In the winter months, when the moon is full or nearly so, its light can sometimes be refracted by ice crystals in high clouds, creating a circular halo around the satellite with two symmetrical glows on either side: moon dogs. Atmospheric phenomena that popular tradition once read as omens of storms, but that were also signs of passage, visual thresholds into the invisible.

CANI LUNARI is a choreographic project that crosses these thresholds and dives into an imaginary rooted in the archaic feminine, in magical knowledge, in ecstatic bodies. A sensitive inquiry into the figure of the witch, the healer: not as a folkloric remnant or demonized stereotype, but as the emblem of a marginal and powerful wisdom, resisting the logic of utility and visibility.

Through a research process combining archival materials, oral testimonies, folkloric iconographies, and bodily practices, CANI LUNARI builds a performative rite in which the body dances trance, ecstasy, metamorphosis.

At the heart of the project lies a reflection on the hysterical body, a feminine site of crisis and enigma, historically tied to the figure of the witch and the state of possession. The nineteenth-century photographs of the Salpêtrière become symbolic material to embody: bodies out of control, traversed by the invisible, performing another kind of knowledge.

The soundscape, composed by Vera Di Lecce, weaves together electronics and natural sound, oral chants and magical formulas, in a score suspended between the earthly and the divine.

CANI LUNARI is a crossing, a white sabbath, a collective ritual to re-enchant the world.