M'ILLUMINO D'IMMENSO

Première - 31th May 2025 - Verbania Teatro Il Maggiore

“M’illumino d’immenso” is one of the most well-known lines of hermetic italian poet Giuseppe Ungaretti. This performance created by Raphael Bianco is an almost anthological collection of choreographic fragments —evocative and mysterious. It is a work splited in 3 chapter with a dancing poet and his visions expressing  fullness of being in its many meanings: brief choreographic events in which contemplation and the active exploration of physical and metaphysical dimensions of reality reveal different perceptions and interpretations of the concept of illumination and its ability to generate harmony between body and spirit.

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CHAPTER 1

BECOME OCEAN

When I saw the ocean for the first time, on the beach of Kovalam in Kerala, I was overwhelmed with emotion, pervaded by the roar of the waves. It felt like meeting a friend I had long imagined since childhood: standing on the shore, I could not hold back my tears, I embraced the tide and became the ocean… immense.

Raphael Bianco

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CHAPTER 2

DIALOGO CON L’OMBRA (DIALOGUE WITH THE SHADOW)

My shadow is the mirror, the reflection—negative or positive—of my emotions, desires, impulses. A dialogue between two mysterious dimensions of my being, a confrontation that sometimes wounds me, perhaps because it blindly, awkwardly, stubbornly, desperately seeks harmony. How wonderful it is to rediscover the quiet of the spirit. B.R.

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CHAPTER 3

PROMISED LAND 

We walk without rest toward a mirage that is our only certainty. We leave behind what has been taken from us; memories are indelibly etched in our eyes. That small or large house—our homeland—grows ever more distant: nostalgia hardens our hearts… We seek only the gentle sensation of surrendering ourselves to a space of our own: without fear, embraced by the soft caress of our one and only soil.

Leah Par – refugee of life