CCN/Aterballetto dances Notte Morricone at the Grand Théâtre Massenet in Saint-Étienne on 5 December 2026.
“I, Ennio Morricone, am dead,” the composer wrote before taking his leave. His music, however, cannot die. This is how creators and artists always leave us without leaving us, and this is 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 the world.
Notte Morricone unfolds in the twilight of an ordinary night in the life of a creative who, alone and dazed before his sheets of paper, takes notes and visualises 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 masterly piece that reaches the spectator in waves, embraces them with emotional surges and holds them in the memory of timeless melodies that have long outlived the images that gave rise to them. The finely chiselled, always poetic choreography is just as enchanting, composed with obsessive attention to detail: legs and necks seem to have no joints, bending and snapping rhythmically like metronomes.
Maria Luisa Buzzi – Danza&Danza
Duration 90′
