YOU ARE NOT AN ISLAND | Fabio Pronesti

concept and choreography Fabio Pronesti
sound dramaturgy Matteo Fabbri
conversations and perspectives Alessandra Indolfi
with the support of RAMDAM, un centre d’art – Lyon (FR), Lavanderie a Vapore – Centro di Residenza per la Danza (IT), DiDstudio NAO – Fabbrica del Vapore (IT)
project realised within the framework of Nouveau Grand Tour, promoted by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture and the Italian Cultural Institute of Paris
executive production L’Altra Associazione

In You Are Not an Island, a body embraces the possibility of slipping into certain cracks and looking inside them. On a floor flooded with matches, traces of the invisible and possibilities of rewriting come together: unresolved movements that insist towards uncertain landscapes. The research aims to evoke a series of unfulfilled potentials that haunt the present – and therefore shape the future – by challenging the visible as the dominant regime. The spectral, the secret and the opaque become tools of suspension charged with transformative potential: unstable structures that cross the space and shift its perceptual order. Where are the cracks when there are no walls? How does an elsewhere seep through? A dance around an imaginary fire, a score for extraordinarily ambiguous matches, a desire that changes consistency.

Fabio Pronesti is a performer and interdisciplinary artist. His research operates at the intersection of movement and visual art, with the aim of investigating the haunted nature of the performative and the persistent traces that surround it. He trained at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London and later joined the postgraduate company VERVE in Leeds. In 2024 he took part in the “Nuove Traiettorie” programme promoted by Network Anticorpi. He is among the artists selected by the Italian Cultural Institute of Paris for the “Nouveau Grand Tour 25/26”, undertaking a research period at RAMDAM in Lyon. As a performer, he has worked and collaborated with Daniele Albanese, Faye Tan, Alessio Maria Romano, Roberto Cocconi and Agrupación Señor Serrano.