NOTTE MORRICONE
2026-03-15 17:00 - 18:30 (Europe/Rome) | Teatro Biondo, Via Roma 258, Palermo, 90133, Italia
Dal 10 al 15 marzo 2026 Aterballetto danza Notte Morricone di Marcos Morau al Teatro Biondo di Palermo.
“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′

Rhapsody in blue / Solo Echo / Glory Hall
2026-03-18 20:30 - 22:00 | Théâtre des Salins, 19 Quai Paul Doumer, Martigues, BP 60075 – 13692, France
Aterballetto performs near Saint-Tropez a triptych by Iratxe Ansa & Igor Bacovich, Crystal Pite, and Diego Tortelli.
On stage: Rhapsody in Blue by Iratxe Ansa and Igor Bacovich, a playful and vibrant choreography echoing Gershwin’s famous score. This is followed by Solo Echo by Crystal Pite, which, through Brahms’ sonatas for piano and cello, summons winter to express something essential about acceptance and loss. The evening concludes with Glory Hall, a new creation by Diego Tortelli, offering the company and the audience a fresco of sensuality and overwhelming vitality.

Rhapsody in blue / Solo Echo / Glory Hall
2026-03-20 20:00 - 21:30 | Théâtre Le Liberté, Grand Hôtel, Pl. de la Liberté, Toulon, 83000, France
Aterballetto performs in Toulon, in the south of France, a triptych by Iratxe Ansa & Igor Bacovich, Crystal Pite, and Diego Tortelli.
On stage: Rhapsody in Blue by Iratxe Ansa and Igor Bacovich, a lively and playful choreography echoing Gershwin’s iconic score. This is followed by Solo Echo by Crystal Pite, which, through Brahms’ sonatas for piano and cello, invokes winter to express something essential about acceptance and loss. The evening concludes with Glory Hall, a new creation by Diego Tortelli, offering the company and the audience a fresco of sensuality and overwhelming vitality.

Rhapsody in blue / Solo Echo / Glory Hall
2026-03-21 18:00 - 19:30 | Théâtre Le Liberté, Grand Hôtel, Pl. de la Liberté, Toulon, 83000, France
Aterballetto performs in Toulon, in the south of France, the triple bill featuring works by Iratxe Ansa & Igor Bacovich, Crystal Pite, and Diego Tortelli.

On stage is Rhapsody in Blue by Iratxe Ansa and Igor Bacovich—a playful, vibrant choreography, like Gershwin’s famous score. Next comes Solo Echo by Crystal Pite, which, through Brahms’s sonatas for piano and cello, invokes winter to express something essential about acceptance and loss. The evening closes with Glory Hall, the new production by Diego Tortelli, offering the company and the audience a tableau of sensuality and overwhelming vitality.

VISIONI DEL CORPO. MAURIZIO CATTELAN
2026-03-23 20:30 - 21:30 | Fondazione Ferrero, Strada di mezzo, 44, Alba (CN), 12051, Italy
Maurizio Cattelan Bidibidobidiboo 1996 photo Zeno Zotti copia (Palazzo Grassi, Venezia)
On Monday 23 March, Aterballetto comes to Fondazione Ferrero with Visions of the Body. Maurizio Cattelan: Seeing Contemporary Art through Auteur Dance.

On Monday 23 March 2026 at 8:30 pm, Fondazione Ferrero and the Municipality of Alba present Visions of the Body, an original dialogue between dance and contemporary art in which the body becomes a tool for amplifying the provocative and visionary meaning of Maurizio Cattelan’s work. This is the first in a series of events offered to the local community as stages in a shared journey towards 2027, the year in which Alba will be the Italian Capital of Contemporary Art.
Conceived by Centro Coreografico Nazionale / Aterballetto, Visions of the Body fosters dialogue between dance and visual art. The evening will feature Nicolas Ballario, journalist and cultural communicator, choreographer Lara Guidetti, and CCN/Aterballetto dancers Alessia Giacomelli and Kiran Gezels, in a work paying tribute to Maurizio Cattelan.

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

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At the heart of the artistic research are Cattelan’s works—irreverent and provocative pieces capable of questioning art and society through biting irony and powerful visual impact. His installations and sculptures become the starting point for an original artistic journey in which dance serves as a tool to amplify their meaning and translate their tensions and contradictions. The performance gives body and movement to Cattelan’s visions, transforming the irony, paradox, and unspoken elements of his works into physical gesture.
At the same time, Nicolas Ballario—journalist, cultural communicator, and curator of the dossier that led to Alba being named Italian Capital of Contemporary Art 2027—guides the audience in discovering the story and poetics of Maurizio Cattelan, tracing a narrative path that intertwines contemporary art and performance, vision and reflection, focusing on three works that form the backbone of the evening: HIM (2001), Rebel. The Only Prison Is Your Mind (2024), and Bidibidobidibù (1996). Each work is introduced by Ballario, who repeatedly reminds the audience that in Cattelan’s art, “nothing is ever as it seems.”
Maurizio Cattelan, moreover, will serve as the special curator of the افتتاحural exhibition of the Alba Capitale dell’Arte Contemporanea 2027 programme, dedicated to Pinot Gallizio, the painter-pharmacist from Alba who became one of the leading figures of twentieth-century art.

“With Visioni del corpo, staged at the auditorium of Fondazione Ferrero, the journey towards 2027 begins,” says Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, president of the association Le Fabbriche del Vento per Alba Capitale Italiana dell’Arte Contemporanea 2027. “With this special event, we open a dialogue with the public, engaging them in a direct and vibrant experience of contemporary art through voice, dance, and the storytelling of artworks and artists’ research. Visioni del corpo is the first chapter of Alba Capitale’s Public Program, which we have imagined as a long conversation with the city and its citizens, in partnership with its public institutions and private institutions such as Fondazione Ferrero, long a key player in and supporter of Alba’s cultural life.”

“Events such as Visioni del corpo,” say Alberto Gatto, Mayor of Alba, and Caterina Pasini, Councillor for Culture, “clearly show the cultural path that Alba is building towards 2027. The dialogue between different artistic languages, such as dance and contemporary art, and the collaboration with high-quality institutions such as Fondazione Ferrero, represent valuable opportunities to engage new audiences and continue to expand the city’s cultural offering. Initiatives of this kind help create an atmosphere of attention, curiosity, and participation around contemporary art, preparing the ground for the programme of Alba Capitale dell’Arte Contemporanea 2027.”

Laura Guidetti

Lara Guidetti graduated in 2006 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 training in the fields of dance and performing arts, exploring various pedagogical methods and training practices through workshops and productions.
In 2008, she founded the Sanpapié company, where she serves as artistic director, choreographer, director, and performer, presenting works throughout Italy, Europe, China, and Saudi Arabia. In 2017, her performance LEI won the Premio Bonacina.
She collaborates with the JGM company in Lisbon and with La Scala in Milan as a dancer and acrobat, and creates choreography for opera productions. She has taught at the Paolo Grassi School, DanceHaus in Milan, and at the school of the Teatro Stabile di Torino.
Since 2022, she has been an associated artist of the MilanOltre Festival and a collaborator of CCN/Aterballetto as a choreographer and curator of site-specific and cultural welfare projects.

Maurizio Cattelan

Maurizio Cattelan (Padua, 1960) is one of the most internationally renowned and controversial Italian contemporary artists. Famous for his provocative and ironic language, he has built a career by challenging the conventions of art through works that question themes such as death, power, religion, and identity. Among his most iconic creations are La Nona Ora (Pope John Paul II struck by a meteorite), Him (a kneeling Hitler in prayer), and Comedian (the banana taped to the wall). His works have been exhibited in some of the world’s most important museums and biennials. In 2011, he staged a major retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, and in 2021 he curated Breath Ghosts Blind at Pirelli HangarBicocca in Milan. In 2025, he curates the exhibition Endless Sunday at the Centre Pompidou-Metz. Suspended between provocation and poetry, his work continues to spark debate about art and its role in society.

Nicolas Ballario

Nicolas Ballario, born in 1984, works on contemporary art in relation to the media. After completing his studies at the Academy of Photography, he joined Oliviero Toscani’s factory La Sterpaia, later becoming its cultural manager. He has collaborated with major art institutions and numerous publications, and in 2016 he became the youngest-ever recipient of the Bassani Prize, one of the most prestigious awards for journalists distinguished in the cultural and environmental fields.
He is currently author and host of contemporary art programmes on Rai Radio 1 and collaborates with L’Espresso (where he writes a weekly column), Living del Corriere della Sera, il Post, and Il Giornale dell’Arte. In 2019, he hosted the photography programme Camera Oscura on LA7, while since 2020 he has hosted the programmes Io ti vedo, tu mi senti?, Italia Contemporanea, and The Square on Sky Arte.
He directs the newly founded exhibition production company Piuma and is founder and president of Cucù, a communication studio dedicated to culture. He also curates exhibitions and catalogues. The magazine Artribune included him among its Best of figures in the art world for two consecutive years: in 2019 for radio and in 2020 for television projects.

Habemus Naufragium
2026-03-24 20:30 - 21:30 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Silvia Pezzarossi dances the storms of the present at Fonderia.

In a world that increasingly struggles to imagine its future in the face of climatic, social, and political upheavals, Habemus Naufragium invites us—with momentum—towards a positive resilience. Choreographer Silvia Pezzarossi, in duet with dancer Anna-Maria Bayon, proposes an eccentric shipwreck that carries us through the tempests of our time.
With an imagination without limits—at times grotesque and ironic, at others poetic—their metaphorical dances push solidarity and complicity towards a fluid, perfect metamorphosis of bodies, until they become one: a new being, in full transformation.
Like a remedy for our eco-anxiety, this colourful performance offers a dose of creative hope to be taken with eyes wide open.
Strobe lighting is used.

https://youtu.be/mni3RFxIr5o
CREDITS

Direction and choreography: Silvia PezzarossiCreation and performance: Silvia Pezzarossi, Anna-Maria Besnier BayonArtistic assistance and dramaturgy: Simon GillardDramaturgy and performers’ direction support: Maialen ArranoSound creation: Clément Braive, Raphaël VeninLighting design: Jean-Jacques DeneumoustierTechnical direction: Leo De Neve, Adele EvansCostumes: Marta Lodoli
Co-productions: Théâtre Les Brigittines, Théâtre Delta, Charleroi Danse – Centre Chorégraphique de Wallonie-Bruxelles
Artistic residencies: Théâtre Les Brigittines, Théâtre Delta, Charleroi Danse – Centre Chorégraphique de Wallonie-Bruxelles, Théâtre Marni, Up Circus and Performing Arts, Studio Étangs Noir, Cie 29.27 / SEPT CENT QUATRE VINGT TROIS, La Briqueterie CDCN Val-de-Marne, CC Wolubilis, CC Les Riches Claires, Akropoditi Dance Centre
With the support of: Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles – Dance Department, Wallonie-Bruxelles International, WBTD, Plastique Palace Théâtre, Charleroi Danse – Centre Chorégraphique de Wallonie-Bruxelles

Silvia Pezzarossi

Italian dancer and choreographer Silvia Pezzarossi, based in Brussels since 2012, initially trained in classical dance in Reggio Emilia at the Accademia Cosi-Stafanescu, before continuing her studies in contemporary dance at the Ballet Junior de Genève and at the professional school Modem / Cie Zappalà Danza (Sicily).
In Belgium, she has worked as a dancer and performer with Lies Serdons, the Poetic Punkers collective, Cie Marie Martinez, and the contemporary circus company Les Chaussons Rouges. Internationally, she has collaborated with Keren Rosenberg, Roy Assaf, and Roberto Zappalà.
Since 2013, Silvia has been developing her own choreographic work, creating Mucyclo (2014), Waiting for the Fishes (2016), En attendant que les poissons passent… (2018), and Habemus Naufragium (2024).
A keen observer of society, her research explores human behaviour and its dynamics, with particular attention to energy, expressivity, and bodily metamorphosis—balancing poetry and spontaneity. Her works are supported by the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles and Charleroi Danse, and have toured in Belgium, France, Greece, Turkey, and Italy.
Habemus Naufragium, her fourth project, was selected by the Théâtre des Doms as part of the Belgian programme at the Festival d’Avignon 2025.
Silvia is currently in the research phase for a new creation scheduled for 2027.

INFO & TICKETS

TICKETSFull price: €10Reduced price (under 30, dance schools, Liceo Coreutico Matilde di Canossa, over 65, CRAL Comune di Reggio Emilia members): €6Reduced price (under 8): €3
TICKET PURCHASE
Tickets can be purchased online at www.biglietteriafonderia39.it.
The box office at Fonderia opens one hour before the start of the performance.
Tickets are unnumbered.
CONTACTS
Mobile & WhatsApp: +39 334 102 3554

Solo Echo / Reconciliatio / Glory Hall
2026-03-26 20:45 - 22:15 | Teatro Bellini, Via Conte di Ruvo, 14, Naples, 80135, Italia
CCN/Aterballetto performs at the Teatro Bellini in Naples from March 26 to 29, 2026.

The dancers of CCN/Aterballetto are the protagonists of a production by multi-award-winning Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite, now recognized among the leading figures of contemporary dance. Solo Echo is inspired by two sonatas for cello and piano by Johannes Brahms and by Mark Strand’s poem Lines for Winter. As in Strand’s poem, Solo Echo summons winter, music, and the moving body to express something essential about acceptance and loss.

Reconciliatio is a delicate female duet inspired by a reading of the Apocalypse, created by one of today’s most important international choreographers, Angelin Preljocaj.

The evening closes with Glory Hall, a new creation by Diego Tortelli, offering both the company and the audience a fresco of sensuality and overwhelming vitality.

CREDITS
Solo Echo

Choreography: Crystal PiteMusic: Johannes Brahms (Sonata for Cello and Piano in E Minor, Op. 38: I. Allegro non troppo; Sonata for Cello and Piano in F Major, Op. 99: II. Adagio affettuoso)Production and Restaging: Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / AterballettoCo-production: Teatro Comunale di Bologna

Reconciliatio

Choreography: Angelin PreljocajMusic: Ludwig van Beethoven, Moonlight SonataProduction: Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto

Glory Hall

Choreography: Diego TortelliMusic: Godspeed You! Black EmperorProduction: Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / AterballettoCo-production: Teatro Comunale di Bologna

Solo Echo / Reconciliatio / Glory Hall
2026-03-27 20:45 - 22:15, 2026-03-28 19:00 - 20:30, 2026-03-29 18:00 - 19:30 | Teatro Bellini, Via Conte di Ruvo, 14, Naples, 80135, Italia
CCN/Aterballetto performs at Teatro Bellini from 26 to 29 March 2026.

The dancers of CCN/Aterballetto take centre stage in a production by the award-winning Crystal Pite, a Canadian choreographer now firmly in the pantheon of dance. Solo Echo draws inspiration from two cello-and-piano sonatas by Johannes Brahms and the poem “Lines for Winter” by Mark Strand. As in Strand’s poem, Solo Echo calls on winter, music, and the moving body to express something essential about acceptance and loss.
Reconciliatio is a delicate female pas de deux inspired by readings of the Book of Revelation, created by one of the most important choreographers on the international scene, Angelin Preljocaj.
The evening closes with Glory Hall, the new production by Diego Tortelli, offering the company and the audience a tableau of sensuality and overwhelming vitality.

CREDITS
Solo Echo

Coreography: Crystal PiteMusic: Johannes Brahms (Sonata for Cello and Piano in E Minor, Op. 38: I. Allegro non troppo; Sonata for Cello and Piano in F Major, Op. 99: II. Adagio affettuoso)Production and restaging: Fondazione Nazionale della Danza/AterballettoCo-production: Teatro Comunale di Bologna

Reconciliatio

Choreography: Angelin PreljocajMusic: Ludwig van Beethoven, Moonlight SonataProduction: Fondazione Nazionale della Danza/Aterballetto

Glory Hall

Choreography: Diego TortelliMusic: Godspeed You! Black EmperorProduction: Fondazione Nazionale della Danza/AterballettoCo-production: Teatro Comunale di Bologna

T.R.I.P.O.F.O.B.I.A
2026-03-30 18:00 - 19:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Pablo Girolami dances through the voids of fear at Fonderia.

Monday 30 March, 6:00 pm – open rehearsal
Tuesday 31 March, 9:00 pm – performance – premiere

The fear of holes—or rather, of all those small geometric shapes that, when clustered together, create masses of tiny cavities. A play of images based on three-dimensional repetitions and juxtapositions that triggers a sense of disgust and repulsion; the alarm is activated by an intrinsic code, developed over centuries by our ancestors, which protects the phobic subject from the danger of infection by parasitic forms or injury from venomous animals.
Anxiety, anguish, fear: hundreds of names for a single existential condition—the fear of losing control over the world, over our body, over the other.
The medium through which a trypophobic skeleton takes shape is geometry, which, through the imaginative contribution of the human mind, becomes an active gateway to fear, reflecting human insecurities and paranoias.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkMUMq-eNaY
CREDITS

Compagnia IVONAChoreography: Pablo GirolamiDancers: Guilherme Leal, Pablo GirolamiMusic: Jacob Kirkegaard, Philip Jeck, Max Richter, Guilherme Curade and others to be confirmedVideo: xxcxclarissaLighting: Angelo TauroDramaturgy: Karen Stenico
Production: House of IVONA, Nutida Festival – Stazione Utopia, The Rijeka Port of Dance Festival, Skopje Dance Festival, Dance Festival Malta, TACT Festival in Trieste, Quinzena de Dança de Almada – International Dance Festival
With the support of KOMM TANZ Teatro Cartiera, Compagnia Abbondanza/Bertoni in collaboration with the Comune di Rovereto; Festival Fuori Programma & Romaeuropa Festival; ResiDanceXL – AnticorpiXL – Network Giovane Danza d’Autore, coordinated by L’arboreto – Teatro Dimora di Mondaino; Centro di Residenza della Toscana (Armunia – CapoTrave/Kilowatt); TWAIN Centro di Produzione Danza and PERIFERIE ARTISTICHE; DANCEHAUSpiù, Milan; Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia; MIC – Italian Ministry of Culture.

Pablo Girolami

Pablo Girolami is a choreographer of Italian-Spanish origin who trained at the Tanz Akademie Zürich, where he graduated in 2014.He has danced with Hessisches Staatsballett Wiesbaden/Darmstadt and Spellbound Contemporary Ballet, working with choreographers such as Wayne McGregor, Hofesh Shechter, and Marcos Morau.
He is currently the artistic director of IVONA and a freelance choreographer. Since 2024, he has also been the artistic director of the Fagagna Dance Festival.
Pablo has received important awards, including:
First Prize at the Jerusalem International Choreography Competition;Best Choreography at the Certamen Coreográfico del Distrito de Tetuán – Madrid;Best Choreography at the Linkage Choreographic Competition – Sofia;TWAIN Direzioni_Altre Award 2019 and 2022 – Tuscania;Audience Award at RIDCC – Rotterdam;Audience Award at CortoinDanza Festival – Cagliari;Audience Award at the 33rd Certamen Coreográfico de Madrid;Best Dance Film at the ZED International Videodanza Festival – Bologna;Best Dance Film at Interfaccia Digitale – HangarFest – Pesaro;FeelGood Award at BIGFF – Bari.
Alongside his work with IVONA, Pablo has created works for several companies, including Balletto dell’Opera di Graz, Jerusalem Dance Theatre, Club Guy & Roni, EgriBianco Danza, and Nuovo Balletto di Toscana. In 2025, together with Philippe Kratz, he won the Biennale di Venezia call for projects with the new creation Sisifo Felice, which premiered at Biennale Danza 2025.
Girolami has further expanded his presence in the artistic field by taking on roles as movement director and consultant in theatre and multidisciplinary projects, while also working in education at major institutions such as the Bachelor Program in Zurich and Taipei Art University.

INFO & TICKETS

TICKETS
Open rehearsal – Monday 30 March, 6:00 pmFull price: €3Free admission for children under 6
Performance – Tuesday 31 March, 9:00 pmFull price: €10Reduced price (under 30, dance schools, Liceo Coreutico Matilde di Canossa, over 65, CRAL Comune di Reggio Emilia members): €6Reduced price (under 8): €3
TICKET PURCHASE
Tickets can be purchased online at www.biglietteriafonderia39.it.
The box office at Fonderia opens one hour before the start of the performance.
Tickets are unnumbered.
CONTACTS
Mobile & WhatsApp: +39 334 102 3554

Cry Violet
2026-04-08 19:00 - 20:00, 2026-04-08 21:00 - 22:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Panzetti / Ticconi: dance between expiation and greenwashing at Fonderia.

CRY VIOLET, named after the extinct flower of the same name, is a choreographic creation by and with Panzetti / Ticconi, set to a sound composition conceived and performed by Teho Teardo.
Using a gestural code that evokes expressions of pain and shame inspired by the iconography of original sin, the work highlights the human tendency to atone for guilt through practices that attempt either to repair environmental damage already done or to conceal it. Widespread phenomena such as greenwashing, in fact, represent deceptive practices that evade real solutions to the damage human action has inflicted on the environment.
Actions such as cleaning merge with crying. In this context, a common object like a cloth or handkerchief transforms its function—from a cleaning tool into an element that holds pain, absorbing tears. Echoing Lady Macbeth’s repeated and futile gesture of trying to wash away the mark of guilt from her hands, the two performers trace the mechanical ritual of cleaning and concealing. It is within this limbo—between genuine attempts and merely superficial efforts to repair the damage—that CRY VIOLET takes shape, in a shifting complicity between the aestheticisation of guilt and the act of resolving or hiding it, until guilt itself becomes an appealing, seductive, almost promotional material.

“(…) the choreographic elegance of Panzetti/Ticconi meets the musical energy of Teho Teardo. The composer, musician and sound designer—winner of the David di Donatello for Best Original Score for the soundtrack of Il Divo by Paolo Sorrentino—has long explored stimuli from other artistic forms. He dedicates himself to concert and recording activities, investigating the relationship between electronic music and traditional instruments, as well as creating sound installations and composing for cinema, television series, and theatre.”
Esplorazioni-Triennale.org

https://youtu.be/nMbfqoJ_y48?si=CDC4NKCwYyU_1Y-E
CREDITS
Choreography, performance, costumes: Ginevra Panzetti, Enrico TicconiSound composition: Teho TeardoGraphic illustration: Ginevra PanzettiOriginally created within: Esplorazioni – a project by Triennale Milano in collaboration with Volvo Car ItaliaWith the support of: Lavanderia a Vapore, Piemonte dal Vivo – Turin (IT); Rampe – Stuttgart (DE)
Panzetti / Ticconi

Ginevra Panzetti and Enrico Ticconi live between Berlin and Turin and have been working as an artistic duo since 2008. Their research unfolds across dance, performance, and visual art. By exploring themes connected to the historic relationship between communication, violence, and power, they draw on ancient imaginaries to construct hybrid images suspended between history and contemporaneity.
Their work has received numerous international recognitions and has been presented at some of the most prestigious European festivals, as well as in Japan, Brazil, Lebanon, Jordan, and the United Arab Emirates. Since 2020, their choreographic practice as a duo—often involving them as performers of their own creations—has expanded to include the creation of works for other major international companies such as Studio Contemporary Dance Company (HR), T.H.E Dance Company (SG), Dance On Ensemble (DE), and MM Contemporary Dance Company (IT).
One of their most recent choreographic works, INSEL, premiered in 2023 at the Tanz im August Festival in Berlin.

Talk with Michele Pascarella

At the end of both performances, there will be a moment of meeting and discussion with performers Ginevra Panzetti and Enrico Ticconi, together with arts and culture communicator Michele Pascarella.
Michele PascarellaArts and culture communicator.A critic and scholar of theatre, dance, and visual arts, with a curiosity for other artistic fields. His research focuses in particular on the revolutions of the twentieth century and the intersections between different artistic practices. He has written for the magazine Gagarin Orbite Culturali (since 2012) and for Hystrio. Quarterly Journal of Theatre and Performance (since 2014).

Aperitif

From 6:00 PM to 8:30 PMA selection of local products and wines in collaboration with the Mercato Campagna Amica del Tricolore

INFO & TICKETS

TICKETS
Full price: €10Reduced price (under 30, dance schools, Liceo Coreutico Matilde di Canossa, over 65, CRAL Comune di Reggio Emilia members): €6Reduced price (under 8): €3
TICKET PURCHASE
Tickets can be purchased online at www.biglietteriafonderia39.it.
The box office at Fonderia opens one hour before the start of the performance.
Tickets are unnumbered.
CONTACTS
Mobile & WhatsApp: +39 334 102 3554

NOTTE MORRICONE
2026-04-08 20:00 - 21:30 | Serbian National Theatre, Pozorisni trg 1, Novi Sad, Serbia
As part of the Belgrade Dance Festival, Aterballetto performs Notte Morricone by Marcos Morau at the Serbian National Theatre in Novi Sad.

“I, Ennio Morricone, am dead,” wrote the composer before taking his leave. His music, however, cannot die. And so it is that creators and artists always leave us without ever truly leaving — this is how memory takes care to keep them alive, to keep them safe. Notte Morricone is my gift, a devoted tribute to the beauty he gave 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 imagining melodies for films that do not yet exist, reviving stories in the rarefied air of his room.Marcos Morau – Director and Choreographer
It is impossible to describe Notte Morricone, a masterful work that comes to the spectator in waves — embracing with emotional surges, capturing through the memory of timeless melodies that have long outlived the images that first inspired them. The choreography, too, is exquisite: finely crafted and always poetic, 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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Duration: 90 minutes

NOTTE MORRICONE
2026-04-11 20:30 - 22:00 | Teatro Regio, Strada Giuseppe Garibaldi, 16/a, Parma, 43121, Italia
On April 11, 2026, Aterballetto performs Notte Morricone by Marcos Morau at the Teatro Regio in Parma.
“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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Rhapsody in blue / An echo, a wave / Reconciliatio / Solo Echo
2026-04-15 21:00 - 22:30 | Teatro Sociale, Piazza Giuseppe Garibaldi 14, Rovigo, 45100, Italy
The CCN/Aterballetto performs at Teatro Sociale di Rovigo on 15 April 2026.

The evening opens with Rhapsody in Blue by Iratxe Ansa and Igor Bacovich, a playful and vibrant choreography, much like Gershwin’s iconic score. It is followed by An Echo, A Wave by Philippe Kratz, in which the flowing movement of the two dancers evokes the motion of the sea.
Reconciliatio is a delicate female pas de deux inspired by the Book of Revelation, created by one of the most important choreographers on the international scene, Angelin Preljocaj.
The dancers of CCN/Aterballetto are also the protagonists of a production by the award-winning Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite, now firmly in the pantheon of dance. Solo Echo draws inspiration from two sonatas for cello and piano by Johannes Brahms and the poem Lines for Winter by Mark Strand. As in Strand’s poem, Solo Echo invokes winter, music, and the moving body to express something essential about acceptance and loss.

https://youtu.be/erHGNRRz6sQ
CREDITS
Rahpsody in blue

Choreography: Iratxe Ansa and Igor BacovichMusic: George Gershwin, Rhapsody in Blue; Bessie Jones, Beggin’ the BluesSet and costumes: Fabio CherstichLighting: Eric Soyer

An echo, a wave

Choreography: Philippe KratzSound designer: Tommaso MicheliniProduction: Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto
An Echo, A Wave. Ph Alice Vacondio
Reconciliatio

Choreography: Angelin PreljocajMusic: Ludwig van Beethoven, Moonlight SonataProduction: Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto

Solo Echo

Choreography: Crystal PiteMusic: Johannes Brahms (Sonata for Cello and Piano in E Minor, Op. 38: I. Allegro non troppo; Sonata for Cello and Piano in F Major, Op. 99: II. Adagio affettuoso)Production and restaging: Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / AterballettoCo-production: Teatro Comunale di Bologna

NOTTE MORRICONE
2026-04-19 16:00 - 17:30 | Teatro Bonci, Piazza Mario Guidazzi, 8, Cesena, 47521, Italia
Aterballetto performs Notte Morricone by Marcos Morau at Teatro Bonci in Cesena on 19 April 2026.

“I, Ennio Morricone, am dead,” the composer wrote before taking his leave. His music, however, cannot die. And this is how creators and artists always leave us without truly leaving us, and how memory takes care of keeping them alive, of keeping them safe. Notte Morricone is my gift, a devoted tribute to the beauty he gave to the world.Notte Morricone unfolds in the twilight of an ordinary night in the life of a creator, who, alone and dazed before his sheets of paper, jots down notes and imagines melodies for films that do not yet exist, bringing stories back to life in the rarefied air of his room.”— Marcos Morau, Director and Choreographer

“It is impossible to describe Notte Morricone, a masterful piece that reaches the audience in waves, embraces them with emotional surges, and captures them in the memory of timeless melodies that have long outlived the images that first gave rise to them. Equally enchanting is the finely chiselled and ever-poetic choreography, composed with obsessive attention to detail: legs and necks seem jointless, bending and snapping rhythmically like metronomes.”— Maria Luisa Buzzi, Danza&Danza

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Duration: 90 minutes

STELLA
2026-04-19 21:00 - 22:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Luciano Padovani brings the dance of the Years of Lead to Fonderia.

Rome, Saturday 18 March 1978.An orange commercial envelope is found in an underpass at Largo di Torre Argentina, containing a Polaroid photograph: the portrait of a man in shirtsleeves, a flag with a five-pointed star… and communiqué no. 1 of the Red Brigades.The years of desire and lead, in a danced fragment of republican Italy.
The lived experience of choreographer Luciano Padovani becomes, in STELLA, material shaped through the bodies and voices of the two performers: Roberta Piazza and Andrea Rizzo.

With them, we enter a brigatist hideout—that hideout… an interior scene inhabited and stirred by intense emotions and moments of great humanity and poetry. A warm atmosphere made of illusions and projections, masterfully suggested by costume designer Lucia Lapolla.
Elisabetta Calvi

https://youtu.be/2Ju8v8nh5lo?si=50WffQBk6J1O9wwD
CREDITS

Choreography and direction: Luciano PadovaniBy and with Luciano Padovani, Roberta Piazza, Andrea RizzoCritical eye: Mauro ZocchettaLighting: Thomas HeugerCostumes: Lucia Lapolla
A production by Compagnia Naturalis Labor
Co-production: Festival AbanoDanza 2024
With the support of: MIC – Ministry of Culture, Regione Veneto, Arco Danza, Comune di Vicenza

Luciano Padovani

He came to dance relatively late, during his university studies. A decisive encounter was with Carolyn Carlson, who encouraged him to move abroad. He chose Paris, where he spent two intense years in the heart of the nouvelle danse française. He then returned to Italy and moved to Milan, where he worked with Susanna Beltrami’s company and at Teatro alla Scala. Eventually, he returned to Vicenza and founded Compagnia Naturalis Labor. It was then that he realised that being a choreographer was truly his calling. He describes himself as a “craftsman of the body.”
With the company, he has created dozens of works. He has collaborated on numerous opera productions, in theatre, for events, and has created choreographies for various Italian dance companies. He is the artistic director of Festival AbanoDanza and Visioni di Danza. He lives in Vicenza.

INFO & TICKETS

TICKETS
Full price: €10Reduced price (under 30, dance schools, Liceo Coreutico Matilde di Canossa, over 65, CRAL Comune di Reggio Emilia members): €6Reduced price (under 8): €3
TICKET PURCHASE
Tickets can be purchased online at www.biglietteriafonderia39.it.
The box office at Fonderia opens one hour before the start of the performance.
Tickets are unnumbered.
CONTACTS
Mobile & WhatsApp: +39 334 102 3554

NOTTE MORRICONE
2026-04-22 20:45 - 22:15, 2026-04-23 19:30 - 21:00 | Teatro Carignano, Piazza Carignano, 6, Torino, 10123, Italia
From April 23 to 26, 2026, Aterballetto performs Notte Morricone by Marcos Morau at the Teatro Carignano in Turin for Torinodanza Extra.
“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
2026-04-24 20:45 - 22:15, 2026-04-25 19:30 - 21:00, 2026-04-26 16:00 - 17:30 | Teatro Carignano, Piazza Carignano, 6, Torino, 10123, Italia
Dal 22 al 26 aprile 2026 Aterballetto danza Notte Morricone di Marcos Morau al Teatro Carignano di Torino per il Torinodanza Extra.
“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′

Spellbound Evening, choreographies by Mauro Astolfi
2026-04-29 18:00 - 19:00, 2026-04-29 21:00 - 22:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Mauro Astolfi presents three choreographies created for his company as part of Danza in Fonderia.

On the occasion of International Dance Day, Fonderia hosts three works by Mauro Astolfi for Spellbound Contemporary Ballet. On stage: Trust, If you were a man and Holy Shift—three pieces exploring relationships, listening and transformation through the language of dance.

6:00 PM – Open rehearsal9:00 PM – Performance

Trust

Choreography and direction: Mauro AstolfiPerformers: Maria Cossu, Giuliana MeleMusic: Various artists
Trust is a short story about two women who do not really know how to behave toward one another. It is an attempt at a temporary agreement, based on the idea of mutual trust as a tool for getting to know each other a little more quickly. A game woven from different personalities, yet driven by a subtle need to understand what the other is thinking, how she might stay close to you, how you might live beside her.
Trust is an infantile, mature, adolescent yet aware duet—a brief narrative, a suggestion about certain decisions that sometimes must be made quickly and that can change the course of life. The two vibrate together, in unison they hide within one another, they protect each other… and, moving forward, they become friends; in the end, they discover that they can trust one another.

If you were a man

Choreography: Mauro AstolfiPerformers: Filippo Arlenghi, Roberto Pontieri, Alessandro Piergentili, Lorenzo BeneventanoMusic: Various artistsCostumes: Anna Coluccia
A production by Spellbound
With the support of the Ministry of Culture
Co-production: Attraversamenti Multipli and Armonie d’Arte Festival
If you were a man is a study for four men on a profound reprogramming of listening. If the sounds produced by movement and breath could always be decoded in time, certain things might be avoided, might never happen, and one might learn to listen effectively to a body that does not speak.
The wonder of a silent dialogue carries unexpected results with it… even the smallest noises and the body’s strategies may reveal an imminent conflict in advance.
Rejection, suspicion, distrust, love, or fear are not always communicated in time for intervention, in time to receive precious information about others.

Holy Shift

Choreography and direction: Mauro AstolfiPerformers: Maria Cossu, Marco Prete, Martina Staltari, Miriam Raffone, Filippo Arlenghi, Lorenzo Beneventano, Alessandro Piergentili, Anita Bonavida, Giuliana MeleLighting design: Marco PolicastroOriginal music: Davidson JaconelloCostumes: Anna ColucciaChoreography assistant: Elena Furlan
A production by Spellbound
With the support of the Ministry of Culture and Regione Lazio
In collaboration with Festival MilanOltre
Holy Shift is a rupture of the paradigm, the end of a linear dream.A kind of “sacred” disorientation in which it is better to stop looking for answers in familiar models and instead cultivate a new openness to change.
Sometimes we can find the sacred in ruin, in disintegration, where a new version of the “sacred” may be hidden.
Holy Shift is an inner displacement toward a new orientation, not toward power, but toward presence.I do not believe the future will be built like a project…rather, it will reveal itself to those who are able to remain listening to the void,to inhabit uncertainty without fleeing it,to recognise in chaos the hidden grammar of another possibility.
Mauro Astolfi

Mauro Astolfi

Mauro Astolfi is one of the most representative authors on the European contemporary dance scene. Active internationally as both a choreographer and teacher, he has developed a distinctive and ever-evolving movement language, shaped by a personal reinterpretation of different forms of contemporary expression.
After a long period in the United States, he founded Spellbound Contemporary Ballet in 1994 together with Valentina Marini, a production project that is now a leading presence on the international contemporary dance market. Alongside his extensive work for the company, Astolfi has also been active in recent years as a freelance choreographer.
His creations include works for Kitonb Extreme Theatre Company, the Theatre School of Amsterdam (2004), Balletto di Roma (2009 and 2012), Szegedi Kortárs Balett in Hungary (2009)—the same year he also choreographed the musical I Promessi Sposi – Opera moderna directed by Michele Guardì—Leipziger Ballett (2011), and River North Chicago Dance Company (2011). In that same year, he co-created a project with Israeli artist Adi Salant, Associate Director of Batsheva Dance Company, for Danza e/è cultura, a cultural bridge between Italy and Israel promoted by MIUR, Fondazione Flavio Vespasiano, and the Municipality of Rieti.
In 2012, he was invited to create a new work for BalletX in Philadelphia and to develop Humanology – Site specific young project for Festival Oriente Occidente. In 2013, he was one of five choreographers selected for the MINUTEMADE project at Gärtnerplatztheater in Munich. In 2015, he created works in Canada for Arts Umbrella in Vancouver and ProArteDanza in Toronto.
Since October 2009, he has also been the Artistic Director of the modern-contemporary department at the Dance Arts Faculty (D.A.F.) in Rome.

INFO & TICKETS

TICKETS | PERFORMANCE
Full price: €10Reduced (under 30, dance schools, Liceo Coreutico Matilde di Canossa, over 65, CRAL Comune di Reggio Emilia members): €6Reduced (under 8): €3
TICKETS | OPEN REHEARSAL
€3 for all / free for children under 6
PURCHASE
Tickets can be purchased online at www.biglietteriafonderia39.it.
The box office at Fonderia opens one hour before the performance.Seats are unassigned.
CONTACTS
Mobile and WhatsApp: +39 334 1023554

Rhapsody in blue / An Echo, A Wave / Reconciliatio / Solo Echo
2026-04-30 19:30 - 21:00 | Teatro Piccinni, Corso Vittorio Emanuele, 84, Bari, 70122, Italia
Aterballetto performs at the Teatro Piccinni in Bari on 30 April 2026.

CCN/Aterballetto presents a true concert in dance.
Rhapsody in Blue by Iratxe Ansa and Igor Bacovich is a playful, vibrant choreography, much like George Gershwin’s iconic score. In An Echo, A Wave by Philippe Kratz, the flowing movement of the two dancers evokes the motion of the sea. Reconciliatio is a delicate female pas de deux by Angelin Preljocaj, set to Ludwig van Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata.
Finally, Solo Echo by Crystal Pite, through the cello and piano sonatas of Johannes Brahms, invokes winter to express something essential about acceptance and loss.

https://youtu.be/SBq99Tyc-xQ

Dreamers
2026-05-02 20:30 - 22:00 | Teatro Politeama Greco, via XXV Luglio, 30, Lecce, Italy
Aterballetto performs Dreamers at the Teatro Politeama Greco in Lecce on 2 May 2026.

The CCN/Aterballetto performs a true dance concert. Solo Echo by Crystal Pite, set to Brahms’ sonatas for piano and cello, summons winter to express something essential about acceptance and loss. Reconciliatio is a delicate female duet by Angelin Preljocaj, choreographed to Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata. In An echo, a wave by Philippe Kratz, the flowing movements of the two dancers evoke the motion of the sea, while Rhapsody in Blue by Iratxe Ansa and Igor Bacovich is a lively, playful choreography, just like Gershwin’s iconic composition.

NOTTE MORRICONE
2026-05-06 19:30 - 21:00 | Theater Magdeburg / Opernhaus, Universitätsplatz 9, Magdeburg, 39104, Germany
Aterballetto performs Notte Morricone by Marcos Morau in Magdeburg, Germany.
“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 »

NOTTE MORRICONE
2026-05-14 20:30 - 22:00 | Teatro Comunale Sassari, Viale Trieste 5, Sassari, 07100, Italy
Aterballetto performs Notte Morricone by Marcos Morau at Teatro Comunale in Sassari on 14 may 2026.

“I, Ennio Morricone, am dead,” the composer wrote before taking his leave. His music, however, cannot die. And this is how creators and artists always leave us without truly leaving us, and how memory takes care of keeping them alive, of keeping them safe. Notte Morricone is my gift, a devoted tribute to the beauty he gave to the world.Notte Morricone unfolds in the twilight of an ordinary night in the life of a creator, who, alone and dazed before his sheets of paper, jots down notes and imagines melodies for films that do not yet exist, bringing stories back to life in the rarefied air of his room.”— Marcos Morau, Director and Choreographer

“It is impossible to describe Notte Morricone, a masterful piece that reaches the audience in waves, embraces them with emotional surges, and captures them in the memory of timeless melodies that have long outlived the images that first gave rise to them. Equally enchanting is the finely chiselled and ever-poetic choreography, composed with obsessive attention to detail: legs and necks seem jointless, bending and snapping rhythmically like metronomes.”— Maria Luisa Buzzi, Danza&Danza

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Duration: 90 minutes

NOTTE MORRICONE
2026-05-16 20:30 - 22:00 | Teatro Massimo, Via E. De Magistris, 12, Cagliari, CA, 09123, Italia
Aterballetto performs Notte Morricone by Marcos Morau at the Teatro Massimo in Cagliari on May 16 and 17, 2026.
“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 »
