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SUMMARY:Cry Violet
DESCRIPTION:Panzetti / Ticconi: dance between expiation and greenwashing at Fonderia.\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCRY VIOLET\, named after the extinct flower of the same name\, is a choreographic creation by and with Panzetti / Ticconi\, set to a sound composition conceived and performed by Teho Teardo. \nUsing a gestural code that evokes expressions of pain and shame inspired by the iconography of original sin\, the work highlights the human tendency to atone for guilt through practices that attempt either to repair environmental damage already done or to conceal it. Widespread phenomena such as greenwashing\, in fact\, represent deceptive practices that evade real solutions to the damage human action has inflicted on the environment. \nActions such as cleaning merge with crying. In this context\, a common object like a cloth or handkerchief transforms its function—from a cleaning tool into an element that holds pain\, absorbing tears. Echoing Lady Macbeth’s repeated and futile gesture of trying to wash away the mark of guilt from her hands\, the two performers trace the mechanical ritual of cleaning and concealing. It is within this limbo—between genuine attempts and merely superficial efforts to repair the damage—that CRY VIOLET takes shape\, in a shifting complicity between the aestheticisation of guilt and the act of resolving or hiding it\, until guilt itself becomes an appealing\, seductive\, almost promotional material. \n\n“(…) the choreographic elegance of Panzetti/Ticconi meets the musical energy of Teho Teardo. The composer\, musician and sound designer—winner of the David di Donatello for Best Original Score for the soundtrack of Il Divo by Paolo Sorrentino—has long explored stimuli from other artistic forms. He dedicates himself to concert and recording activities\, investigating the relationship between electronic music and traditional instruments\, as well as creating sound installations and composing for cinema\, television series\, and theatre.”\nEsplorazioni-Triennale.org \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://youtu.be/nMbfqoJ_y48?si=CDC4NKCwYyU_1Y-E \nCREDITS \nChoreography\, performance\, costumes: Ginevra Panzetti\, Enrico TicconiSound composition: Teho TeardoGraphic illustration: Ginevra PanzettiOriginally created within: Esplorazioni – a project by Triennale Milano in collaboration with Volvo Car ItaliaWith the support of: Lavanderia a Vapore\, Piemonte dal Vivo – Turin (IT); Rampe – Stuttgart (DE) \nPanzetti / Ticconi \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGinevra Panzetti and Enrico Ticconi live between Berlin and Turin and have been working as an artistic duo since 2008. Their research unfolds across dance\, performance\, and visual art. By exploring themes connected to the historic relationship between communication\, violence\, and power\, they draw on ancient imaginaries to construct hybrid images suspended between history and contemporaneity. \nTheir work has received numerous international recognitions and has been presented at some of the most prestigious European festivals\, as well as in Japan\, Brazil\, Lebanon\, Jordan\, and the United Arab Emirates. Since 2020\, their choreographic practice as a duo—often involving them as performers of their own creations—has expanded to include the creation of works for other major international companies such as Studio Contemporary Dance Company (HR)\, T.H.E Dance Company (SG)\, Dance On Ensemble (DE)\, and MM Contemporary Dance Company (IT). \nOne of their most recent choreographic works\, INSEL\, premiered in 2023 at the Tanz im August Festival in Berlin. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTalk with Michele Pascarella \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAt the end of both performances\, there will be a moment of meeting and discussion with performers Ginevra Panzetti and Enrico Ticconi\, together with arts and culture communicator Michele Pascarella. \nMichele PascarellaArts and culture communicator.A critic and scholar of theatre\, dance\, and visual arts\, with a curiosity for other artistic fields. His research focuses in particular on the revolutions of the twentieth century and the intersections between different artistic practices. He has written for the magazine Gagarin Orbite Culturali (since 2012) and for Hystrio. Quarterly Journal of Theatre and Performance (since 2014). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nAperitif \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFrom 6:00 PM to 8:30 PMA selection of local products and wines in collaboration with the Mercato Campagna Amica del Tricolore \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nINFO & TICKETS \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTICKETS \nFull price: €10Reduced price (under 30\, dance schools\, Liceo Coreutico Matilde di Canossa\, over 65\, CRAL Comune di Reggio Emilia members): €6Reduced price (under 8): €3 \nTICKET PURCHASE \nTickets can be purchased online at www.biglietteriafonderia39.it. \nThe box office at Fonderia opens one hour before the start of the performance. \nTickets are unnumbered. \nCONTACTS \nMobile & WhatsApp: +39 334 102 3554
URL:https://www.fndaterballetto.it/en/evento/cry-violet/2026-04-08/1/
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SUMMARY:Cry Violet
DESCRIPTION:Panzetti / Ticconi: dance between expiation and greenwashing at Fonderia.\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCRY VIOLET\, named after the extinct flower of the same name\, is a choreographic creation by and with Panzetti / Ticconi\, set to a sound composition conceived and performed by Teho Teardo. \nUsing a gestural code that evokes expressions of pain and shame inspired by the iconography of original sin\, the work highlights the human tendency to atone for guilt through practices that attempt either to repair environmental damage already done or to conceal it. Widespread phenomena such as greenwashing\, in fact\, represent deceptive practices that evade real solutions to the damage human action has inflicted on the environment. \nActions such as cleaning merge with crying. In this context\, a common object like a cloth or handkerchief transforms its function—from a cleaning tool into an element that holds pain\, absorbing tears. Echoing Lady Macbeth’s repeated and futile gesture of trying to wash away the mark of guilt from her hands\, the two performers trace the mechanical ritual of cleaning and concealing. It is within this limbo—between genuine attempts and merely superficial efforts to repair the damage—that CRY VIOLET takes shape\, in a shifting complicity between the aestheticisation of guilt and the act of resolving or hiding it\, until guilt itself becomes an appealing\, seductive\, almost promotional material. \n\n“(…) the choreographic elegance of Panzetti/Ticconi meets the musical energy of Teho Teardo. The composer\, musician and sound designer—winner of the David di Donatello for Best Original Score for the soundtrack of Il Divo by Paolo Sorrentino—has long explored stimuli from other artistic forms. He dedicates himself to concert and recording activities\, investigating the relationship between electronic music and traditional instruments\, as well as creating sound installations and composing for cinema\, television series\, and theatre.”\nEsplorazioni-Triennale.org \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://youtu.be/nMbfqoJ_y48?si=CDC4NKCwYyU_1Y-E \nCREDITS \nChoreography\, performance\, costumes: Ginevra Panzetti\, Enrico TicconiSound composition: Teho TeardoGraphic illustration: Ginevra PanzettiOriginally created within: Esplorazioni – a project by Triennale Milano in collaboration with Volvo Car ItaliaWith the support of: Lavanderia a Vapore\, Piemonte dal Vivo – Turin (IT); Rampe – Stuttgart (DE) \nPanzetti / Ticconi \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGinevra Panzetti and Enrico Ticconi live between Berlin and Turin and have been working as an artistic duo since 2008. Their research unfolds across dance\, performance\, and visual art. By exploring themes connected to the historic relationship between communication\, violence\, and power\, they draw on ancient imaginaries to construct hybrid images suspended between history and contemporaneity. \nTheir work has received numerous international recognitions and has been presented at some of the most prestigious European festivals\, as well as in Japan\, Brazil\, Lebanon\, Jordan\, and the United Arab Emirates. Since 2020\, their choreographic practice as a duo—often involving them as performers of their own creations—has expanded to include the creation of works for other major international companies such as Studio Contemporary Dance Company (HR)\, T.H.E Dance Company (SG)\, Dance On Ensemble (DE)\, and MM Contemporary Dance Company (IT). \nOne of their most recent choreographic works\, INSEL\, premiered in 2023 at the Tanz im August Festival in Berlin. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTalk with Michele Pascarella \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAt the end of both performances\, there will be a moment of meeting and discussion with performers Ginevra Panzetti and Enrico Ticconi\, together with arts and culture communicator Michele Pascarella. \nMichele PascarellaArts and culture communicator.A critic and scholar of theatre\, dance\, and visual arts\, with a curiosity for other artistic fields. His research focuses in particular on the revolutions of the twentieth century and the intersections between different artistic practices. He has written for the magazine Gagarin Orbite Culturali (since 2012) and for Hystrio. Quarterly Journal of Theatre and Performance (since 2014). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nAperitif \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFrom 6:00 PM to 8:30 PMA selection of local products and wines in collaboration with the Mercato Campagna Amica del Tricolore \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nINFO & TICKETS \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTICKETS \nFull price: €10Reduced price (under 30\, dance schools\, Liceo Coreutico Matilde di Canossa\, over 65\, CRAL Comune di Reggio Emilia members): €6Reduced price (under 8): €3 \nTICKET PURCHASE \nTickets can be purchased online at www.biglietteriafonderia39.it. \nThe box office at Fonderia opens one hour before the start of the performance. \nTickets are unnumbered. \nCONTACTS \nMobile & WhatsApp: +39 334 102 3554
URL:https://www.fndaterballetto.it/en/evento/cry-violet/2026-04-08/2/
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SUMMARY:STELLA
DESCRIPTION:Luciano Padovani brings the dance of the Years of Lead to Fonderia.\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRome\, Saturday 18 March 1978.An orange commercial envelope is found in an underpass at Largo di Torre Argentina\, containing a Polaroid photograph: the portrait of a man in shirtsleeves\, a flag with a five-pointed star… and communiqué no. 1 of the Red Brigades.The years of desire and lead\, in a danced fragment of republican Italy. \nThe lived experience of choreographer Luciano Padovani becomes\, in STELLA\, material shaped through the bodies and voices of the two performers: Roberta Piazza and Andrea Rizzo. \n\nWith them\, we enter a brigatist hideout—that hideout… an interior scene inhabited and stirred by intense emotions and moments of great humanity and poetry. A warm atmosphere made of illusions and projections\, masterfully suggested by costume designer Lucia Lapolla. \nElisabetta Calvi \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://youtu.be/2Ju8v8nh5lo?si=50WffQBk6J1O9wwD \nCREDITS \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChoreography and direction: Luciano PadovaniBy and with Luciano Padovani\, Roberta Piazza\, Andrea RizzoCritical eye: Mauro ZocchettaLighting: Thomas HeugerCostumes: Lucia Lapolla \nA production by Compagnia Naturalis Labor \nCo-production: Festival AbanoDanza 2024 \nWith the support of: MIC – Ministry of Culture\, Regione Veneto\, Arco Danza\, Comune di Vicenza \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLuciano Padovani \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHe came to dance relatively late\, during his university studies. A decisive encounter was with Carolyn Carlson\, who encouraged him to move abroad. He chose Paris\, where he spent two intense years in the heart of the nouvelle danse française. He then returned to Italy and moved to Milan\, where he worked with Susanna Beltrami’s company and at Teatro alla Scala. Eventually\, he returned to Vicenza and founded Compagnia Naturalis Labor. It was then that he realised that being a choreographer was truly his calling. He describes himself as a “craftsman of the body.” \nWith the company\, he has created dozens of works. He has collaborated on numerous opera productions\, in theatre\, for events\, and has created choreographies for various Italian dance companies. He is the artistic director of Festival AbanoDanza and Visioni di Danza. He lives in Vicenza. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nINFO & TICKETS \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTICKETS \nFull price: €10Reduced price (under 30\, dance schools\, Liceo Coreutico Matilde di Canossa\, over 65\, CRAL Comune di Reggio Emilia members): €6Reduced price (under 8): €3 \nTICKET PURCHASE \nTickets can be purchased online at www.biglietteriafonderia39.it. \nThe box office at Fonderia opens one hour before the start of the performance. \nTickets are unnumbered. \nCONTACTS \nMobile & WhatsApp: +39 334 102 3554
URL:https://www.fndaterballetto.it/en/evento/stella/
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SUMMARY:Spellbound Evening\, choreographies by Mauro Astolfi
DESCRIPTION:Mauro Astolfi presents three choreographies created for his company as part of Danza in Fonderia.\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\nOn the occasion of International Dance Day\, Fonderia hosts three works by Mauro Astolfi for Spellbound Contemporary Ballet. On stage: Trust\, If you were a man and Holy Shift—three pieces exploring relationships\, listening and transformation through the language of dance. \n\n6:00 PM – Open rehearsal9:00 PM – Performance \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTrust \n\n\n\n\n\n\nChoreography and direction: Mauro AstolfiPerformers: Maria Cossu\, Giuliana MeleMusic: Various artists \nTrust is a short story about two women who do not really know how to behave toward one another. It is an attempt at a temporary agreement\, based on the idea of mutual trust as a tool for getting to know each other a little more quickly. A game woven from different personalities\, yet driven by a subtle need to understand what the other is thinking\, how she might stay close to you\, how you might live beside her. \nTrust is an infantile\, mature\, adolescent yet aware duet—a brief narrative\, a suggestion about certain decisions that sometimes must be made quickly and that can change the course of life. The two vibrate together\, in unison they hide within one another\, they protect each other… and\, moving forward\, they become friends; in the end\, they discover that they can trust one another. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nIf you were a man \n\n\n\n\n\n\nChoreography: Mauro AstolfiPerformers: Filippo Arlenghi\, Roberto Pontieri\, Alessandro Piergentili\, Lorenzo BeneventanoMusic: Various artistsCostumes: Anna Coluccia \nA production by Spellbound \nWith the support of the Ministry of Culture \nCo-production: Attraversamenti Multipli and Armonie d’Arte Festival \nIf you were a man is a study for four men on a profound reprogramming of listening. If the sounds produced by movement and breath could always be decoded in time\, certain things might be avoided\, might never happen\, and one might learn to listen effectively to a body that does not speak. \nThe wonder of a silent dialogue carries unexpected results with it… even the smallest noises and the body’s strategies may reveal an imminent conflict in advance. \nRejection\, suspicion\, distrust\, love\, or fear are not always communicated in time for intervention\, in time to receive precious information about others. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nHoly Shift \n\n\n\n\n\n\nChoreography and direction: Mauro AstolfiPerformers: Maria Cossu\, Marco Prete\, Martina Staltari\, Miriam Raffone\, Filippo Arlenghi\, Lorenzo Beneventano\, Alessandro Piergentili\, Anita Bonavida\, Giuliana MeleLighting design: Marco PolicastroOriginal music: Davidson JaconelloCostumes: Anna ColucciaChoreography assistant: Elena Furlan \nA production by Spellbound \nWith the support of the Ministry of Culture and Regione Lazio \nIn collaboration with Festival MilanOltre \nHoly Shift is a rupture of the paradigm\, the end of a linear dream.A kind of “sacred” disorientation in which it is better to stop looking for answers in familiar models and instead cultivate a new openness to change. \nSometimes we can find the sacred in ruin\, in disintegration\, where a new version of the “sacred” may be hidden. \nHoly Shift is an inner displacement toward a new orientation\, not toward power\, but toward presence.I do not believe the future will be built like a project…rather\, it will reveal itself to those who are able to remain listening to the void\,to inhabit uncertainty without fleeing it\,to recognise in chaos the hidden grammar of another possibility. \nMauro Astolfi \n\n\n\n\n\n\nMauro Astolfi \n\n\n\n\n\n\nMauro Astolfi is one of the most representative authors on the European contemporary dance scene. Active internationally as both a choreographer and teacher\, he has developed a distinctive and ever-evolving movement language\, shaped by a personal reinterpretation of different forms of contemporary expression. \nAfter a long period in the United States\, he founded Spellbound Contemporary Ballet in 1994 together with Valentina Marini\, a production project that is now a leading presence on the international contemporary dance market. Alongside his extensive work for the company\, Astolfi has also been active in recent years as a freelance choreographer. \nHis creations include works for Kitonb Extreme Theatre Company\, the Theatre School of Amsterdam (2004)\, Balletto di Roma (2009 and 2012)\, Szegedi Kortárs Balett in Hungary (2009)—the same year he also choreographed the musical I Promessi Sposi – Opera moderna directed by Michele Guardì—Leipziger Ballett (2011)\, and River North Chicago Dance Company (2011). In that same year\, he co-created a project with Israeli artist Adi Salant\, Associate Director of Batsheva Dance Company\, for Danza e/è cultura\, a cultural bridge between Italy and Israel promoted by MIUR\, Fondazione Flavio Vespasiano\, and the Municipality of Rieti. \nIn 2012\, he was invited to create a new work for BalletX in Philadelphia and to develop Humanology – Site specific young project for Festival Oriente Occidente. In 2013\, he was one of five choreographers selected for the MINUTEMADE project at Gärtnerplatztheater in Munich. In 2015\, he created works in Canada for Arts Umbrella in Vancouver and ProArteDanza in Toronto. \nSince October 2009\, he has also been the Artistic Director of the modern-contemporary department at the Dance Arts Faculty (D.A.F.) in Rome. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nINFO & TICKETS \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTICKETS | PERFORMANCE \nFull price: €10Reduced (under 30\, dance schools\, Liceo Coreutico Matilde di Canossa\, over 65\, CRAL Comune di Reggio Emilia members): €6Reduced (under 8): €3 \nTICKETS | OPEN REHEARSAL \n€3 for all / free for children under 6 \nPURCHASE \nTickets can be purchased online at www.biglietteriafonderia39.it. \nThe box office at Fonderia opens one hour before the performance.Seats are unassigned. \nCONTACTS \nMobile and WhatsApp: +39 334 1023554
URL:https://www.fndaterballetto.it/en/evento/spellbound-evening-choreographies-by-mauro-astolfi/2026-04-29/1/
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SUMMARY:Spellbound Evening\, choreographies by Mauro Astolfi
DESCRIPTION:Mauro Astolfi presents three choreographies created for his company as part of Danza in Fonderia.\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\nOn the occasion of International Dance Day\, Fonderia hosts three works by Mauro Astolfi for Spellbound Contemporary Ballet. On stage: Trust\, If you were a man and Holy Shift—three pieces exploring relationships\, listening and transformation through the language of dance. \n\n6:00 PM – Open rehearsal9:00 PM – Performance \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTrust \n\n\n\n\n\n\nChoreography and direction: Mauro AstolfiPerformers: Maria Cossu\, Giuliana MeleMusic: Various artists \nTrust is a short story about two women who do not really know how to behave toward one another. It is an attempt at a temporary agreement\, based on the idea of mutual trust as a tool for getting to know each other a little more quickly. A game woven from different personalities\, yet driven by a subtle need to understand what the other is thinking\, how she might stay close to you\, how you might live beside her. \nTrust is an infantile\, mature\, adolescent yet aware duet—a brief narrative\, a suggestion about certain decisions that sometimes must be made quickly and that can change the course of life. The two vibrate together\, in unison they hide within one another\, they protect each other… and\, moving forward\, they become friends; in the end\, they discover that they can trust one another. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nIf you were a man \n\n\n\n\n\n\nChoreography: Mauro AstolfiPerformers: Filippo Arlenghi\, Roberto Pontieri\, Alessandro Piergentili\, Lorenzo BeneventanoMusic: Various artistsCostumes: Anna Coluccia \nA production by Spellbound \nWith the support of the Ministry of Culture \nCo-production: Attraversamenti Multipli and Armonie d’Arte Festival \nIf you were a man is a study for four men on a profound reprogramming of listening. If the sounds produced by movement and breath could always be decoded in time\, certain things might be avoided\, might never happen\, and one might learn to listen effectively to a body that does not speak. \nThe wonder of a silent dialogue carries unexpected results with it… even the smallest noises and the body’s strategies may reveal an imminent conflict in advance. \nRejection\, suspicion\, distrust\, love\, or fear are not always communicated in time for intervention\, in time to receive precious information about others. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nHoly Shift \n\n\n\n\n\n\nChoreography and direction: Mauro AstolfiPerformers: Maria Cossu\, Marco Prete\, Martina Staltari\, Miriam Raffone\, Filippo Arlenghi\, Lorenzo Beneventano\, Alessandro Piergentili\, Anita Bonavida\, Giuliana MeleLighting design: Marco PolicastroOriginal music: Davidson JaconelloCostumes: Anna ColucciaChoreography assistant: Elena Furlan \nA production by Spellbound \nWith the support of the Ministry of Culture and Regione Lazio \nIn collaboration with Festival MilanOltre \nHoly Shift is a rupture of the paradigm\, the end of a linear dream.A kind of “sacred” disorientation in which it is better to stop looking for answers in familiar models and instead cultivate a new openness to change. \nSometimes we can find the sacred in ruin\, in disintegration\, where a new version of the “sacred” may be hidden. \nHoly Shift is an inner displacement toward a new orientation\, not toward power\, but toward presence.I do not believe the future will be built like a project…rather\, it will reveal itself to those who are able to remain listening to the void\,to inhabit uncertainty without fleeing it\,to recognise in chaos the hidden grammar of another possibility. \nMauro Astolfi \n\n\n\n\n\n\nMauro Astolfi \n\n\n\n\n\n\nMauro Astolfi is one of the most representative authors on the European contemporary dance scene. Active internationally as both a choreographer and teacher\, he has developed a distinctive and ever-evolving movement language\, shaped by a personal reinterpretation of different forms of contemporary expression. \nAfter a long period in the United States\, he founded Spellbound Contemporary Ballet in 1994 together with Valentina Marini\, a production project that is now a leading presence on the international contemporary dance market. Alongside his extensive work for the company\, Astolfi has also been active in recent years as a freelance choreographer. \nHis creations include works for Kitonb Extreme Theatre Company\, the Theatre School of Amsterdam (2004)\, Balletto di Roma (2009 and 2012)\, Szegedi Kortárs Balett in Hungary (2009)—the same year he also choreographed the musical I Promessi Sposi – Opera moderna directed by Michele Guardì—Leipziger Ballett (2011)\, and River North Chicago Dance Company (2011). In that same year\, he co-created a project with Israeli artist Adi Salant\, Associate Director of Batsheva Dance Company\, for Danza e/è cultura\, a cultural bridge between Italy and Israel promoted by MIUR\, Fondazione Flavio Vespasiano\, and the Municipality of Rieti. \nIn 2012\, he was invited to create a new work for BalletX in Philadelphia and to develop Humanology – Site specific young project for Festival Oriente Occidente. In 2013\, he was one of five choreographers selected for the MINUTEMADE project at Gärtnerplatztheater in Munich. In 2015\, he created works in Canada for Arts Umbrella in Vancouver and ProArteDanza in Toronto. \nSince October 2009\, he has also been the Artistic Director of the modern-contemporary department at the Dance Arts Faculty (D.A.F.) in Rome. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nINFO & TICKETS \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTICKETS | PERFORMANCE \nFull price: €10Reduced (under 30\, dance schools\, Liceo Coreutico Matilde di Canossa\, over 65\, CRAL Comune di Reggio Emilia members): €6Reduced (under 8): €3 \nTICKETS | OPEN REHEARSAL \n€3 for all / free for children under 6 \nPURCHASE \nTickets can be purchased online at www.biglietteriafonderia39.it. \nThe box office at Fonderia opens one hour before the performance.Seats are unassigned. \nCONTACTS \nMobile and WhatsApp: +39 334 1023554
URL:https://www.fndaterballetto.it/en/evento/spellbound-evening-choreographies-by-mauro-astolfi/2026-04-29/2/
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