"[...] Galli, as an agile shaman, accompanies his group to experience different possession rituals, revealing them in a well-defined
choreographic score. With precious masks on the face shaped by themselves during the creative process, the dancers outline
different shades of movement in which the reference to the various hieratic forms of Asian dance theatre
(in a mix of Japanese, Balinese and Indian techniques), is dissolved in pelvic and torso pulsations typical of Latin America.
In this dramaturgy perfectly designed, to be gently "savoured" and with extreme attention, the smooth and sinuous bodies
of the good performers express themselves in perfect symbiosis with the different costumes they wear at each entrance into
the sacral space. These stage dresses of different shapes and colours lead us to reflect on the multiple relationships that
bind them to the chiastic forms of the choreography, sealed at the end by a mystical embrace created with chain movements
that marries the masculine and the feminine.
The young Nicola Galli, endowed with a recognisable authorial figure, has shown with Il mondo altrove that he does not remain
chained to languages already beaten. His creativity, in fact, tends towards the freedom to always explore new territories, offering
us pieces sewn with embroidery skills."
Carmelo Zapparrata [ Danza&Danza Magazine - 07/2021 ]
"[...] We have particularly appreciated the last creation 'Il mondo altrove' directed Nicola Galli which, danced on an obsessive
music full of mysticism by Giacinto Scelsi, leads us to distant worlds, from West to East, in atmospheres reminiscent of a lost
and ancestral world: the paintings and vases of ancient Greece but also the dances of Bali and Katakali, the Japanese Nō theatre
and the mythical atmospheres of South America.
[...] The dancers hiding an unknown elsewhere, they enter through the door placed in the center of the stage and approach
as like mysterious ministers, giving us back the sense of a lost sacredness that suddenly seems to still belong to us."
Mario Bianchi [ Krapp's Last Post - 27/07/2021 ]
"In some way, the thirty-year-old Nicola Galli does very well to explore an 'elsewhere'. In Sansepolcro (Italy) this artist who had
already convinced us of his artistic qualities and his musical research, completely out of the mainstream, now escapes towards a
mysterious East that he punctually recreates with an aesthetic taste and sensitivity.
He is a new Antonin Artaud discovering the Balinese theatre, with its colourful masks, its almost three-dimensional costumes
similar to the Barong, Galli immerses us in a ritual full of courtships, amorous encounters, fights."
Marinella Guatterini [ Wall Street International - 29/07/2021 ]
"[...] An evocative creation, not always narrative, in which Galli acts as the officiant of a minimal and rarefied ritual, performed in
a geometric space with monochrome backgrounds: rows of stones, masks, stylised postures and "foreign" gestural codes give life to an
exotic and sacred, mysterious and enveloping imaginary.
The “folkloric” risk is avoided also thanks to a decisive musical choice: the microtonal landscape outlined by Giacinto Scelsi constitutes
a solid and unexpected soundtrack that harmonises at a tonic and rhythmic level with the choreographic score, creating a bewitching
and unclassifiable unicum.
At Kilowatt Festival the creation was preceded by a traveling performance that crossed the streets of the city center and which gave
the artist the opportunity to show, with his mature refinement, a ravenous, energetic, surprising force."
Michele Pascarella [ Hystrio magazine - 4/2021 ]
