In the organizer's words:

The Italian Cultural Institute Cologne presents - in collaboration with the Direzione Generale Spettacolo of the Italian Ministry of Culture - the dance project Satiri by the Virgilio Sieni Company. The performance will be shown on Wednesday, January 28 at 7 pm in the theater hall of the cultural institute.

Satiri is the new production by Compagnia Virgilio Sieni, in which Jari Boldrini and Maurizio Giunti dance to music by Johann Sebastian Bach played live on the cello by Naomi Berrill.

The space is traversed by razor-sharp dances with Dionysian and Apollonian sections full of empathy. The movements shown detach postures from the everyday to blur not only as moving forms, but as transcending bodies in near and distant ethereal mists.

Choreography and spatial design Virgilio Sieni

Interpretation Jari Boldrini, Maurizio Giunti

Cello Naomi Berrill

Music Johann Sebastian Bach, Naomi Berrill

Lighting Marco Cassini, Virgilio Sieni

Animal masks Chiara Occhini

A production of the Centro Nazionale di produzione della danza Virgilio Sieni in collaboration with AMAT & Civitanova Danza, Galleria Nazionale delle Marche

With the support of the MIC Ministero della Cultura, Regione Toscana, Comune di Firenze, Fondazione CR Firenze

The dancer and choreographer Virgilio Sieni is active in important international theater and music institutions, art foundations and museums. He has been involved with body language and dance since his art and architecture studies. He has been awarded the UBU Prize three times (2000, 2003, 2011) and the Lo Straniero Prize in 2011. In 2013, he was appointed Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et de Lettres by the French Minister of Culture. From 2013 to 2016, he was director of the Venice Dance Biennale, developing a four-year plan on the concept of inhabiting the world "between polis and democracy". His artistic research is based on the idea of the body as a place of multiplicity, developing the archaeological complexity of human gesture.