OPEN REHEARSAL - WAITING FOR NOTTE MORRICONE
2024-10-21 18:00 - 19:00 (Europe/Rome) | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Monday, October 21 at 6:00 PM at Fonderia, Waiting for Notte Morricone: an open rehearsal of the Aterballetto Company with choreographer Marcos Morau, allowing the audience to experience the emotions before the indoor debut of Notte Morricone at Teatro Argentina in Rome, where the show will be on stage from October 24 to November 10.
Open rehearsals are unique moments where you can witness the creation of a show, interact with the artists, and be amazed by the art of dance: a special opportunity that allows the audience to enter the daily routine of dancers and choreographers.
CREDITS
Direction and Choreography MARCOS MORAU
Music ENNIO MORRICONE
Musical Direction and Adaptation by MAURIZIO BILLI
Set and Lighting MARC SALICRÚ
Costumes SILVIA DELAGNEAU
Production Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto
Commission, Co-production, First Outdoor Performance Macerata Opera Festival
Co-production, First Indoor Performance Fondazione Teatro di Roma
Co-productions Fondazione I Teatri di Reggio Emilia, Centro Servizi Culturali Santa Chiara Trento, Centro Teatrale Bresciano
Co-production Ravenna Festival | Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini
Indoor Premiere October 24 – November 10, 2024, Rome, Teatro Argentina
The performances at Teatro Argentina are co-presented with Fondazione Teatro di Roma and Romaeuropa Festival
EARLY SUGGESTIONS
«People often ask me what music I listen to, which music inspires or accompanies me in my daily life, and I always answer the same way: from classical music to new contemporary waves, I draw inspiration from many different sources, and Ennio Morricone is always at the top of the list.
Morricone’s music embodies that abstract sense of what is not said and not seen in films. Although it is almost impossible to separate his music from the images that accompany it, Morricone transcends and intertwines with life itself, with memories, and with the beauty and cruelty of a world that continues to move forward, destroying and rebuilding itself every day.
His music has a powerful melancholic quality that stems from both the contemplation of the past and the impossibility of capturing any past experience.
With classical training and avant-garde vocation, Morricone was always beyond the trends of the moment. Today, three years after his death, Morricone continues to inspire artists and visionaries in various fields, and his music belongs to an entire century and has revived many of our great masters.
His music was a genre unto itself, and for this evening I would like to build a universe based on his sensitivity to confirm that his legacy is more alive than ever and that, as he himself would say, “my music has a life of its own, which can live far from the films for which it was created.”»
(Marcos Morau, February 2023)
MARCOS MORAU
Recently appointed Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Ministry of Culture and selected as the best choreographer of the year 2023 by the German magazine TANZ, the career of Marcos Morau (Valencia 1982) continues to grow as a creator and stage director.
Trained between Barcelona and New York, in photography, choreography, and theater theory and dramaturgy, Marcos Morau builds imaginary worlds and landscapes where image, text, movement, music, and space constitute a unique universe constantly nourished by cinema, photography, and literature.
Since 2004, Marcos has directed La Veronal, a company present in the best theaters and festivals in over thirty countries: Théâtre National de Chaillot in Paris, the Venice Biennale, the Festival d’Avignon, Tanz Im August in Berlin, the RomaEuropa Festival, the SIDance Festival of Seoul, Sadler’s Wells in London, Danse Danse Montreal, among many others.
In addition to his work with La Veronal, Marcos Morau is an international guest artist in several companies and theaters where he develops new creations, always halfway between the performing arts and dance: Nederlands Dans Theater, Lyon Opera Ballet, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, Royal Danish Ballet, or The Royal Ballet of Flanders, among others.
As the youngest creator to receive the National Dance Award, the highest recognition in Spain, the future of Morau and La Veronal aims at exploring new formats and languages where opera, dance, and physical theater dialogue more than ever, seeking new ways of expressing and communicating in our present time, always turbulent and constantly evolving.
From this season, he is an associate artist at the Staatsballett Berlin.
“La Veronal is a reminder that dance is often at the forefront of the most innovative theater.” – The New York Times
“Morau’s visual treatment is so brilliant, so vividly strange, that we get involved in what also turns out to be a story of transmission and emancipation.” – Le Monde
“Morau, one of the most interesting young choreographers on the contemporary dance scene.” – El País

Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda
2024-10-22 19:00 - 19:30, 2024-10-22 21:00 - 21:30 | Teatro Municipale Valli, Piazza Martiri del 7 luglio, Reggio Emilia, 42121, Italia
One of Claudio Monteverdi’s most extraordinary works, Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, celebrating its 400th anniversary in 2024, stands as a pinnacle of Italian Baroque music. It becomes the foundation for an innovative multidisciplinary project where music, singing, theater, and dance blend harmoniously in a creative fusion of performative languages. Philippe Kratz handles the choreography, while Fabio Cherstich directs, bringing together his expertise in visual aesthetics and a passion for expressive languages.
FESTIVAL APERTO
REGGIO EMILIA – TEATRO MUNICIPALE ROMOLO VALLI – SALA DEGLI SPECCHI
22 October 2024 – h 19.00 and h 21.00
CREDITS
Direction and Visuals: FABIO CHERSTICH
Choreography and Scenic Movements: PHILIPPE KRATZ
Music: IL COMBATTIMENTO DI TANCREDI E CLORINDA by CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
Dancers: GADOR LAGO BENITO, ALBERTO TERRIBILE
GHISLIERI CONSORT, COMPOSED OF STRINGS AND BASSO CONTINUO
CARLO VISTOLI, COUNTERTENOR
CLAUDIO RADO, ELENA ABBATI, VIOLINS
CORINNE RAYMOND-JARCZYK, VIOLA
GIULIO PADOIN, CELLO
MICHELE GALLO, VIOLONE
FRANCESCO OLIVERO, THEORBO
DENIEL PERER, HARPSICHORD
Coproduction: FONDAZIONE NAZIONALE DELLA DANZA / ATERBALLETTO, TEATRO REGIO DI PARMA / FESTIVAL VERDI, TORINODANZA FESTIVAL – TEATRO STABILE DI TORINO – TEATRO NAZIONALE, GHISLIERIMUSICA – CENTRO DI MUSICA ANTICA
Project co-financed through the call of the DIREZIONE GENERALE SPETTACOLO for the enhancement of live performance activities in institutions and places of culture, with the lead partner being the MUSEO ARCHEOLOGICO NAZIONALE E TEATRO ROMANO DI SPOLETO (through the MUSEI NAZIONALI DI PERUGIA – DIREZIONE REGIONALE MUSEI NAZIONALI UMBRIA).

SITE-SPECIFIC VERSION
PREMIERE: CHIESA DI SANT’AGATA-MUSEO ARCHEOLOGICO NAZIONALE E TEATRO ROMANO DI SPOLETO (PG) – 12 SEPTEMBER 2024
CASTEL SANT’ANGELO IN ROME – 13 SEPTEMBER 2024
COMPLESSO MONUMENTALE DEL CASTELLO E DEL PARCO DI RACCONIGI (CN) – 22 SEPTEMBER 2024
MUSEO NAZIONALE DI VILLA PISANI, STRA (VE) – 28 SEPTEMBER 2024
CERTOSA E MUSEO DI SAN MARTINO, NAPLES – 03 OCTOBER 2024
CASTELLO SVEVO IN BARI – 05 OCTOBER 2024
MUSEO ARCHEOLOGICO NAZIONALE “MARIO TORELLI” IN VENOSA (PZ) – 06 OCTOBER 2024
KOSMOS – MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA – 12 OCTOBER 2024

THEATRICAL VERSION
PREVIEW: TURIN – TORINODANZA FESTIVAL, FONDERIE LIMONE – 20-21 SEPTEMBER 2024
PREMIERE: PARMA – FESTIVAL VERDI, TEATRO FARNESE – 18-19 OCTOBER 2024

BODIES AS MIRRORS
In my vision of Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, I imagine a confined and circular space where the proximity and resemblance of bodies play a crucial role. With choreographer Philippe Kratz, we explore the idea of bodies as mirrors, thus narrating a humanity in conflict with itself. Eros and Thanatos emerge as equally powerful forces, creating a paradoxical atmosphere in this perfectly balanced struggle between human beings.
In conceiving this new creation, I draw explicit inspiration from body art, particularly the works of Marina Abramović and Ana Mendieta, which explore the connection between the body, the earth, and primordial rites and origins. I want the combat to reflect the protagonists’ relationship with their surroundings, incorporating natural elements into their absurd dance of death.
A single voice will bring three characters to life: the text itself, Tancredi, and Clorinda will merge in the body and sound of a countertenor. This estranged sound, compelled by a circular path, creates a sensation of constant repetition, emphasizing the endless cycle of this love and death story, destined, unfortunately, to repeat through the centuries, reaching us with all its strength, the emanation of Tasso’s poetic power, and Monteverdi’s magnificent music.
Fabio Cherstich, Director
INNER STRUGGLEFrom the Tasso’s tale, transposed into music by Claudio Monteverdi, the most obvious themes are the struggle between man and woman and religious conversion, but these are also aspects that I find less intriguing: adapting them into dance would lead to a narrative of mere circumstances.
A more philosophical or psychoanalytic interpretation of this struggle, from which the two protagonists emerge defeated, deceived, and lonely, appears much more compelling to me. In the opposition of their roles lies a whole world: the seeking, the confronting, and the wounding of each other. The dynamic is that of a ritualistic and conflictual duel between two entities drawing near. The absurdity of the act is revealed when one of them loses their life, and we realize that the other, nevertheless, has not won… a deep and shared wound that remains on both bodies.
Are these then two individuals battling each other, or perhaps it is one person wrestling with themselves?
Philippe Kratz, Choreographer
A NEW CULTURAL DIALOGUE
The project of live dance and music in museums, Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, marks a new milestone in the enhancement of cultural heritage through the integration of various art forms. Dance enriches the museum experience with its expressiveness and ability to engage, making it vibrant, dynamic, and accessible to all. The synergy among numerous institutions involved in the project allows us to present the performance in various cultural venues nationwide, establishing this initiative among the best practices of the National Museum System.
Massimo Osanna, Director General of Museums
Ministry of Culture
We are pleased that from a project—Italia Danza—born from the General Directorate for Public and Cultural Diplomacy to promote Italian contemporary dance abroad, a bridge has been built to bring this format into Italian museums through collaboration between Aterballetto and the General Directorate of Museums. For us, this new partnership confirms the value and modernity of the work that the General Directorate I represent carries out daily to promote Italian culture abroad.
Filippo La Rosa, Deputy Director General for Public and Cultural Diplomacy
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
We are honored to lead such a virtuous project: building a national network to bring baroque melodrama, live music, dance, and contemporary direction into our museums is undoubtedly a valuable way to enhance our heritage. The Church of Sant’Agata, part of the National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theater of Spoleto, seemed the most suitable space to host Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda: a place capable of being an exceptional stage to offer viewers a unique experience of the convergence of past and present languages. The dancers will perform in an 11th-century environment, facing the new altarpiece created by artist Stefano di Stasio—a dialogue between ancient and contemporary that complements this project beautifully.
Costantino D’Orazio, Director of National Museums in Perugia –
Regional Directorate of National Museums Umbria

OPEN REHEARSAL - WHOMAN?
2024-10-25 18:00 - 19:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Can a human being exist regardless of their gender identity?
Is it possible to be completely free?
WHOMAN? draws upon the stylistic elements of science fiction cinema to transform choreography into a universal metaphor for the contemporary world. The concepts of masculinity and femininity are equally placed beyond any preconceived notions, and the age-old conflict of gender inequality is deconstructed, weakened, made fragile, and reinterpreted within a broader vision of humanity.
CREDITS
Choreography: Mario Coccetti | Collective
Dancers: Rocco Suma, Sally Damonte, Giovanni Karol Borriello
Production: ASMED | Balletto di Sardegna
Co-production: MILANoLTRE Festival
S DANCE COMPANY

S Dance Company is an artistic project by Mario Coccetti, Rocco Suma, and Salvatore Sciancalepore.
Founded in 2016 as a collective of artists, it has gradually solidified into a contemporary dance company, building a diverse repertoire in terms of stage setups and the number of performers. Today, the company features productions ranging from two to five dancers, with both indoor and outdoor performances. The permanent company dancers include Sofia Zanetti, Flavia Giuliani, and Marco Arzenton, who were joined in 2023 by Flavia Giuliani, Samuele Arisci, Paolo Grosso, Alessia La Notte, and Alessio Saccheri.
Currently, S Dance Company is produced by ASMED Balletto di Sardegna and is actively engaged in national and international tours.

INFO & TICKETS
TICKETS
Full price: 3 euros
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The ticket service at Fonderia is available one hour before the show starts
Tickets are not numbered.
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NOTTE MORRICONE
2024-10-25 19:00 - 20:30, 2024-10-27 17:00 - 18:30, 2024-10-29 20:00 - 21:30, 2024-10-30 19:00 - 20:30, 2024-10-31 20:00 - 21:30, 2024-11-01 20:00 - 21:30, 2024-11-02 19:00 - 20:30, 2024-11-03 17:00 - 18:30 and 6 more dates | Teatro Argentina, Via dei Barbieri, 21, Roma, Italia
The National Choreographic Center/Aterballetto pays tribute to Ennio Morricone with a new production by the Spanish choreographer Marcos Morau.
The Spanish artist, known for his visionary power and his ability to transfigure musical universes, presents a unique creation intertwining the music of Oscar-winning Ennio Morricone with dance, visual arts, and cinematic suggestions. Marcos Morau, currently the youngest choreographer to have received the National Dance Award, Spain’s highest recognition in dance, builds imaginary worlds and landscapes where image, text, movement, music, and space create a unique universe constantly inspired by cinema, photography, and literature. Now, in his first collaboration with the CCN/Aterballetto, he has chosen to work with iconic compositions from the cinematic landscape of the past seventy years: those of Oscar-winning Ennio Morricone. The director states: «With a classical training and avant-garde vocation, Morricone has always been beyond the trends of his time. His music belongs to an entire century and has brought many of our great masters back to life, and for this evening I would like to build a universe based on his sensitivity, to confirm that his legacy is more alive than ever and that, as he himself would say, “my music has a life of its own, which can live far from the films for which it was created.”»
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REPLICHE E ORARI
Romaeuropa Festival

24.10 | h 20.00
25.10 | h 20.00
26.10 | h 19.00
Fondazione Teatro di Roma

27.10 | h 17.00
29.10 | h 20.00
30.10 | h 19.00
31.10 | h 20.00
1.11 | h 20.00
2.11 | h 19.00
3.11 | h 17.00
5.11 | h 20.00
6.11 | h 19.00
7.11 | h 17.00
8.11 | h 20.00
9.11 | h 19.00
10.11 | h 17.00
CREDITS
Regia e coreografia MARCOS MORAU
Musica ENNIO MORRICONE
Direzione e adattamento musicale a cura di MAURIZIO BILLI
Sound design ALEX RÖSER VATICHÉ, BEN MEERWEIN
Set e luci MARC SALICRÚ
Costumi SILVIA DELAGNEAU
Assistenti alla coreografia SHAY PARTUSH, MARINA RODRÍGUEZ
Produzione Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto
Commissione, coproduzione, prima rappresentazione outdoor Macerata Opera Festival
Coproduzione, prima rappresentazione indoor Fondazione Teatro di Roma
Coproduzioni Fondazione I Teatri di Reggio Emilia, Centro Servizi Culturali Santa Chiara Trento, Centro Teatrale Bresciano
Coproduzione Ravenna Festival | Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini
Premiere outdoor 1° agosto 2024, Macerata Opera Festival
Premiere indoor 24 ottobre – 10 novembre 2024, Roma, Teatro Argentina
Le recite al Teatro Argentina sono in co-presentazione con Fondazione Teatro di Roma e Romaeuropa Festival
MARCOS MORAU
Recentemente nominato Cavaliere dell’Ordine delle Arti e delle Lettere dal Ministero della Cultura francese e selezionato come miglior coreografo dell’anno 2023 dalla rivista tedesca TANZ, la carriera di Marcos Morau (Valencia 1982) continua a crescere come creatore e regista di scena.
Formatosi tra Barcellona e New York, in fotografia, coreografia e teoria teatrale e drammaturgia, Marcos Morau costruisce mondi immaginari e paesaggi dove immagine, testo, movimento, musica e spazio costituiscono un universo unico che viene costantemente nutrito dal cinema, dalla fotografia e dalla letteratura.
Dal 2004, Marcos ha diretto La Veronal, una compagnia presente nei migliori teatri e festival di oltre trenta paesi: Théâtre National de Chaillot a Parigi, la Biennale di Venezia, il Festival d’Avignone, Tanz Im August a Berlino, il Festival RomaEuropa, il SIDance Festival de Seoul, Sadler’s Wells a Londra, Danse Danse Montreal, tra molti altri.
Oltre al suo lavoro con La Veronal, Marcos Morau è un artista ospite internazionale in diverse compagnie e teatri dove sviluppa nuove creazioni, sempre a metà strada tra le arti performative e la danza: Nederlands Dans Theater, Lyon Opera Ballet, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, Royal Danish Ballet o The Royal Ballet of Flanders, tra gli altri.
Essendo il più giovane creatore a ottenere il Premio Nazionale di Danza, il più alto riconoscimento in Spagna, il futuro di Morau e La Veronal mira alla ricerca di nuovi formati e linguaggi dove l’opera, la danza e il teatro fisico dialogano più che mai, cercando nuovi modi di esprimersi e comunicare nel nostro tempo presente, sempre turbolento e in continua evoluzione.
Dalla presente stagione, è artista associato presso lo Staatsballett Berlin.
“La Veronal è un ricordo che la danza è spesso all’avanguardia del teatro più innovativo.” – The New York Times
“Il trattamento visivo di Morau è così brillante, così vivacemente strano, che ci lasciamo coinvolgere in ciò che si rivela anche essere una storia di trasmissione ed emancipazione.” – Le Monde
“Morau, uno dei coreografi giovani più interessanti della scena contemporanea della danza.” – El País

Open Rehearsal - Les Fleurs
2024-10-30 18:00 - 19:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Let’s make these our flowers into a single bouquet, something similar to a collection. The poems are communicating vessels, like the characters in their monstrous solitudes, they look at each other in a single magnificent cathedral that is existence.
Les Fleurs by Balletto Civile is a show that, taking up the well-known title of Charles Baudelaire’s work, focuses on poetic language and its revolutionary impact on the contemporary body that becomes a political body, in a vision of freedom and dialogue with civil society.
Open rehearsal at 6:00 PM
Show at 8:30 PM

Credits
Direction and choreography: Michela Lucenti
on stage Maurizio Camilli, Michela Lucenti, Alessandro Pallecchi Arena, Gianluca Pezzino, Emanuela Serra, Francesca Zaccaria
Dramaturgy: Maurizio Camilli, Michela Lucenti, Emanuela Serra
Sound design: Guido Affini
Lighting design: Stefano Mazzanti
Space consultancy: Alberto Favretto
Assistant director: Giulia Spattini
Stage assistance: Jacopo Squizzato
Production: Emilia Romagna Teatro ERT / Teatro Nazionale, Balletto Civile
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Charles Baudelaire’s work in Les Fleurs du mal is a single, great “perforated” story. A narrative of situations created through images, with fractures, holes, and zones where each of us can find ourselves, discovering common traits and shared vulnerabilities. The collection of poems speaks of the beauty of the imperfect bodies of characters on the fringes of society, outcasts, borderline individuals, who become magnificent creatures through a new gaze. This aligns closely with the philosophy of Balletto Civile, which has always crafted its works by lending bodies to a lyrical narration of protagonists who are anti-heroes.
The show, endowed with a strong narrative rhythm determined by the poet’s texts and original writings, stages a struggle between dance and the poetic act as a possible rewriting of the world.

Six figures on stage represent the central themes: the poet, beauty, time, boredom, exile, revolt, the wound, the city, and finally, poetry itself.
The scenic space, bare and material, welcomes the characters as in a single luminous and sonic installation, where the bodies, through geometries of existences on the margins, produce strong, overwhelming images that, like cuts in a canvas, seek to leave a graphic mark on the viewer’s retina. This is achieved through a language that is initially solitary and then shared, confusing personal feelings with the community’s shared wounds.
The artist is able to see all that is wonderful but cannot avoid feeling the world’s terrors on their skin; we cannot hide from this risk. Baudelaire is the first contemporary poet who recorded on his skin not only the heights but also the sacrifice and pettiness to which the artist is subjected, and he made this reflection a work of art.
Balletto Civile
A nomadic group by definition, driven by a strong ethical tension, Balletto Civile was founded in 2003 by Michela Lucenti. The creative approach is a research based on movement that emerges from the deep scenic relationship between the artists. It works on a total language where theater, dance, and original singing interact naturally.
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Les Fleurs
2024-10-30 20:30 - 21:30 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Let’s make these our flowers into a single bouquet, something similar to a collection. The poems are communicating vessels, like the characters in their monstrous solitudes, they look at each other in a single magnificent cathedral that is existence.
Les Fleurs by Balletto Civile is a show that, taking up the well-known title of Charles Baudelaire’s work, focuses on poetic language and its revolutionary impact on the contemporary body that becomes a political body, in a vision of freedom and dialogue with civil society.
Open rehearsal at 6:00 PM
Show at 8:30 PM

Credits
Direction and choreography: Michela Lucenti
on stage Maurizio Camilli, Michela Lucenti, Alessandro Pallecchi Arena, Gianluca Pezzino, Emanuela Serra, Francesca Zaccaria
Dramaturgy: Maurizio Camilli, Michela Lucenti, Emanuela Serra
Sound design: Guido Affini
Lighting design: Stefano Mazzanti
Space consultancy: Alberto Favretto
Assistant director: Giulia Spattini
Stage assistance: Jacopo Squizzato
Production: Emilia Romagna Teatro ERT / Teatro Nazionale, Balletto Civile
Discover more
Charles Baudelaire’s work in Les Fleurs du mal is a single, great “perforated” story. A narrative of situations created through images, with fractures, holes, and zones where each of us can find ourselves, discovering common traits and shared vulnerabilities. The collection of poems speaks of the beauty of the imperfect bodies of characters on the fringes of society, outcasts, borderline individuals, who become magnificent creatures through a new gaze. This aligns closely with the philosophy of Balletto Civile, which has always crafted its works by lending bodies to a lyrical narration of protagonists who are anti-heroes.
The show, endowed with a strong narrative rhythm determined by the poet’s texts and original writings, stages a struggle between dance and the poetic act as a possible rewriting of the world.

Six figures on stage represent the central themes: the poet, beauty, time, boredom, exile, revolt, the wound, the city, and finally, poetry itself.
The scenic space, bare and material, welcomes the characters as in a single luminous and sonic installation, where the bodies, through geometries of existences on the margins, produce strong, overwhelming images that, like cuts in a canvas, seek to leave a graphic mark on the viewer’s retina. This is achieved through a language that is initially solitary and then shared, confusing personal feelings with the community’s shared wounds.
The artist is able to see all that is wonderful but cannot avoid feeling the world’s terrors on their skin; we cannot hide from this risk. Baudelaire is the first contemporary poet who recorded on his skin not only the heights but also the sacrifice and pettiness to which the artist is subjected, and he made this reflection a work of art.
Balletto Civile
A nomadic group by definition, driven by a strong ethical tension, Balletto Civile was founded in 2003 by Michela Lucenti. The creative approach is a research based on movement that emerges from the deep scenic relationship between the artists. It works on a total language where theater, dance, and original singing interact naturally.
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Info&Tickets
TICKETS
Full price: 10 euros
Reduced (under 30, dance schools, Matilde di Canossa Dance High School, over 65, CRAL Municipality of Reggio Emilia members): 6 euros
Reduced (under 8): 3 euros
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ONLINE: https://www.biglietteriafonderia39.it/home.aspx
Fonderia Box Office: the box office opens one hour before the show begins (via della Costituzione 39, Reggio Emilia).

Tickets are not numbered.
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Email: biglietteria@aterballetto.it

OPEN REHEARSAL - 14.610
2024-11-04 18:00 - 19:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
PERFORMANCE POSTPONED TO NEXT SEASON
The title of the performance is 14.610, a number that hints at something never explicitly mentioned. But it is a key, like the code to a hotel room, that allows easy entry into the show. It is a small and sophisticated puzzle to solve. The latest work by Claudia Catarzi has something intimate and shameless.
Open rehearsal Monday, November 4 – 6:00 PM
Show Tuesday, November 5 – 8:30 PM

Credits
by and with Claudia Catarzi
music by Julien Desprez
scenography by Fabio Giommarelli
co-produced by Company Blu, La Manufacture – Centre de Développement Chorégraphique National Bordeaux Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Armunia/Festival Inequilibrio/Centro di residenze artistiche Castiglioncello, with the support of the Regione Toscana and the MiC
created in 2023
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It’s hard to describe the feeling of dancing almost three meters high on a surface so narrow it seems more like a pedestal than a platform. From the ground, that is, from the stage of the Teatro Rosignano Solvay, where the show debuted for the Inequilibrio festival, the latest work by Claudia Catarzi has something intimate and shameless. Shameless because the spectator, compelled to keep their eyes upwards, admires the technical skill, explicit and evident, of a figure that doesn’t perform acrobatics, but nonetheless constructs a tense and sculptural choreography, made of plastic poses, clear and defined gestures, even jumps. Although the tone is far from baroque – a certain austerity prevails, though never frigid – there is something triumphant in this construction that resembles the base for a Renaissance equestrian statue. Indeed, in the dramatic arc of the show, the satisfaction of reaching the top is palpable. As if we were in the mountains. Looking down from above is satisfying, but it also gives you chills. Not only because it’s easy to fall, but perhaps because at some point from this peak, the only thing left to do is descend.

And this is the other intimate dimension that runs through the entire show and speaks to us of fragility and strength, of change and resistance. The title of the show is 14.610, a number that hints at something never explicitly mentioned. But it is a key, like the code to a hotel room, that allows easy entry into the show. It’s a small and sophisticated puzzle to solve. Not too difficult, to be honest, but we want to leave it unresolved, so as not to spoil the pleasure of discovery. In the second part of the work, the pedestal reveals itself as a steep slide, and the descent becomes a sort of struggle; the muscular body strains to defeat the weight of gravity, as in the whirls of some Giambologna statue. Even though the aesthetics are tied to a sober normality, which makes the image even more intimate and common. About ten years ago, Catarzi debuted in her solo 40,000 Square Centimeters, again a number for a title, striking for presence and power in the small space drawn on the stage of only four square meters. Ten years later, this space has shrunk but has risen into the air. Not a diving board to jump from, but a mountain – like life – to embrace and climb.
(Rodolfo Sacchettini – July 18, 2023)
CLAUDIA CATARZI
After training at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, she began her career working with the Micha Van Hoecke Ensemble. She later danced with companies such as Dorky Park Constanza Macras (Berlin), Compagnia Virgilio Sieni, Aldes/Roberto Castello, Company Blu/Alessandro Certini and Charlotte Zerbey, En-Knap Group/Iztok Kovač (Ljubljana), László Hudi (J. Nadj – Budapest), among others. In 2009, she was part of Choreoroam, a research project by the Israeli choreographer Yasmeen Godder (Tel Aviv). She was later invited to follow the work of the Batsheva Dance Company by Ohad Naharin. She has collaborated with choreographer Ambra Senatore since the beginning of her company’s research work between Italy and France, participating in all her early works. Since 2011, she has been working on personal creations. The solo Arrivò senza colore won the co-production Sosta Palmizi, and Un giorno, a duo in collaboration with Mariano Nieddù, was a finalist at the “Premio Equilibrio 2010” (directed by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui). Her two latest creations see her sharing the stage for the first time with two female figures: Michal Mualem, a historical dancer in Sasha Waltz’s company, in A set of timings, and Claudia Caldarano, a former dancer of Virgilio Sieni, in Posare il tempo. The live presence of musician Gianni Maestrucci in Posare il tempo – percussionist of the renowned group Tetraktis – transforms the danced duet into a trio. Claudia Catarzi is currently an associate artist at CDCN of Bordeaux, La Manufacture | Bordeaux-Nouvelle Aquitaine.
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EVES - OPEN REHEARSAL
2024-11-04 18:00 - 19:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
EVES is a project that connects astronomy and contemporary dance with the aim of promoting both. Dance engages with astronomy, scientific dissemination becomes a performance, and we embark on a journey to discover the universe and ourselves through the parallelism between the micro and macro cosmos.
Open rehearsal Monday, November 4 – 6:00 PM
Performance Tuesday, November 5 – 8:30 PM

Credits
Compagnia Natiscalzi DT
Choreography: Tommaso Monza and Claudia Rossi Valli
Dancer: Claudia Rossi Valli
Scientific dissemination: Prof. Claudio Melioli, Astrophysics
Set: Natiscalzi DT
Production: Cinqueminuti APS
With the contribution of Regione Emilia Romagna L.R. 13/99
With the support of Comune di Reggio Emilia
In collaboration with Binario49 – Associazione Casa D’Altri
Duration: 60′
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[Do you think you’re sitting still right now?
You’re on a Planet that’s orbiting a Star at 30km/s.
That Star is orbiting the centre of a Galaxy at 250km/s.
That Galaxy is moving through the Universe at a rate of 600km/s.
We’re never still. We’re moving continuously.
Since you’ve started reading this, you’ve travelled about 3000km.]
EVES è nato fantasticando con la testa fra le nuvole, o forse come direbbe l’astrofisico Claudio Melioli (UniBo, USP São Paulo, Unimore) dell’associazione Binario49, è nato dalla forza di gravità che abbiamo esercitato entrambi per incontrarci su questo nuovo territorio: la possibilità di creare uno spettacolo di teatro danza e astronomia, a metà fra divulgazione scientifica e senso del sublime per il cosmo, tipico della poesia. Come un contemporaneo Leonardo Da Vinci ci appassioniamo al progetto senza separare arte e scienza, provando a raggiungere un punto comune fra le discipline che oltre ad essere nucleo sia anche involucro. Il progetto EVES è la ricerca di nuove forme di comunicazione ibrida, alla ricerca di una nuova strategia di divulgazione della conoscenza e del sapere in spazi altri e “non Luoghi” per generare nuove modalità di condivisione e incontro di nuovi pubblici.
COMPAGNIA NATISCALZI DT
CLAUDIA ROSSI VALLI
Trained as a dancer at the Theatre-Dance course of the Scuola d’Arte Drammatica Paolo Grassi in Milan. After graduating, she continued her studies in Italy and abroad, training with, among others, Compagnia Abbondanza/Bertoni (IT), The William Forsythe Company (DE), Retina Dance Company (UK), and Ampersandance Youth Company (UK). She was awarded a scholarship for the American Dance Festival 2012 (NYC, USA), where she was selected to dance with Shen Wei Dance Arts.
She has been a dancer with Compagnia Tiziana Arnaboldi (CH) since 2014 and Compagnia Zappalà Danza (IT) since 2015, performing in productions such as La Nona (winner of the Danza&Danza Best Production Award 2015), LavaBubbles, Vestire lo spazio, and I Am Beautiful. Since 2016, she has also been a dancer with Compagnia Abbondanza/Bertoni (IT), performing in Gli Orbi, Compleanno Pubblico Ballato, Capodanno RAI 2019, and La Morte e la Fanciulla, which won the Danza&Danza Best Production Award 2017.
Claudia has pursued her interest in choreography since 2012, receiving various accolades for her productions. In 2016, she co-founded Compagnia Natiscalzi DT with Tommaso Monza. In 2024, she won the **Premio Scenario Infanzia** with the show *Cosa hai in testa?*.
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TOMMASO MONZA
Originally trained as a sculptor at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, Tommaso Monza later transitioned to theatre-dance and contemporary dance, studying with Compagnia Abbondanza/Bertoni, Julien Hamilton, Roberto Castello, Ivan Wolf, Liat Waysbort, and Loren Potter.
Since 2005, he has been a dancer and collaborator with Compagnia Abbondanza/Bertoni, and since 2010, he has worked with Compagnia Ambra Senatore. In 2010, he began his own choreographic journey, creating a solo (Fra le mie dita rotte), a quartet (Piazze d’Italia), and a duet (Dei nostri eroi più fragili).
In 2012, he participated in the Choreoroam Europe project. Since then, he has developed ROD – Three Units on Kazakhstan, which was a finalist at Premio Equilibrio Roma 2014 and was presented at Mirabilia Festival Europeo 2014 (IT), MittelFest 2014 (IT), Festival Exister 2014 (IT), Vetrina Anticorpi XL 2014 (IT), and ArtBat Fest 2013 (KZ). In 2015, he was selected as a choreographer for the Anghiari Dance Hub project with his work *Sketches of Freedom*.
In 2016, he co-founded Compagnia Natiscalzi DT with Claudia Rossi Valli. Additionally, Tommaso Monza is also an author, with a published collection of short stories titled Personaggi estranei in luoghi comuni.
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Free entry (Under 6)
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Fonderia Box Office: The box office opens one hour before the performance (via della Costituzione 39, Reggio Emilia).

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EVES
2024-11-05 20:30 - 21:30 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
EVES is a project that connects astronomy and contemporary dance with the aim of promoting both. Dance engages with astronomy, scientific dissemination becomes a performance, and we embark on a journey to discover the universe and ourselves through the parallelism between the micro and macro cosmos.
Open rehearsal Monday, November 4 – 6:00 PM
Performance Tuesday, November 5 – 8:30 PM

Credits
Compagnia Natiscalzi DT
Choreography: Tommaso Monza and Claudia Rossi Valli
Dancer: Claudia Rossi Valli
Scientific dissemination: Prof. Claudio Melioli, Astrophysics
Set: Natiscalzi DT
Production: Cinqueminuti APS
With the contribution of Regione Emilia Romagna L.R. 13/99
With the support of Comune di Reggio Emilia
In collaboration with Binario49 – Associazione Casa D’Altri
Duration: 60′
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[Do you think you’re sitting still right now?
You’re on a Planet that’s orbiting a Star at 30km/s.
That Star is orbiting the centre of a Galaxy at 250km/s.
That Galaxy is moving through the Universe at a rate of 600km/s.
We’re never still. We’re moving continuously.
Since you’ve started reading this, you’ve travelled about 3000km.]
EVES è nato fantasticando con la testa fra le nuvole, o forse come direbbe l’astrofisico Claudio Melioli (UniBo, USP São Paulo, Unimore) dell’associazione Binario49, è nato dalla forza di gravità che abbiamo esercitato entrambi per incontrarci su questo nuovo territorio: la possibilità di creare uno spettacolo di teatro danza e astronomia, a metà fra divulgazione scientifica e senso del sublime per il cosmo, tipico della poesia. Come un contemporaneo Leonardo Da Vinci ci appassioniamo al progetto senza separare arte e scienza, provando a raggiungere un punto comune fra le discipline che oltre ad essere nucleo sia anche involucro. Il progetto EVES è la ricerca di nuove forme di comunicazione ibrida, alla ricerca di una nuova strategia di divulgazione della conoscenza e del sapere in spazi altri e “non Luoghi” per generare nuove modalità di condivisione e incontro di nuovi pubblici.
COMPAGNIA NATISCALZI DT
CLAUDIA ROSSI VALLI
Trained as a dancer at the Theatre-Dance course of the Scuola d’Arte Drammatica Paolo Grassi in Milan. After graduating, she continued her studies in Italy and abroad, training with, among others, Compagnia Abbondanza/Bertoni (IT), The William Forsythe Company (DE), Retina Dance Company (UK), and Ampersandance Youth Company (UK). She was awarded a scholarship for the American Dance Festival 2012 (NYC, USA), where she was selected to dance with Shen Wei Dance Arts.
She has been a dancer with Compagnia Tiziana Arnaboldi (CH) since 2014 and Compagnia Zappalà Danza (IT) since 2015, performing in productions such as La Nona (winner of the Danza&Danza Best Production Award 2015), LavaBubbles, Vestire lo spazio, and I Am Beautiful. Since 2016, she has also been a dancer with Compagnia Abbondanza/Bertoni (IT), performing in Gli Orbi, Compleanno Pubblico Ballato, Capodanno RAI 2019, and La Morte e la Fanciulla, which won the Danza&Danza Best Production Award 2017.
Claudia has pursued her interest in choreography since 2012, receiving various accolades for her productions. In 2016, she co-founded Compagnia Natiscalzi DT with Tommaso Monza. In 2024, she won the **Premio Scenario Infanzia** with the show *Cosa hai in testa?*.
—
TOMMASO MONZA
Originally trained as a sculptor at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, Tommaso Monza later transitioned to theatre-dance and contemporary dance, studying with Compagnia Abbondanza/Bertoni, Julien Hamilton, Roberto Castello, Ivan Wolf, Liat Waysbort, and Loren Potter.
Since 2005, he has been a dancer and collaborator with Compagnia Abbondanza/Bertoni, and since 2010, he has worked with Compagnia Ambra Senatore. In 2010, he began his own choreographic journey, creating a solo (Fra le mie dita rotte), a quartet (Piazze d’Italia), and a duet (Dei nostri eroi più fragili).
In 2012, he participated in the Choreoroam Europe project. Since then, he has developed ROD – Three Units on Kazakhstan, which was a finalist at Premio Equilibrio Roma 2014 and was presented at Mirabilia Festival Europeo 2014 (IT), MittelFest 2014 (IT), Festival Exister 2014 (IT), Vetrina Anticorpi XL 2014 (IT), and ArtBat Fest 2013 (KZ). In 2015, he was selected as a choreographer for the Anghiari Dance Hub project with his work *Sketches of Freedom*.
In 2016, he co-founded Compagnia Natiscalzi DT with Claudia Rossi Valli. Additionally, Tommaso Monza is also an author, with a published collection of short stories titled Personaggi estranei in luoghi comuni.
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Full price: 10 euros
Reduced price (Under 30, dance schools, Liceo Coreutico Matilde di Canossa, Over 65, CRAL Comune di Reggio Emilia members): 6 euros
Reduced price (Under 8): 3 euros
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ONLINE: https://www.biglietteriafonderia39.it/home.aspx
Fonderia Box Office: The box office opens one hour before the performance (via della Costituzione 39, Reggio Emilia).

Seats are unnumbered.
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Email: biglietteria@aterballetto.it

Aria Tango...Bolero - Open rehearsal
2024-11-12 18:00 - 19:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
The Balletto di Milano, directed by M° Carlo Pesta, will perform for the first time on the Fonderia stage.
For this occasion, an open rehearsal has been organized at 6:00 PM to get to know the company and the work of M° Carlo Pesta, who will have a conversation with dance journalist and critic Raffaella Tramontano.
At 8:30 PM, the evening will take place in two acts: Aria Tango by Micha van Hoecke, restaged by Miki Matsuse, and Bolero by Adriana Mortelliti.

Credits
ARIA TANGO
Choreography Micha van Hoecke, restaged by Miki Matsuse
Music Luis Bacalov
BOLERO
Choreography Adriana Mortelliti
Music Maurice Ravel
Dancers of the Balletto di Milano: Alessandro Orlando, principal and maître of the Company, and Sofia Gironi, Amanda Hall, Annarita Maestri, Sinthya Pezzoli, Alessia Sasso, Anthea Van Der Ham, Giusy Villarà, Kevin Alsina, Anatole Blaineau, Gianmarco Damiani, Jack Farren, Mattia Imperatore, Leo Rech
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Unforgettable and unforgettable artist, Micha van Hoecke would have turned 80 on July 22, 2024, but he passed away in 2021, leaving the dance world stunned and in shock. A towering personality in Italian dance, where he had been living for over thirty years, Micha van Hoecke is undoubtedly one of the figures who has left a mark. He is missed. Missed by the many friends. Missed by those who could appreciate his extraordinary human and artistic qualities. Missed by the audience who followed his works, rich in sensitivity, with passion and interest.
A generous artist, who loved theater and dance deeply, to whom the Balletto di Milano dedicates this tribute on this special birthday by bringing back to the stage the creation Aria Tango. Restaged by his beloved wife, the dancer Miki Matsuse, Aria Tango (2013) is set to music by Oscar-winning composer Luis Bacalov. Strongly autobiographical, the Choreographic Poem, as Micha van Hoecke used to say, is deeply rooted in the tango and gypsy culture so dear to the choreographer, who, without any didactic intent and in an atemporal, surreal atmosphere, tells of moods, fears, passions, and emotions.

In the second part of the evening, the emotions of Tango give way to those of Bolero, in the exclusive version by Balletto di Milano of Adriana Mortelliti on the famous score by Maurice Ravel, celebrating seduction. In the musical and choreographic crescendo, sinuous bodies intertwine in a dance that culminates in a surprising finale.
Balletto di Milano
Ambassador of Italian dance around the world, founded in 1980 and directed by Carlo Pesta since 1998, it is one of the most prestigious Italian companies. Recognized and supported by the Ministry of Culture, by the Lombardy Region, which has also awarded it the prestigious Regional Relevance Recognition, and by the Municipality of Milan, the Balletto di Milano performs its activities in major Italian theaters and abroad, where it is present in leading theaters and institutions. The Balletto di Milano is in residence at the Teatro Lirico Giorgio Gaber and boasts a roster of dancers who graduated from the best international academies and an extensive and exclusive repertoire ranging from revisited classical masterpieces to exclusive productions.
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Full price: 3 euros
Free for under 6
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Aria Tango...Bolero
2024-11-12 20:30 - 22:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
The Balletto di Milano, directed by M° Carlo Pesta, dances for the first time on the Fonderia stage.
The evening is divided into two acts: Aria Tango by Micha van Hoecke, restaged by Miki Matsuse, and Bolero by Adriana Mortelliti.

Credits
ARIA TANGO
Choreography by Micha van Hoecke, restaged by Miki Matsuse
Music by Luis Bacalov
BOLERO
Choreography by Adriana Mortelliti
Music by Maurice Ravel
Dancers of Balletto di Milano: Alessandro Orlando, principal and maître of the Company, and Sofia Gironi, Amanda Hall, Annarita Maestri, Sinthya Pezzoli, Alessia Sasso, Anthea Van Der Ham, Giusy Villarà, Kevin Alsina, Anatole Blaineau, Gianmarco Damiani, Jack Farren, Mattia Imperatore, Leo Rech
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The unforgettable and irreplaceable artist Micha van Hoecke would have turned 80 on July 22, 2024, but he passed away in 2021, leaving the dance world stunned and dismayed. A monumental figure in Italian dance, where he had resided for over thirty years, Micha van Hoecke is undoubtedly one of the most influential figures who left an indelible mark. He is missed by many friends, by those who admired his extraordinary human and artistic qualities, and by the audience who passionately and eagerly followed his sensitive works. A generous artist who deeply loved theater and dance, the Balletto di Milano dedicates its tribute to him on this special birthday by restaging his creation Aria Tango. Restaged by his beloved wife, dancer Miki Matsuse, Aria Tango (2013) is set to pieces by Oscar-winning composer Luis Bacalov. Strongly autobiographical, the Choreographic Poem, as Micha van Hoecke liked to call it, is rooted in the tango and gypsy cultures so dear to the choreographer. Without any didactic intent and in a timeless and surreal atmosphere, it conveys emotions, fears, passions, and states of mind.

In the second part of the evening, the emotions of the Tango give way to those of the Bolero in an exclusive version by Balletto di Milano, choreographed by Adriana Mortelliti to the renowned score by Maurice Ravel, celebrating seduction. In the musical and choreographic crescendo, sinuous bodies weave a dance that culminates in a surprising finale.
Balletto di Milano
An ambassador of Italian dance worldwide, founded in 1980 and directed by Carlo Pesta since 1998, the Balletto di Milano is among the most prestigious Italian companies. Recognized and supported by the Ministry of Culture, by the Lombardy Region (which has also awarded it the prestigious Recognition of Regional Relevance), and by the Municipality of Milan, the Balletto di Milano performs in major theaters in Italy and abroad, appearing in prominent theaters and institutions. The Balletto di Milano is in residence at the Teatro Lirico Giorgio Gaber and boasts a roster of dancers trained at the finest international academies. It has a wide and exclusive repertoire that ranges from revised classical masterpieces to unique productions.
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TICKETS
Full price: 10 euros
Discounted price for under 30, dance schools, Liceo Coreutico Matilde di Canossa, over 65, CRAL members of the Municipality of Reggio Emilia: 6 euros
Discounted price for under 8: 3 euros
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VISIONI DEL CORPO: IL CORPO E L'ALTRO
2024-11-15 20:30 - 21:30 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Visioni del corpo: understanding contemporary art through auteur dance.
A “dancing encyclopedia” that speaks about the world through dance, placing the body at the center of humanity. A series of six cultural dissemination events that connects arts, movement, and current affairs, to address themes of psychological well-being, the relationship with the city, the future, and ecology, through an experimental cultural medium.
Nicolas Ballario, journalist, curator, and cultural disseminator, introduces the theme of the debate, which, moving between dance and contemporary arts, reflects on the body from a different point of view each time. Each meeting is divided into six moments, dedicated to the works of six artists chosen to explore the main theme: renowned faces of contemporary art, well known to the general public. Each meeting will be interpreted by a choreographer from the contemporary scene, who will translate the suggestions of the discussed works into dance with an original performance, specifically designed for the project.

Fifth appointment: Friday 15 November h 20.30 at Fonderia

Il corpo e l’altro (The body and the other)
Talk with Nicolas Ballario and Pablo Girolami
Choreographies by Pablo Girolami
Focus on Marcel Duchamp, Georgia O’Keeffe, Yayoi Kusama, Louise Bourgeois, Sylvie Fleury, Francesca Woodman

Pablo Girolami is a young choreographer who blends the imaginations and traditions of his various countries of origin and study (Switzerland, Spain, Italy). He will be entrusted with exploring the interaction between movement and material objects, substances, and different textures.
The fusion of bodies in art will be investigated, experimenting with materials, optical and perceptual illusions: the theme is indeed The body and the other, in a whirlwind of objects and textures, from Marcel Duchamp to Francesca Woodman.
The virtual dance that will be offered in VR is Shelter by Saul Daniele Ardillo: remaining on the theme of the double, the spectator will have the opportunity to establish a direct and strong connection with the protagonist dancer.
Aranha, Louise Joséphine Bourgeois Parque Ibirapuera, Avenida Pedro Álvares Cabral, s/n. Photo by André Deak for Arte Fora do Museu. From Wikimedia Commons
Pablo Girolami
Pablo Girolami, born in Neuchâtel (Switzerland), has Italian-Spanish origins. He studied at the Tanz Akademie Zürich, where he graduated in 2014. In 2014, he began his professional career as a dancer in Wiesbaden/Darmstadt with the Hessisches Staatsballett. In 2018, he danced for Spellbound Contemporary Ballet. Between 2017 and 2018, he created I see you over there for the Hessisches Staatsballett and Mose3 in collaboration with DeDa Production and Café Klatsch.
He is currently a freelance choreographer and the artistic director of IVONA, a project-based company he founded with Giacomo Todeschi.
In 2019, he created Manbuhsa, which won the Twain_DirezioniAltre 2019 Award and the audience award at both the CortoinDanza 2019 in Cagliari and the 33rd Certamen Coreográfico de Madrid. Manbuhsa was also selected for the Anticorpi XL 2019 showcase of young dance authors and for the Red Acieloabierto.
In 2020, Pablo Girolami choreographed Manbuhsona for IVONA, a full evening production for five performers, and two short creations, Gianni-Pasquale and T.R.Y.P.O.P.H.O.B.I.A.
In 2020, he was selected by the AnticorpiXL Network for the ResidanceXL initiative.
Since 2019, he has collaborated and choreographed for various companies and schools: EgriBianco Danza, Kseij Dance Company, The LabCollective, TanzWerk101 Zürich, Ateneo della Danza Siena, and ChoreoLab – Made in Ulm.

Nicolas Ballario
Nicolas Ballario, born in 1984, is involved in contemporary art applied to media. He began his professional career at Oliviero Toscani‘s factory La Sterpaia, where he later became the cultural manager. He has collaborated with major artistic institutions and numerous publications.
In 2016, he became the youngest ever recipient of the Premio Bassani, one of the most prestigious awards for journalists distinguished in cultural and environmental fields. Currently, he hosts and produces contemporary art programs on Rai Radio Uno and contributes to magazines such as Rolling Stone, Living from Corriere della Sera, and Il Giornale dell’Arte. In 2019, he hosted the photography format Camera Oscura on LA7, while from 2020 to 2022, he led programs on Sky Arte including Io ti vedo, tu mi senti?, The Square, and Italia Contemporanea.
He is the CEO of the newly established exhibition production company Piuma and oversees exhibitions and catalogs. Artribune magazine recognized him in their Best of for two consecutive years: in 2019 for radio and in 2020 for television projects.
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APERITIVO IN FONDERIA
From 7:00 PM
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Single: 3 euros
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The box office at Fonderia is open from 7:30 PM.
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OPEN REHEARSAL - SEMA
2024-11-18 18:00 - 19:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Semâ, the name of the whirling dance of the dervishes, gives the title to this production by the Compagnie Linga.
Choreographers Katarzyna Gdaniec and Marco Cantalupo along with composer Mathias Delplanque and percussionist Philippe Foch play with the alchemy that is created through unprecedented artistic encounters, and with the living, ever-evolving interdependence between the dancer and the musician, the melody and the gesture, which mutually nourish each other in the flow of movement.
Open rehearsal at 18:00
Show at 20:30

Credits
Idea and choreography: Katarzyna Gdaniec and Marco Cantalupo
Original music: Mathias Delplanque, Philippe Foch
Performers: Martin Angiuli, Enzo Blond, Bonni Bogya, Aude-Marie Bouchard, András Engelmann, Lia Ujcic, Csaba Varga, Cindy Villemin
Lighting design: German Schwab
Costumes: Geneviève Mathier
A co-production: Compagnie Linga, l’Octogone – Théâtre de Pully
This tour is supported by Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council and Corodis.
Compagnie Linga benefits from a funding agreement with the City of Pully, the City of Lausanne, and the Canton of Vaud.
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Semâ, the latest creation from the Pully-based company, is a hypnotic reminder of the ceaseless movement of human planets(…). Choreographers Katarzyna Gdaniec and Marco Cantalupo create a piece of trance and alliance for eight magnificent performers from the four corners of Europe(…). Semâ plunges us into the experience of the paradoxical nature of the circle, inner and outer, “the necessary intermediary between the Same and the Other, the visible and the invisible”, according to Plato. But it is also a timeless symbol of togetherness and uniqueness that has always fascinated Linga’s choreographers.

In just over an hour, Semâ covers a range of movements, from the organic to the more sophisticated, such as a series of attitudes derived from genuflection. Regularly punctuating the piece, it is above all the gyratory dance derived from that of the whirling dervishes – a form of active meditation, of Sufi origin, leading to ecstasy – that continues to fascinate (…). The whirling, exultant bodies seduced the premiere audience, who stood up to a standing ovation at the Octogone on Friday.
Excerpts from Corinne Jaquiéry’s review
24heures Lausanne, 29.04.2023
Compagnie Linga
In 1992, Katarzyna Gdaniec and Marco Cantalupo realized their desire for independence and creativity by founding Compagnie Linga (a symbol of fertility in Hinduism). With the support of the City of Pully, the City of Lausanne, the Canton of Vaud, and Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council, they became associated artists at the Octogone, Théâtre de Pully/Lausanne (CH), where they have been in residence since 1993. They have developed a space dedicated to choreographic research, staging a physical, sensual, and powerful dance that explores the influence of political and social situations on the body.
Creating one or two productions per year, they quickly established their repertoire on the Swiss and international scene, becoming one of the most dynamic independent companies in the country. As such, they are invited to the most important contemporary dance events.
International collaborations: Opera of Lausanne, Dresden, Florence, Ankara, Mannheim National Theatre, Portugal National Ballet, Avenches Opera Festival, TV ARTE, WDR Orchestra.
Awards: 2019, Flow received the “Current Dance Works Award” at the Swiss Dance Awards 2019 (CH); 2017, Katarzyna Gdaniec received the Polish Artist Prize (ZASP) and the Culture Award of the city of Gdansk (PL); 2015, Danzatalenti Prize (Genoa, IT); 2012, Grand Prix de la Fondation Vaudoise pour la Culture; 2001, Prix Jeunes Créateurs Danse from the Fondation Vaudoise for the promotion and creation of artistic works; 1995, Choreography Contest Hannover (DE); 1995, Léonide Massine Prize in Positano (IT).
In 2022, Compagnie Linga celebrates its 30th anniversary.
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SEMA
2024-11-18 20:30 - 21:30 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Semâ, the name of the whirling dance of the dervishes, gives the title to this production by the Compagnie Linga.
Choreographers Katarzyna Gdaniec and Marco Cantalupo along with composer Mathias Delplanque and percussionist Philippe Foch play with the alchemy that is created through unprecedented artistic encounters, and with the living, ever-evolving interdependence between the dancer and the musician, the melody and the gesture, which mutually nourish each other in the flow of movement.
Open rehearsal at 18:00
Show at 20:30

Credits
Idea and choreography: Katarzyna Gdaniec and Marco Cantalupo
Original music: Mathias Delplanque, Philippe Foch
Performers: Martin Angiuli, Enzo Blond, Bonni Bogya, Aude-Marie Bouchard, András Engelmann, Lia Ujcic, Csaba Varga, Cindy Villemin
Lighting design: German Schwab
Costumes: Geneviève Mathier
A co-production: Compagnie Linga, l’Octogone – Théâtre de Pully
This tour is supported by Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council and Corodis.
Compagnie Linga benefits from a funding agreement with the City of Pully, the City of Lausanne, and the Canton of Vaud.
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Semâ, the latest creation from the Pully-based company, is a hypnotic reminder of the ceaseless movement of human planets(…). Choreographers Katarzyna Gdaniec and Marco Cantalupo create a piece of trance and alliance for eight magnificent performers from the four corners of Europe(…). Semâ plunges us into the experience of the paradoxical nature of the circle, inner and outer, “the necessary intermediary between the Same and the Other, the visible and the invisible”, according to Plato. But it is also a timeless symbol of togetherness and uniqueness that has always fascinated Linga’s choreographers.

In just over an hour, Semâ covers a range of movements, from the organic to the more sophisticated, such as a series of attitudes derived from genuflection. Regularly punctuating the piece, it is above all the gyratory dance derived from that of the whirling dervishes – a form of active meditation, of Sufi origin, leading to ecstasy – that continues to fascinate (…). The whirling, exultant bodies seduced the premiere audience, who stood up to a standing ovation at the Octogone on Friday.
Excerpts from Corinne Jaquiéry’s review
24heures Lausanne, 29.04.2023
Compagnie Linga
In 1992, Katarzyna Gdaniec and Marco Cantalupo realized their desire for independence and creativity by founding Compagnie Linga (a symbol of fertility in Hinduism). With the support of the City of Pully, the City of Lausanne, the Canton of Vaud, and Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council, they became associated artists at the Octogone, Théâtre de Pully/Lausanne (CH), where they have been in residence since 1993. They have developed a space dedicated to choreographic research, staging a physical, sensual, and powerful dance that explores the influence of political and social situations on the body.
Creating one or two productions per year, they quickly established their repertoire on the Swiss and international scene, becoming one of the most dynamic independent companies in the country. As such, they are invited to the most important contemporary dance events.
International collaborations: Opera of Lausanne, Dresden, Florence, Ankara, Mannheim National Theatre, Portugal National Ballet, Avenches Opera Festival, TV ARTE, WDR Orchestra.
Awards: 2019, Flow received the “Current Dance Works Award” at the Swiss Dance Awards 2019 (CH); 2017, Katarzyna Gdaniec received the Polish Artist Prize (ZASP) and the Culture Award of the city of Gdansk (PL); 2015, Danzatalenti Prize (Genoa, IT); 2012, Grand Prix de la Fondation Vaudoise pour la Culture; 2001, Prix Jeunes Créateurs Danse from the Fondation Vaudoise for the promotion and creation of artistic works; 1995, Choreography Contest Hannover (DE); 1995, Léonide Massine Prize in Positano (IT).
In 2022, Compagnie Linga celebrates its 30th anniversary.
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Reduced (under 8): 3 euros
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Ballade
2024-11-21 20:30 - 22:30, 2024-11-22 20:30 - 22:30 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Under the title BALLADE, the MM Contemporary Dance Company, directed by Michele Merola, presents a new show featuring two original choreographies by two Italian creators, Mauro Bigonzetti and Enrico Morelli. The pieces, performed by the MMCDC dancers, will take the audience on a journey through different generations: BALLADE by Bigonzetti is a comprehensive portrait of the 1980s, a decade that has lost its temporal boundaries to become a symbol of an era, while ELEGIA by Morelli is set in and tells the story of our current age, a time that, more than ever, brings vertigo and confusion, but also the renewed hope for a new beginning.

World Premiere: Theatre Comunale di Modena – Saturday, November 19, 2022
Production: MM Contemporary Dance Company
Co-production: Teatro Comunale di Modena
With the support of ATER Fondazione, Municipality of Correggio / Centro di Documentazione Pier Vittorio Tondelli – Correggio
Ministry of Culture / Emilia-Romagna Region / Municipality of Reggio Emilia / Centro Permanente Danza – Reggio Emilia
The performance BALLADE won the Danza & Danza 2022 Award for Best Italian Production.
ELEGIA
Choreography: Enrico Morelli
Music: Frédéric Chopin, Giuseppe Villarosa
Lighting Design: Carlo Cerri
Costumes: Nuvia Valestri
Narrating Voice: Isidora Balberini
Choreographic Assistant: Paolo Lauri
Dancers: Lorenzo Fiorito, Mario Genovese, Matilde Gherardi, Fabiana Lonardo, Alice Ruspaggiari, Nicola Stasi, Giuseppe Villarosa
Duration: 35 minutes

People searching for their own path and identity, united by the same inclusion in a historical period, in an era like the present one, which brings vertigo and confusion. Individuals tracing new trajectories and seeking new paths to regain their direction, in a moment of exile from normality. A story of lost moments and relationships, along with a search in one’s memory for familiar and comforting images and landscapes. A dreamlike journey to rediscover one’s lost self. A collective dance that immerses us in a vortex of lines and trajectories that intersect and intertwine, in an apparent primordial chaos until the return of calm, which carries the choice to surrender to newfound hope, looking forward to a new rebirth. A tribute to care and attention to others, amplified by words from the poetry of Mariangela Gualtieri.
BALLADE
Choreography and Direction: Mauro Bigonzetti
Music: Nick Cave, CCCP – Fedeli alla linea, Leonard Cohen, Arvo Pärt, Prince, Nina Simone, Frank Zappa
Lighting Design: Carlo Cerri
Costumes: Silvia Califano
Choreographic Assistant: Roberto Zamorano
Repetiteurs: Paolo Lauri, Enrico Morelli
Dancers: Lorenzo Fiorito, Mario Genovese, Matilde Gherardi, Fabiana Lonardo, Alice Ruspaggiari, Rossana Samele, Nicola Stasi, Giuseppe Villarosa, Leonardo Zannella
Duration: 50 minutes

Mauro Bigonzetti’s new creation for the MM Contemporary Dance Company aims to be a tribute, a collective narrative, a comprehensive portrait of the 1980s, a decade that has lost its temporal boundaries to become a symbol of an era.
A musical image narrative that recovers the sensations of a generation, its erased euphoria, collective absurdities, “dreams cast away,” but at the same time also reclaims the lifestyle of those years, the scents of vitality, and the dense experimental artistic creativity that characterized a rapidly evolving society, transforming in step with the impulses of sharing and the anxiety of change.
A work staged without artifices, performed by the MMCDC dancers, and tailored to a musical dramaturgy structured around the tensions and visions of those years, drawing from various authors who were prominent during that period, from Prince to the anarchic genius of Frank Zappa, to the profound poetry of Leonard Cohen, and the punk and existential aesthetic of CCCP.

The choreography is also inspired by one of the most significant literary voices of the time: it aims to pay homage to the writer Pier Vittorio Tondelli, who in those years created and produced his major masterpieces. Through an abstract narrative, the choreographic score brings to life a space of memory and feeling where man, shedding his shell and armor, rediscovers his living and vulnerable body. A journey that leads us to uncover pain, love, abandonment, and rebirth. A symbolic journey in the incessant search for a new collective rebirth where beauty enriches and guides our path.
MM CONTEMPORARY DANCE COMPANY
The MM Contemporary Dance Company is a contemporary dance company directed by choreographer Michele Merola. It was founded in 1999 as a center for producing events and performances and as a promoter of festivals and workshops with the goal of fostering exchanges and alliances between Italian and international artists, witnesses and spokespersons of contemporary culture.
The company, based in Reggio Emilia, has a rich and varied repertoire, thanks to the works of Michele Merola and creations by European and Italian choreographers such as Maguy Marin, Mats Ek, Mauro Bigonzetti, Thomas Noone, Gustavo Ramirez Sansano, Karl Alfred Schreiner, Eugenio Scigliano, Emanuele Soavi, Enrico Morelli, Daniele Ninarello, Ginevra Panzetti, Enrico Ticconi, Camilla Monga, and Roberto Tedesco.
In 2010, the MM Contemporary Dance Company won the prestigious Danza&Danza Award as the Best Emerging Company, and today, it is, in all respects, an excellence in Italian dance, with a well-established activity of performances throughout the national territory. In recent years, it has conquered an international market with performances in European and non-European countries (South Korea, Colombia, Canada, Germany, Russia, Morocco, Belgium, Spain, Slovenia, Hungary, Czech Republic, Sweden, France, Finland, Serbia…). In 2017, the MM Contemporary Dance Company won the Europaindanza 2017 Award – Merit Award for Choreography for the performance Bolero by Michele Merola.
Since 2018, the MM Contemporary Dance Company has been an associated company of the InDanza Circuit of Trentino Alto Adige.
The MMCDC is supported by the Ministry of Culture, Emilia-Romagna Region, Municipality of Reggio Emilia, National Dance Foundation/Aterballetto, Permanent Dance Center/Reggio Emilia.
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Discounted under 30, dance schools, Matilde di Canossa High School, over 65, CRAL members of the Municipality of Reggio Emilia: 6 euros
Discounted under 8: 3 euros
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