Concept and performance: Rafael Candela

Original music: Bianca Casaburi

Artistic curatorship: Ariella Vidach

Photographic and video materials: Ginevra Piccinin, Claudio Prati, Lorenzo Basili

Support: Nexus Factory

Spaces and support: BTT Balletto Teatro di Torino

Co-production Triennale Milano Teatro /Ariella Vidach AiEP

With the contribution of the Ministry of Culture, Emilia-Romagna Region, Municipality of Bologna

Created as part of “Itinerant improvisations in Parco Sempione,” FOG Performing Arts Festival 2023

Project selected for BODYSCAPE action as part of DANCESCAPES 2023, a project curated by Danza Urbana ETS

Project winner of the call for proposals New Breath 2024 – Dominio Pubblico

Supported by IIC Italian Cultural Institute of Paris and Outdoor Arts Italia

Duration: 25 minutes (varies depending on itinerary)

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Forrest walks, dances, stops, talks to a passerby, then crouches down and assumes the posture of a cat, or a dog, plays ball with a child, drinks water from a fountain, a lady sitting on a bench asks him, “What’s going on?”

Forrest is a project born out of the need to find greater proximity and informality between performer, space and audience. The project consists of site-specific touring performances in close relationship with the public space and its inhabitants. More focused on practice than choreographic structure, the work opens up to the randomness of encounters by writing dramaturgy in real time. This is precisely the founding attempt of the project: not to create the scene, but to bring attention to what is already alive in itself.

From the well-known movie Forrest Gump, the work takes inspiration to celebrate the body and continuous movement as the highest expression of vitality.

That day, I don’t really know why, I decided to go for a little run, so I ran all the way to the end of the road, and once there I thought I’d run all the way across Greenbow County. Then I said to myself, since I’ve come this far I might as well run through the beautiful state of Alabama. And so I did. I ran all the way to the ocean, and once there I said to myself, since I’ve come this far I might as well turn around and keep running…

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