Title: Department of Dance Studies Dance Tour 2021: When Love Fails

Date: Friday 4 June 2021

Time: 20:00

Venue: Premiering on YouTube (as per below)

Where do your eyes look when encountering a homeless person? What moves inside you?

When Love Fails emerges from the choreographer’s intimate feeling of despair when seeing people sleeping rough, wanting to help and not knowing how. The piece is a provocation to look into the image of the homeless person and question how we relate to it, who should take responsibility for that human suffering, who is failing to love them? The theatrical event creates a moment for the gaze to rest with no shame on a fictional image of the homeless. The piece invites us to feel first, then question.

Choreographer: Paula Guzzanti & The Dancers

Dancers: 

• Maria Agius Muscat
• Matthew Cilia
• Katherine Green
• Valentina Vidal

Composer: Martin Della Vecchia

Costume Design: Romina Mansilla

Set Design: Daniela Guzzanti 

Light Design: Paula Guzzanti

Technical direction: Matthew Gellel, Neil Zerafa

Videography: Sam Chetcuti

Academic coordinators: Sara Accettura, Paula Guzzanti, Lucía Piquero

Special thanks to Mark Horvath from ‘Invisible People’ for his permission to use an interview with Sean from Invisible People TV YouTube Channel, and to Clive Ferrante, Stefan Sacco, Stefan Aquilina.