Ragunasi

Ragunasi is an improvised solo that explores how dancing and remembering keep shaping one another.

The title comes from an old Italian expression — si raguna, “it gathers” — a phrase Ariosto uses in Orlando Furioso to describe the moon as the place where everything lost on Earth is collected. I think of the dance in this piece as performing a similar act: gathering memories, images, and experiences that surface through the body. Ragunasi unfolds like a walk through shifting corridors of recollection, where personal memories weave together with borrowed and imagined ones while sensations appear without needing to be defined. I let the dance become a form of listening — to what returns, what transforms, and what re-arrives with a familiarity that still changes each time. Throughout the work, I circle questions such as: What kind of dance becomes available through remembering? and What kind of memory is awakened through the dance? The choreography follows a three-part structure. First, I move between the two sides of the audience, letting an initial improvisation take shape. Then I return to the beginning and attempt to revisit what has just happened — retracing and translating the movement while speaking as a way of sharing what I see and sense. The third passage opens into new articulations, loops, intensities, and emotional releases, allowing the material to reconfigure itself.