Help Bring My Contemporary Dance Creation to Fagagna Festival

Help Bring Anxious Dream to Fagagna Festival

On September 26, 2026, my contemporary dance work, Anxious Dream, will premiere at Fagagna Festival in Fagagna (Udine, Italy).

This campaign will help cover the costs of bringing the work from the rehearsal studio to the stage.

Independent dance is built on countless hours of research, creation, and dedication. Your support will help make this performance possible and allow this project to reach its audience.

About Anxious Dream

What happens when the mind refuses to rest?

Anxious Dream is a contemporary dance solo that gives physical form to the darkness of the mind.

The choreography transforms fear into movement, creating a landscape where distorted visions, twisted bodies, and electric tension blur the boundaries between reality and nightmare.

Rather than telling a linear story, the performance invites the audience into an unsettling dreamscape—a place where the body becomes the language of anxiety, vulnerability, and transformation.

Every gesture emerges from the physical experience of inner unrest, allowing invisible emotions to become visible through movement.

The piece asks a simple yet universal question: What does fear look like when the body can no longer hide it?

Why this project matters

Anxiety is something many people experience, yet it often remains invisible.

With Anxious Dream, I want to explore this invisible landscape through dance—not to explain it, but to embody it.

Contemporary dance has the ability to communicate what words often cannot. It creates space for emotions that are difficult to describe, inviting audiences to recognize fragments of themselves within the performance.

Presenting this work at Fagagna Festival represents an important opportunity to share this research with a wider audience and continue developing the piece beyond its premiere, that got place on the 05/07/2025, in The Hague, with the amazing collaboration of "De Dutch Don't Dance Division" during the "End of Season" program, the dance company is under the direction of Thom Stuart, that helped me and gave me the possibility to experiment and create my contemporary piece.

Why I'm fundraising

Although the choreography is nearly complete, presenting independent dance work involves many practical expenses.

My goal is to raise €1,500 to help cover:

• Studio and rehearsal costs

• Travel to Fagagna

• Accommodation during the festival

• Costume and production materials

• Professional photo and video documentation

• General production expenses

Every contribution, no matter the amount, helps transform months of artistic research into a live performance.

Get exclusive rewards

By supporting Anxious Dream, you're not simply purchasing a reward.

You're becoming part of the creative process that brings a contemporary dance work into existence.

Depending on your level of support, you'll receive exclusive behind-the-scenes material, rehearsal updates, acknowledgements, invitations to open rehearsals, conversations about the creative process, and an exclusive contemporary dance workshop.

These rewards are designed to share not only the final performance but also the journey behind it.

Who I am

My name is Edoardo Chirico, I'm 19 years old and I am a contemporary dance artist passionate about exploring the relationship between movement and emotional experience.

My work investigates how the body can communicate what often remains unspoken. Through physical research and experimentation, I create performances that invite audiences into intimate emotional landscapes.

Anxious Dream is part of this ongoing artistic research and marks an important step in my creative journey.

What will the funds be used for?

Funding Goal: €1,500

The budget will contribute to:

• 35% Travel

• 35% Accommodation

• 15% Costumes and production materials

• 10% Photo & video documentation

• 5% Platform fees and unforeseen expenses

Timeline

• July – August 2026

Final rehearsals and artistic development.

• September 2026

Technical rehearsals and production preparation.

• September 26, 2026

Premiere of Anxious Dream at Fagagna Festival.

• October 2026

Delivery of rewards, behind-the-scenes content, acknowledgements, and supporter events.

Thank you

Art exists because people choose to believe in it.

Every donation, every share, and every word of encouragement helps independent artists continue creating work that speaks to our shared human experience.

Thank you for supporting Anxious Dream and helping bring this work to the stage.

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