
ICARUS
And when the human body is gone, who will dance then?
Perhaps only an echo remains: a gesture, a vibration, a memory still pulsing — suspended between what we were and what is yet to come.
Inspired by the myth of Icarus, this research unfolds as a collective artistic exchange between choreographer Matteo Carvone, visual and sound artist Camilla Metelka, and dancer Cristian Cucco. It explores a drive to exceed limits, abandon the body, and reach toward a dangerous illusion of transcendence.
Within this process, sound, choreography and light intertwine, forming a space of extreme tension where aspiration, excess, and self-consumption continuously take shape and transform. At its core lies the crossing of a threshold—a moment of risk and exposure that may also hold a fragile possibility of hope.
Direction and Choreography: Matteo Carvone
Music Composition: Camilla Metelka
Performance: Cristian Cucco
Dramaturgical Advice: Francesco Cocco
Technical Advice (light): Johannes Lübke
Sponsors:
This work was produced with the financial assistance of the European Union, Der Bayerische Landesverband für zeitgenössischen Tanz (BLZT) and Goethe Institut.
Developed through an artistic Residency at ORBITA Spellbound - Centro Nazionale di Produzione della Danza in Rome, Italy
Special thanks to Tanztendenz & Schwere Reiter München.
The views expressed herein can in no way be taken to reflect the official opinion of the European Union.




Picture: © NASA - Solar Dynamic Observatory - Coloring Matteo Carvone