Moving perspectives, Simona Bertozzi - Luca Perciballi

Simona Bertozzi, an internationally renowned choreographer, conceives of the body as a perceptual device and space as a field of events. Her research transforms choreography into a dynamic system of trajectories, relationships, and tensions, born from a dialogue with other fields of knowledge and disciplines. For the exhibition dedicated to Felice Varini, hosted at the Art Museum with a major retrospective, Bertozzi, accompanied by guitarist and composer Luca Perciballi, creates a site-specific performance.

Movement and sound accompany the audience on a journey through space, where points of view, vectors, and forms transform into an ever-changing perceptual experience.

Simona Bertozzi*
A graduate of the DAMS in Bologna, she furthered her training in Italy, France, Spain, Belgium, and the United Kingdom. In 2008, she founded the Simona Bertozzi | Nexus, initiating an artistic journey that, over the years, has found support and hospitality in important national and international contexts, including Aerowaves (London), Dance Week Festival (Zagreb), Tanec Festival (Prague), Correios em Movimento, Intradance (Moscow), Fringe Festival (Edinburgh), Les Brigittines (Brussels), and Indisciplinados (Lima). Her choreographic research investigates the body as a place of intersection of multiple practices, thoughts, and imaginations, configuring the stage as a living, permeable organism in constant dialogue with contemporaneity. She was a finalist at the UBU Awards for Best Dance Performance with And it burns, burns, burns (the final episode of the Prometeo project) and in 2025 with Le Palestriti. In 2019, she received the Hystrio Corpo a Corpo Award and the ANCT Award for an artistic path recognized for its rigor and radicalism.

Luca Perciballi
An improviser, composer, and performer, trained in Italy and the Netherlands, Perciballi develops a body of work that extends from instrumental performance practice to composition, both instrumental and electroacoustic. His research embraces sound as an organoleptic agent, directly relating it to movement and the performing body. In recent years, his work has been enriched by an investigation into body sonification methodologies integrated with machine learning. He has collaborated with internationally renowned artists, including Butch Morris, Roberto Bonati, Roberto Dani, Anthony Moreno, Alessandro Bosetti, Dave Burrell, Barre Phillips, Thomas de Pourquery, and Ingar Zach. Alongside his solo and improvisational work, he is also active as a composer, receiving commissions from institutions such as Tempo Reale, the Discantus ensemble, and the Italian Cultural Institute in Paris. Active in multidisciplinary fields, he collaborates regularly with the actor Oscar De Summa and the choreographer Simona Bertozzi (Nexus).