CURCI PROJECTS
Do You Believe in Unicorns
Creation for The Cannes Jeune Ballet Rosella Hightower
When we sleep deeply, our dreams transport us to a mysterious world where anything is possible. In this imaginary world, our secret desires, our more or less hazy memories and our strange ideas intertwine. It is this infinite freedom that nourishes our way of dancing. The choreography draws its inspiration from the fascinating world of dreams, particularly the REM phase, offering fertile ground for exploring the unconscious. Freed from all constraints, we wanted to recreate improbable and surprising situations, using the absurd and the madness to probe the depths of the human soul through extreme movements. The body becomes a mirror of our hidden thoughts. Our movements express our deepest desires, without us really controlling them. Emanuele Lucchisani’s musical composition has followed step by step the creative process. This adaptation invites the audience on a spiritual journey where reality and imagination merge in order to explore together the mysteries of the mind.
Myth
Creation for The Dance Area Jeune Ballet
“Myth” takes as initial inspiration the Phoenix and its symbolic richness. The phenix is a creature that rises from its ashes in the aftermath of a fire, a symbol of rebirth, hope, the renewal of time, progress, the end of oppression and eternity. We often wonder why a creature of such beauty is overwhelmed by death, and especially by such a harsh death.
In reality the Phoenix’s challenge is to accept change, all adversities are not adversities and the mourning is also an integral part of life. What may seem like a “difficult situation” to us is not a difficult situation but a tool that will give us new life, new meaning and make us stronger. The phoenix has a symbolic meaning in almost every culture around the world… the pretext to reunite, to lead to a common reflection in as era of separation.
Anamnɘsis
Creation for The ZHDK Zurich
Dust it off
Creation for The Valencia Dancing Forward
Folie onirique : démons et mirages
Creation for The PNSD Rosella Hightower
Leap of faith
Creation for Conny Janssen Danst (DANSLOKAAL 1)
West Side Story
Création for The City Of Cannes With The Dancers Of The Cannes Jeune Ballet
Francesco Curci worked on a new adaptation of the Broadway musical West Side Story, originally composed by Leonard Bernstein in 1957. While preserving the heart of Arthur Laurents’ original story (inspired by William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet), Curci seeks to challenge conventions through a fresh interpretation. He blends musical styles, reimagines character roles, and offers a contemporary choreographic perspective. The creative process was driven by a desire to provoke deeper audience reflection on enduring and sensitive themes such as discrimination, cultural and ideological conflicts, the need for belonging, the fear of rejection, oppression, gender stereotypes, the pursuit of freedom, and acceptance of others. Stylistically, the choreographer employs a distinctive contemporary language throughout the piece. Physical exploration is a priority in this creation, guided by the various themes explored in the story. The characters’ physical states and movements evolve from the emotions and trials they endure: moments of lightness and joy alternate with much darker, tormented feelings. Curci plays with the interplay between perfect harmony and contrast between dance and music. The aim is to illustrate both the joy, euphoria, and exaltation, as well as the sadness, nostalgia, fear, despair, and grief that death brings. Does the sacrifice of some lives open a door to tolerance for others?
