24 OCTOBER 2026, 7.30PM

Kinkaleri

SOME DANCES ON DICKFACES

conceived and created by Kinkaleri /Massimo Conti, Marco Mazzoni, Gina Monaco

with Samira Cogliandro, Marco Fichera, Matteo Marongiu, Stefano Roveda 
organisation and promotion Lucia Guida, Serena Trinchero
production KLm 2025/2026

in collaboration with Centro di Produzione della Danza, CANGO Firenze
supported by MiC – Ministero della Cultura, Regione Toscana

SOME DANCES ON DICKFACES takes its cue from Hieronymus Bosch’s “The Garden of Earthly Delights”, to compose a hymn outside of time, a gamble, a quest and an encounter with the bodies of others, bearers of wealth and wonder in their uniqueness.
The study of the Flemish painter’s triptych becomes an exploration, a safari populated by living and imaginary creatures, with a welcome of an Eden no longer lost to guilt, but dancing in the intoxication of an experience that unites individual and collective dimensions.

In the artists’ words, “SDOD seeks to take the body in hand and hurl it towards the world collapsing in ruins. Powerless and desensitised amidst catastrophe, we turn to the body as the only opportunity for power. The power to act or not act. The power to dance as if it were a rain dance, arching the pelvis once more towards pleasure and desire as the only saving grace in a desert. Rain in an African refugee camp. A ritual, a spell, like searching what is always sought but never found. 
SDOD is a hymn outside of time, a pursuit and an encounter with the bodies of others. It is not a retreat, but a thrust towards the essence of the human, trying not to confuse it with efficiency, the production of a functional sense, past revolutions”.

The choreographic score becomes a way to reiterate that every body must be granted access to the desire to share, that each person is simultaneously the other, and that every creature, in its uniqueness, has the right to exist according to its own nature, cultivating respect, relationship, care, the beauty of every form generated by the contact of living forms.

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ph: Monia Pavoni

Kinkaleri was founded in Florence in 1995. Its members meet, combining their previous experiences and studies in various fields, with the aim of creating specific projects, thus encouraging the desire to work around concrete ideas and always curating every aspect necessary in their creative activity.
Kinkaleri operates through theatrical experimentation, movement research, performance, installations, exhibitions, sound materials, seeking a language, not on the basis of style but directly in the evidence of an object.
The group’s work has been shown at numerous programmes in Italy and abroad, in theatres, contemporary art centres, festivals and exhibition spaces including Triennale Teatro dell'Arte – Milano, Teatro Metastasio, Teatro Fabbricone – Prato, Teatro Grande – Brescia, Sophiensaele and KunstHalle Deutsche Bank – Berlin, Centre Pompidou – Paris, Kaaitheater and KunstenFESTIVALdesArts – Brussels, Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Pecci – Prato, Fondazione Gulbenkian – Lisbon, Kitazawa Town Hall – Tokyo, Oriental Pioneer Theatre – Beijing, Mercat de les Flors – Barcelona, La Bâtie Festival – Geneva, Festival di Santarcangelo – Santarcangelo, Biennale Danza – Venice, Villa Romana – Florence, and MAXXI – Rome.
Among the most important productions: Doom (1996), 1.9cc GLX (1998), My love for you will never die (2001), Otto (2002/2003), West (2003-2006), I Cenci/Spettacolo (2004), pool (2005), Nerone (2006), The Hungry March Show: Between a Carrot and I – Yes Sir! (2007-2008), Alcuni giorni sono migliori di altri (2008), Ascesa&Caduta (2010), I Am That Am I (2010), Hit Parade (2011/2017), All! (2012-2017), Trilogia Puccini: Nessun Dorma (2010) – Butterfly (2015) – I Love You Tosca (2018), No Title Yet (2017), Otto (2003/2018), Once More (2019), Inferno (2021), OtellO (2021), HellO° (2022-23), AcrossKissKissYou (2024), Metamorpholand (2025), Io Danzo Io Parlo (2025), and Planet Dance (2026). 
In 2002, the company was awarded the Lo Straniero– Scommesse per il futuro (Betting for the Future) prize and, also in 2002, the Ubu Award for Best Dance-Theatre Show of the Year.
Since 2001, Kinkaleri has been based in Prato at spazioK, one of the spaces of the former Campolmi industrial area in the historic centre of the city. Since 2013, spazioK has been the regional residency centre developing artistic pathways in various creative fields aimed at younger generations; the space is also the site of the “Is It My World? “and “Body To Be” series of events curated by the company focusing on the performing arts.
The group currently consists of Massimo Conti, Marco Mazzoni, and Gina Monaco.