Myriam Gourfink's 'Almasty' at Crisalide Festival in Forlì

At the Crisalide Festival in Forlì, French choreographer Myriam Gourfink presented 'Almasty', a performance that challenges Euclidean space and Newtonian physics through a technique rooted in but diverging from yoga. The work, performed by Deborah Lary, transforms the body into a mechanical system of levers, axes, and rotations driven by breath as physical and mathematical energy rather than meditative focus. Live music by Kasper Toeplitz accompanies the piece, which unfolds in a slow, syncopated rhythm, evoking an aesthetic of the grotesque reminiscent of Marc Quinn's sculptures. The performance is staged on a black square against a black background, with music and dance subject to the same visual laws. Artistic director Lorenzo Bazzocchi described the choreography as a 'micrometric path on movement' that seeks to break habitual visual and behavioral norms. The festival, held at Teatro Félix Guttari, aims to reconstruct a normative horizon for non-Euclidean, heretical research.