choreography and dance: Leonardo Diana
music: Airchamber3
poetry: Gertrude Stein
video: Marzia Maestri
costume: Lucia Castellana
lights: Michele Rombolini 

part of MOVING_movimento 2007
a project by Fabbrica Europa; Festival Santarcangelo dei Teatri; Giardino Chiuso / Teatro dei Leggieri, San Gimignano; Officina Giovani - Cantieri Culturali ex Macelli, Prato; Assessorato alla Cultura e alle Politiche Giovanili del Comune di Prato




Verso la luce is the second part of a larger project that began with Senza uscita.  It is the story of someone coming back to life and so of salvation, taking place in the rediscovery of internal light and life-force.
Leonardo Diana, accompanied by three musicians (Andrea Ferraris, Luca Serrapiglio and Andrea Serrapiglio who play live original music composed for the production), personifies the drama of a body emptied of its humanity by the continual struggle to remain in the 'right' position. That is, the position that will help it to move in society.
The exit road from the obscurity of self-destruction is found in the gradual rediscovery of the shining body, in movement and the play of delays between human and light.
The game is only interrupted when the body becomes aware of itself as the energy source. Certain of the path that leads 'towards the light', the body discovers that it no longer needs to interact with space and time because it itself is space, time and light.

Leonardo Diana. Born in 1978, became part of the company Porte Girevoli in 2004. 
He has worked with the director Claudio Cinelli, to create various performances, both in Italy and further afield. His dance teachers have included Angela Torriani Evangelisti, Simona Bucci, Paolo Mereu, Charlotte Zerbey, Cristina Bonati, Eugenio Scigliano and Aurora Benelli. He has participated in workshops with Franco Di Francescantonio, Gabriella Bartolomei, Susanne Linke, Micha Van Hoecke and Tanya Khabarova. For the last three years he has undertaken a course for professional contemporary dancers in the Nikolais technique, directed by Paolo Mereu and Simona Bucci. From 2003 he has danced for the Associazione Versiliadanza by Angela Torriani Evangelisti. In summer 2004 he took part in the Versiliadanza performance Assaggi di Potere - Macht Das Was?, choreographed by Susanne Linke. In the same year he showed a video-performance at the inauguration of Quarter, the new contemporary art centre in Florence. In 2005 he collaborated in the triennial Versiliadanza project, presenting a solo at various festivals. In the same year he graduated in scenography from the l'Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence.