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Born from the desire to reflect on themes such as birth, destruction and transformation, this work proposes a genesis of the body that combines dance, visual arts, sound and digital creation. Technologies play a crucial role in this context, defining the regime of transformation of the body which, immersed in the interactive environment, reacts, changes and explores new patterns of perception. The sound environment, generated in real time by the performer’s muscular activity, acts as a vector of transformation, allowing a reorganisation of the body which, subjected to new sensory stimuli, explores the emerging forms of anatomy, constantly fluid and metastable. The performance thus proceeds through temporary crystallisations in which the three main “tableaux” present a focus on more defined plastic forms, sometimes inspired by totemic figures, sometimes crossed by references to organic matter and the animal world, in which memories of human anatomy emerge.

The common thread linking the different sequences is the exploration of weight and the struggle that the body engages with the ground, with the force of gravity that allows it to acquire verticality in space. Each moment defines a different way of declining the relationship between birth and transformation, in which the bodies, constantly exposed to otherness, contract, vibrate, collapse until they progressively break. The profoundly hybrid dimension to which bodies are exposed thus suggests the ontological opening of the organism to a post-human dimension, in which the anthropic centrality is repositioned within a wider ecosystem. Here, non-human alterities (the machine, the inorganic, the animal, the divine) cross the performers' anatomies, giving rise to xenomorphic creatures. The only concession to the human aspect is the emergence, at times, of explicitly female anatomies, whose plastic dimension refers to an imaginary past that contemplates cyborgs and chimeras, and that makes gender memory the poetic device for conceiving a myth of origins. The term Huracan refers to the deity of fire and storms, the creative spirit responsible for the origin of life.