Between 2017 and 2018 Laura created and performed Two steps back by Tanz Company Gervasi, premiered at HALLE G Tanzquartier Vienna.
Ten young dancers quietly follow the trail of flamenco in Elio Gervasi’s group choreography, searching for a balance between the individual and the collective. In a frenzy, passion unites with self-determination, political posturing with street dance. The starting point of two steps back are spontaneous messages of the performers that are painted like graffiti on the stage walls. To live music oscillating between guitar solos and abstract drones, the group explores its own collectivity and looks for the personal freedoms of the individual. In the course of the piece various alliances and overlaps are emerging between the bodies and spatial dimensions which do not (want to) allow a way out of the collective but at the same time offer ever new in-between spaces.
Artistic direction and choreography: Elio Gervasi
Dancers: Nathalie Baert, Laura Beschi, Arnaud Blondel, Laurent Delom de Mezerac, Evgeniya Glazunova, Alexandra Pholien, Hannah Timbrell, Riccardo de Simone, Sherise Strang und Lia Ujcic
Choreography assistent: Alberto Franceschini Scenography: Valter Esposito / Light design: Markus Schwarz / Composition and live music: Michael Bruckner und Albert Castello / Dramaturgy: Karl Baratta / Management: Franziska Zaida Schrammel / Production: Tanz Company Gervasi / Coproduction: Tanzquartier Wien.