Invisible
- Discipline
- Ballet & Performance
- Client
- Andrea Salustri · La Biennale di Venezia
- Venue
- Biennale Danza 2026, Venice
- Role · Year
- Original music and sound design · 2026
The
commission
Original music and sound design for “Invisible”, Andrea Salustri’s choreography for the immaterial, co-produced by La Biennale di Venezia and premiered at Biennale Danza 2026.
Invisible won La Biennale di Venezia’s national call for a new choreography, chosen by Wayne McGregor from 695 applications, and was co-produced by the Biennale with PERPLX, DYNAMO and Fondazione Luzzati – Teatro della Tosse. It premiered on 21 July 2026 at the Tese dei Soppalchi, Arsenale, three years after MATERIA brought Salustri to the festival. The work began in 2023 with a first conceptual residency, where its technology and sound were explored together with its dramaturgy and science.
What if dance were a slit of light?
Invisible looks for dance beyond the human body. Light, water and air become the performers, and the piece works by subtraction, at the edge of what the senses can catch. Fifty-five minutes, without words, in near darkness. In the first 2023 residency, the music was conceived as a generative engine whose parameters followed air quality data from PlanetWatch sensors.
The
stage
Artistic direction and concept: Andrea Salustri. Creation and performance: Alice Rende, Andrea Salustri. Air sculpture: Developed with Daniel Wurtzel.
World premiere at Biennale Danza 2026.
“Fifty-five magnetic, very Biennale minutes in which nature bursts in with its fleeting compositions”
«Cinquantacinque minuti magnetici e molto biennaleschi nei quali la natura irrompe con le sue fugaci composizioni» — Manuela Pivato, My Fair Venice
Credits
- Artistic direction and concept
- Andrea Salustri
- Creation and performance
- Alice Rende, Andrea Salustri
- Sound design and original music
- Federico Coderoni
- Air sculpture
- Developed with Daniel Wurtzel
- Lighting design and technical direction
- Mattia Bonetti
- Video design
- Elia Guderzo
- Co-production
- La Biennale di Venezia, PERPLX, DYNAMO, Fondazione Luzzati – Teatro della Tosse
- Supported by
- Fonds Darstellende Künste, Chamäleon Berlin, Tanzfabrik Berlin
- Venue
- Tese dei Soppalchi, Arsenale, Venice
Creating a new piece for the stage?
