The Angular Distance of a Celestial Body is a cross-disciplinary reflection on the cartographic process, understood as a reduced representation of the Earth’s surface and the events that traverse it. In this performance, the body replaces the graphic mark of the map, critically reclaiming the complexity of the world and the impossibility of reducing it to a single form. A modular geometric structure on the floor counterpoints the vertical tension of two symmetric and mirrored bodies, devoid of identity and gender. Their projection onto the horizontal plane alludes to the human desire for control and its impracticability. The fragmented costumes enveloping them evoke the chaos and discontinuity of contemporary experience, transforming the bodies into masks of a metaphorical carnival that questions established order. Sound, halfway between guide and consequence, structures the internal rhythms of movement and sketches a shifting horizon that connects the numerical and abstract dimension of cartography with an organic, archaic, and analog landscape, measuring the world without numbers. The work condenses ten years of Alessandro Carboni’s research, marking the transition from the unpredictability of the urban field to choreographic formalization. It is an imaginative narrative on the power of artistic gesture, capable of destabilizing categories and generating new perceptions of reality—a declaration of uncertainty that becomes possibility. The title references the definition of azimuth, the angle used to measure any point on the Earth’s sphere. From there, Carboni crosses the boundary of measurement to arrive at a language that dissolves numerical scale: the voice of a member of the Pirahã community in the Amazon, speaking a language without numbers, closes the circle, opening the work to limitless expansion.

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