The MicroDanze at the Verdi Off of the Teatro Regio di Parma
Friday 9 and Sunday 11 October 2026 at 9.00 pm
The Verdi Off Festival of the Teatro Regio di Parma hosts a roving itinerary made up of 6 MicroDanze that move through the cultural venues of Parma’s historic centre, ending in the spaces of the Ridotto of the Teatro Regio. The MicroDanze are Afterimage by Philippe Kratz, Eppur si muove by Francesca Lattuada, Platform02 by Ina Lesnakowski, Near Life Experience by Angelin Preljocaj and Soft P. by Diego Tortelli. The sixth MicroDanza is a world premiere created for the Verdi Off, by choreographer Dunja Jocić, The Great Silence.
MicroDanze stems from an intuition of Gigi Cristoforetti for CCN/Aterballetto: to break down the invisible barrier of the stage and turn dance into an intimate, almost confidential encounter.
FND Aterballetto – MicroDanze – Afterimage – chor Philippe Kratz – ph. Celeste Lombardi
Choreography and set design Philippe Kratz
Music Pablo’s Eye
Video projections OOOPSTUDIO
A production by Fondazione Nazionale della Danza/Aterballetto
co-production Fondazione Palazzo Magnani
as part of An ideal city, a public art project in partnership with Les Halles de Schaerbeek – Brussels and Greek National Opera – Athens, co-financed by the European Union’s Creative Europe programme
Afterimage (that is, “the residual image” — the persistence on the iris of the colours we have stared at intently and at length) takes its cue from a personal account by the performer, developed on three levels that interact with one another: the form of the movement, the atmosphere of the sound experience and the colour represented by the video-animated projections.
In this case, however, Afterimage also translates as the persistence of a lived memory before our eyes, one that we do not necessarily relive chronologically, but that remains impressed upon us like a sensation into which we enter completely.
FND Aterballetto – MicroDanze – Eppur si muove by Francesca Lattuada – ph. Christophe Bernard (9)
Choreography Francesca Lattuada
Music Ludwig Van Beethoven (Symphony No. 7 – Second movement – Allegretto)
Costumes Bruno Fatalot
Duration 5 minutes / one dancer
Wrapped in Bruno Fatalot’s refined and impalpable costume, a dancer moves solemnly on a barrel-pedestal, drawn along by the sorrowful, mysterious motif of Beethoven’s Allegretto. His dance captivates and seduces, as imposing as a song of prayer.
© Festival de Granada | Fermín Rodríguez
Choreography Ina Lesnakowski
Music Loscil
Set design Carlo Cerri
A production by Fondazione Nazionale della Danza/Aterballetto
co-production Fondazione Palazzo Magnani
as part of An ideal city, a public art project in partnership with Les Halles de Schaerbeek – Brussels and Greek National Opera – Athens, co-financed by the European Union’s Creative Europe programme
Platform02 is my first approach to choreography. The idea that inspired me is simple.
It is the challenge posed to a dancer to adapt their movement to a space that is continually reduced. A concept that fits well with the framework of the MicroDanze project, where the dancer is already required to perform in a limited space.
Certain questions, which can only become ever more pressing, trace the path of this research work of mine.
How much space do we give ourselves, and how much do we need? What are the consequences of an ever-smaller space for everyone? How much space do we want to leave to other species and to nature?
All things in life need space and resources to thrive: this holds for ourselves, for nature, for the arts.
And so, starting from here, together with Saul Daniele Ardillo I wanted to play with the relationship between space, the platform we are given, and movement — its qualities, its possibilities and its limits.
Ina Lesnakowski
Choreography Angelin Preljocaj
Music Air (Jean-Benoit Dunckel, Nicolas Godin)
Duration 9 minutes / 2 dancers
A production by Fondazione Nazionale della Danza/Aterballetto
co-production Fondazione Palazzo Magnani
as part of An ideal city, a public art project in partnership with Les Halles de Schaerbeek – Brussels and Greek National Opera – Athens, co-financed by the European Union’s Creative Europe programme
Near life experience is the exploration of the body’s different possibilities, possibilities that refer to intermediate sensations. We approach this state when we are especially close to zones that hover on the boundary of existence, which we reach when we faint, or in a trance, in moments of ecstasy or orgasm. The sense of ecstasy and of fading away, of a dazzling sensation and the attempt to externalise individuality, comes close to this experience. The subject is elsewhere, carried away from themselves, enraptured. Near life experience evokes all this; it is an attempt to withdraw oneself from space and time. A kind of eclipse of the self, a search through this imaginary amnion — a new writing in the space left empty by the body.
Angelin Preljocaj
Choreography Diego Tortelli
Music Tindersticks
Duration 6 minutes / two dancers
A production by Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto
Soft P. is a work for two bodies and a close gaze. The audience watches from up close, entering into a direct, almost tactile relationship. It is a dance conceived to inhabit ever-changing spaces, places not designed to hold it but transformed by its presence. Sensuality becomes the device through which these spaces are traversed and made inhabitable.
Choreography Dunja Jocić
Duration 10 minutes / two dancers
A production by Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto
Co-production Teatro Regio di Parma / Festival Verdi
The Great Silence draws its inspiration from the theme of this year’s edition of the Festival Verdi, “Distant worlds.” It explores the idea of distance, silence and connection between possible universes, turning into gesture and movement concepts that belong as much to the cosmos as to the inner dimension.
