locker_room

by Giovanni Careccia

production by Lost Movement Company

co-production by FLIC – Festival Lanciano in Contemporanea

supported by ArteMente, Centro di Alta Formazione per la Danza and Movimento Danza

locker_room is a project that explores the mind and body of an athlete in the ultimate place of beginning and end: the locker room. It’s a suspended space, a container of disappointments and victories, of solitude and shared moments, where competitiveness ignites and transforms, first into a challenge with oneself, then with others.

On stage, the ritual of preparation, solitude, fragility, the humiliation of defeat, and the memory of athletic feats are re-lived in a melting pot of sensations and physical states. What remains in the body? What happens to the muscles? What slips away from the skin?

In locker_room, the athletic act and the artistic act intertwine in common ground: that of infinite repetition. A cycle made of training, discipline, and constancy. One must continuously practice, stay vigilant, ready to respond in the moment, in a continuous process of acceptance, confrontation, and self-rediscovery.

The performative act must always be at its peak. But is it allowed to fail?

YEAR
2025

DIRECTOR AND CHOREOGRAPHER
GIOVANNI CARECCIA

DRAMATURGY CONSULTATION
CHRISTIAN CONSALVO

COMPOSITION AND SOUND DESIGN
FILIPPO RIPAMONTI

COSTUMES
DANIELE CAVALLO

SET DESIGN
IRIS DA ROUS

DURATION 20” for 1 DANCER

WITH
Alessandro Bonacina

OPEN REHEARSAL
April 11th, 2025
NU.DA Nuova Danza
Movimento Danza
NAPOLI

PREVIEW
May 21th, 2025
Festival Exister
Teatro Fontana
MILANO

PREMIERE
September 27th, 2025
FLIC – Festival Lanciano in Contemporanea
Liceo Classico V. Emanuele II
LANCIANO