Jacopo Miliani's Throwing Balls at Night at OGR Torino

At OGR Torino, Jacopo Miliani (Florence, 1979) premiered Throwing Balls at Night, a 30-minute performance blending voguing, ballet, and tennis. Inspired by the 1913 poème-dansé Jeux by Claude Debussy, Sergej Diaghilev, and Vaslav Nijinsky—a prophetic ballet that combined sport, censored sexual identities, and club culture—Miliani fuses Nijinsky's revolutionary choreography with 1980s New York voguing. Dancers move to MikeQ's ballroom sound on a catwalk, after an initial Debussy passage. The performance also pays homage to the Nitto ATP Finals (November 14–21 in Turin), the most important indoor men's tennis tournament. Miliani, known for interdisciplinary projects with Dario Argento, Jean-Louis Hutha, and Eva Robin's, transforms the space into a ballroom. The event is part of Turin Art Week.