EVERYBODY HAS A FATE
EVERYBODY HAS A FATE
by: Riccardo De Simone
with: Riccardo De Simone and Laura Chieffo
production: Cinqueminuti APS
Residency support: Mousikè, Did Studio
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Riccardo De Simone
Riccardo De Simone and Laura Chieffo
Cinqueminuti A.P.S.
Andrea Gianessi
Nicola Mancini
Selected at Vetrina della giovane danza d’autore from Network Anticorpi XL 2025
Winner of DNAppunti coreografici 2025:
promoted and supported by: Centro Nazionale di produzione della danza Virgilio Sieni, Operaestate Festival/CSC Centro per la scena contemporanea del Comune di Bassano del Grappa, L’arboreto – Teatro Dimora di Mondaino, Fondazione Romaeuropa, Gender Bender Festival, Triennale Milano Teatro.
Ulteriori supporti alle residenze: DiD Studio – Bando NAOpf25, Mousikè







In an era where time seems to slip through our fingers, two dancers find themselves suspended in an exiling dimension. The platforms they move on are slide boards—tools that cause their bodies to sway, simulating speed skating: at times they seem to advance, to chase one another, but without ever quite succeeding.
Every glide, every movement is a direction without destination, an endless oscillation. The awareness that the present is the only place where we can truly exist is the most elusive illusion: a constructed time that may be nothing more than a hazy fade between a footprint of the past and a propulsive future.
Electro-pop sounds dominate the scene, with rapid, pressing beats interwoven in a DJ set, marking the rhythm of the performance like a relentless pulse.
Sound merges with movement, emphasizing a hypnotic metronome that underlines a cyclical score—just like the continuous motion back and forth on the slide boards.
In this eternal movement, the two performers find themselves at the heart of a time that is never the same—a resistance to an uncertain future that slips away from us.
"Everybody Has a Fate" invites us to reflect on the nature of time, the meaning of the present, and the hope for a future that—though uncertain—demands to be reached.
Riccardo is a multidisciplinary dancer and artist. His practice mainly integrates performance and visual arts, producing evocative images that explore the relationship between the human body and the body as object.