Preludio / “O” / Alpha Grace

The Fairtree Atterbury Theatre Pretoria
12 November H 18.30

 

From November 8 to 12, 2025, Aterballetto embarks on its first tour in South Africa.

Thanks to the collaboration of the Embassy of Italy in Pretoria and the Italian Cultural Institute of Pretoria, Aterballetto performs the triptych Dreamers in three South African cities.

TOUR

  • Saturday, November 8 – 6:30 p.m. – Johannesburg, UJ Arts & Culture

    Monday, November 10 – 6:00 p.m. – Stellenbosch, The Adam Small Theatre

    Wednesday, November 12 – 6:30 p.m. – Pretoria, The Fairtree Atterbury Theatre

The triptych opens with Preludio by Italian choreographer Diego Tortelli, who has been collaborating with the company since 2018: a love letter to the body for five dancers, built around some of the most intense poems and songs by Australian singer-songwriter Nick Cave, whose unmistakable voice envelops the audience.

At the heart of the evening is the duet O by German choreographer Philippe Kratz, former principal dancer with Aterballetto and now a sought-after creator for major international theatres. A small masterpiece of unstoppable rhythm, it hypnotically draws the viewer in.

The evening concludes with the sextet Alpha Grace, also by Philippe Kratz — a reflection on empathy, “a gentle form of communication,” as the choreographer says, “between people who feel they stand on the same level.”

 

Dreamers

Teatro Sociale Trento
13 November H 20.30

At the Teatro Sociale in Trento, on November 13 and 14, 2025, Aterballetto performs Dreamers, a triptych featuring choreographies by Tortelli, Kratz, and Pite.

Dreamers is a choreographic journey through three visions, three distinct poetics, which together form a single reflection on desire, memory, loss, and the strength of the body as an emotional and spiritual space. Three creations by some of the most significant choreographers on the contemporary scene — Philippe Kratz, Crystal Pite, and Diego Tortelli — unfold like chapters of a single dream.

In An echo, a wave, Philippe Kratz draws inspiration from the sea as a metaphor for eternity, for encounter and separation. The waves, like the dancers’ bodies, carry with them stories, emotions, and continuous movement, in a flow that recalls the endless departures and returns of our existence. The Mediterranean thus becomes a mirror of our ephemeral nature, yet also of our capacity for beauty and connection.

© Festival de Granada | Fermín Rodríguez

With Preludio, Diego Tortelli creates a love letter to the body—its fragility and its strength, its constant state of transformation. Through the poetic and musical universe of Nick Cave, the work explores personal “creed,” the human need to give meaning and shape to emotions. On stage, the dancers are not individuals but emotional pulsations, inhabiting space with urgency and lyricism.

FND/Aterballetto – Preludio – ph. Claudio Montanari

Solo Echo by Crystal Pite is inspired by two sonatas for cello and piano by Johannes Brahms and by the profound verses of Mark Strand. On stage, one breathes the winter of the soul: time slows down, and the body becomes a vessel for a moving and powerful introspection. With delicacy and intensity, Pite reflects on the themes of loss, the acceptance of change, and the mystery of resilience.

 

Dreamers is an encounter between three ways of sensing and narrating the world—an invitation to let oneself be carried by dance as a lucid dream, a mirror of our most intimate tensions, a memory of our deepest desires.

Duo d’Eden | Grosse Fugue

Fonderia Reggio Emilia
13 November H 20.30

Maguy Marin’s dance arrives at Fonderia through the interpretation of the MM Contemporary Dance Company.

 

Directed by Michela Merola, the company presents for Danza in Fonderia two masterpieces by the multi-award-winning French choreographer Maguy Marin: Duo d’Eden, a duet of rare, almost mythical beauty, and the all-female quartet Grosse Fugue, Marin’s personal interpretation of Ludwig van Beethoven’s work, considered a milestone in the relationship between classical music and contemporary dance. After the performance, a short talk with a dance critic is scheduled.

 

The MM Contemporary Dance Company won the 2024 Danza&Danza Award for Repertoire Enhancement with Maguy Marin’s Grosse Fugue.

https://vimeo.com/480791125/2e8682f7fb


 

 

Choreography and Soundtrack: Maguy Marin
Restaged by: Cathy Polo and Ennio Sammarco
Costumes: Montserrat Casanova
Lighting: Alexandre Béneteaud
Rehearsal Director: Enrico Morelli
Performers: Mario Genovese, Fabiana Lonardo

Duration: 18 minutes

Production: MM Contemporary Dance Company
Co-production: Fondazione I Teatri di Reggio Emilia

World Premiere – Compagnie Maguy Marin: December 12, 1986 – Angers
First Performance with MM Contemporary Dance Company: October 21, 2020 – Teatro Sociale di Trento

“Two bodies, as if naked, advance on stage, entwining with one another and never letting go. A man and a woman, their bodies drawn together and clinging, joined until they become inseparable. She, a vine that wraps and coils. He, who holds her, restrains her, supports her. There is something mythical in their dance, in this total fusion of two beings who become one, never to part again.

 

Eden is original love, love of the time of innocence. There is also something raw and primitive in this duet. The soundscape of waterfalls and storms accompanies the dance.

 

Eden is a dance full of strength and beauty, perhaps because of the natural force that emanates from the purity of movement and the precision of gesture, from the almost sculptural forms, from the power of the bodies. That is where the emotion arises—from this simplicity that reveals the essential. If love is a dance, it is surely Eden.”

 

Yasmine Tigoe

In Duo d’Eden, two dancers of MMCDC perform with mastery and style a work of rare beauty—original, complex, and demanding—created in 1986 by Maguy Marin for her company. Simply a man and a woman: flesh-colored unitards highlighting their nudity, a long wig for her, entwined with each other throughout the piece as she continuously evolves across his body. An Adam and Eve immersed in a journey of sensuality, eros, defense, and attack, within a world that is anything but calm, safe, and idyllic. A poetic and intense work.

Choreography: Maguy Marin
Restaged by: Dorothée Delabie
Music: Ludwig van Beethoven, Die Grosse Fuge, Op. 133
Costumes: Chantal Cloupet
Lighting: François Renard
Rehearsal Director: Enrico Morelli
Performers: Fabiana Lonardo, Giorgia Raffetto, Alice Ruspaggiari, Diletta Savini

 

Duration: 20 minutes

 

Production: MM Contemporary Dance Company
Co-production: Reggio Parma Festival, Festival Bolzano Danza / Fondazione Haydn di Bolzano e Trento, MilanOltre Festival

 

World Premiere – Compagnie Maguy Marin: 2001 – Espace Jean Poperen, Meyzieu
National Preview with MM Contemporary Dance Company: December 16, 2023 – Reggio Parma Festival – Teatro Ariosto, Reggio Emilia
National Premiere with MM Contemporary Dance Company: July 16, 2024 – Festival Bolzano Danza

Four women and an extraordinary musical work such as Die Grosse Fuge: Maguy Marin’s personal reading of Ludwig van Beethoven’s masterpiece—considered a milestone in the relationship between classical music and contemporary dance—is built on a constant, intimate dialogue between dance and music, on a profound connection between the two arts.

 

Created in 2001 for the C.ie Maguy Marin, it is revived here in the interpretation of four dancers from the MM Contemporary Dance Company. From the encounter between these four women and the music emerges a complexity between the growing vital force of the feminine and the state of exhilaration and despair of this score.

 

The dance becomes an euphoric explosion of energy, where the four performers, dressed in red, in an almost frenetic alternation, leap, run, collapse, and rise again in a whirlwind of life and frenzy. A metaphor of life that turns into a vortex, an exhilarating race against death, where the very vertigo of the end drives us to run breathlessly, to live every moment as if it were the last. A powerful, moving work, a moment of pure emotion.

 

The MM Contemporary Dance Company is a contemporary dance ensemble directed by choreographer Michele Merola. Founded in 1999, it was conceived both as a production center for events and performances and as a promoter of festivals and workshops, with the aim of fostering exchanges and collaborations between Italian and international artists as witnesses and spokespeople of contemporary culture.

Based in Reggio Emilia, the company’s repertoire is rich and diverse, thanks to the works of Michele Merola and creations by leading European and Italian choreographers such as Maguy Marin, Mats Ek, Mauro Bigonzetti, Thomas Noone, Gustavo Ramírez Sansano, Karl Alfred Schreiner, Silvia Gribaudi, Eugenio Scigliano, Emanuele Soavi, Enrico Morelli, Daniele Ninarello, Ginevra Panzetti and Enrico Ticconi, Roberto Tedesco, Camilla Monga, and Adriano Bolognino.

In 2010, MM Contemporary Dance Company won the prestigious Danza&Danza Award as Best Emerging Company and has since become a recognized excellence of Italian dance, with an established presence across the national stage. In recent years, it has also gained international acclaim, performing in both European and non-European countries (Korea, Colombia, Canada, Germany, Russia, Morocco, Belgium, Spain, Slovenia, Hungary, Czech Republic, Sweden, France, Finland, Serbia, Norway, Croatia).

In 2017, the company won the Europaindanza Award for Choreographic Merit with Michele Merola’s Bolero. In 2022, MMCDC received the Danza&Danza Award for Best Italian Production with Ballade (choreography by Mauro Bigonzetti and Enrico Morelli). In 2024, it was awarded the Danza&Danza Prize for Repertoire Enhancement for Maguy Marin’s Grosse Fugue.

In 2021, 2022, and 2024, MMCDC appeared on RAI 1 in Roberto Bolle’s TV programs Danza con me and Viva la danza, performing works by Mauro Bigonzetti and Lorca Massine. For the 2018–2020 and 2022–2024 triennia, as well as in 2021, the company was an associate ensemble of the InDanza Circuit of Trentino-Alto Adige.

MM Contemporary Dance Company is supported by the Italian Ministry of Culture, the Emilia-Romagna Region, the Municipality of Reggio Emilia, and the Centro Permanente Danza Danza / Reggio Emilia.

Maguy Marin was born in Toulouse in 1951. After her dance studies, in 1972 she joined Mudra, the school and choreographic residence created by Maurice Béjart in Brussels, where she took part in the formation of the group Chandra, which gathered the school’s talents under the direction of Micha van Hoecke. From 1974 to 1977 she was a full member of Les Ballets du XXe Siècle, directed by Béjart, where she not only performed repertoire works and new creations, but also choreographed Yu-Ku-Ri (1976).

In 1984, she founded the Compagnie Maguy Marin. After residencies at the Centre Chorégraphique National de Créteil, the Centre Chorégraphique National de Rillieux-la-Pape (Lyon), and later in Toulouse, in 2015 the company settled in Ramdam, in the Lyon region, a space dedicated to artistic creation, to develop an ambitious project: Ramdam, a center for the arts.

Maguy Marin is one of the leading figures of the “new French dance” and has created many works that have become renowned, including Babel Babel (1976), Cendrillon (1985), Coups d’État (1988), Made in France (1992), Aujourd’hui peut-être (1996), Quoi qu’il en soit (1999), Pièces détachées (2002), Umwelt (2004), Turba (2007), Salves (2010). Yet it is May B (1981), inspired by the literary world of Samuel Beckett, that remains a true masterpiece, still performed today in France and worldwide.

In addition to creating all the works for her own company, she has also choreographed for major companies such as Dutch National Ballet, Nederlands Dans Theater 3, Paris Opera, and Lyon Opera Ballet.

Alongside numerous honors received in her home country—including being named Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters in 1998—she is among the few non-Americans to have been awarded the American Dance Festival Award (2003) and, in 2008, the Bessie Award in New York for Umwelt. In 2016, she received the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Biennale Danza.

Overall, Maguy Marin’s creative production could be gathered under the title “the human condition”: from May B to her most recent works, she has brought to life characters that reveal the grotesque soul, intrinsically tied to the essence of humanity. The result is powerful, ironic, and at times fierce.

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Dreamers

Teatro Sociale Trento
14 November H 20.30

Al Teatro Sociale di Trento, il 13 e 14 novembre 2025, Aterballetto danza Dreamers, trittico composto dalle coreografie firmate da Tortelli, Kratz e Pite.

Dreamers è un viaggio coreografico in tre visioni, tre poetiche differenti, che insieme compongono un’unica riflessione sul desiderio, la memoria, la perdita e la forza del corpo come spazio emotivo e spirituale. Tre creazioni firmate da coreografi tra i più significativi della scena contemporanea — Philippe Kratz, Crystal Pite e Diego Tortelli — si susseguono come capitoli di un unico sogno.

In An echo, a wave Philippe Kratz parte dalla suggestione del mare come metafora dell’eternità, dell’incontro e della separazione. Le onde, come i corpi dei danzatori, portano con sé storie, emozioni e movimenti continui, in un flusso che richiama le infinite partenze e ritorni della nostra esistenza. Il Mediterraneo diventa così specchio del nostro essere effimeri, ma anche capaci di bellezza e connessione.

© Festival de Granada | Fermín Rodríguez

Con Preludio Diego Tortelli firma una dichiarazione d’amore al corpo, alla sua fragilità e potenza, al suo continuo trasformarsi. Attraverso l’universo poetico e musicale di Nick Cave, la creazione si interroga sul “credo” personale, sul bisogno umano di trovare senso e forma alle emozioni. In scena, i danzatori non sono individui, ma pulsazioni emotive che abitano lo spazio con urgenza e lirismo.

FND/Aterballetto – Preludio – ph. Claudio Montanari

Solo Echo di Crystal Pite si ispira a due sonate per violoncello e pianoforte di Johannes Brahms e ai versi profondi di Mark Strand. In scena si respira l’inverno dell’anima: il tempo rallenta, il corpo si fa veicolo di un’introspezione commossa e potente. Con delicatezza e intensità, Pite riflette sul tema della perdita, sull’accettazione del cambiamento e sul mistero della resilienza.

Dreamers è un incontro tra tre modi di sentire e raccontare il mondo, un invito a lasciarsi attraversare dalla danza come sogno lucido, specchio delle nostre tensioni più intime, memoria dei nostri desideri più profondi.

VISIONI DEL CORPO: MAURIZIO CATTELAN

PARC Firenze
14 November H 21.00

 

Maurizio Cattelan Bidibidobidiboo 1996 photo Zeno Zotti copia (Palazzo Grassi, Venezia)

At PARC in Florence, three works by Maurizio Cattelan are the focus of the new edition of Visioni del corpo — discovering contemporary art through the lens of choreographic creation.

 

Nicolas Ballario, listed among the 100 most influential figures in the art world by Il Giornale dell’Arte, guides the audience through the history and poetics of Maurizio Cattelan, one of the most renowned and controversial contemporary Italian artists on the international scene.

At the heart of the evening are three of Cattelan’s works — irreverent and provocative pieces that challenge art and society with sharp irony and striking visual power.

Choreographer Lara Guidetti, together with CCN/Aterballetto dancers Alessia Giacomelli and Kiran Gezels, gives body and movement to Cattelan’s visions, transforming the irony, paradox, and silence of his works into physical gesture.

The three choreographic pieces created for this evening stem from works that are vastly different from one another, compelling the dancers to inhabit ever-changing physical grammars: from physical theatre to abstract form, from extreme restraint to the poetic power of the mask. The challenge is not to create a stylistic continuum, but to generate radical metamorphoses that free the performers from the traces of the author and lead them into unforeseen territories.

On stage, images intertwine, oscillating between beauty and rawness: a Milan that resembles a factory farm of unconscious bodies, a child on the verge of becoming a monster, an ordinary man facing a gun. It is dance that recomposes these fragmented visions, restoring unity to what is dissonant — turning each artwork into a physical experience and each vision into a living presence.

Maurizio Cattelan, Him, 2001, ph Tom Lindboe (Blenheim) A

 

In 2006, Lara Guidetti graduated as a dancer and choreographer from the Theatre-Dance Atelier of the Paolo Grassi School in Milan, studying with leading national and international masters. She continued her education in dance and performing arts by exploring various pedagogical and training methods through workshops and productions.

In 2008, she founded the Sanpapié Company, where she serves as artistic director, choreographer, director, and performer, presenting works across Italy, Europe, China, and Saudi Arabia. In 2017, her performance LEI won the Bonacina Prize.

She collaborates with the JGM Company in Lisbon and with La Scala Theatre in Milan as a dancer and acrobat, and she has created choreography for several opera productions. She has also taught at the Paolo Grassi School, DanceHaus Milano, and the Teatro Stabile di Torino School.

Since 2022, she has been an associated artist at the MilanOltre Festival and a collaborator with CCN/Aterballetto as a choreographer and curator of site-specific and cultural welfare projects.

 

Born in Saluzzo in 1984, Nicolas Ballario works in the field of contemporary art applied to the media. His professional career began in Oliviero Toscani’s creative factory, “La Sterpaia,” where he went on to become cultural director.

He has collaborated with major artistic institutions and numerous publications. He is currently the author and host of contemporary art programs on Radio Uno Rai, and a contributor to L’Espresso and Il Giornale dell’Arte.

In 2019, he hosted the photography series “Camera Oscura” on LA7, and since 2020 he has led several Sky Arte programs, including “Io ti vedo, tu mi senti?”, “The Square,” and “Italia Contemporanea.”

He is also the founder of Studio Cucù and curated the dossier that led to Alba being named Italian Capital of Contemporary Art 2027.

 

 

Dreamers

Teatro Cristallo Bolzano
16 November H 20.30

At the Teatro Cristallo in Bolzano, Aterballetto performs Dreamers, a triptych featuring choreographies by Tortelli, Kratz, and Pite.

Dreamers is a choreographic journey through three visions, three distinct poetics, which together form a single reflection on desire, memory, loss, and the strength of the body as an emotional and spiritual space. Three creations by some of the most significant choreographers on the contemporary scene — Philippe Kratz, Crystal Pite, and Diego Tortelli — unfold like chapters of a single dream.

In An echo, a wave, Philippe Kratz draws inspiration from the sea as a metaphor for eternity, for encounter and separation. The waves, like the dancers’ bodies, carry with them stories, emotions, and continuous movement, in a flow that recalls the endless departures and returns of our existence. The Mediterranean thus becomes a mirror of our ephemeral nature, yet also of our capacity for beauty and connection.

© Festival de Granada | Fermín Rodríguez

With Preludio, Diego Tortelli creates a love letter to the body—its fragility and its strength, its constant state of transformation. Through the poetic and musical universe of Nick Cave, the work explores personal “creed,” the human need to give meaning and shape to emotions. On stage, the dancers are not individuals but emotional pulsations, inhabiting space with urgency and lyricism.

FND/Aterballetto – Preludio – ph. Claudio Montanari

Solo Echo by Crystal Pite is inspired by two sonatas for cello and piano by Johannes Brahms and by the profound verses of Mark Strand. On stage, one breathes the winter of the soul: time slows down, and the body becomes a vessel for a moving and powerful introspection. With delicacy and intensity, Pite reflects on the themes of loss, the acceptance of change, and the mystery of resilience.

 

Dreamers is an encounter between three ways of sensing and narrating the world—an invitation to let oneself be carried by dance as a lucid dream, a mirror of our most intimate tensions, a memory of our deepest desires.

Dreamers

Teatro Asioli Correggio
18 November H 20.30

Aterballetto performs Dreamers at the Teatro Asioli in Correggio on Tuesday, November 18.

On stage, four creations unfold:

Preludio by Diego Tortelli, built around some of the most intense poems and songs by Australian singer-songwriter Nick Cave, explores love, faith, dependence, obsession, loss, and the intricate ways these themes intertwine.

The second piece, An echo, a wave by Philippe Kratz, translates the sense of wonder and eternity evoked by the view of the sea: the dancers’ flowing movements recall the natural, unending motion of the waves, while also reflecting the passage through shifting emotional states.

Reconciliatio, by the extraordinary Angelin Preljocaj, delves into the theme of reconciliation — a poetic, impressionistic tableau inspired by the imagery of Saint John’s Apocalypse.

Finally, Solo Echo by Crystal Pite draws inspiration from two cello and piano sonatas by Johannes Brahms and the poem Lines for Winter by Mark Strand, invoking winter, music, and the moving body to express something essential about acceptance and loss.

 

 

Author’s Evening

Fonderia Reggio Emilia
21 November H 20.30

Opus Ballet Company presents the world premiere of its new “Choreographers’ Evening,” featuring works by Roberto Tedesco, Adriano Bolognino, and Giovanni Insaudo.

The evening is born from the encounter of three choreographers — Adriano Bolognino, Giovanni Insaudo, and Roberto Tedesco — all winners of the Danza&Danza Award. The idea is to bring their creations together in a single program, offering the audience a mosaic of visions that, though distinct in style, engage in a dialogue of intensity and coherence.

Piano-Forte by Roberto Tedesco, set to Chopin’s Nocturnes, explores the tension of opposites — presence and absence, strength and fragility, fall and elevation — revealing how every polarity exists through its counterpart, until it is recomposed into a profound unity.

Behind You by Adriano Bolognino is an intense, dramatic work that evokes winter as an existential condition: a journey through hardship and fear that reshapes our inner boundaries, leading us toward poetic resistance and the possibility of renewal.

The evening concludes with Vespri by Giovanni Insaudo, where Sicilian folklore becomes a field of reflection on the tension between tradition and modernity — a bridge between past and present that transforms collective ritual into contemporary gesture.

Three choreographers, three visions, three languages intertwining roots and modernity, light and shadow, fragility and strength. A journey that turns movement into a mirror of life, offering the audience the energy of a dance that unites the individual and collective poetic experience.

PIANO-FORTE

Choreography: Roberto Tedesco
Lighting and Space Design: Davide Cavandoli
Costumes: Santi Rinciari
Technical Direction: Laura De Bernardis
Performers: Matheus Alves De Oliveira, Ginevra Gioli
Ballet Master: Giusi Santagati

BEHIND YOU (excerpt from White Room)

Choreography: Adriano Bolognino
Assistant Choreographer: Rosaria Di Maro
With the support of Rosa Coppola
Lighting Design: Laura De Bernardis
Costumes: Santi Rinciari
Performers: Gaia Mondini, Frederic Zoungla
Ballet Master: Giusi Santagati

With the support of the Centro Nazionale di Produzione della Danza Virgilio Sieni and the Fondazione CR Firenze (Bando Abitante)

VESPRI

Concept and Choreography: Giovanni Insaudo
Assistant Choreographer: Sandra Salietti
Lighting Design: Giovanni Insaudo
Technical Direction: Laura De Bernardis
Set Elements: Margherita Citran
Costume Production: Lisa Perin
Performers: Matheus Alves De Oliveira, Ginevra Gioli, Gaia Mondini, Frederic Zoungla, Rebeca Zucchegni
Ballet Master: Giusi Santagati

Directed by Rosanna Brocanello since its founding, the company is composed of a stable ensemble of professional dancers and has developed an extensive repertoire of productions over the years.

Among its most recent works:

  • Le Quattro Stagioni (2020) by Vivaldi, choreographed by Aurélie Mounier, with live music performed by the Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto;

  • RIGHT. La Sagra della Primavera (2021) by Carlo Massari, co-produced with C&C Company, Teatro Stabile del Veneto, Oriente Occidente Dance Festival, and Associazione Culturale Mosaico Danza / Interplay Festival (Winner of the CollaborAction XL 2020 Award, part of the Anticorpi XL Network, coordinated by Ass. Cantieri Danza, in support of independent choreography);

  • Il Labirinto. Il mito di Arianna e il Minotauro (2021) by Arianna Benedetti;

  • White Room (2022) by Adriano Bolognino, in collaboration with the Centro Nazionale Virgilio Sieni;

  • La diversità che mi fece stupendo. Pasolini, l’irrealtà del quotidiano (2022) by Giovanni Leonarduzzi, co-produced with Compagnia Bellanda;

  • Coding Dance (2023) by Leonardo Diana, co-produced with Versiliadanza;

  • OTOTEMAN_what if by Sofia Galvan and Stefania Menestrina, winner of the 13th edition of the International Prospettiva Danza Teatro Award, co-produced with Festival Danza In Rete – Teatro Comunale Città di Vicenza.

Since 2021, the company has been supported by the Italian Ministry of Culture.

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Stravaganze in sol minore

Teatro Metastasio Prato
26 November H 10.00

Stravaganze in sol minore by Francesca Lattuada arrives at the Teatro Metastasio in Prato from 26 to 29 November 2025.

The magical virtuosity of Toti Scialoja (1914–1998) — a master not only of images but also of words — lies at the heart of this new creation by the Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto, designed for children and young audiences, where a dancer and an actor play with his poetic imagination.

The almost magical vibrations that spring from Scialoja’s poems are like the endless ripples formed on the surface of water when a stone is thrown in: they evoke unreal or hyper-real images and carry a musicality that blends poetry and nursery rhyme, where the extraordinary and the frightening go hand in hand.

Sotto un cespo di rose scarlatte (Under a bush of scarlet roses)
Offre il rospo tè caldo con latte (The toad serves hot tea with milk.)
Sotto un cespo di rose paonazze (Under a bush of purple roses)
Tocca al rospo sciacquare le tazze. (It’s the toad’s turn to rinse the cups.)
(Toti Scialoja, La mela di Amleto, 1984)

Regia e coreografia: Francesca Lattuada
Testi: Toti Scialoja (tratti da La mela di Amleto)
Musica: The Klezmorin, Gustav Mahler, Dean Martin, Clara Rockmore
Maschere e oggetti: Natali Fortier
Interpreti: Vittoria Franchina, Rocco Ancarola

Coproduzione: Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto e Centro Teatrale Bresciano
In coproduzione con: Centro Servizi Culturali Santa Chiara

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wouh0x0D4HQ

 

Il mare che ci unisce

Fonderia Reggio Emilia
26 November H 20.30

For the first time at Danza in Fonderia, the company ArtgarageDanceCo, led by Emma Cianchi, takes part.

Il mare che ci unisce is an emotional experience that invites the audience, through an abstract structure, to reflect on their roots and on the power of human connection that transcends time and space. With a clear reference to the mythological women of ancient Italy and Greece, four dancers — with their powerful and mysterious presence — explore the connections between their bodies, expressing a sensory, visual, and sonic journey between the real and the immaterial.

Mythological creatures whose legacy continues to inspire, reminding us that — in ancient stories as in modern life — the role of women is fundamental and intrinsically linked to growth and transformation, equality and peace.

Choreography: Emma Cianchi
Original Music: Lino Cannavacciuolo
Costumes: Leandro Fabbri
Set Design: Alessandro Sodano

A journey suspended between myth and reality, where the prophetic figure of the Cumaean Sibyl becomes a symbol of wisdom and ancestral connection.

The choreography draws inspiration from her prophetic power and mystical bond with the sea, transforming the stage into a ritual of memory and oracles. The figure of the Sibyl, embodied in dance by the performers — guardian of prophecies — becomes a bridge between past and present.

The Sibyls, brought to life through the dancers’ strength and the evocative music, guide the audience through the voices of generations and migrations, evoking stories and identities interwoven across the Mediterranean.

ArtGarage is a dance production organization active since 2003 on both national and international stages, recognized by the Italian Ministry of Culture and the Campania Region.
The company has always supported and collaborated with artists from diverse backgrounds who explore the languages of contemporary dance and new audiovisual and multimedia technologies.

ArtGarage’s work is grounded in the cross-pollination of different expressive forms, in a constant search for new creative possibilities to give life to live performances, sound installations, and visual environments.

The core ensemble of ArtgarageDanceCo is led by Emma Cianchi, Italian choreographer and artistic director, and includes a multidisciplinary team composed of a permanent group of dancers, videomaker Gilles Dubroca, and sound designer Dario Casillo.

The organization also curates and promotes HumanBodies — a professional training program for contemporary dancers, recognized by the Campania Region — and Immagi]Na FilmFestival, an event dedicated to videodance, supported by the Campania Region Film Commission.

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Stravaganze in sol minore

Teatro Metastasio Prato
27 November H 10.00

Stravaganze in sol minore by Francesca Lattuada arrives at the Teatro Metastasio in Prato from 26 to 29 November 2025.

The magical virtuosity of Toti Scialoja (1914–1998) — a master not only of images but also of words — lies at the heart of this new creation by the Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto, designed for children and young audiences, where a dancer and an actor play with his poetic imagination.

The almost magical vibrations that spring from Scialoja’s poems are like the endless ripples formed on the surface of water when a stone is thrown in: they evoke unreal or hyper-real images and carry a musicality that blends poetry and nursery rhyme, where the extraordinary and the frightening go hand in hand.

Sotto un cespo di rose scarlatte (Under a bush of scarlet roses)
Offre il rospo tè caldo con latte (The toad serves hot tea with milk.)
Sotto un cespo di rose paonazze (Under a bush of purple roses)
Tocca al rospo sciacquare le tazze. (It’s the toad’s turn to rinse the cups.)
(Toti Scialoja, La mela di Amleto, 1984)

Regia e coreografia: Francesca Lattuada
Testi: Toti Scialoja (tratti da La mela di Amleto)
Musica: The Klezmorin, Gustav Mahler, Dean Martin, Clara Rockmore
Maschere e oggetti: Natali Fortier
Interpreti: Vittoria Franchina, Rocco Ancarola

Coproduzione: Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto e Centro Teatrale Bresciano
In coproduzione con: Centro Servizi Culturali Santa Chiara

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wouh0x0D4HQ

 

NOTTE MORRICONE

Teatro Comunale Bozen
27 November H 20.30

From November 27 to 30, 2025, Aterballetto performs Notte Morricone by Marcos Morau at the Teatro Comunale di Bolzano.

“I, Ennio Morricone, am dead,” wrote the composer before taking his leave. His music, however, cannot die. This is how creators and artists always leave us without ever truly leaving, and how memory takes care to keep them alive, to keep them safe. Notte Morricone is my gift, a devoted tribute to the beauty he gave to the world.
Notte Morricone unfolds in the twilight of an ordinary night in the life of a creative spirit who, alone and dazed before his papers, jots down notes and envisions melodies for films that do not yet exist, bringing stories back to life in the rarefied air of his room.
Marcos Morau – Director and Choreographer

It is impossible to describe Notte Morricone, a masterful work that washes over the spectator in waves, embraces them with emotional currents, and captivates them with the memory of timeless melodies that have long outlived the images that first inspired them. Equally enchanting is the finely chiselled, ever-poetic choreography, composed with meticulous attention to detail: legs and necks seem jointless, bending and snapping rhythmically like metronomes.
Maria Luisa Buzzi – Danza&Danza

Duration: 90 minutes
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