Centro Coreografico Nazionale / Aterballetto

Rhapsody in blue / Reconciliatio / Solo Echo
2026-06-12 20:00 - 21:30, 2026-06-13 20:00 - 21:30 (Europe/Rome) | AKM Theatre Hall, Gümüşsuyu, Tak-ı Zafer Cd., Istanbul, 34437, Turkey
Aterballetto performs in Istanbul the triple bill by Iratxe Ansa & Igor Bacovich, Angelin Preljocaj, and Crystal Pite.

The CCN/Aterballetto presents a true concert in dance within the 54th edition of the Istanbul Music Festival. Rhapsody in Blue by Iratxe Ansa and Igor Bacovich is a playful, vibrant choreography, much like Gershwin’s iconic score. Reconciliatio is a delicate female pas de deux by Angelin Preljocaj, set to Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata. Solo Echo by Crystal Pite, through Brahms’s sonatas for piano and cello, invokes winter to express something essential about acceptance and loss.
The programme will be enriched by live performances of works by Brahms and Beethoven, interpreted by cellist Dorukhan Doruk and pianist Korkmaz Can Sağlam, helping to create a direct dialogue between music and dance.
In collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute of Istanbul.

NOTTE MORRICONE
2026-06-16 19:00 - 20:30 | Teatrul National Cluj-Napoca, P-ţa Ştefan cel Mare nr. 20, Cluj-Napoca, 400192, Romania
Cluj opens Aterballetto’s Romanian tour of Notte Morricone.

Aterballetto will be in Romania from 16 to 25 June 2026, with the first stop in Cluj, a city in the heart of Transylvania.

“I, Ennio Morricone, am dead,” the composer wrote before taking his leave. His music, however, cannot die. And this is how creators and artists always leave us without truly leaving us, and how memory takes care of keeping them alive, of keeping 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 creator, who, alone and dazed before his sheets of paper, jots down notes and imagines 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 piece that reaches the audience in waves, embraces them with emotional surges, and captures them in the memory of timeless melodies that have long outlived the images that first gave rise to them. Equally enchanting is the finely chiselled and ever-poetic choreography, composed with obsessive attention to detail: legs and necks seem jointless, bending and snapping rhythmically like metronomes.”— Maria Luisa Buzzi, Danza&Danza

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Duration: 90 minutes

NOTTE MORRICONE
2026-06-19 21:00 - 22:30, 2026-06-20 18:00 - 19:30 | Faust Hall – Fabrica de cultura, Strada Triajului 1-3, Sibiu, 550321, Romania
Sibiu is the second stop on Aterballetto’s Romanian tour of Notte Morricone.

The Romanian tour continues in Sibiu from 19 to 20 June 2026, on the occasion of the Sibiu International Theatre Festival.

“I, Ennio Morricone, am dead,” the composer wrote before taking his leave. His music, however, cannot die. And this is how creators and artists always leave us without truly leaving us, and how memory takes care of keeping them alive, of keeping 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 creator, who, alone and dazed before his sheets of paper, jots down notes and imagines 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 piece that reaches the audience in waves, embraces them with emotional surges, and captures them in the memory of timeless melodies that have long outlived the images that first gave rise to them. Equally enchanting is the finely chiselled and ever-poetic choreography, composed with obsessive attention to detail: legs and necks seem jointless, bending and snapping rhythmically like metronomes.”— Maria Luisa Buzzi, Danza&Danza

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Duration: 90 minutes

NOTTE MORRICONE
2026-06-24 19:30 - 21:00, 2026-06-25 19:30 - 21:00 | National Theatre Bucharest, Bulevardul Nicolae Bălcescu 2, Bucarest, 010051, Romania
Bucharest is the final stop on Aterballetto’s Romanian tour of Notte Morricone.

Aterballetto then arrives in the Romanian capital for the final two performances on 24 and 25 June 2026.

“I, Ennio Morricone, am dead,” the composer wrote before taking his leave. His music, however, cannot die. And this is how creators and artists always leave us without truly leaving us, and how memory takes care of keeping them alive, of keeping 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 creator, who, alone and dazed before his sheets of paper, jots down notes and imagines 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 piece that reaches the audience in waves, embraces them with emotional surges, and captures them in the memory of timeless melodies that have long outlived the images that first gave rise to them. Equally enchanting is the finely chiselled and ever-poetic choreography, composed with obsessive attention to detail: legs and necks seem jointless, bending and snapping rhythmically like metronomes.”— Maria Luisa Buzzi, Danza&Danza

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Duration: 90 minutes
