a crossing

an out-of-place action by and with Filippo Porro
sound project by Biagio Cavallo
IT consulting Francisco Bertorello
production Pluraldanza | AZIONIfuoriPOSTO
with the support of Dancescapes/Bodyscape organized by Danza Urbana ETS, with the support of MiC and in collaboration with h(abita)t – Rete di spazi per la danza e ORA – Orobie Residenze Artistiche and IN SITU PLATFORM, co-financed by UE Creative Europe Program

winner Dancescapes/Bodyscape 2024
winner IN SITU PLATFORM 2025-2028 – OPEN CALL#1

I dream of the field as a possible place of reconciliation and care, of encounter and sharing, where work and imagination can dialogue through physical effort and in the moment of rest that follows: an event that manifests and gradually reveals itself by walking through its spaces, with effort, experiencing it collectively.
What is your dream of the field?

Dreams in the Fields is conceived as a collective action in the form of a walk through the rural fields, which aims to symbolically restore their role as a place for the community.

All participants (the performer together with the local community) carry red plastic boxes as they walk through the field. The red boxes are transformed from common working tools into multifunctional and interactive objects: the participants can use them as seats from which to observe the landscape, choosing their own point of view; or as elements to build a collective sculpture. The boxes also contain loudspeakers that play sounds: live recordings of the walks mixed with an archive of voices from interviews collected from the local community.

Through dance, sound, collective practices and the poetic use of technology, the work aims to reflect on a possible sustainable future, evoking the past and investigating the present, where climate change, intensive farming and agricultural mechanisation have greatly altered the landscape, uses and traditions of the fields.