Dance Naked Like Truth

“If you ask me how I prefer to dance, I would say in silence, naked like truth.”— Patrizia Cerroni For the young Patrizia, home was where the hurt lay, so she immersed herself in dance, a refuge through which she found both expression and self-discovery. As a rebel artist experimenting with various styles in contemporary dance under the tutelage of renowned masters, like Jean Cebron and Merce Cunningham, she found a distinctive voice and style as a dancer and choreographer for which she has been much feted globally. Dance Naked Like Truth captures the zeitgeist of 1970s Europe, especially Italy, along with her collaborations with some of the greatest artists of our times such as Charles Mingus, Zakir Hussain, Giacinto Scelsi, Mario Schifano, Michelangelo Antonioni and Fabio Mauri. This unfiltered memoir is not only a bold account of the travails and trauma of an avant-garde artist, but also a celebration of the creative expression in which dance is presented as a radical, total and absolute experience. Free-spirited, courageous, unconventional and non-conformist, Patrizia Cerroni delves deep into the complexity of our existence at the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual realms, especially the artist’s need to escape into art. As Patrizia strives to achieve the balance between the artist and the woman in her, we find ourselves immersed in a story about love and loss where we realize that recognizing one’s own value is the most difficult of achievements and understand why it is important to always raise the stakes in life