In THE REVERSE OF SUBLIME, Chaim Gebber unveils a choreographic landscape suspended between silence and emergence. The piece opens in a state of hovering — breath, weight and presence stripped of ornament, where the world seems to fade and the body becomes the sole witness to what remembers, what rests, and what is ready to rise.

From this quiet ground, echoes and memories ripple through the dancers’ bodies. They sketch the textures of silence: its softness, its unrest, its pulse. The work seeks a sharpened state of awareness that carries both the resonances of the past and the movement of what is yet to come.

Guided by gravity and breath, the piece transforms stillness into clarity, and solitude into a shared determination. Within this transformation, THE REVERSE OF SUBLIME places the body at a crossroads of ethical and emotional tension, where questions of morality and duty surface through choice, restraint, and commitment, and where fear and resilience are negotiated through vulnerability, endurance, and collective resolve.

Concept / Choreography Chaim Gebber

Performance Roberta Pupotto, Valentina D’Angelo

Costumes Enesoe Chan / Chaim Gebber

Stage and light design Chaim Gebber

Production Chaim Gebber-Open Scene

photo Dance Photografilm