ConTatto Performance 2025

ConTatto is a performance that explores intimacy through the real love of two men, one of whom became disabled after a spinal stroke a decade ago. From close observation of how they move through daily life together, how they touch, support, and care for one another, emerges a choreography of slowness: a quiet dance of “postures of love,” composed of presence, breath, and attention to the smallest details. In this suspended rhythm, every contact tells of trust, vulnerability, and love. Through embodied research, these everyday gestures of intimacy, holding and being held, leaning, offering, receiving, are distilled into archetypal forms, acquiring a poetic and profoundly human resonance. At the heart of ConTatto is a radical slowing down. Stillness and slowness allow the performance to unfold as an open field of perception. The work creates a suspended and calm space inviting audiences to explore their own emotional landscapes and reflect on intimacy, care, and love. Equally central is the dismantling of visual and spatial hierarchies. The performers remain on the floor, at the audience’s eye level, close, equal. The wheelchair is deliberately absent: not to erase disability, but to shift attention from object to relation, to lived connection.
ConTatto unfolds as an intimate, collective space where fragility becomes quiet strength and proximity transforms into presence. Rooted in the archetypes of love and care, the performance offers an embodied reflection on how the body tells stories that unfold slowly in the rhythm of breath, using the language of touch and
presence. It reminds us that intimacy is not spoken; it is lived, felt, and held in the spaces between bodies.