Dino Desica
Four Rehearsals On / One Stage (2025)
Croydonites Festival
2:05 split-screen documentation (extract from a 20-minute performance)
Right side filmed by Romain Beck / Left side filmed by Antonio Lewis
Editing: Norman Mine
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Dino Desica is an Italian performer whose character is shaped by the narrative and ethical approach of Italian Neorealism, a movement that emerged after the Second World War by focusing on ordinary lives and real social conditions, notably in the work of
Vittorio De Sica.
Who is Dino Desica ?
His practice also draws from Alberto Moravia’s Boredom, a
post-war novel that explores obsession, masculinity, desire, and artistic failure within a fractured society.
Dino Desica by Christa Holka 2025
Dino Desica by Rodrigo Branco 2023
His work moves between playfulness and melancholy, blending masculinity and queer identity while questioning stereotypes and ideals of success.
Across monologues, stand-up comedy, and a cappella singing, Desica inhabits the unstable space between self-obsession and the desire to transcend the ego. His performances blur the boundary between everyday life and staged action, embracing uncertainty as a way to approach something lived, fragile, and real.
dinodesica[at]gmail.com
Desica’s performances are marked by disillusionment and existential tension. Working through improvisation, he treats performance as a rehearsal rather than a finished form, allowing vulnerability, imperfection, and contradiction to remain visible.
Dino Desica performing Bella Ciao, Their Majesties 2023