Matteo Sedda, winner of DNAppunti Coreografici 2024, presents FUCK ME BLIND, a duet in which the performers are bound by a shared center of movement. Inspired by Blue, the final autobiographical film by Derek Jarman, FUCK ME BLIND explores the shared gravity between two bodies in motion. In the film, shot shortly before the director’s death due to AIDS-related complications, Jarman confronts his impending end by transforming it into an act of complete awareness and self-affirmation. International Klein Blue — Jarman’s symbolic color and the film’s sole visual image — becomes the starting point for physical and sensorial exploration of the body, spinning endlessly toward the infinite. Adopting the film’s non-narrative language, FUCK ME BLIND aims to create a hypnotic experience immersed in a visual landscape charged with emotional and symbolic intensity. The two dancers wrap around each other and transform through centrifugal force in a fluid dialogue between tension and release. Eros and Thanatos brush against one another, intertwine, and coexist as opposing yet inseparable forces held together in a fragile and mysterious balance. From this interplay emerges Hypnos drawing the audience into a liminal state, suspended between dream and reality. If, in Jarman’s work, blue becomes body, in FUCK ME BLIND, it is the body that becomes blue.
Matteo Sedda, choreographer, dancer, and activist of Sardinian origin, has collaborated and continues to work as a freelance for various artists, including Jan Fabre, Enzo Cosimi, Aïda Gabriëls, Igor x Moreno and Dag Taeldeman & Andrew Van Ostade. Since 2018, Sedda has been pursuing choreographic research, deeply marked by his experience with HIV. Exploring desire and vulnerability, he aims to create new representations of AIDS that renew the dialogue between historical memory and artistic remodelling. His work pays tribute to the artists lost to complications related to GRID (Gay-Related Immune Deficiency), establishing a contemporary dialogue with the past and making his infected body the starting point for a new choreographic writing. After his first solo, POZ!, in which his coming out as a person living with HIV became both a political and artistic manifesto, he is currently working on a new choreographic duo. Winner of the DNAppunti Coreografici 2024, the duo will premiere on October 19, 2025, at Romaeuropa Festival. As an activist he shares his personal experience to provide information and support regarding HIV. He collaborates with several organisations from Europe, including LILA, Sensoa, Ex Aequo, and Plateforme Prévention Sida.
idea and direction Matteo Sedda
coreography and performance Marco Labellarte, Matteo Sedda
suono Gio Megrelishvili
dramaturgy and lighting design Margherita Scalis
costumes Maarten Van Mulken
mentor Igor Urzelai Hernando Moreno Solinas
production Fuorimargine – Centro di Produzione di danza e arti performative (IT)co-production Théâtre de Vanves (FR)residencies S’ALA – spazio per artist* (IT),
With the help of Ad Lib – Residencies Belgium LIBITUM (BE), Destelheide (BE),Residency at Studio Thor, with the support of the company Thor / Thierry Smits (BE),Festival Pedra Dura (PT), Bora Bora (DK), BAMP (BE)thanks FESTIVAL + DE GENRES (FR), Aids, archives, and arts assemblies in Belgium (BE), oester (BE),LILA Cagliari (IT) and Benoit Van Aken
Matteo Sedda is accompanied by Grand Studio (BE) winning project of DNAppunticoreografici
promoted and supported in collaboration between Fondazione Romaeuropa (IT), Gender Bender Festival (IT),Triennale Milano Teatro (IT), Centro Nazionale di produzione della danza Virgilio Sieni (IT), Operaestate Festival/Centro per la scena contemporanea del Comune di Bassano del Grappa (IT), L’arboreto – Teatro Dimora di Mondaino (IT)
