WORKS
BLUE-BACH
B L U E – B A C H unfolds at the meeting point of chamber music and contemporary dance as a meditation on duality.
Grounded in Bach’s Cello Suites, revoiced through baritone saxophone, the music holds a tension between structure and fluidity.
Two dancers inhabit the space as shifting shades of blue, revealing opposites as interdependent forces.
Contemporary interludes open new layers of listening, refracting the familiar and deepening the sense of contrast.
Sound and movement flow together like water, adapting, resisting, and transforming.
The piece invites the audience into a state of heightened perception, where serenity and unrest coexist in a single landscape.
LUX
LUX, an immersive dance concert created for choir, saxophone quartet, and dancers, set inside the construction site of the new Museum of Contemporary Art in Ingolstadt. Commissioned by Audi, the project invited audiences on a moving journey through the building, experiencing the space for the very first time as it opened its doors.
Guided by the quartet and the dancers, who acted as ciceroni of the evening, visitors encountered performances unfolding in different corners of the museum. The newly commissioned music, inspired by the theme of light, shaped a fluid path between sound, movement, and architecture.
The evening concluded with a concert by the winners of Audi’s international music competition, completing a unique encounter between creation, space, and discovery.
WHITE2.0
WHITE 2.0 brings a dancer and a saxophonist into a fragile creative space, where both search for their own voice in the presence of the other.
Their relationship unfolds as a live dialogue, moving between support and resistance, intimacy and distance, conflict and silence.
At times they lean on each other for stability, at times they push each other away.
Music and dance do not accompany one another, they challenge and redefine each other in real time.
The piece is a study of trust, boundaries, and collaboration under pressure.
At its core, it asks what we are willing to risk in order to listen, to change, and to create together.
RE-SET
A dance work about the artist who must begin again, every time, from zero. The performers step into an inner abyss where fear, doubt, and desire surface, and where vulnerability becomes material. Music and movement meet at the edge of the unknown, shaping a quiet, intense space in which creation can happen.
Created for the Accademia Nazionale di Danza, Rome (2025).
THE ROSE OF SHARON
In the icy grip of death's embrace, I surrender my weary soul. As winter's cold breath draws near like whispered goodbyes the chill envelops me, numbing my senses and stilling my beating heart. I release my grasp on life's fragile thread, letting go with a quiet acceptance. As the darkness claims me, I find solace in the peace that awaits beyond this mortal realm.
My petals fade, but my spirit endures. A symbol of resilience, it awaits the warmth of spring, knowing that beauty will bloom once again.
A creation for the production SPARKS for the ensemble of the Staatsthetaer am Gärterplatz in München.
K.I.nd of human
This performance is about human fragility under the omnipresent cloud of artificial intelligence.
It is amazing what great (progress?) steps we are making. Perhaps we are already no longer even able to control what we have created.
But where is the uniqueness that determines the essence and destiny of being human? My innocent decisions out of a romantic whim, my wrong decision after a hard day. Where is my smile just because the sun is shining? Where the tears for someone who has nothing to do with my life?
We are unique. We are human.
A production of Arcis Collective by
Roberta Pisu and Arcis Saxophon Quartett
Original composition by Leonard Kuhn
2XGETANZT
A NEW DANCE/CONCERT FORMAT:
Two choreographers work independently with two dancers to create a 20-minute choreography.
"Rules of the game":
1. You only have 5 days to create.
2. The music is the same for both choreographies.
3. The music will only be delivered 5 days before the start of the rehearsal.
4. The musicians are part of the scene.
5. Props and costumes only what you can find.
A production of Arcis Collective by
Roberta Pisu and Arcis Saxophon Quartett
WHAT I DIDN´T SAY...YET
The eternal dialogue with myself, pages upon pages full of words written with invisible ink.
Screamed into the wind to let them go to distant places, which are hard to reach for me.
A creation for the production SPARKS for the ensemble of the Staatsthetaer am Gärterplatz in München.
DAVE
A short movie in tribute to the famose jazz composer Dave Brubeck, his "Points of Jazz" arranged from Arcis Saxophon Quartett.
The history of Points on Jazz began on a cold day in March, 1958. Travelling through Poland between the cities of Llodz and Poznan, I jotted down a romantic, melancholy theme that seemed to express the feeling of those who sat with Mr. Brubeck on the train, staring out at the barren winter landscape.
Inspired by this real story a surreal story fo 2 man that leave inside of bubble, for them, those train windows that inspired Brubeck were the perpetual windows through which they lived their lives.
A production of Arcis Collective by
Roberta Pisu and Arcis Saxophon Quartett
KNITTING GIRL
Knitting girl it´s a solo installation.
A fantasy story about a girl born 700 hundred years ago, we don’t know exactly when. She’s a fragile creature that is stuck in a loop. Knitting it’s the most easy way for her to hide her self from the rest of the world.
Knitting is therapeutic, is meditation it is a mantra.
Like the most beautiful of the butterfly she reversing the course of nature knitting her self back into cocoon and then destroying the same cocoon in a loop, a life loop that we are not able to witness because we would need to watch her for years.
A production of Arcis Collective by
Roberta Pisu and Arcis Saxophon Quartett
GEBISSEN
Inspired by an anthropological research of a traditional festival in Italy (the taranta festival) in which the whole village opens their doors for the community, and they all dance on the streets without break for 48 hours. The myth is that in a ritual, people were intentionally bit by a poisonous tarantula, and for this reason the sacrificed one danced relentlessly to free himself from the poison and negativity that had been inflicted on him.
Going deeper into the origins of it.
A creation for the production SPARKS for the ensemble of the Staatsthetaer am Gärterplatz in München.
HEIMAT
Going from one city to another is a privilege.
Discovering new cultures and meeting different people every day allows us to open our minds to new perspectives.
Enriching our soul with the stories of others makes us understand, regardless of our native country, that we are all constantly looking for our identity.
Who are we now? What have we become after all?
I think it is much more than the story of a simple and nostalgic memory of where we started our journey.
A production of Arcis Collective by
Roberta Pisu and Arcis Saxophon Quartett
Original composition by Wilfried Hiller
KHOROVOD
Khorovod is the beginning of a bigger project.
The idea behind was to tell a story of a human being as there are many: the story of a man who has reached a stagnation point, a total emotional block that chokes him
<<Federico Fellini >>.
Created for and with the precious contribution of the dancer the result is a grotesque uncontrollable character, with an insatiable need to move.
A production in Collaboration with Lago film festival (Italy)
MOMO
Based on a novel by Michael Ende.
A magical story about time-thieves and a little girl who brought time back to people.
With the help of bicentennial Master Hora, the guardian of time and a magic turtle called Kassiopeia, Momo, a little girl coming from nowhere, is the only one able to bring back time to people, which was stolen from them by the Grey Men.
World premier Opera created for the
Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in München
FRIDA KAHLO
Inspired by the work of one of the most charismatic women in history: the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo.
Together we traveled through her exceptional work and who she was as a woman.
A woman lost and prisoner of love, perhaps addicted to it , as maybe she was of her famous life partner
Diego Rivera.
A dance theater piece created for and with the artists of the youth department of the Staatsthetaer am Gärtnerplatztheater in München.
JE SUIS FAUST
From the masterpiece of the German poet Johann Wolfgang Goethe, written in 1808, where he tells the agreement between Faust and Mephistopheles and their journey to discover the pleasures and the beauty of the world.
JE SUIS FAUST is a modern and fresh vision, where everyone can see himself as the figure of Doctor Faust in the middle of the timeless fight between good and evil.
A dance theater piece created for and with the artists of the youth department of the Staatsthetaer am Gärtnerplatztheater in München.
MINUTE MADE
FREUD KOPF is a journey into the brilliant mind of Dr. Sigmund Freud. The voice of his wife always present and the memories of his patients going in and out makes the journey a constant change of images.
A journey into past and present memories. A feeling similar to that of a first awakening after a night full of dreams.
One week, 20 dancers, one room... these are the rules for the new format created by the artistic director of the Gärtnerplatztheater Karl Alfred Schreiner.
A creation for the production MINUTE-MADE
for the ensemble of the
Staatsthetaer am Gärterplatz in München.
DE AMORE
Based on Plato's philosophical dialogue "Das Gastmahl" the youth department of the Gärtnerplatzthetaer wrote this new work.
A piece of dance theater focused on love and in the search of it.
Does the idea that out there in the world exist the perfect half of us make us live with hope or with an incessant unsatisfaction?
A dance theater piece created for and with the artists of the youth department of the Staatsthetaer am Gärtnerplatztheater in München.
FLESH DANCE
This solo was born from the choreographer's desire to give voice to those who were forced to live the life and desires of others.
However, sometimes we should take ourselves less serious and learn to smile more often even when we are living the worst dream you can imagine.
The story of a young vegetarian butcher.
SIE
This piece tells one of the many stories that many have lived and told.
"Coming out" is an act, an awareness, it is the freedom to express love that is independent of one's sexual orientation. Despite the freedom in our society, the world is still full of prejudices and taboos.
What are the consequences of this double moral?
A solo work for the Staatstheater am Gärtenerplatz in collaboration with Gasteig München.