VIDEODANTE#India_Episode II

In this second chapter, Beatrice emerges not only as Dante’s muse and guide, but as a symbol of spiritual clarity, lost ideals, and unattainable love. Through a dreamlike visual and physical language, the episode explores her presence as both memory and aspiration—a force that urges the protagonist to rise above confusion and despair.

Developed through a remote collaboration between Italian and Indian artists, Beatrice blends contemporary performance with classical echoes, giving voice to the longing for beauty, redemption, and transcendence. Her image becomes a reflection of the divine within the human, a light cutting through the darkness of the journey—timeless, distant, and yet deeply present.

In his poem, Dante often mentions India, the Ganges river and, as per tradition of the time, places the heaven on earth in the Indian territory. India therefore struck, with its wonders, the mind of the poet, who, imagining the East, saw the sun rise from the Ganges.

The project was born from the remote collaboration between Instabili Vaganti, the Indian classical dancer Anuradha Venkataraman and the Indian association Culture Monks, thanks to the production of the Italian Institute of Cultural of New Delhi and the Italian Consulate of Kolkata, in order to explore the numerous connections between Dante’s work and Indian culture, both from an iconographic, philosophical and theological point of view.

The work of investigation and collection of suggestions on parts of The Divine Comedy will be aimed at the production of seven different video episodes, exactly like 7 are the days spent by Dante in the otherworldly journey. These episodes will compose a series addressed specifically to the web audience through the platforms and  the social media channels of the company and of the Italian Institute of Cultural of New Delhi, in order to celebrate the 700th anniversary of the death of the great poet.

Each short video will foresee various artistic collaborations, in Italy and India.