Michael Incarbone and Max Gomard, artists of the same generation coming from different backgrounds, construct with We Are Who We Are a device of co-authorship in which identity, image, and representation become material for negotiation. Rather than asserting a fixed belonging, the work moves through an unstable zone where similarities and differences reflect, overlap, and continuously redefine one another. At the core of the research lie stereotypes, understood not as simple labels but as forms through which the social sphere produces, organizes, and returns images of both the individual and the collective. Between personal experiences, cultural imaginaries, and performative tension, We Are Who We Are thus crosses the boundary between authenticity and construction, between what we are and what we are called to show.
Michael Incarbone (born 1995) is a multidisciplinary artist, dancer, performer, and author. He trained in the Contemporary Dance Department of the National Academy of Dance in Rome. As a dancer, he has collaborated with Georgia Tegou and Michalis Theophanous (UK), the Virgilio Sieni Company, DNA Dance Company, and Giuseppe Muscarello. He is currently a performer with ALDES – Roberto Castello, Kinkaleri, Adriana Borriello Dance Research, Giselda Ranieri, and the artistic collective Polisonum.
He is an associate artist of PinDoc, a dance production organization with which he has created FALLEN ANGELS (co-produced by Teatri di Vetro and ALDES, selected for the 2024 Young Author Dance Showcase of the Anticorpi XL Network), FLLNGLS, where you can find me, disappearance (video project), meta-morphing, and About a Revolution. His video dance GO ASK ALICE won the Roma Danza Prize in 2020. His works have been presented at national and European festivals.
He is one of the artists selected for the Nouveau Grand Tour, a France/Italy residency project supported by the Italian Ministry of Culture (MiC) and the Italian Cultural Institute in Paris, as well as for IDRA Connect, an international platform by IDRA Teatro. He is the winner of the “Per chi Crea – SIAE” grant with his new production fin che ci trema il cuore, which premiered within the dance season “In Levare” at the Roma dance production center Orbita | Spellbound at Teatro Palladium in Rome.
Max Gomard began his dance training at the Conservatoire de Tours, following a classical path up to the D.E.C. He continued his studies with Cobosmika Seeds between 2015 and 2016, an experience that marked an important transition towards choreographic research and ensemble work. During this period, he also co-created a research group at the hospital of Palamós.
Between 2016 and 2018 he joined Coline in Istres, where he further developed his work as an interpreter and performer, engaging with various authorial languages. From this experience came his participation in the final creation XYZ où comment parvenir à ses fins, presented in 2019 with La Liseuse. In the same year he took part in Coup de grâce with Kelemenis & cie, beginning a collaboration that continues to this day.
Since 2019 he has worked with Kelemenis & cie in several productions, including Légende (2021), Magnifiques (2023), and Versus (2024), consolidating his presence in the contemporary choreographic scene. Alongside this, he has developed an open trajectory of writing and collaboration, as seen in Le désert avant la mer by Simon Bailly (2020), Bébé co-written with Yonsk (2023), and Hot (2024). In 2024, with Gush is Great, he received together with five other choreographers the Second Prize and the Youth Jury Prize at Danse Élargie #8.
Created and performed by Michael Incarbone and Max Gomard
Production PinDoc
Co-production ORBITA | Spellbound Centro Nazionale di Produzione della Danza e Associazione Culturale Il Triangolo Scaleno
With the support of the Italian Ministry of Culture (MiC) and the Sicilian Region
With the support of KLAP Maison pour la danse (FR)
