Someone once wrote that there is an unbridgeable distance between what once happened and the way it appears to us now, cloaked in a strange unreality. The choreography of Gli anni is constructed to attempt to mend this tear: the incandescent story of an individual – Marta Ciappina, a unique performer in terms of artistic itinerary and technical peculiarities on the Italian dance scene – invites the spectators to play with their own memory. Marta’s body and the eyes of those watching her embark on a journey that shuttles between the present – the moment of the performance, an unrepeatable romantic encounter – and everyone’s past, in a web of comings and goings that blurs stories, songs and memories. The shadow of a novel stretches slowly across stage and audience: the invitation is to write it together, a hundred-handed work that exhorts us to cross the ruins looking upwards.