Itself. - dance reviews

Dance Magazine, April, 1998 by Maria Elisa Buccella

Itself, Massimo Moricone's latest production, marks the felicitous return to the Roman scene of this interesting choreographer, who won great acclaim in the 1980s with his characteristic neoclassical style. Lately, however, Moricone has begun to structure his work in a rigorously geometrical style.

He has abandoned his neoclassicism to engage in a search for composite forms alternating hardness and softness, which create rarefied, hallucinatory atmospheres. Itself featured remarkable performances by six female dancers, who acted in turn as women, robots, felines, angels, and demons (Sala 1, November 22-24, 1997).