Lorenzo De Simone
Dancer, author and movement researcher, Lorenzo De Simone collaborates with Compagnia NUT, Willie Dorner, Virgilio Sieni, Paola Bianchi, Qui e Ora, Giorgio Rossi, Chiara Taviani and Elisa Sbaragli. Since 2018, he has pursued his own artistic path, creating the works Variazione #1: S. Velato and Variazione 2: Elogio alla Gentilezza. He is currently working on the performance Cieli d'inverno, continuing a research practice that, through a distinctive sensitivity, finds creative inspiration in the human experiences of silence and melancholy and brings them to the stage.
Holding a degree in Developmental Psychology from the Università Cattolica di Milano and a Master’s degree in “Culture & Health”, he combines his artistic practice with psychological work, collaborating on various projects, including with the psychotherapy school M.IN.D. Saronno.
He curates Sharing Training Milan and is an associated artist of NINA E.T.S..
Throughout life, we are traversed by a multitude of emotional states. Within each person lies a turmoil of emotions, memories, unspoken words, secrets, and vulnerabilities. Lorenzo De Simone digs deep into that inner space, bringing to the surface the fragilities hidden in our most intimate selves.
At the heart of Cieli d'inverno is the quietest season one person can experience: melancholy. Through movement and dance, the artist tells the story of a subtle pain that is never shouted, never erupts, but instead becomes a gentle sorrow of the soul.
Through workshops conducted with vulnerable individuals living in community settings, De Simone gathers gestures and memories from those who live, or have lived, with melancholy firsthand. Dance becomes the means through which the artist enters their hidden emotional archive and finds the courage to look within himself as well.
The stories of others intertwine with his own, revealing genuine and deeply personal memories: a love never received, an ancient void longing to be heard.
In Cieli d'inverno, a tapestry of delicate movements and fragments of life takes shape, carried onto the stage solely through the dancer’s body, free from embellishment and superfluous structures.