenwitz (Teatro Foce, LAC Lugano) and as assistant for Masako Matsushita on occasion of MOVING, a project sustained by Memorie Future, a cultural program organized by Fondazione Feltrinelli Triennale Milano and Terzo Paesaggio.
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Last Project
JEPLANE
JEPLANE was born from the desire to reconstruct the dynamics that are unleashed in front of a landscape: thehorizon, the flattening of the world into a line, the feeling of the future.
The specific properties of this territory are instability and iridescence. The aim is to cast your eyes elsewhere, allowing yourself to say and to think things you never thought about, perhaps not to say anything. In a delicate and artificial set that wants to be an intimate place, Aurelio throws his body into imagined architectures that come from his own interior, preparing to build a clear, complex gaze full of history. JEPLANE appears as the place of impossible, invisible, interrupted bonds.
“For this occasion I found new eyes”