Divine Comedy

Innovative Italian choreographer Emilliano Pellisari creates a jaw-dropping spectacle of dance inspired by Dante’s Divine Comedy. Playing with perspective, reflection, and distortion, Pellisari’s surrealist vision boggles the mind and eye as the audience slowly descends into the Inferno.

The women and men, terrestrial and divine, mortal and immortal, narrated by Dante in his Divine Comedy, are not bodies. But minds, memories, visions, wishes, ideas: they are souls. And souls have no weight.

This physical and poetic insight is the basic point from which Emiliano Pellisari’s choreography takes, literally, its flight.

Thanks to the recovery of stage and deceiving techniques typical of the Baroque theatre, his dancers, acrobats and actors make quite credible, part after part, this reconstruction of Dante’s journey. From Inferno (Hell) towards Paradiso (Heaven)