Asteroide

In his new show, dancer and choreographer Marco D'Agostin takes on the role of a mysterious paleontologist engaged in a conversation with the audience about bones, extinctions, and cosmic material. Gradually, however, his posture and narrative begin to change: his body surrenders to movements of dance and his words transform into a song, as if the performer is powerless against the extraordinary and overwhelming power of the musical.

A winner of two UBU Awards, one for Best Performer Under 35 in 2018 and another for Best Dance Show in 2023, D'Agostin tells of the extraordinary capacity of life and art to present themselves anew, in different forms, never succumbing, because geology and romanticism have one thing in common: they tell us that things last a long time. Just as the scientific community struggled in the 1980s to believe that dinosaurs were wiped out by an asteroid, so too is man caught off guard when he finds himself without love and must confront the changes that ensue.

In a face-off with Broadway, D'Agostin seeks to demonstrate how we human beings are built layer by layer, like the Earth's crust, and that our biographies are small geological eras destined to leave something as a legacy.