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.
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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.
