Asteroid - Marco D'Agostin

Geology, romance and Broadway glamour

Marco D'Agostin takes the stage as a mysterious paleontologist who has come to tell the story of the dinosaurs' sudden extinction. With his characteristic humour, he gradually transforms an academic lecture into sentimental reflections - words and voice increasingly resemble song - and in a tangible battle with Broadway, he brings to life a duet that pairs science and love, entertainment and information, life and death, dance and theatre.

Geology and romance share one thing: both want to tell the story of how things endure. When the hypothesis that an asteroid wiped out all dinosaurs in an instant was launched in the 1980s, the scientific community was shocked - no one could accept a narrative so fascinating yet so implausible. Just like someone who suddenly finds themselves without a lover: it is hard to accept that life can change direction so abruptly and so cruelly.

Between betrayal, dinosaur bones and caves filled with iridium, Asteroid portrays life's - and thus art's - ability to always rise again in new forms. D'Agostin invites a shift in perspective where apocalypses have already passed. What remains is us, living creatures who repeatedly rebuild ourselves, layer upon layer, like the earth's crust - where each biography becomes a small geological epoch, destined to leave its mark.

About Marco D'Agostin

Marco D'Agostin is an award-winning Italian choreographer and dancer whose work has been shown on leading stages and festivals across Europe and South America. In his work, he explores the mechanisms of memory and the relationship between audience and performer, using a dance language where sound, word and movement meet and collide. He often draws from personal or collective archives to create choreographic situations that activate participation and emotional resonance.

D'Agostin received the UBU Award for Best Performer Under 35 (2018) and Best Dance Performance in both 2023 and 2025 - for The Years (2023) and Asteroid.