As part of the program for L’Aquila 2026, Italian Capital of Culture, the e-Motion Group presents TEXTURE – Body in Weave, a participatory dance project that creates a dialogue between bodily movement and the gestures of traditional Abruzzese weaving, intertwining intangible heritage, artisanal practices, and contemporary forms of expression.

The project is based on a specific cultural premise: dance and weaving share the same fundamental dimensions—ecological, communal, rhythmic, symbolic, and narrative. In Abruzzo, weaving is historically linked to pastoral life and transhumance: processing wool, spinning it, and weaving it were not merely productive necessities, but daily acts imbued with symbolic and social meaning. TEXTURE revives this memory through the dancing body, which absorbs its rhythms and reinterprets them as movement.

The workshops—led by the dancers of the e-Motion Group in collaboration with local craftswomen and weavers —are divided into four phases: an introduction to artisanal knowledge and weaving materials; physical interpretation of the gestures (weaving, stretching, repeating); improvisation as a space for freedom and reappropriation of the body; and a final public presentation open to the community, in which bodies, threads, and fabrics interact in space through a participatory performance.

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