Zoom Zoom Zoom: A Love Letter to Italy

Zoom Zoom Zoom: A Love Letter to Italy premiered as part of DNM’s 20th Anniversary Virtual Celebration. The ballet, created under Salterini's direction with Baumgarten, and choreographed, filmed and edited completely under quarantine, iterates the moments and the shared experiences of shelter at home. Zoom Zoom Zoom is a manifestation of our confinement; it is the way Dance NOW! has had to take company classes, have meetings, work on grants, and sing happy birthday to one another—as everyone has had to.

This playful dance in four movements, expresses the quirky descent into the Zoom rabbit hole, the upside-down feeling of confinement, the longing for the touch of others, and the sense that through it all we simply must dance! With an all-Italian soundtrack, it has a nostalgic feeling and gives a nod to Salterini’s home and history as well as the first Western country to be hit by the Coronavirus epidemic.

This piece was chosen as an official selection of the Rogue Dancer Film Festival.