Between Heart and Hole

The popular Amsterdam Fringe Festival is featuring an explicit dance performance art piece this year. The performance’s tagline:

“Dance meets porn: a love letter where the anus gets the final word!”

About Between Heart and Hole

Between Heart and Hole is a queer dance solo that explores what pornography doesn’t show: the failing, the humour, and the messy search for connection. Through movement, projected pornographic imagery, and spoken word, the piece uses a post-pornographic lens to question how we see bodies, power, and desire—where the body becomes both protest and poetry. At its core? The butthole, offered here not for shock, but as a site of vulnerability, humour, and radical honesty. This solo gently unravels the defences we build around love and intimacy. It offers a space to feel, to witness, and maybe to rethink what it means to be seen.

Between Heart and Hole is an invitation to question not only porn, but how we love and protect ourselves. It gently asks the audience to sit with discomfort and maybe see a reflection of themselves in it.

About Iacopo Loliva (choreographer/performer)

Born in Italy, Iacopo began their dance journey in classical and modern techniques before continuing their training at Codarts University in Rotterdam. As a performer, they danced works by choreographers such as Jiří Kylián, Regina van Berkel, Nacho Duato, and Martha Graham, later joining ensembles at TanzLuzernerTheater and Stadttheater Giessen.

Since 2017, Iacopo has developed a distinct choreographic voice as a freelance artist, creating politically charged, body-centered work that navigates themes of queerness, pornography, rave culture, and intimacy. Their pieces merge dance with text, video, voice, and theatricality, challenging binaries and inviting audiences into raw, often uncomfortable terrains.

With creations like Goodbye Porn and Ode to Destruction, Iacopo confronts the stage as a space of resistance—where the queer body is not just seen but centered. Their work is deeply rooted in post-pornographic and pleasure-politics theory, often reclaiming vulnerability as a radical, embodied act.

Previously co-director of interdisciplinary collectives Teddy’s Last Ride and SuckerPunch, Iacopo now focuses on their solo choreographic research, touring works across Europe.