"Ha-Bi-Tus"

Alessandra Ruggeri

MilanOltre

10/01/2025

Choreographer and dancer Alessandra Ruggeri pursues research that intertwines movement, visual art, and social reflection, with a particular focus on the body as an archive and space for transformation. 

She opens the evening dedicated to the dialogue between dance and fashion with HÀ-BI-TUS, a creation that comes to life in the Spazio Atelier of the Teatro Elfo Puccini, in dialogue with Manus Manus, an installation by artist and fashion designer Antonio Marras.

HÀ-BI-TUS is a choreographic reflection on the theme of identity: what truly defines us? 

How often do we metaphorically wear clothes that don't belong to us, adapting to superstructures imposed by culture, society, and the environment? 

The Latin word habitus, meaning "garment" but also "way of being," becomes the starting point for an exploration of the body as a space of choice and transformation. 

Inhabiting one's body authentically thus becomes a political and poetic gesture, a process that, like the creation of a dress, requires cuts, adjustments, and decisions. 

In this intimate and layered performance, movement reflects an evolving identity, balancing awareness, resistance, and possibility.

Teatro Elfo Puccini | Corso Buenos Aires 33 | Milano 

Choreographer and dancer : Alessandra Ruggeri

Music : Roberto Musci  & Giovanni Venosta

"Ha-Bi-Tus"

Alessandra Ruggeri 

Ravenna Art Museum

Municipal Theatre of Vicenza

Teatro della Visitazione Roma

Italy

2024-25

Showcase of young auteur dance choreography and artistic 

direction  :  Alessandra Ruggeri 

dancers  : Anya Pozza, Kyda Pozza

costumes : Kyda Pozza

music : Roberto Musci & Giovanni Venosta

lighting design : Giuseppe Filipponio

videomaker : Daniele Cinelli

production : MISANGA Dance Collective

HÀ-BI-TUS is a choreography that deeply explores the theme of identity, asking fundamental questions about what truly constitutes our being. The author reflects on how to distinguish between our true essence and the superstructures imposed on us by society, culture and social context.

The invitation is to question ourselves on how many times we metaphorically wear clothes that do not belong to us, adopting inherited or imposed behaviors and ideas, often without being aware of it. In the same way, it reflects on how we can influence others, unconsciously shaping their “garments”.

"HEART"

LosAngeles Choreographers & Dancers

On July 12-14, 2024

 Culver City  - California 

( U.S.A. )

2024

Heart Part I, including :

Metro transformation

Gotta get up! 

Urban and tribal dances ( Batida, Wedding, Alone, War, Remembrance, Together )

Reboot ! Reboot !

Music by Roberto Musci & Giovanni Venosta ( Batida and Alone )

"A Joyful and Compelling"

 Los Angeles Choreographers & Dancers / Louise Reichlin & Dancers

" Urban and Tribal Dances"  

Culver City , U.S.A.      

2023 

"A Joyful and Compelling look at our post pandemic times" featuring a Culver City Premier- Gotta Get Up! , LIVE performances of the Reimagined Urban and Tribal Dances, and Reboot! Reboot!

Music by Roberto Musci and  Giovanni Venosta

Grace Dance

Dances For Very Small Spaces

U.S.A. 

2020

Dances for Very Small Spaces was a project born out of quarantine and the desire, in fact, the need to keep moving. It was inspired by 52 Portraits (2016), which was a digital collaboration between British choreographer Jonathan Burrows, composer Matteo Fargion, and video maker Hugo Glendinning. 

In the Dance Repertory Class, senior students were asked to look at their homes, the places where they may have lived all their lives, in a completely new way. 

They scouted locations for a dance that would not only use their bedroom or living room as a backdrop, but as a dance partner. 

The result is a collection of deeply personal movement portraits that represented four years of growth in the Dance Program at Grace. 

" From the Outside In " by Peregrine Lane-Thurlow, 

Music by Roberto Musci and Giovanni Venosta

Solo

Los Angeles Choreographers & Dancers 

Louise Reichlin & Dancers 

Loa Angeles U.S.A. 

2020

Direction and choreography by Louise Reichlin.

Original video performance by Kohl Lewis, with Jill Elaine Collins, Eve Metsäranta, Corrina Gemignani.

" When I look at this new version of "Alone", I see a piece where, even though each of us is having a very lonely moment, this has been happening since the beginning of time and perhaps, on a more confident note, we are still always connected between they " .

Music  by Roberto Musci & Giovanni Venosta .

CKDC

The blue zone

Consuming Kinetics Dance Company 

St. Louis U.S.A. 

2019

Dance company : Consuming Kinetiks Dance 

St. Louis U.S.A.  " The blue zone fall " 

Music  by Roberto Musci & Giovanni Venosta .

Principle of moment

Tanzfabrik

Berlin 

1995

Dance company : Tanzfabrik " Berlin

Music composed for "Principle of moments "  :  the art of Yves Klein, his life between blue color , blood painting sculpture and gold.

Choreographer Dieter Heitkamp

Music by Roberto Musci &Giovanni Venosta

Urban and tribal dances 

1990-1992

Dance company : Los Angeles Choreographer and Dancers.

Music all dances by Roberto Musci &Giovanni Venosta 

Costumes and sets by Linda Borough.

Choreographer :  Louise Reichlin