by Nicolò Abbattista and Christian Consalvo

supported by OPLAS/Centro Regionale Danza Umbria,
theWorkRoom, Fattoria Vittadini e Fondazione Milano

“Taboo is the reflection of my clothes and my attitudes: actually the name Taboo is a game, because there’s nothing you can’t do in this place, my work at Taboo is a sort of cabaret, the Taboo must be a place in which people can feel free to be everything with each other or different identity than the pre-established one. I opened the Taboo to have fun, to express my creativity.”

Leigh Bowery performance artist

Taboo is a physical traversal of identity.

A body on stage exposes its process of definition, loss, and redefinition as a concrete, unstable, and contradictory experience.

The dancer inhabits confusion, desire, transgression, and the need to name oneself. Every gesture is a choice; every transformation implies a renunciation. Gender is not a point of arrival, but a continuous tension between who one is, who one has been, and who one decides to become.

Taboo challenges the very idea of identity as a fixed category.

On stage remains a body that searches, experiments, and changes and exposing, in the process, the fragility and the radical freedom of self-definition and self-representation.

YEAR
2017

CHOREOGRAPHER
NICOLÒ ABBATTISTA

DRAMATURG
CHRISTIAN CONSALVO

MUSIC
The Tamperer, J. S. Bach

DURATION 10” for 1 DANCER

WITH
Enrico Luly

ORIGINAL CAST
Samuele Arisci

PREMIERE
November 19th, 2017
Festival Corpo a Corpo

Villa Regina
TORINO

OTHER PERFORMANCES:
  • May 26th, 2018
    Festival IDACO
    Baruch Performing Arts Center
    NEW YORK, USA
  • June 13th, 2018
    Gdańsk Dance Festival
    Klub Żak
    GDAŃSK, POLAND
  • January 23rd, 2026
    Stagione SOLARE
    Teatro Linguaggicreativi
    MLANO