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 — sleep — 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 is a choreographer and performer. In 2024, he choreographed and performed in FUCK ME BLIND and Passages by Aïda Gabriëls/Oester, and worked as choreographer and dancer for the concert performance Bodybodybodybody by Dag Taeldeman and Andrew Van Ostade. He performed in KARRASEKARE by IgorxMoreno and co-created NeverStopScrollingBaby with VITAMINA. Between 2022 and 2023, he continued collaborating in various performances and choreographies with international artists. In 2020, he was a guest at BOZAR for the conference POSITIVE EXPRESSIONS: ART, HIV AND I and participated in the ATLAS VIRTUAL TALKSHOW IN DE BALIE. He worked as director, choreographer, and performer for the solo POZ! and danced in The Generosity of Dorcas by Jan Fabre, while also performing in CORPUS HOMINIS by Enzo Cosimi. He has had long-term collaborations with artists such as Jan Fabre and Enzo Cosimi. From 2016 to 2023, he participated in various workshops with masters such as Robert Wilson, Peter Brook, Theodoros Terzopoulos, and Steven Cohen, and studied contemporary dance with international experts.
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)
