HOW TO _ just another Boléro is a short duet on the renowned one-movement orchestral piece “Boléro” by the French composer Maurice Ravel. This famous straightforward composition inspired the two authors and performers to create an ever-changing-bodies-landscape within the limited and confined space of a carpet. Here, 18 ephemeral images merge into each other in a suspended tempo as if detached by the surrounding reality. The two performers, as animals in captivity, are forcibly squeezed into a tight but familiar space, where they seem to have lost the notions and memories of their nature, role and behaviour for coexistence. As domesticated animals in a zoo-cage and depending on one another, they are observed and gazed from the outside.

HOW TO _ just another Boléro aims to become a portrait of different attempts at re-learning how to behave, touch, cooperate, help, love... constantly shifting between dramatic and ironic tones.

EM+ is an independent choreographic project co-founded by Emanuele Rosa and Maria Focaraccio, contemporary dance artists whose collaboration began in 2020, following years of intersecting artistic paths since 2008. Rooted in both classical and contemporary training, their work blends a shared movement language with a strong commitment to interdisciplinary collaboration across the European dance scene.

Their practice explores identity, relationships, and cultural constructs through rigorous movement research and a distinctive performative syntax. Works including HOW TO _ just another Boléro (2021), all you need is (2022), and amən (2024) have been presented internationally, receiving awards and recognition. EM+ creates work that challenges binaries, celebrates human complexity, and is supported by a range of European partners and networks.