Rollers

Rollers is an ongoing performance collaboration between Jacopo Benassi and Sissi, reappearing over time in different locations. Three performances have taken place so far: Sarzana 2018, Bunker – Torino 2019, Palazzo Ducale – Genova 2025.
“Rollers is a collaborative work where two different ways of investigating the human body intersect. Where the body crosses the space with beats, noise and lightning. Sissi designs the space of a club in a hypnotic dance illuminated only by Jacopo Benassi’s direct flashes. The wheels of her skates mark the rhythm of the action. Rollers is a beating heart, it is the mechanics of a “machine” that thunders its own noise, which seeks with a shot of dry light, an image far from the contemporary obsession for perfection. The audience, all aliens, involved in a metropolitan tribaldance,spectators of a modern hunting scene, where the hunter chases his provocative prey, which seeks it, and escapes it. And he freezes her, in an unpredictable pose stolen in the dark.” Text by Antonio Grulli