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SARA PEZZOLO
ASSOCIATED ARTIST
Born in Genoa in 1997, she completed a three-year Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design. She later earned a Master’s degree in Theatre and Performing Arts at IUAV University of Venice, where she worked with artists and choreographers such as Anagoor, Michele Di Stefano, Enzo Cosimi and Marco Martinelli, Teodora and Agata Castellucci, Chiara Bersani, Nicola Galli, and Daniele Ninnarello.
She has worked as a performer for Virgilio Sieni, as well as with the company El Conde de Torrefiel in La Plaza, touring with a debut at the Festival Contemporanea and Primavera dei Teatri Festival. She has also worked as a performer for Enzo Cosimi and for Collettivo Cinetico.
She took part in the FIND Festival with her own performance project Perturbated Artist. She currently attends the Susanna Beltrami Academy, where she has created and presented her choreographic projects Perturbated Artist, Trauma, and Minotauro. She participated in the MilanOltre Festival, choreographing a project for Miolteens entitled Antigone: Recitative for Solo Voice.
CANE NERO
PH SALVATORE LAZZARO
BY SARA PEZZOLO
WITH SARA PEZZOLO AND MAKSYM PETRASHCHUK
PRODUCTION DANCEHAUSpiù 2026
This creation was produced within the framework of #YoungDreamers, a project dedicated to the emerging creative scene under 30, conceived by DANCEHAUSpiù – National Dance Production Center.
Are we what we love, or is it love that makes us who we are?
How many times do we love? How many times do we live and die?
Black Dog draws on the myth of Penthesilea and Achilles, embracing that harmonious ambiguity between ancient and contemporary, where ferocity and serenity equally define the nature of the two characters—figures who have always been inherently ambiguous and double: a man and a woman, Adam and Eve, two prototypes of perfect yet imperfect human beings, raised in opposition to their own sex, drawn to one another yet driven by their history to fight and destroy each other. In fighting, coupling, and killing one another, they inevitably become part of our fragmented and unbalanced contemporary society.
Both the myth and the work speak intensely about the profound meaning of existence, the struggle for identity, the fragmentation of the human being, and the ongoing conflict with life and death, in search of a desperate solution: acceptance. An acceptance by male and female, reunited in a single dual nature that is not therefore impossible, unsettling yet not to be rejected.
This work seeks to humanize these two characters and explore their inner worlds, also addressing fear, metaphorically embodied in the concept of the black dog: the messenger of the underworld, a nocturnal creature, a monstrous ghost, a supernatural being, an animal associated in mythology with physical and psychological pain.
Penthesilea’s black dog is also Achilles’ black dog.
Penthesilea longs to live fully, refusing to remain passive before an existence that flows relentlessly not only in the face of pain but also of human passion. Yet her strength has always coexisted with fear: she acknowledges her terror; her “black dog” appears as something outside herself, yet at the same time it lives within her. Achilles is a man who weeps, who carries sorrow, intoxicated with death, devouring life, and experiencing fear: neither man nor woman, neither male nor female, yet all at once. Penthesilea and Achilles live for and within their language; they are both being together and not being at all.
IO SIAMO
PH SARA MELITI
BY SARA PEZZOLO
WITH SARA PEZZOLO E MAFALDA MARIA FONDI
PRODUCTION DANCEHAUSpiù / YoungDreamers 2025
Duration 20'
This creation was produced within the framework of #YoungDreamers, a project dedicated to the emerging creative scene under 30, conceived by DANCEHAUSpiù – National Dance Production Center.
This project is inspired by the literary work Minotaur by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, a reinterpretation of the famous Greek myth, used here to focus on the emotional and psychological dimension of the characters. It stages the duality of a body that becomes the container of two very different personalities: the Minotaur and Ariadne.
It is a journey of female self-analysis, exploring what it means to live with two souls that reflect two possible ways of being a woman. We witness a destroyed body, consumed by illness and no longer fully human, inhabited by a dark mind that survives only through memories—also because of Theseus, who represents the one who killed her most human part, abandoned her, and led her to feel diseased, through an obsessive relationship with her two souls.