With her first novel published in 1929, Alexis or the Treaty of the Vain Struggle, French writer Marguerite Yourcenar brought to life a long letter in which the protagonist, a musician by profession, attempts to declare his homosexuality to his wife.

Through the French writer’s text, Aristide Rontini initiated choreographic research that investigates and gives body to the complex physical and emotional dynamics that can come into play in the sometimes painful process of coming out.

Alexis’s saying and not saying reverberate in the grounded and at the same time aerial physicality of Cristian Cucco, performer interpreter of this proposal that, starting from a literary case, shows how in the urgency of a statement written in the first person one can recognize, instead, collective and shared urgencies that concern, in a fully transversal way, the condition and status of being human.