Luca Bonamore is a dancer, choreographer and performer born in Rome, working in Vienna as a freelancer. He graduated in contemporary dance education, achieving his BA from the Music and Arts University of Vienna (MUK) in 2023. Luca first began performing in queer techno clubs under the name Pornamore. His interests include glitter, wigs and the intersection of different forms of art. His recent collaborations include Labor der Zärtlichkeit at imagetanz (brut Wien, 2022), Lapse at SPIT Festival (Tanzquartier Wien, 2022), I hear you. But don’t at Studio Hanniball Berlin (2022), Tanzkonzert at Wiener Festwochen (Club Liaison, 2023) and Lapse and the Scarlet Sun at ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival (Odeon Theater, 2023). Additionally, Luca performed in FUGUE FOUR : RESPONSE at Volkstheater Wien, a piece by Olivia Axel Scheucher and Nick Romeo Reimann which was also presented at ImPulsTanz as part of the [8:tension] Young Choreographers’ Series. He showed his solo work Lamentations at Rakete Festival at Tanzquartier Wien (2023). Luca is currently working on a new piece, titled Rubberball, which will premiere in January 2025 at Tanzquartier Wien.

It isn’t long ago that queer people had to (and, in many places, still have to) expose themselves to possible violence from the police and fellow citizens, simply to get what everybody wants: affection, understanding, perhaps something similar to love. One meets at night, in public parks or restrooms, not knowing: who’s going to await me? After last year’s variety show-like duet with Lau Lukkarila, Lapse and the Scarlet Sun, Luca Bonamore returns to ImPulsTanz, dedicating a group choreography to this intersection of the public and the private: cruising. For all of us to see and yet in secret, five Silent Lovers sneak toward each other, finding shelter from the “loop of political oppression” in their companions’ gazes, gestures and bodies.