©️ VIBE STALPAERT
With FUCK ME BLIND, Matteo Sedda proposes a superb choreographic device which, inspired by Derek Jarman’s film Blue, puts dance and bodies to the test to reveal a desire for life, a movement that seeks to ward off death. Presented in an avant-premiere at KLAP in Marseille on March 18, the piece unfolds as an intense and moving performance. Rodolphe Perez - DIACRITIK
Inspired by Blue, Derek Jarman’s last autobiographical film, FUCK ME BLIND is a duo in which the performers share the same pivot point.
In the movie, that was shot shortly before his death from complications from AIDS, the director takes on his imminent end as an active vindication of his entire existence.
The International Klein Blue, dear to the film’s director and the only image in the film, becomes the input to begin a tangible research of the body in continuous rotation towards infinity.
Using the same non-narrative tools of the film, FUCK ME BLIND aims to create a hypnotic experience by intertwining bodies against the backdrop of a homoerotic landscape.
With centrifugal force, the dancers wind and shape each other, while Eros and Thanatos penetrate one another and coexist as centripetal forces in a fatal and irreducible balance.
From this exchange of opposing forces, an undisturbed Hypnos emerges, drawing the spectator into a liminal state, suspended between dream and reality.
The two dancing bodies use aesthetic codes that reveal a new homo-folk dance, enacting the same claim to existence as the director.
In Jarman’s film, blue becomes the body, in FUCK ME BLIND the dancing body becomes blue.
Premiere:
19/10/2025 - Romaeuropa Festival, Dancing Days - Mattatoio, Rome (IT)
Credits:
Concept & Direction: Matteo Sedda
Choreography & Performance: Marco Labellarte, Matteo Sedda
Sound: Gio Megrelishvili
Dramaturgy & Light Design: Margherita Scalise
Design & Costume: Maarten Van Mulken
Mentors: Igor Urzelai Hernando, Moreno Solinas
Production: Fuorimargine
Centro di Produzione di danza e arti performative (IT)
Coproduction
Théâtre de Vanves (FR)
Residencies
S’ALA – spazio per artist* (IT)
With the help of Ad Lib - Belgium Residency LIBITUM (BE)
Residency LIBITUM (BE)
Destelheide (BE)
Studio Thor, with the support of the Company Thor / Thierry Smits (BE)
Festival Pedra Dura (PT)
Bora Bora (DK)
BAMP (BE)
Thanks to
FESTIVAL + DE GENRES (FR)
Aids, archives, and arts assemblies in Belgium (BE)
oester (BE)
LILA Cagliari (IT)
Benoit Van Aken
Matteo Sedda is supported 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)
Centro Nazionale di Produzione della Danza Virgilio Sieni (IT)
Operaestate Festival / Centro per la scena contemporanea del Comune di Bassano del Grappa (IT)
Tour:
18/03/2025 - FESTIVAL + DE GENRES - KLAP Maison pour la danse, Marseille (FR) Avant- première
26/03/2025 - Soirée Rhizome, Festival Ardanthé - Centre Wallonie Bruxelles, Paris (FR) Avant - première
23,24/05/2025 - Festival Cumplicidades - Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon (PT) Work in progress
28/05/2025 - Contemporanea Festival - Teatro Fabbricone, Prato (IT) - Work in progress
26/07/2025 - Festival Bolzano Danza, Extradanza - Prati del Talvera, Bolzano (IT) - Work in progress
19/10/2025 - Romaeuropa Festival, Dancing Days - Mattatoio, Rome (IT) - Premiere
31/10, 01/09/2025 - Gender Bender Festival - DAS - dispositivo arti sperimentali, Bologne (IT)
20/12/2025 - CANGO CANTIERI GOLDONETTA, Florence (IT)
24/01/2026 - Festival Trente Trente - Halle des Chartrons, Bordeaux (FR)
10 - 14/03/2026 - la Balsamine co-programmation with Charleroi danse, Bruxelles (BE)
Spring 2026 - Triennale Milano Teatro, Milan (IT)
Press:
The jury of DNAppunti Coreografici 2024 has chosen to support Matteo Sedda with FUCK ME BLIND. Sensuality, joy, and fatigue. A look at tradition projected into a complex choreographic structure, in continuous evolution. A departure, both obscure and mystical, at the same time. A sound that moves the air and a look at union, telling a story, its birth and its development.
FUCK ME BLIND is imminence and a stolen instant. What is extraordinary: its ability to amplify the power of the detail that is usually unnoticed.
Nicolas Thevenot - Un Fauteuil Pour l’Orchestre
Sedda creates with Marco Labellarte a duo intensely powerful, a composition at the
intersection of two bodies that follow one another, intertwine, whispering, painful and erotic, thus seductive but suddenly distant, as in battle.”
Paolo Ruffini - Liminateatri