“Why, oh War have you become part of this Earth?
Why is War! our hope and our way, to go among new people who await for us in the pathways of this new journey we will all make?”
Celestina Soranna, danzatrice

“I am dumb, a cretin…crazy…
You: bad…!
I am not offending anyone… You! You have
Problems. You are stupid.
Everyone has problems, everyone is different.
Everyone is wrong…”
Filippo Lamanna, danzatore

Le Terre Rovesciate adds three dancers with psycho-physical disabilities to the dance company.
After three years of workshops in the field of dance and handicap, it became clear that it was necessary for us to face the theme of diversity and of non comprehension in a new and different way. Le Terre Rovesciate has developed from this need, as theme for the piece, and as working method: throughout the entire creative process there has been complete inclusion of all, and each dancer has been chosen for his or her specific abilities and not because part of a certain category or another.

The Upside Down Lands
All of us are inadeguate in various ways. All of us, in various ways, cannot understand the “other.”
They can console us. We can easily not understand and hate them.
War generates from not understanding and from not being able to tolerate that which, different from us, invades our space, our mind, our most intimate sphere.
Why do we have to understand? Why do we have to comprehend, realize, take in? How can we?
Insecurity and non comprehension are the seeds of discrimination and war, of coercion to escapes and condemnation to endless flights.
If freedom is to be able to stay or go where one wants, with whom and how one wants, then for war, all one needs to do is negate movement.
Le Terre Rovesciate, the “upside down lands,” is a suspended and rarified world, tender and violent, where everything is or may be upside down, inside out, back to front. It is a world that challenges and permits us to see differently, and maybe, finally, to understand, and to welcome.

Le Terre Rovesciate is created thanks to funding from the region Puglia.