Marco D’Agostin: danzare contro la realtà

Rossella Menna and Anita Romanello published the piece "Marco D’Agostin: danzare contro la realtà" on 02/10/2026 at 03:00. The article opens by noting that for many years—perhaps even a few millennia—within the theatrical world that defends an idea of artistic practice capable of somehow impacting the surrounding reality, there has been debate over how that reality can actually be touched, challenged, or overturned. It asks what commitment means when discussing art. The text contrasts two approaches: plunging into current events and their most obvious distortions to extract numbers, data, and true stories and place them before viewers under an extraordinary magnifying glass, versus looking elsewhere—toward zones of life so brightly lit or so deeply shadowed that no direct capture can see into them as deeply as the languages of art, which by etymology carry a skill for constructing forms that can speak of mysterious things without stripping them of mystery. It further questions whether it makes sense to place art in the service of politics, as if f... (the source text is truncated at this point). The piece is framed around Marco D’Agostin and the theme of dancing against reality.