bpm - bodies per minute

Co-created with Tommaso Petrolo

Performed by Sara Maurizi and Tommaso Petrolo

Live DJ set by Spazio Modu

“bpm – bodies per minute” is a choreographic action for two performers that crosses the boundary between stage and party, between performative gesture and social body.

Starting from a dynamic pattern inspired by choreographic stepping, bpm explores repetition as a form of grounding and resistance. Synchrony becomes a shared survival practice, a micro-politics of movement that asserts queer presence in public space.

In constant dialogue with the DJ and sound, bpm is carried by the energy of the music, transforming the space into a shared field of action.

Premiered 27-28-29 June 2025 in Perugia, Italy.

Produced by Dance Gallery – Umbria Danza Festival.

You Might Find You Somewhere - An Irrational Experiment #1

Created and performed by Sara Maurizi

Original soundscore Dudj Doubleday

What’s left in the body?

Which scattered molecules belong to me? And made me who I am now?

Where does memory live?

Inspired by the practice of Marina Abramović, particularly the triptych ‘Freeing the Voice’, ‘Freeing the Body’, and ‘Freeing the Memory’ (1975), and the essay The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk, this research arises from the desire to explore the physical, irrational, visceral, and untamed memory that inhabits us, and makes us who we are.
In an act of purification and expulsion of memories, words, movements, and images, attention is directed to what emerges, what comes out and leaves the body, and to what remains, like an indelible trace, an essence.

 This journey comes from the urge to reconcile and connect the scattered pieces of a life divided between two countries, two languages, two cultures, and the ongoing challenge of inhabiting a female body.

Premiered 24 July 2024 in Perugia, Italy.

Produced by Dance Gallery - Umbria Danza Festival.

(R)esistentia

VI.SA. Dance Project

Co-created with Virginia Poli

Performed by Sara Maurizi and Virginia Poli

Original soundscore Dudj Doubleday

(R)esistentia comes from the desire of the two performers to explore their cultural and historical roots. The two Italian London-based artists investigate the physical, political and historical act of resistance as a paradigm of what it means to exist as immigrants in the post-Brexit and pandemic scenario. The work navigates through a series of tableaux which explore their relationship as women, friends, sisters.

Created with the support of Arts Council England, Centre 151, Trinity Laban, London Performance Studios, Gai -Giovani Artisti Italiani, Dance Gallery - Umbria Danza Festival.

Premiered 30 July 2022 in Perugia, Italy.

Disposable

Dance film

Co-created with Josephine Auffray

Performed by Sara Maurizi and Josephine Auffray

"How can we, by using our bodies and physicality, address and subvert the stereotypes attached to the female body by our Western Society?
How can we, through movement, challenge the patriarchal heteronormative narrative on female pleasure and sexuality?"

The drive behind Disposable, rises from the desire of the two makers to subvert the heteronormative social constructs and stereotypes attached to female looking bodies.

In the work, the culinary metaphor of the process of deboning, stuffing and cooking a turkey is used to dramaturgically decline various aspects of this topic.

The collaboration between Joséphine Auffray and Sara Maurizi started in February 2020 in Berlin and was furtherly developed during a residency in August 2020. The original idea was to create a site-specific performance.

This film was developed in April 2021 during the Covid19 pandemic, when the two makers, residing in two different countries, decided to find a way to keep investigating these questions from distance.

Showed at Berlin Performing Arts Festival 2021.