Echo Dance of Furies

by Dewey Dell

2025

Concept: Agata Castellucci, Teodora Castellucci, Vito Matera

Choreography, with: Agata Castellucci, Teodora Castellucci

Dramaturgy, set and light design: Vito Matera

Original music: Demetrio Castellucci

costume design: Guoda Jaruševičiūtė

organisation: Valeria Fărîmă

production: Dewey Dell 2025

with the support of Regione Emilia-Romagna, Teatro Comandini/Societas, Masque Teatro

thanks to: Nicolò Russo

duration: 30′

We turn to anatomical ex-votos, small votive figurines that have held great symbolic value since ancient times. Resilient to the passage of time, they know no division between paganism and Christianity. Specific parts of the body are reproduced, disconnected from an unseen whole, carrying a silent narrative —where pain and fear give rise to a desire for redemption. 

The fear embedded in the ex-voto awakens the pre-individual time and the ancestral memory of instinct, which guides gestures toward salvation and weaves the choreography of alertness.

Photo: John Nguyen, Claudia Pajewski

Video: Eva Castellucci, Vladimir Bertozzi