The Knot, performance

Zuppini’s performance transforms the human body through intricate, erotic sculptures that create choreographic knots. These knots are visceral, formal, and visual, revealing new relationships in space, form, and emotion. Through this process, the body is reimagined, challenging common perceptions and evoking transformation in the audience. The performance aims to reshape thought and affection toward the body, integrating time, space, and desire into a new aesthetic paradigm.

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Credits

Choreography and Performance: Elisa Zuppini

Dramaturgy: Bruno Listopad

Sound: Fabian Reichle 

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Disambiguation, performance
 

Besides her solo performance The Knot , Eliza Zuppini is also presenting  an excerpt of her group work Disambiguation, a self-contained world blending human sensations with non-human forces within a choreographic machine. Disambiguation unfolds as a circuit of sensations, media fragments, and postures, seeking self-understanding. Gravity becomes a shifting force, shaping both movement and introspection on personal and collective levels.

Performed by:
Bo Nijssen, Clémence Masakidi, Ditte Toppet, Esteban Alejandro Obregon Moriano, Federica Lovato, Hannah Badura, Harvey Burke-Hamilton, Hope Landu, Jieon Ko, Kofi Boanyah, Lola Dupriez, Maren Weertman, Tim Brügge

Concept and choreography | Elisa Zuppini

Artistic advise | Bruno Listopad 

Supervisor sound editor | Fabian Reichle

Costumes | Elisa Zuppini, Bruno Listopad

Production | Expanded Contemporary Dance 

Songs featured | Distribution of Care by Lotic, Fruitcake part 1 by BFRND

Featuring shirt by Avoidstreet

Thanks to: Bruno Listopad, Bojana Bauer, Dorothea Sinnema, Expanded Contemporary Dance

Bio

Elisa Zuppini is an Italian choreographer and dancer based in Amsterdam. Driven by the philosophical aspects of dance, she explores performance and choreography as expanded ways of understanding movement. She currently works at the intersection of dance and visual arts, employing choreographic devices as temporal sculptures. Elisa developed De.sy.re. (Decentralised Systems of Relations), a practice that examines the body as a system of forces without a fixed center, exploring how states of introspection can generate new choreographic languages. She has presented her work at GAMeC (Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art), the Van Gogh Museum, Theatre Rotterdam, BASE Milano, Teatro Campo Alegre, among others.

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