"HA'-BI-TUS"

Alessandra Ruggeri

Choreography: Alessandra Ruggeri
Performers: Anya Pozza and Kyda Pozza
Presented at: MILANoLTRE Festival; MAR – Museo d’Arte della città di Ravenna; Teatro Comunale di Vicenza; Teatro della Visitazione, Rome
Music featured in the production: Roger Goula, Roberto Musci, Nitin Sawhney and Mary Lattimore

HÀ-BI-TUS is a choreographic work by Alessandra Ruggeri that investigates the body as an archive, a site of transformation and a space in which identity is continuously negotiated.

The work explores identity through the dual meaning of the Latin word habitus: both “garment” and “way of being”. Beginning with this linguistic and symbolic ambiguity, the performance asks what truly defines us and how often we metaphorically wear forms, roles and behaviours imposed by culture, society and our surrounding environment.

Created in dialogue with Manus Manus, an installation by artist and fashion designer Antonio Marras, HÀ-BI-TUSexplores the relationships between dance, fashion, social structures and self-determination.

In this intimate and multilayered performance, inhabiting one’s own body becomes both a poetic and a political gesture: a process of cutting, adjusting, choosing and transforming, comparable to the making of a garment.

"HEART"

Company: Los Angeles Choreographers & Dancers / Louise Reichlin & Dancers
Music by Roberto Musci and Giovanni Venosta featured in: Batida and Alone

HEART is part of the repertory of Los Angeles Choreographers & Dancers / Louise Reichlin & Dancers. The production incorporates sections from Urban and Tribal Dances, including Batida, Wedding, Alone, War, Remembrance and Together.

The music of Roberto Musci and Giovanni Venosta contributes to the emotional and rhythmic architecture of the work, supporting a choreographic language that moves between collective energy, memory, isolation, conflict and reconnection.

"A Joyful and Compelling"

Company: Los Angeles Choreographers & Dancers / Louise Reichlin & Dancers
Programme: A Joyful and Compelling
Music: Roberto Musci and Giovanni Venosta

This presentation by Los Angeles Choreographers & Dancers / Louise Reichlin & Dancers formed part of a programme reflecting on collective experience in the aftermath of the pandemic.

The event included the Culver City premiere of Gotta Get Up!, live performances from the reimagined Urban and Tribal Dances, and Reboot! Reboot!

The programme approached dance as a process of renewal and collective regeneration after a prolonged period of isolation, using movement and music to reconnect bodies, communities and public space.

San Pedro Festival of the Arts 

Company: Los Angeles Choreographers & Dancers / Louise Reichlin & Dancers
Festival: San Pedro Festival of the Arts, Los Angeles, California, USA
Music: Roberto Musci and Giovanni Venosta

Presented at the San Pedro Festival of the Arts in Los Angeles, this version of Urban and Tribal Dances continued the long-standing collaboration between Roberto Musci, Giovanni Venosta and Louise Reichlin’s company.

The work combines urban rhythms, ritual movement, group dynamics and individual presence, creating a choreographic language that connects contemporary city life with archetypal and communal forms of dance.

From the Outside In

Project: Dances for Very Small Spaces
Company: Grace Dance
Choreography: Peregrine Lane-Thurlow
Music: Roberto Musci and Giovanni Venosta

Dances for Very Small Spaces was developed during the period of quarantine as a response to the need to continue moving and creating within restricted domestic environments.

Inspired by 52 Portraits by Jonathan Burrows, Matteo Fargion and Hugo Glendinning, the project invited senior dance students to reconsider their homes not simply as backgrounds, but as active partners in movement and performance.

The result was a collection of personal movement portraits shaped by domestic space, memory and embodied experience. In From the Outside In, the music of Musci and Venosta accompanies a choreographic process in which private rooms are transformed into intimate performance landscapes.

Solo

Company: Los Angeles Choreographers & Dancers / Louise Reichlin & Dancers
Direction and choreography: Louise Reichlin
Original video performance: Kohl Lewis, with Jill Elaine Collins, Eve Metsäranta and Corrina Gemignani
Music: Roberto Musci and Giovanni Venosta

Solo is a video performance developed by Louise Reichlin and Los Angeles Choreographers & Dancers.

The work reflects on solitude, distance and connection. Created during a period marked by physical isolation, it suggests that loneliness is not solely a contemporary condition, but a recurring dimension of human experience. Even in separation, bodies, memories and individual lives remain interconnected.

The music of Musci and Venosta reinforces the emotional tension of the work, balancing intimacy, fragility and continuity.

The Blue Zone

Company: Consuming Kinetics Dance Company
Location: St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Music: Roberto Musci and Giovanni Venosta

The Blue Zone was created by Consuming Kinetics Dance Company in St. Louis.

The work places the music of Musci and Venosta within a choreographic environment shaped by colour, atmosphere and movement, extending the composers’ sonic language into the physical and visual space of contemporary dance.

Principle of Moment

Company: Tanzfabrik Berlin
Concept, direction and choreography: Dieter Heitkamp
Music: Roberto Musci and Giovanni Venosta

Principle of Moment was created for Tanzfabrik Berlin, with concept, direction and choreography by Dieter Heitkamp.

The music was composed in relation to the life and work of Yves Klein, with particular attention to his use of International Klein Blue, his performative painting practices, his use of the body as an artistic instrument, and his symbolic engagement with blood, gold and sculpture.

The work translates Klein’s visual and conceptual universe into a choreographic and musical field in which colour, matter, gesture, space and sound become interconnected materials.

Urban and Tribal Dances 

Company: Los Angeles Choreographers & Dancers / Louise Reichlin & Dancers
Choreography: Louise Reichlin
Costumes and sets: Linda Borough
Music: Roberto Musci and Giovanni Venosta

Urban and Tribal Dances represents one of the most significant dance collaborations involving Roberto Musci and Giovanni Venosta.

Created for Los Angeles Choreographers & Dancers / Louise Reichlin & Dancers, the work connects contemporary urban experience with ritual, collective movement and archetypal forms of social expression.

The choreography brings together individual and group dynamics, while the music provides a complex rhythmic and textural framework for the dancers’ movement. Through percussion, sampling, instrumental fragments and layered sonic materials, Musci and Venosta create a sound world that supports both the physical energy and the symbolic depth of the performance.