ABOCCAPERTA

If Aboccaperta means being left speechless with wonder, then it also means allowing yourself to be welcomed and surprised, catching a glimpse of wonder in everyday life that can lead to a profound insight. Aboccaperta is not a gathering, nor is it a workshop; it is a space, a moment, a practice in which to look at yourself through another person, to discover for the first time someone you may have thought was distant, remote or different. It is finding yourself alongside someone you do not know, and letting your thoughts speak – or saying nothing at all. It is trusting your body, your sensations, the other person, beauty and art, and seeing where they take you. It is rediscovering your own sense of wonder and your own boundaries – deciding whether to cross them hand in hand or to honour them. It is asking, together, how what happens on stage affects us. Aboccaperta is the freedom to choose how to be and how to look, without the pressure to succeed.