NOTES FOR A SHARED VISION/DIRECTION

During its many years of activity, BTT – Balletto Teatro di Torino has successfully toured the world, bringing its passion with it, and boldly bringing together in its creative process seemingly distant entities, messengers of a mixture from which the company’s topicality draws takes vigour.

A chain of relationships, breaths, and dedications: BTT’s project activity is dense, compact, tending in unexpected directions. It welcomes the future, between human and social experiences, tirelessly practising the time of reciprocity and curiosity.

A constant training of the gaze towards the world, attentive to details and to the frame, which is wary of impositions and feeds on awakenings.

Many biographies for one collective story with the awareness of working alongside people who share fervour, vitality, and always renewed momentum.

An interweaving of natives and outsiders capable of stirring our waters, creating a community that flows, shapes, and constantly changes shape without ever losing sight of the context in which it operates.

We dance towards others, creating a rhythm where intimacy and distance alternate to generate vast landscapes, not a space of passage, but a common home where it’s possible to experiment and nurture thought, the way we perceive others and ourselves, and where the research with the artists who encounter our projects is not a search for consensus, but at a constant tension towards the risk connected to the unknown.

An inclination towards well-being and care.

The company’s indispensable production aspect is completed by embracing the distribution aspect of circulation, thus multiplying possibilities and places to build communities and to experiment.

BTT is a space for us, a space for those who surround us: a pulsating heart, creating new geographies, new bonds.

Expanding, towards new perspectives.

Attentively listening – always – in the world.

Putting into Play: Where the Body Invents Freedom

The theme chosen for the three-year period finds in the concept of play a fertile ground for exploring new languages, practices, and relationships. The word gioco opens itself to a double interpretation: on the one hand play, evoking lightness, spontaneity, and the pleasure of making music; on the other, putting oneself into play, suggesting exposure, risk, and challenge. This dual meaning becomes a bridge for investigating the boundaries between creative freedom and structured discipline.

From this perspective, play is not simply a pastime or an escape from reality, but an ethical and philosophical exercise engaging body, mind, and spirit. Like every game, this too has its rules: shared codes that define a space of possibilities, where freedom takes shape precisely through discipline. It is within this space—between the tension of respecting rules and the exploration of their transgressions—that the driving force of a tireless and vital artistic research comes to life.

Play, therefore, is never superficial. It is an act of relation, nourished by group dynamics and by the ability to construct a shared dialogue. At its core, our research is a true team effort: the body of the individual intertwines with those of others, giving rise to a collective fabric in which depth reveals itself through the capacity to play together. Within this shared dimension, lightness is never trivial, but emerges as a conscious act: a balance between the intentionality of gesture and openness to the unexpected.

From a philosophical standpoint, play takes shape as an exercise of freedom in respect of the other.

It is an ethical experience in which every performer, every author, is invited to test themselves not only as an artist but as a human being, carrying along their own biography, their baggage of experiences, emotions, and discoveries. Within this act of putting oneself into play lies a profound responsibility: to embrace uncertainty and transform it into a meaningful gesture.

Finally, play is also the creation of spaces of imagination. As in music, play evokes the act of performing, of bringing something new to life. Study and experimentation, through play, become a real-time composition, an art that continuously rewrites itself and invites the audience not only to observe but to participate, to become an integral part of that play.

A dynamic balance between lightness and depth, discipline and freedom, rules and improvisation. A meeting ground between ethics and aesthetics, translating into an invitation to reflect on what it truly means to play—not only with the body but with the infinite possibilities offered by the languages of the contemporary.

Viola Scaglione, Artistic Director BTT