Stravaganze in sol minore
2025-11-11 14:30 - 15:30 (Europe/Rome) | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Dance Week is for the children of Reggio Emilia too!

On Monday, November 10 at 10:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m., the doors of La Fonderia open to nursery and primary schools of Reggio Emilia.
The magical virtuosity of Toti Scialoja (1914–1998) — a master not only of images but also of words — is at the heart of Stravaganze in sol minore by Francesca Lattuada, a creation for children presented by the CCN/Aterballetto.
The almost magical vibrations that flow from Scialoja’s poems are like the endless ripples formed on the surface of water when a stone is thrown: evoking unreal or hyperreal images, imbued with a musicality that blends poetry and nursery rhyme, where the extraordinary and the frightening meet and hold hands.

Beneath a bush of scarlet rosesThe toad serves hot tea with milk.Beneath a bush of purple rosesIt’s the toad’s turn to wash the cups.(Toti Scialoja, La mela di Amleto, 1984)
CREDITS

Direction and choreography: Francesca LattuadaTexts: Toti Scialoja (from La mela di Amleto)Music: The Klezmorin, Gustav Mahler, Dean Martin, Clara RockmoreMasks and objects: Natali FortierPerformers: Vittoria Franchina, Rocco Ancarola
Co-production: Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto and Centro Teatrale BrescianoIn co-production with Centro Servizi Culturali Santa Chiara

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Preludio / "O" / Alpha Grace
2025-11-12 18:30 - 19:40 | The Fairtree Atterbury Theatre, 4 Daventry St, Lynnwood Manor, Pretoria, South Africa
From November 8 to 12, 2025, Aterballetto embarks on its first tour in South Africa.

Thanks to the collaboration of the Embassy of Italy in Pretoria and the Italian Cultural Institute of Pretoria, Aterballetto performs the triptych Dreamers in three South African cities.

TOUR

Saturday, November 8 – 6:30 p.m. – Johannesburg, UJ Arts & Culture
Monday, November 10 – 6:00 p.m. – Stellenbosch, The Adam Small Theatre
Wednesday, November 12 – 6:30 p.m. – Pretoria, The Fairtree Atterbury Theatre

The triptych opens with Preludio by Italian choreographer Diego Tortelli, who has been collaborating with the company since 2018: a love letter to the body for five dancers, built around some of the most intense poems and songs by Australian singer-songwriter Nick Cave, whose unmistakable voice envelops the audience.
At the heart of the evening is the duet O by German choreographer Philippe Kratz, former principal dancer with Aterballetto and now a sought-after creator for major international theatres. A small masterpiece of unstoppable rhythm, it hypnotically draws the viewer in.
The evening concludes with the sextet Alpha Grace, also by Philippe Kratz — a reflection on empathy, “a gentle form of communication,” as the choreographer says, “between people who feel they stand on the same level.”

Duo d'Eden | Grosse Fugue
2025-11-13 20:30 - 21:30 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Maguy Marin’s dance arrives at Fonderia through the interpretation of the MM Contemporary Dance Company.

Directed by Michela Merola, the company presents for Danza in Fonderia two masterpieces by the multi-award-winning French choreographer Maguy Marin: Duo d’Eden, a duet of rare, almost mythical beauty, and the all-female quartet Grosse Fugue, Marin’s personal interpretation of Ludwig van Beethoven’s work, considered a milestone in the relationship between classical music and contemporary dance. After the performance, a short talk with a dance critic is scheduled.

The MM Contemporary Dance Company won the 2024 Danza&Danza Award for Repertoire Enhancement with Maguy Marin’s Grosse Fugue.
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Duo d'Eden

Choreography and Soundtrack: Maguy MarinRestaged by: Cathy Polo and Ennio SammarcoCostumes: Montserrat CasanovaLighting: Alexandre BéneteaudRehearsal Director: Enrico MorelliPerformers: Mario Genovese, Fabiana Lonardo
Duration: 18 minutes
Production: MM Contemporary Dance CompanyCo-production: Fondazione I Teatri di Reggio Emilia
World Premiere – Compagnie Maguy Marin: December 12, 1986 – AngersFirst Performance with MM Contemporary Dance Company: October 21, 2020 – Teatro Sociale di Trento

“Two bodies, as if naked, advance on stage, entwining with one another and never letting go. A man and a woman, their bodies drawn together and clinging, joined until they become inseparable. She, a vine that wraps and coils. He, who holds her, restrains her, supports her. There is something mythical in their dance, in this total fusion of two beings who become one, never to part again.

Eden is original love, love of the time of innocence. There is also something raw and primitive in this duet. The soundscape of waterfalls and storms accompanies the dance.

Eden is a dance full of strength and beauty, perhaps because of the natural force that emanates from the purity of movement and the precision of gesture, from the almost sculptural forms, from the power of the bodies. That is where the emotion arises—from this simplicity that reveals the essential. If love is a dance, it is surely Eden.”

Yasmine Tigoe

In Duo d’Eden, two dancers of MMCDC perform with mastery and style a work of rare beauty—original, complex, and demanding—created in 1986 by Maguy Marin for her company. Simply a man and a woman: flesh-colored unitards highlighting their nudity, a long wig for her, entwined with each other throughout the piece as she continuously evolves across his body. An Adam and Eve immersed in a journey of sensuality, eros, defense, and attack, within a world that is anything but calm, safe, and idyllic. A poetic and intense work.
Grosse Fugue
Choreography: Maguy MarinRestaged by: Dorothée DelabieMusic: Ludwig van Beethoven, Die Grosse Fuge, Op. 133Costumes: Chantal CloupetLighting: François RenardRehearsal Director: Enrico MorelliPerformers: Fabiana Lonardo, Giorgia Raffetto, Alice Ruspaggiari, Diletta Savini

Duration: 20 minutes

Production: MM Contemporary Dance CompanyCo-production: Reggio Parma Festival, Festival Bolzano Danza / Fondazione Haydn di Bolzano e Trento, MilanOltre Festival

World Premiere – Compagnie Maguy Marin: 2001 – Espace Jean Poperen, MeyzieuNational Preview with MM Contemporary Dance Company: December 16, 2023 – Reggio Parma Festival – Teatro Ariosto, Reggio EmiliaNational Premiere with MM Contemporary Dance Company: July 16, 2024 – Festival Bolzano Danza

Four women and an extraordinary musical work such as Die Grosse Fuge: Maguy Marin’s personal reading of Ludwig van Beethoven’s masterpiece—considered a milestone in the relationship between classical music and contemporary dance—is built on a constant, intimate dialogue between dance and music, on a profound connection between the two arts.

Created in 2001 for the C.ie Maguy Marin, it is revived here in the interpretation of four dancers from the MM Contemporary Dance Company. From the encounter between these four women and the music emerges a complexity between the growing vital force of the feminine and the state of exhilaration and despair of this score.

The dance becomes an euphoric explosion of energy, where the four performers, dressed in red, in an almost frenetic alternation, leap, run, collapse, and rise again in a whirlwind of life and frenzy. A metaphor of life that turns into a vortex, an exhilarating race against death, where the very vertigo of the end drives us to run breathlessly, to live every moment as if it were the last. A powerful, moving work, a moment of pure emotion.

MM Contemporary Dance Company
The MM Contemporary Dance Company is a contemporary dance ensemble directed by choreographer Michele Merola. Founded in 1999, it was conceived both as a production center for events and performances and as a promoter of festivals and workshops, with the aim of fostering exchanges and collaborations between Italian and international artists as witnesses and spokespeople of contemporary culture.

Based in Reggio Emilia, the company’s repertoire is rich and diverse, thanks to the works of Michele Merola and creations by leading European and Italian choreographers such as Maguy Marin, Mats Ek, Mauro Bigonzetti, Thomas Noone, Gustavo Ramírez Sansano, Karl Alfred Schreiner, Silvia Gribaudi, Eugenio Scigliano, Emanuele Soavi, Enrico Morelli, Daniele Ninarello, Ginevra Panzetti and Enrico Ticconi, Roberto Tedesco, Camilla Monga, and Adriano Bolognino.

In 2010, MM Contemporary Dance Company won the prestigious Danza&Danza Award as Best Emerging Company and has since become a recognized excellence of Italian dance, with an established presence across the national stage. In recent years, it has also gained international acclaim, performing in both European and non-European countries (Korea, Colombia, Canada, Germany, Russia, Morocco, Belgium, Spain, Slovenia, Hungary, Czech Republic, Sweden, France, Finland, Serbia, Norway, Croatia).

In 2017, the company won the Europaindanza Award for Choreographic Merit with Michele Merola’s Bolero. In 2022, MMCDC received the Danza&Danza Award for Best Italian Production with Ballade (choreography by Mauro Bigonzetti and Enrico Morelli). In 2024, it was awarded the Danza&Danza Prize for Repertoire Enhancement for Maguy Marin’s Grosse Fugue.

In 2021, 2022, and 2024, MMCDC appeared on RAI 1 in Roberto Bolle’s TV programs Danza con me and Viva la danza, performing works by Mauro Bigonzetti and Lorca Massine. For the 2018–2020 and 2022–2024 triennia, as well as in 2021, the company was an associate ensemble of the InDanza Circuit of Trentino-Alto Adige.

MM Contemporary Dance Company is supported by the Italian Ministry of Culture, the Emilia-Romagna Region, the Municipality of Reggio Emilia, and the Centro Permanente Danza Danza / Reggio Emilia.
Maguy Marin
Maguy Marin was born in Toulouse in 1951. After her dance studies, in 1972 she joined Mudra, the school and choreographic residence created by Maurice Béjart in Brussels, where she took part in the formation of the group Chandra, which gathered the school’s talents under the direction of Micha van Hoecke. From 1974 to 1977 she was a full member of Les Ballets du XXe Siècle, directed by Béjart, where she not only performed repertoire works and new creations, but also choreographed Yu-Ku-Ri (1976).

In 1984, she founded the Compagnie Maguy Marin. After residencies at the Centre Chorégraphique National de Créteil, the Centre Chorégraphique National de Rillieux-la-Pape (Lyon), and later in Toulouse, in 2015 the company settled in Ramdam, in the Lyon region, a space dedicated to artistic creation, to develop an ambitious project: Ramdam, a center for the arts.

Maguy Marin is one of the leading figures of the “new French dance” and has created many works that have become renowned, including Babel Babel (1976), Cendrillon (1985), Coups d’État (1988), Made in France (1992), Aujourd’hui peut-être (1996), Quoi qu’il en soit (1999), Pièces détachées (2002), Umwelt (2004), Turba (2007), Salves (2010). Yet it is May B (1981), inspired by the literary world of Samuel Beckett, that remains a true masterpiece, still performed today in France and worldwide.

In addition to creating all the works for her own company, she has also choreographed for major companies such as Dutch National Ballet, Nederlands Dans Theater 3, Paris Opera, and Lyon Opera Ballet.

Alongside numerous honors received in her home country—including being named Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters in 1998—she is among the few non-Americans to have been awarded the American Dance Festival Award (2003) and, in 2008, the Bessie Award in New York for Umwelt. In 2016, she received the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Biennale Danza.

Overall, Maguy Marin’s creative production could be gathered under the title “the human condition”: from May B to her most recent works, she has brought to life characters that reveal the grotesque soul, intrinsically tied to the essence of humanity. The result is powerful, ironic, and at times fierce.
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Dreamers
2025-11-13 20:30 - 21:45 | Teatro Sociale, Via Paolo Oss-Mazzurana, 19, Trento, 38122, Italia
At the Teatro Sociale in Trento, on November 13 and 14, 2025, 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.
© Festival de Granada | Fermín Rodríguez
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.

Dreamers
2025-11-14 20:30 - 21:45 | Teatro Sociale, Via Paolo Oss-Mazzurana, 19, Trento, 38122, Italia
Al Teatro Sociale di Trento, il 13 e 14 novembre 2025, Aterballetto danza Dreamers, trittico composto dalle coreografie firmate da Tortelli, Kratz e Pite.
Dreamers è un viaggio coreografico in tre visioni, tre poetiche differenti, che insieme compongono un’unica riflessione sul desiderio, la memoria, la perdita e la forza del corpo come spazio emotivo e spirituale. Tre creazioni firmate da coreografi tra i più significativi della scena contemporanea — Philippe Kratz, Crystal Pite e Diego Tortelli — si susseguono come capitoli di un unico sogno.
In An echo, a wave Philippe Kratz parte dalla suggestione del mare come metafora dell’eternità, dell’incontro e della separazione. Le onde, come i corpi dei danzatori, portano con sé storie, emozioni e movimenti continui, in un flusso che richiama le infinite partenze e ritorni della nostra esistenza. Il Mediterraneo diventa così specchio del nostro essere effimeri, ma anche capaci di bellezza e connessione.
© Festival de Granada | Fermín Rodríguez
Con Preludio Diego Tortelli firma una dichiarazione d’amore al corpo, alla sua fragilità e potenza, al suo continuo trasformarsi. Attraverso l’universo poetico e musicale di Nick Cave, la creazione si interroga sul “credo” personale, sul bisogno umano di trovare senso e forma alle emozioni. In scena, i danzatori non sono individui, ma pulsazioni emotive che abitano lo spazio con urgenza e lirismo.
FND/Aterballetto – Preludio – ph. Claudio Montanari
Solo Echo di Crystal Pite si ispira a due sonate per violoncello e pianoforte di Johannes Brahms e ai versi profondi di Mark Strand. In scena si respira l’inverno dell’anima: il tempo rallenta, il corpo si fa veicolo di un’introspezione commossa e potente. Con delicatezza e intensità, Pite riflette sul tema della perdita, sull’accettazione del cambiamento e sul mistero della resilienza.

Dreamers è un incontro tra tre modi di sentire e raccontare il mondo, un invito a lasciarsi attraversare dalla danza come sogno lucido, specchio delle nostre tensioni più intime, memoria dei nostri desideri più profondi.

VISIONI DEL CORPO: MAURIZIO CATTELAN
2025-11-14 21:00 - 22:00 | PARC, Piazzale delle Cascine 4/5/7, Firenze, 50144
Maurizio Cattelan Bidibidobidiboo 1996 photo Zeno Zotti copia (Palazzo Grassi, Venezia)
At PARC in Florence, three works by Maurizio Cattelan are the focus of the new edition of Visioni del corpo — discovering contemporary art through the lens of choreographic creation.

Nicolas Ballario, listed among the 100 most influential figures in the art world by Il Giornale dell’Arte, guides the audience through the history and poetics of Maurizio Cattelan, one of the most renowned and controversial contemporary Italian artists on the international scene.
At the heart of the evening are three of Cattelan’s works — irreverent and provocative pieces that challenge art and society with sharp irony and striking visual power.
Choreographer Lara Guidetti, together with CCN/Aterballetto dancers Alessia Giacomelli and Kiran Gezels, gives body and movement to Cattelan’s visions, transforming the irony, paradox, and silence of his works into physical gesture.
The three choreographic pieces created for this evening stem from works that are vastly different from one another, compelling the dancers to inhabit ever-changing physical grammars: from physical theatre to abstract form, from extreme restraint to the poetic power of the mask. The challenge is not to create a stylistic continuum, but to generate radical metamorphoses that free the performers from the traces of the author and lead them into unforeseen territories.
On stage, images intertwine, oscillating between beauty and rawness: a Milan that resembles a factory farm of unconscious bodies, a child on the verge of becoming a monster, an ordinary man facing a gun. It is dance that recomposes these fragmented visions, restoring unity to what is dissonant — turning each artwork into a physical experience and each vision into a living presence.

Maurizio Cattelan, Him, 2001, ph Tom Lindboe (Blenheim) A

Lara Guidetti

In 2006, Lara Guidetti graduated as a dancer and choreographer from the Theatre-Dance Atelier of the Paolo Grassi School in Milan, studying with leading national and international masters. She continued her education in dance and performing arts by exploring various pedagogical and training methods through workshops and productions.
In 2008, she founded the Sanpapié Company, where she serves as artistic director, choreographer, director, and performer, presenting works across Italy, Europe, China, and Saudi Arabia. In 2017, her performance LEI won the Bonacina Prize.
She collaborates with the JGM Company in Lisbon and with La Scala Theatre in Milan as a dancer and acrobat, and she has created choreography for several opera productions. She has also taught at the Paolo Grassi School, DanceHaus Milano, and the Teatro Stabile di Torino School.
Since 2022, she has been an associated artist at the MilanOltre Festival and a collaborator with CCN/Aterballetto as a choreographer and curator of site-specific and cultural welfare projects.

Nicolas Ballario

Born in Saluzzo in 1984, Nicolas Ballario works in the field of contemporary art applied to the media. His professional career began in Oliviero Toscani’s creative factory, “La Sterpaia,” where he went on to become cultural director.
He has collaborated with major artistic institutions and numerous publications. He is currently the author and host of contemporary art programs on Radio Uno Rai, and a contributor to L’Espresso and Il Giornale dell’Arte.
In 2019, he hosted the photography series “Camera Oscura” on LA7, and since 2020 he has led several Sky Arte programs, including “Io ti vedo, tu mi senti?”, “The Square,” and “Italia Contemporanea.”
He is also the founder of Studio Cucù and curated the dossier that led to Alba being named Italian Capital of Contemporary Art 2027.

Dreamers
2025-11-16 20:30 - 21:45 | Teatro Cristallo, via Dalmazia, 30, Bolzano, 39100, Italia
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.
© Festival de Granada | Fermín Rodríguez
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.

Dreamers
2025-11-18 20:30 - 22:00 | Teatro Asioli, Corso Cavour, 9, Correggio, Italy
Aterballetto performs Dreamers at the Teatro Asioli in Correggio on Tuesday, November 18.

On stage, four creations unfold:
Preludio by Diego Tortelli, built around some of the most intense poems and songs by Australian singer-songwriter Nick Cave, explores love, faith, dependence, obsession, loss, and the intricate ways these themes intertwine.
The second piece, An echo, a wave by Philippe Kratz, translates the sense of wonder and eternity evoked by the view of the sea: the dancers’ flowing movements recall the natural, unending motion of the waves, while also reflecting the passage through shifting emotional states.
Reconciliatio, by the extraordinary Angelin Preljocaj, delves into the theme of reconciliation — a poetic, impressionistic tableau inspired by the imagery of Saint John’s Apocalypse.
Finally, Solo Echo by Crystal Pite draws inspiration from two cello and piano sonatas by Johannes Brahms and the poem Lines for Winter by Mark Strand, invoking winter, music, and the moving body to express something essential about acceptance and loss.

Author’s Evening
2025-11-21 20:30 - 21:30 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Opus Ballet Company presents the world premiere of its new “Choreographers’ Evening,” featuring works by Roberto Tedesco, Adriano Bolognino, and Giovanni Insaudo.

The evening is born from the encounter of three choreographers — Adriano Bolognino, Giovanni Insaudo, and Roberto Tedesco — all winners of the Danza&Danza Award. The idea is to bring their creations together in a single program, offering the audience a mosaic of visions that, though distinct in style, engage in a dialogue of intensity and coherence.
Piano-Forte by Roberto Tedesco, set to Chopin’s Nocturnes, explores the tension of opposites — presence and absence, strength and fragility, fall and elevation — revealing how every polarity exists through its counterpart, until it is recomposed into a profound unity.
Behind You by Adriano Bolognino is an intense, dramatic work that evokes winter as an existential condition: a journey through hardship and fear that reshapes our inner boundaries, leading us toward poetic resistance and the possibility of renewal.
The evening concludes with Vespri by Giovanni Insaudo, where Sicilian folklore becomes a field of reflection on the tension between tradition and modernity — a bridge between past and present that transforms collective ritual into contemporary gesture.
Three choreographers, three visions, three languages intertwining roots and modernity, light and shadow, fragility and strength. A journey that turns movement into a mirror of life, offering the audience the energy of a dance that unites the individual and collective poetic experience.

Credits
PIANO-FORTE

Choreography: Roberto TedescoLighting and Space Design: Davide CavandoliCostumes: Santi RinciariTechnical Direction: Laura De BernardisPerformers: Matheus Alves De Oliveira, Ginevra GioliBallet Master: Giusi Santagati
BEHIND YOU (excerpt from White Room)

Choreography: Adriano BologninoAssistant Choreographer: Rosaria Di MaroWith the support of Rosa CoppolaLighting Design: Laura De BernardisCostumes: Santi RinciariPerformers: Gaia Mondini, Frederic ZounglaBallet Master: Giusi Santagati

With the support of the Centro Nazionale di Produzione della Danza Virgilio Sieni and the Fondazione CR Firenze (Bando Abitante)
VESPRI

Concept and Choreography: Giovanni InsaudoAssistant Choreographer: Sandra SaliettiLighting Design: Giovanni InsaudoTechnical Direction: Laura De BernardisSet Elements: Margherita CitranCostume Production: Lisa PerinPerformers: Matheus Alves De Oliveira, Ginevra Gioli, Gaia Mondini, Frederic Zoungla, Rebeca ZucchegniBallet Master: Giusi Santagati
COB | Compagnia Opus Ballet

Directed by Rosanna Brocanello since its founding, the company is composed of a stable ensemble of professional dancers and has developed an extensive repertoire of productions over the years.
Among its most recent works:

Le Quattro Stagioni (2020) by Vivaldi, choreographed by Aurélie Mounier, with live music performed by the Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto;

RIGHT. La Sagra della Primavera (2021) by Carlo Massari, co-produced with C&C Company, Teatro Stabile del Veneto, Oriente Occidente Dance Festival, and Associazione Culturale Mosaico Danza / Interplay Festival (Winner of the CollaborAction XL 2020 Award, part of the Anticorpi XL Network, coordinated by Ass. Cantieri Danza, in support of independent choreography);

Il Labirinto. Il mito di Arianna e il Minotauro (2021) by Arianna Benedetti;

White Room (2022) by Adriano Bolognino, in collaboration with the Centro Nazionale Virgilio Sieni;

La diversità che mi fece stupendo. Pasolini, l’irrealtà del quotidiano (2022) by Giovanni Leonarduzzi, co-produced with Compagnia Bellanda;

Coding Dance (2023) by Leonardo Diana, co-produced with Versiliadanza;

OTOTEMAN_what if by Sofia Galvan and Stefania Menestrina, winner of the 13th edition of the International Prospettiva Danza Teatro Award, co-produced with Festival Danza In Rete – Teatro Comunale Città di Vicenza.

Since 2021, the company has been supported by the Italian Ministry of Culture.

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AN ECHO, A WAVE
2025-11-22 21:30 - 21:45 | Liceo Classico Vittorio Emanuele II, via Bologna, 8, Lanciano, CH, Italy
The new Aterballetto duet will be performed at FLIC in Lanciano on Saturday, 22 November.

The Lanciano in Contemporanea Festival presents An Echo, a Wave by Philippe Kratz, performed by Alessia Giacomelli and Kiran Gezels.
There is perhaps no view like that of the sea that can help us grasp the elusive idea of eternity. It mesmerizes us and can fill us with a sense of spiritual wonder. Watching the flowing movement of a dancer, we sometimes rediscover that same natural motion of the sea’s surface.

Stravaganze in sol minore
2025-11-26 10:00 - 10:50, 2025-11-27 10:00 - 10:50, 2025-11-28 10:00 - 10:50, 2025-11-29 17:00 - 17:50 | Teatro Metastasio, via Benedetto Cairoli, 59, Prato, 59100, Italia
Stravaganze in sol minore by Francesca Lattuada arrives at the Teatro Metastasio in Prato from 26 to 29 November 2025.

The magical virtuosity of Toti Scialoja (1914–1998) — a master not only of images but also of words — lies at the heart of this new creation by the Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto, designed for children and young audiences, where a dancer and an actor play with his poetic imagination.
The almost magical vibrations that spring from Scialoja’s poems are like the endless ripples formed on the surface of water when a stone is thrown in: they evoke unreal or hyper-real images and carry a musicality that blends poetry and nursery rhyme, where the extraordinary and the frightening go hand in hand.

Sotto un cespo di rose scarlatte (Under a bush of scarlet roses)Offre il rospo tè caldo con latte (The toad serves hot tea with milk.)Sotto un cespo di rose paonazze (Under a bush of purple roses)Tocca al rospo sciacquare le tazze. (It’s the toad’s turn to rinse the cups.)(Toti Scialoja, La mela di Amleto, 1984)
CREDITS

Regia e coreografia: Francesca LattuadaTesti: Toti Scialoja (tratti da La mela di Amleto)Musica: The Klezmorin, Gustav Mahler, Dean Martin, Clara RockmoreMaschere e oggetti: Natali FortierInterpreti: Vittoria Franchina, Rocco Ancarola
Coproduzione: Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto e Centro Teatrale BrescianoIn coproduzione con: Centro Servizi Culturali Santa Chiara

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wouh0x0D4HQ

Il mare che ci unisce
2025-11-26 20:30 - 21:30 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
For the first time at Danza in Fonderia, the company ArtgarageDanceCo, led by Emma Cianchi, takes part.

Il mare che ci unisce is an emotional experience that invites the audience, through an abstract structure, to reflect on their roots and on the power of human connection that transcends time and space. With a clear reference to the mythological women of ancient Italy and Greece, four dancers — with their powerful and mysterious presence — explore the connections between their bodies, expressing a sensory, visual, and sonic journey between the real and the immaterial.
Mythological creatures whose legacy continues to inspire, reminding us that — in ancient stories as in modern life — the role of women is fundamental and intrinsically linked to growth and transformation, equality and peace.

CREDITS

Choreography: Emma CianchiOriginal Music: Lino CannavacciuoloCostumes: Leandro FabbriSet Design: Alessandro Sodano

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A journey suspended between myth and reality, where the prophetic figure of the Cumaean Sibyl becomes a symbol of wisdom and ancestral connection.
The choreography draws inspiration from her prophetic power and mystical bond with the sea, transforming the stage into a ritual of memory and oracles. The figure of the Sibyl, embodied in dance by the performers — guardian of prophecies — becomes a bridge between past and present.
The Sibyls, brought to life through the dancers’ strength and the evocative music, guide the audience through the voices of generations and migrations, evoking stories and identities interwoven across the Mediterranean.

ArtgarageDanceCo

ArtGarage is a dance production organization active since 2003 on both national and international stages, recognized by the Italian Ministry of Culture and the Campania Region.The company has always supported and collaborated with artists from diverse backgrounds who explore the languages of contemporary dance and new audiovisual and multimedia technologies.
ArtGarage’s work is grounded in the cross-pollination of different expressive forms, in a constant search for new creative possibilities to give life to live performances, sound installations, and visual environments.
The core ensemble of ArtgarageDanceCo is led by Emma Cianchi, Italian choreographer and artistic director, and includes a multidisciplinary team composed of a permanent group of dancers, videomaker Gilles Dubroca, and sound designer Dario Casillo.
The organization also curates and promotes HumanBodies — a professional training program for contemporary dancers, recognized by the Campania Region — and Immagi]Na FilmFestival, an event dedicated to videodance, supported by the Campania Region Film Commission.

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NOTTE MORRICONE
2025-11-27 20:30 - 22:00 | Teatro Comunale, Piazza Giuseppe Verdi, 40, Bozen, 39100, Italy
From November 27 to 30, 2025, Aterballetto performs Notte Morricone by Marcos Morau at the Teatro Comunale di Bolzano.
“I, Ennio Morricone, am dead,” wrote the composer before taking his leave. His music, however, cannot die. This is how creators and artists always leave us without ever truly leaving, and 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 to the world.Notte Morricone unfolds in the twilight of an ordinary night in the life of a creative spirit who, alone and dazed before his papers, jots down notes and envisions 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 work that washes over the spectator in waves, embraces them with emotional currents, and captivates them with the memory of timeless melodies that have long outlived the images that first inspired them. Equally enchanting is the finely chiselled, ever-poetic choreography, composed with meticulous attention to detail: legs and necks seem jointless, bending and snapping rhythmically like metronomes.Maria Luisa Buzzi – Danza&Danza
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NOTTE MORRICONE
2025-11-28 19:00 - 20:30, 2025-11-29 19:00 - 20:30, 2025-11-30 16:00 - 17:30 | Teatro Comunale, Piazza Giuseppe Verdi, 40, Bozen, 39100, Italy
Dal 27 al 30 novembre 2025 Aterballetto danza Notte Morricone di Marcos Morau al Teatro Comunale di Bolzano.
“Io, Ennio Morricone, sono morto”, scrisse il compositore prima di congedarsi. La sua musica, invece, non può farlo. Ed è così che i creatori e gli artisti sempre ci lasciano senza lasciarci, ed è in questo modo che la memoria si preoccupa di tenerli vivi, di tenerli al sicuro. Notte Morricone è il mio regalo, un devoto tributo alla bellezza che ha donato al mondo.
Notte Morricone si svolge nel crepuscolo di una notte ordinaria nella vita di un creativo, che solo e stordito davanti ai suoi fogli, prende appunti e visualizza melodie per film che non esistono ancora, riportando in vita storie nell’aria rarefatta della sua stanza.
Marcos Morau – Regista e coreografo

Impossibile descrivere Notte Morricone, pezzo magistrale che arriva a flutti allo spettatore, lo abbraccia con onde emotive, lo cattura nella memoria di melodie intramontabili sopravvissute di gran lunga alle immagini che le hanno generate. Incantevole pure la coreografia cesellata e sempre poetica, composta con maniacale attenzione al dettaglio: gambe e collo sembrano privi di giunture, si flettono e scattano ritmicamente come metronomi.
Maria Luisa Buzzi – Danza&Danza
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Durata 90′

Viaggio nel repertorio del balletto (A journey through the ballet repertoire). Teatro dell'Opera di Roma
2025-11-29 18:00 - 19:15 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Viaggio nel repertorio del balletto (A journey through the ballet repertoire), curated and presented by Francesca Pedroni, dance journalist and critic, with the dancers of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma.

Nutcracker: between reality and magic, the timeless Christmas ballet

Curated by Francesca Pedroni
With Étoile Alessio Rezza, Primi Ballerini Marianna Suriano and Claudio Cocino, and Soloist Flavia Stocchi, Ballet Company of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma
Guest: Paul Chalmer, international choreographer

In the world of classical-academic ballet, Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without The Nutcracker. Alongside The Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake, it completes the triad of masterpieces composed in late 19th-century Russia by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The Nutcracker premiered at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg in 1892, with a libretto by the first maître of the Imperial Theatres, Marius Petipa, and choreography by Lev Ivanov. A Christmas Eve filled with wonders — from the battle between toy soldiers and mice to the Waltz of the Snowflakes, the Sugar Plum Fairy’s variation with its crystalline celesta sound, and the transformation of the Nutcracker toy into a Prince who leads the young heroine on magical adventures.
The Ballet Company of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, directed by Eleonora Abbagnato, will bring it to the stage this December at the Teatro Costanzi in the version by Paul Chalmer — the focus of the November edition of Viaggio nel repertorio del balletto (A journey through the ballet repertoire), curated by Francesca Pedroni for the Centro Coreografico Nazionale / Aterballetto.
A performance-conversation blending readings, stories, and video clips, featuring the invaluable participation of Étoile Alessio Rezza, Primi Ballerini Marianna Suriano and Claudio Cocino, and Soloist Flavia Stocchi from the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, who will dance some of the ballet’s most iconic excerpts — along with Paul Chalmer himself.

ALESSIO REZZA

Born in Modugno (Bari), Alessio Rezza graduated from the La Scala Ballet School in 2008. After performing with the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, and the Paris Opéra Ballet, he joined the Ballet Company of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma in 2010. Under the direction of Eleonora Abbagnato, he was promoted to Soloist, later named Principal Dancer (The Nutcracker), and in May 2022, appointed Étoile (Le Corsaire).
Throughout his career, he has danced leading roles from both the classical and contemporary repertoire, including Basilio in Don Quixote, Albrecht in Giselle, Prince Désiré in The Sleeping Beauty, James in La Sylphide, The Prince in The Nutcracker, Solor and the Golden Idol in La Bayadère, Frédéri in L’Arlésienne, Colas in La Fille mal gardée, Franz in Coppélia, and Lensky in Onegin.
He has also performed in works by William Forsythe, Jiří Kylián, Rudolf Nureyev, Angelin Preljocaj, Roland Petit, Jerome Robbins, Frederick Ashton, Mauro Bigonzetti, Uwe Scholz, Johan Inger, Maurice Béjart, José Limón, Benjamin Millepied, Christopher Wheeldon, David Dawson, Paul Chalmer, and Jiří Bubeníček, working with world-renowned ballet masters such as Mikhail Baryshnikov, Julio Bocca, Patricia Ruanne, Laurent Hilaire, José Martinez, and Sylvie Guillem.
In 2023, he was invited to dance at the Dubai Opera in A Thousand Tales by Francesco Ventriglia, and also performed in the “Les Étoiles” galas (2023 and 2024) and “Il cigno nero”, produced by Daniele Cipriani Entertainment. In 2024, he portrayed Prince Siegfried in the Rai5 televised recording of Swan Lake, choreographed by Benjamin Pech.
Among the many awards he has received are the Premio Positano, Danza&Danza, Roma in Danza, Anita Bucchi, Roma è Arte, and Europa in Danza.

FLAVIA STOCCHI

Born in Rome, Flavia Stocchi trained at the Opera di Roma Ballet School, performing in productions directed by Carla Fracci, including La Gitana (Chalmer), The Nutcracker with Fracci, and Michelangelo with Mario Marozzi. She has won several international competitions and awards such as Aurel Millos, Anita Bucchi, and Guido Lauri (Best Emerging Performer), as well as a scholarship to the Royal Ballet School in London (2010).
After graduating with top honors, she performed alongside Alessio Carbone and Giuseppe Picone in Daniele Cipriani’s galas, and in 2013 she joined the Ballet Company of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, then directed by Van Hoecke. She has also danced with MaggioDanza (La Sylphide by Bournonville; The Four Temperaments by Balanchine) and at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo (The Nutcracker and Carmen by Amodio, for which she received the Premio Capri for Best Emerging Talent 2014).
At the Opera di Roma, she has performed in Carmina Burana (Van Hoecke), The River (Ailey), and The Nutcracker (Amodio). Under Eleonora Abbagnato’s direction, she has appeared in Pink Floyd Ballet (Petit), Giselle (Ruanne), the pas de trois in Swan Lake (Pech), Amorino and Kitri in Don Quixote (Hilaire), Suite en blanc (Lifar), and as Bluebird and Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty (Bart), a performance that earned her the Danza&Danza Award for Best Emerging Performer 2018.
In 2016, she was chosen by Iancu to perform Swan Lake (Odette/Odile) in Bucharest. She took part in the Italians in the World Gala at the Coliseo Theatre in Buenos Aires alongside Eleonora Abbagnato and Giuseppe Picone.
Her recent performances at the Opera di Roma include The Nutcracker by Peparini (as Clara) and by Chalmer (as Young Clara), Nuit romaine by Preljocaj, Giselle by Fracci (Peasant Pas de deux), Il rosso e il nero by Scholz (Mathilde de La Mole), Onegin by Cranko (Olga), Within the Golden Hour by Wheeldon at Caracalla, and Creature, a new creation by Francesco Annarumma at La Nuvola.

PAUL CHALMER

Born in Ottawa in 1962, Paul Chalmer studied with Oliphant, Seillier, and Bruhn at the National Ballet School before joining the National Ballet of Canada. In 1980, he became a member of John Cranko’s Stuttgart Ballet, where he was later promoted to Principal Dancer. In 1985, he joined Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo in the same rank and went on to perform with companies such as the English National Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Scottish Ballet, London City Ballet, the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, and La Scala in Milan.
Throughout his career, he has performed major roles from the classical repertoire as well as works by Balanchine, Tetley, MacMillan, Kylián, Forsythe, and Scholz. He has partnered some of the greatest étoiles, including Thesmar, Fracci, Seymour, Makarova, Evdokimova, Jaffe, Marcia Haydée, Dessutter, Keil, Savignano, and Terabust.
He was appointed Ballet Master at the Semperoper Ballett Dresden in 1999, and the following year at the Leipziger Ballett at the invitation of Uwe Scholz, whose successor he became as Artistic Director of the company from 2005 to 2010.
As a choreographer, he has created La Fille du Danube for the Arena di Verona Ballet (1996), La Gitana (1996), and Il Talismano (awarded the Premio Massine in 1997). In 2009, he presented Piaf à Deux at the Madrid en Danza Festival and Romeo and Juliet at the St. Prex Festival in Switzerland. He served on the Prix de Lausanne jury in 2011, the same year he created Swan Lake – The Tchaikovsky Enigma for MaggioDanza.
In 2013, he choreographed Romeo and Juliet for the Junior Ballet of the Conservatoire National de Paris and Cinderella for the Teatr Wielki in Poznań, later revived in 2014 at the National Moravian-Silesian Theatre Ballet in the Czech Republic, where he also created The Three Musketeers (music by Jan Kučera, 2017) and The Picture of Dorian Gray (music by Aniello Mallardo, 2022). For Opera Nova Bydgoszcz in Poland, he created The Nutcracker (2015) and Romeo and Juliet (2018).
A new production of The Three Musketeers premiered at the Latvian National Ballet in Riga in October 2018, followed by A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples in 2019.
For the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Chalmer has choreographed Lungo Viaggio (2000), The Sleeping Beauty (2002), La Gitana (2005), La Vestale (2006), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2008), Chopin racconta Chopin (2010), La Sylphide (2019), and The Nutcracker (2023).

FRANCESCA PEDRONI

Dance critic for the daily newspaper Il manifesto and the magazine Danza&Danza. For Classica HD (formerly Sky Classica, Channel 124), she worked as author and director of the series Danza in Scena, producing over 70 documentaries dedicated to artists such as William Forsythe, Pina Bausch, and Alessandra Ferri.
For cinema, she wrote and directed the documentary film Roberto Bolle. L’arte della Danza, produced by Classica and Artedanza srl. She curated the DVD collection I capolavori della danza, published by Classica HD and Corriere della Sera.
Since 2000, she has been teaching Dance History at the Accademia Teatro alla Scala, and she also leads ballet talks for the Teatro alla Scala’s Under30/35 audience program.

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NOTTE MORRICONE
2025-12-03 20:30 - 22:00 | Teatro Sociale, Via Bellini, 3, Como, 22100, Italia
At the Teatro Sociale in Como, Aterballetto performs Notte Morricone by Marcos Morau.
“I, Ennio Morricone, am dead,” wrote the composer before taking his leave. His music, however, cannot die. This is how creators and artists always leave us without ever truly leaving, and 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 to the world.Notte Morricone unfolds in the twilight of an ordinary night in the life of a creative spirit who, alone and dazed before his papers, jots down notes and envisions 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 work that washes over the spectator in waves, embraces them with emotional currents, and captivates them with the memory of timeless melodies that have long outlived the images that first inspired them. Equally enchanting is the finely chiselled, ever-poetic choreography, composed with meticulous attention to detail: legs and necks seem jointless, bending and snapping rhythmically like metronomes.Maria Luisa Buzzi – Danza&Danza
Duration: 90 minutesFind out more »

HEI AI!
2025-12-04 11:00 - 12:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
On December 4, the Sanpapié company performs with artificial intelligence for Danza in Fonderia in Reggio Emilia.

Through words, dance, and metatheatrical interruptions, an ironic and poetic narrative takes shape — suspended between present and future — inviting the audience to reflect on environment, technology, identity, and relationships. A performance that blends spoken theatre, dance, physical action, and philosophical inquiry to speak to young people in a direct, profound, and provocative way.
“HEI AI!”, written in collaboration with AI, was born as a dance-theatre piece, but is first and foremost a thinking device.
A performance dedicated to middle and high school students.

CREDITS

A Sanpapié productionWith the support of MiC – TOCC Notice for the Ecological Transition of Cultural and Creative Organizations – Action B2In collaboration with Achab Group and Fabvision srl
Text: Saverio Bari and AIDirection and choreography: Lara GuidettiSoftware design: Fabvision srlCostumes: Maria Barbara De MarcoPop-up creation: Isadora BucciarelliSound design: Marcello GoriLight design: Marcello MarchiWith Francesca Lastella and Giacomo Stallone

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Dorian lands on Earth after a journey through space.He doesn’t remember exactly how long he has been away, but it feels as if not much time has passed — perhaps a year. He recalls leaving on a mission to seek solutions to the environmental disaster unfolding on the planet, which is making life on Earth increasingly difficult. But these memories are blurry… Are they really his? Was he truly on a mission? Who is he, really?
He lands together with Ai, the artificial intelligence that travelled with him, and which helps him understand what is happening to him — and above all, what has happened to the planet, now inhospitable and, it seems, uninhabited. But suddenly he encounters Corpo, apparently the only human being who survived the catastrophe — a being who has regressed to a primordial, pre-historic state…
Corpo does not speak. He communicates, yes — but only through the language of the body, through dance, a language almost unintelligible to Dorian, who is used to interacting only with Ai. Perhaps he has been away far longer than he thinks… or perhaps he has only just been “born,” and has never before seen a real human being in flesh and blood. It is Ai, through a dialogue of questions and answers, who explains to Dorian what it means to be “human,” what those expressions, reactions, and physical impulses of the creature before him signify — a creature he struggles to recognize as similar to himself.
Through direct experience — through being in the presence of Corpo — Dorian will finally discover the truth about his own nature:that he is, in fact, an artificial being.

Compagnia Sanpapié

Founded in 2008 and directed by Lara Guidetti, Sanpapié is an artistic entity distinguished by the radical nature of its choreographic research and by a transdisciplinary approach that escapes any stylistic classification. The company investigates the body as a poetic and political device, a meeting ground for the languages and imaginaries of the present. The organic intertwining of dramaturgy and movement generates works that transcend conventional formats, engaging non-traditional spaces and diverse audiences.
With more than fifty productions and an international presence spanning Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, Sanpapié has built a recognizable artistic vision in continuous transformation.
In 2025, from the merger between Sanpapié and C&C Company, SPaCCa is born — an acronym combining the two identities — a project of co-artistic direction led by Lara Guidetti and Carlo Massari. The result of an alliance between two mature and complementary artistic voices, SPaCCa establishes itself on the international scene as an outpost for choreographic research and a center for interdisciplinary creation.
A creative dialogue aimed at redefining — together — the territories of the contemporary.

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Made in Italy 36.0
2025-12-06 18:00 - 19:00, 2025-12-06 20:30 - 21:30 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Agora Coaching Project – foto Nicola Stasi

On December 6, the young talents of Agora Coaching Project perform for Danza in Fonderia in Reggio Emilia.

Double performance on Saturday, December 6:
6:00 PM8:30 PM
The protagonists of the evening are the dancers of Agora Coaching Project, an advanced training program promoted and supported by the MM Contemporary Dance Company and A.S.D. Progetto Danza of Reggio Emilia, under the artistic direction of Michele Merola and Enrico Morelli.
Founded in 2010, the program is gaining wide recognition within the European dance community and boasts collaborations with internationally renowned teachers and choreographers.

MOVETOPIA
Coreography by Massimo Gerardi

Choreography: Massimo GerardiMusic: Jan Satler, Franz Liszt (performed by Mikhail Pletnev)Performers: Agora Coaching Project
Duration: 20 minutes

Like many utopias set on islands or within isolated communities, MOVETOPIA expresses the desire to distance oneself from the complex and often problematic reality of the world. This can be interpreted as a metaphor for the attempt to create ideal conditions in which people can live in harmony, free from the interference and conflicts that arise in larger societies.
MOVETOPIA represents a journey toward a new society and a distant place. The different “stations” are characterized by specific moods, conveyed both through the modus operandi of the dance and through the musical context. These two elements influence one another and strive to reach a state of harmony.Within this dynamic interaction between dance and music, a creative narrative unfolds, guiding the audience through a path of emotional discovery.

DI TANTI ROMEI, DI TANTE GIULIETTE
Coreography by Michele Merola

Choreography: Michele MerolaMusic: Apparat, S. ProkofievLive music and vocals: Natalia AbbasciàLighting: Gessica GerminiPerformers: Agora Coaching Project
Duration: 40 minutes
Di tanti Romei e di tante Giuliette celebrates youth and its ability to be absolute in everything — in love and friendship — pure and untamable, with passions lived without defenses, powerful dreams that are total and temporarily eternal. The young dancers involved in the performance embody and reveal this passion and, through an intertwining of paths, stories, and bodies, they tell us about themselves but also about us as spectators.
Our task is to guide these young people through a tragic, powerful, endless story that still today speaks of passion and freedom. A story told for centuries in theatre and cinema, rewritten, interpreted, and adapted countless times — yet, in every version, it never loses its timeless beauty.
Speaking of love in the era of virtual communication, of fast consumption of everything — in an age where a simple text message could start or end a relationship — means restoring dignity and strength to Love. Today, much is said about violence, hatred, betrayal, and love that turns violent and often kills, but far less is said about the poetry of love, its delicacy made of gestures, tenderness, glances, and words.
Equally relevant today is the generational clash: the world of young people, made not only of love but also of hatred, violence, friendship, joy, and celebration, and the adult world, driven by greed and prejudice — a world the young inherit, continuing it like Tybalt, or breaking it like Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare’s young characters are youths who suffer: Juliet suffers from not being heard by parents unable to show her love; Benvolio suffers in his loneliness, taking refuge in friendship; and a multitude of young people wander the city, fighting against a world that has no space for them. Written centuries ago, these young people do not seem far from those of today.
The choreography created by Michele Merola for the young dancers of the training project thus gives shape to a powerful message: love, take part, lose yourselves, fight, and defend your beauty.

AGORA COACHING PROJECT

AGORA COACHING PROJECT is a one-year advanced dance training program for dancers aged 18 to 22, based in Reggio Emilia. Founded in 2010, it is directed by Michele Merola and Enrico Morelli, and is promoted and supported by the MM Contemporary Dance Company and the Centro Permanente Danza of Reggio Emilia.
Its aim is to train artists who are ready to face, with flexibility, the wide-ranging demands of the international dance market — artists capable of responding to the diverse technical and stylistic requirements that this very market presents.
The project offers a broad spectrum of stimuli — technical, cultural, and based on exchange — between students and choreographers, each coming from and working within some of the most interesting contexts of the international dance scene. Agora brings young dancers into contact with renowned choreographers of different stylistic orientations and, over the years, has welcomed many distinguished names.
Alongside Michele Merola and Enrico Morelli, numerous teachers contribute to the program, each with proven and highly qualified experience in the field.

MASSIMO GERARDI

Massimo Gerardi is a dancer, choreographer, and pedagogue known for integrating contemporary dance with classical technique, shaping a choreographic style marked by emotional depth and interdisciplinary openness. Since 2024, he has been Director of Dance at the Gerhart-Hauptmann-Theater in Görlitz-Zittau, where he oversees artistic and organizational direction and creates contemporary productions, often in collaboration with international artists.
He trained initially in Udine and Reggio Emilia, later earning a Master of Arts in Dance Pedagogy from the Palucca Dance University of Dresden. He danced in prestigious companies and theaters, including Balletto Comunale di Firenze, Teatro La Fenice, ATERballetto, Staatstheater Nürnberg, Ballett Dortmund, Stadttheater Augsburg, and Landestheater Linz, developing a personal synthesis of classical technique and contemporary language.
Alongside his performance career, he undertook an extensive path as a choreographer, presenting works in numerous theaters in Germany and abroad (Theater Kiel, Staatstheater Oldenburg, Theater Vorpommern, Stadttheater Gießen, Theater Aachen, Landesbühnen Sachsen, Odeon Theatre Bucharest) and participating in international festivals and projects such as the Lucerne Music Festival, Palucca Hochschule Dresden, National Conservatory of Prague, and the Agorá Coaching Project.
As a teacher, he has taught at institutions including the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln, Palucca Hochschule Dresden, Korean National University of Arts, Vienna State Opera Ballet Academy, and SEAD Salzburg, in addition to leading workshops at various European schools and universities.
He has received numerous choreographic awards (Hannover, Düsseldorf, Treviso, Florence, Kölner Tanztheaterpreis 2008 and 2011) and important scholarships (Kunststiftung NRW, DAAD, ICR/American Dance Festival), enabling research periods with companies such as GöteborgsOperan, Iceland Dance Company, and Nederlands Dans Theater.
Also active on the independent scene, his works have been supported by several cultural institutions and presented at international festivals including Bolzano Danza, Schrittmacher Festival Aachen, eXplore Festival Bucharest, Scenario Pubblico Catania, SAT Barcelona, Zawirowania Warsaw, and the Journées Choréographiques de Carthage.

MICHELE MEROLA

Michele Merola is the artistic director of the MM Contemporary Dance Company, the contemporary dance ensemble he founded in 1999 in Reggio Emilia. With this company, Merola has brought to the stage—both in Italy and abroad—many of his works, including La metà dell’ombra, winner of the Anita Bucchi Prize in 2010, and Bolero, recipient of the Europaindanza 2017 Award for Choreographic Merit.
Since 2000, he has created numerous works for other companies, including Aterballetto, the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, the Dominic Walsh Dance Theater, the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, the Junior Balletto di Toscana, the National Theatre of Belgrade, the Tanzcompagnie Landesbühnen Sachsen in Dresden, and the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma.
In 2003 he won the International Choreographic Competition of Hannover, in 2008 the Positano Leonide Massine Award for the Art of Dance, in 2016 the Giornale della Danza Award as Best Italian Choreographer, in 2018 the Basilicata ArteDanza Award, and in 2019 the Metti le ali al Talento Award for his career and the artistic direction of MMCDC.
Since 2010, Merola has been, together with Enrico Morelli, the artistic director of Agora Coaching Project, a professional training program for dancers based in Reggio Emilia.

PERFORMERS AGORA COACHING PROJECT
Riccardo Basile, Sara Bianchi, Tommaso Brintazzoli, Alisa Businaro, Anita Campanini, Simone Casella, Giovanni Cennamo, Giulia Chiletti, Margherita Ciardi, Alessandra Fusco, Giulia Giannini, Samuele Iannacchero, Louis Franck Kamta, Marica Lisco, Elena Manfredini, Nicolò Marroccu, Linda Massai, Sofia Oliva, Alessia Romeo, Paula Salinas Alvarez, Alice Scarangelli, Loris Schirinzi, Gabriel Sprovieri, Chiara Tonussi, Claudio Tornesi, Carolina Torrini, Michelle Tuani, Eva Vannini, Camilla Veronesi

INFO AND TICKETS
TICKETSFull price: €10Reduced (€6): under 30, dance schools, Liceo Coreutico Matilde di Canossa, over 65, CRAL Comune di Reggio Emilia membersReduced (€3): under 8

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Aterballetto Gala
2025-12-06 21:00 - 22:30 | Teatro Sperimentale, Via Gioacchino Rossini, Pesaro, 61121, Italia
Il CCN/Aterballetto dance at Teatro Sperimentale in Pesaro on 6 december 2025.

The company’s dancers present an evening featuring some of the most recent highlights from their repertoire, including the brand-new female solo Terra Piccola, choreographed by Antonella Bertoni.

Preludio by Diego Tortelli is a profane prayer inspired by the writing of Nick Cave: five dancers become emotional triggers, embodying obsessions, dependencies, and desires in a hymn to the body and its constant transformation.

https://youtu.be/cN_5fZFrz4c

Reconciliatio by Angelin Preljocaj is a delicate female duet set to Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata.

https://youtu.be/SBq99Tyc-xQ

An Echo, A Wave by Philippe Kratz draws inspiration from the hypnotic motion of the sea — a symbol of eternity and a place of encounters, departures, and returns. A poetic duet, fluid like a wave that moves through time.

https://youtu.be/pn4a6L_U-hs

Finally, Alpha Grace, also by Philippe Kratz, is a reflection on empathy — that ancient and sacred ability to recognize oneself in others. Solitudes and individualities gradually transform into a collective presence, into a harmony built on listening and sharing.

Rhapsody in blue | Solo Echo - open rehearsal
2025-12-09 18:00 - 19:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Aterballetto’s final open rehearsal of 2025
On Tuesday, December 9 at 6:00 PM, Aterballetto opens the doors of Sala Fusione to share with the Reggio Emilia audience the rehearsal process of Rhapsody in Blue by Iratxe Ansa & Igor Bacovich and Solo Echo by Crystal Pite.
Open rehearsals are unique moments in which audiences can witness how a performance is created, engage in dialogue with the artists, and be surprised by the art of dance: a special opportunity that allows the public to step inside the daily practice of dancers and choreographers.

Info & Tickets
TICKETS

Full price: €3Free: under 6

TICKET PURCHASE

Online: https://www.biglietteriafonderia39.it/home.aspxFonderia Box Office: opens one hour before the performance(Via della Costituzione 39, Reggio Emilia)

Tickets are unreserved.

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NOTTE MORRICONE
2025-12-11 20:30 - 22:00 | Teatro Verdi, Viale Martelli, 2, Pordenone, 33170, Italia
At the Teatro Verdi in Pordenone, Aterballetto performs Notte Morricone by Marcos Morau on the occasion of the International Mountain Day, as part of the Montagna Teatro Festival 2025.

I, Ennio Morricone, am dead,” wrote the composer before bidding farewell. His music, however, cannot die. Creators and artists never truly leave us; they remain, held alive and safe by memory itself. 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 creative mind — alone and dazed before his sheets of paper, jotting down notes and envisioning 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 work that reaches the spectator in waves, enveloping them in emotion, capturing them in the memory of timeless melodies that have long outlived the images that inspired them. The choreography is equally enchanting — refined and deeply poetic, crafted with meticulous attention to detail: legs and necks seem jointless, bending and springing rhythmically like metronomes.
— Maria Luisa Buzzi, Danza&Danza
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Duration 90′

AiAiAi Pinocchio!
2025-12-13 18:00 - 19:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
A new Pinocchio for Danza in Fonderia | Anthologies. New Readings of the Body.

Inspired by Collodi’s famous tale, AiAiAi Pinocchio! shifts the action into the contemporary world, speaking the language of Generation Alpha, a world shaped by the presence of artificial intelligence.Geppa is a tech-enthusiast passionate about digital creation, attempting to generate a Pinocchio no longer made of wood, but of pixels, data, and algorithms. Accompanying the two characters in this adventure are a talking Cricket, a robot, and FATA TURKINA, the virtual assistant.

A performance for children aged 5 and up
CREDITS
PROJECT WINNER OF THE BUGS CALL — MULTIDISCIPLINARY HABITATS FOR YOUTH THEATRE 2024

by Gruppo IbridoConcept, creation, and performance: Cinzia Pietribiasi and Davide TagliaviniImages, video, and sound: Gruppo Ibrido with Copilot, Haiper AI, EaseUs Voice Over AI GeneratorVideo assistant: Federica Neri

Production: Compagnia Artemis DanzaWith the support of the Italian Ministry of Culture, Regione Emilia-Romagna – Department of Culture, Comune di ParmaWith the support of progetto BUGS, Associazione Settimo Cielo / Periferie Artistiche, Cooperativa Teatrale Prometeo – Passo Nord, Giocateatro Torino / Fondazione Teatro Ragazzi e Giovani, IntercettAzioni – Centro di Residenza Artistica della Lombardia / Circuito CLAPS, KanterStrasse, Officine Della Cultura, Officine Papage, Pilar Ternera, Straligut Teatro, Teatro fra le Generazioni / Giallo Mare Minimal Teatro, Teatro Trieste 34Robot design and implementation: Fab-lab KATAPULT (Slovenia), Santa Chiara Lab – University of Siena

Duration: 60 minutes, no intermissionRecommended age: 5 and up
GRUPPO IBRIDO
GRUPPO IBRIDO was founded in 2021 by dancer Davide Tagliavini and director/digital artist Cinzia Pietribiasi. It is supported by Compagnia Artemis Danza, which produces Pollicino Show, their first work for young audiences, finalist at IN-BOX Verde 2024/2025 and performed more than 45 times.In 2024, Gruppo Ibrido won the BUGS – Multidisciplinary Habitats for Youth Theatre call with AiAiAi Pinocchio! and the CollaborAction Kids call promoted by Network Anticorpi XL with Walt e l’arte di volare.

Cinzia Pietribiasi (1979) teaches Multimedia Dramaturgy and Aesthetics of New Media at the Academy of Fine Arts in Palermo. She was a Junior Scientist for an art–science research project at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, in collaboration with the National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN). After earning her Master’s degree in Cultural Heritage Conservation, she graduated in New Art Technologies at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan.Her latest work, Padre d’amore Padre di fango, won the Stazioni d’emergenza 2023 call at Galleria Toledo in Naples, the First Prize and the Critics’ Prize at the Rimini festival Le voci dell’Anima 2021, and was selected for the Visionari call for Kilowatt Festival 2020 in Sansepolcro. As a member of Jan Voxel, she won the Residenze Digitali 2021 call. She also performs with La Baracca – Teatro Testoni in Bologna.

Davide Tagliavini (1990), dancer, performer, and choreographer, has worked with Emma Dante, Marina Abramović, Luna Cenere, Artemis Danza, Gruppo Nanou, Anna Albertarelli, Lara Russo, and others. He choreographed L’elisir d’amore for the Teatro Regio di Parma and Tristano e Isotta for the Teatro Massimo di Palermo.He performs in Luna Cenere’s works Vanishing Place (selected for the Venice Biennale Danza) and Shoes On (selected for the NID Platform in Cagliari).He teaches in the OVER Limited program in collaboration with CCN/Aterballetto.In 2024, he premiered his first authorial solo, THAT’S ALL, created for the Visavì Gorizia Dance Festival, and selected by Danza Urbana XL 2025, This Must Be The Space (FDE Festival Danza Estate and Festival MILANoLTRE), WAM! Festival, and the Vetrina della giovane danza d’autore eXtra 2025 – Network Anticorpi XL.
INFO & TICKETS
TICKETSFor everyone: €6

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The Fonderia box office is open from 5:00 PM.

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Stravaganze in sol minore
2025-12-14 17:00 - 17:45 | Teatro Romualdo Marenco, Via Nicolò Girardengo, 48, Novi Ligure, AL, Italy
Stravaganze in sol minore by Francesca Lattuada, arrives at the Teatro Marenco in Novi Ligure.

The magical virtuosity of Toti Scialoja (1914–1998) — a master not only of images but also of words — is at the heart of Stravaganze in sol minore by Francesca Lattuada, a creation for children presented by the CCN/Aterballetto.
The almost magical vibrations that flow from Scialoja’s poems are like the endless ripples formed on the surface of water when a stone is thrown: evoking unreal or hyperreal images, imbued with a musicality that blends poetry and nursery rhyme, where the extraordinary and the frightening meet and hold hands.

Beneath a bush of scarlet rosesThe toad serves hot tea with milk.Beneath a bush of purple rosesIt’s the toad’s turn to wash the cups.(Toti Scialoja, La mela di Amleto, 1984)
CREDITS

Direction and choreography: Francesca LattuadaTexts: Toti Scialoja (from La mela di Amleto)Music: The Klezmorin, Gustav Mahler, Dean Martin, Clara RockmoreMasks and objects: Natali FortierPerformers: Vittoria Franchina, Rocco Ancarola
Co-production: Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto and Centro Teatrale BrescianoIn co-production with Centro Servizi Culturali Santa Chiara

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wouh0x0D4HQ

Solo Echo / Reconciliatio / An echo, a wave / Rhapsody in blue
2025-12-14 20:45 - 22:00 | Teatro Comunale, Viale Mazzini 39, Vicenza, 36100, Italia
Aterballetto opens the 2025–2026 dance season at the Teatro Comunale Città di Vicenza on Sunday, December 14.
CCN/Aterballetto performs a true concert in dance. Solo Echo by Crystal Pite, set to Brahms’ sonatas for piano and cello, invokes winter to express something essential about acceptance and loss. Reconciliatio is a delicate female duet by Angelin Preljocaj set to Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata. In An echo, a wave by Philippe Kratz, the flowing movements of the two dancers recall the motion of the sea, while Rhapsody in blue by Iratxe Ansa and Igor Bacovich is a playful, lively choreography echoing Gershwin’s famous score.
