Centro Coreografico Nazionale / Aterballetto

Feeling Good
2021-11-17 19:00 - 20:30, 2021-11-18 19:00 - 20:30 (Europe/Rome) | Skånes Dansteater, Östra Varvsgatan 13 A, Malmö, Svezia
Feeling Good, the duet by Diego Tortelli for a disabled dancer and a not-disabled dancer, is at the Dance Festival DansFunk 3.0., in Malmö.
For this performance starring Cristian Cucco and Annemieke Mooij.
The creation, a co-production by Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto and Oriente Occidente Dance Festival, as part of EBA Europe Beyond Access, co-funded by the European Union’s Creative Europe Programme, is presented on Mixed Doubles evening, along with three other duets produced by Onassis Cultural Centre (GR), Holland Dance Festival (NL), Skånes Dansteater (SE).
Feeling Good is within the project by the Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto “Danza e Fragilità”, supported by Gruppo Credem in partnership with Reggio Emilia Città senza Barriere and Consorzio Oscar Romero.

Storie
2021-11-18 21:00 - 22:20 | Auditorium Fausto Melotti, Corso Bettini, 43, Rovereto, TN, 38068, Italia
PREMIERE
Aterballetto dances Storie at Auditorium Fausto Melotti in Rovereto.

Storie is a small anthology of danced fragments. They are only an infinitesimal part of the very rich artistic and human universe of the two choreographers Diego Tortelli and Philippe Kratz.
Tortelli creates two pieces: Preludio, opening the bill, is a love letter to the body for five dancers on Nick Cave music, Another story is a duo about the impossible gesture of 2020, the hug.
Between past and future the two creations by Kratz. The duo “O” offers us two human bodies / robots that force us to question ourselves on how the sense of physical contact might change: will it remain emotional and heartfelt, or will it become serial and alienated?
Alpha Grace, a creation for six dancers at the end of the bill, is a reflection on empathy, a form of gentle communication among people who feel on the same level. It too is severely stretched by the present times.

Don Juan
2021-11-20 20:30 - 22:10 | Teatro Comunale, Piazza Giuseppe Verdi, 40, Bozen, 39100, Italy
Aterballetto performs in Bolzano Don Juan, the full evening production by Johan Inger.
The choreography comes from Inger’s desire to confront Don Juan, a paradigmatic myth that is both ancient and still contemporary. The original comedy by Tirso de Molina, Molière, Bertold Brecht and the play by Suzanne Lilar are just some of the sources of inspiration: Inger and playwright Gregor Acuña-Pohl consulted twenty-five different texts inspired by the character.
In the creation we find all the characters of the story, from Donna Elvira to Donna Anna to Zerlina and Masetto. Don Juan can be considered a Kammerspiel, with its ability to emphasise nuances and emotions: and in the case of this creation, dance becomes a magnifying glass for the individual characters, subtly but clearly revealing the inner world of the men and women on stage.

SWANS_2
2021-11-25 20:30 - 22:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
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What does it remain today of a choreographic work that is considered a milestone in the history of Western dance at the beginning of the 20th century? In what forms has it survived over time? Who will take up its legacy?
The project Swans Never Die invites audiences and artists to think about The Dying Swan as an opportunity to learn about the many forms of its existence over time, since it was choreographed by Michel Fokine for Anna Pavlova in 1905.
Following the stages of this journey through the history and memory of dance, the spectator will be able to discover the bodies in which a choreographic work from the past survives, who takes up its legacy and the values it can transmit today and in the future.
In the evening Swans_2, the traditional version of The Dying Swan is presented with new creations by Camilla Monga and Collettivo MINE.
The performance will be followed by a talk hosted by the Professor Alessandro Pontremoli.
Swans never die is a project conceived and realised by :
Lavanderia a Vapore – Centro di Residenza per la Danza (gestito da un raggruppamento temporaneo di organismi formato da Piemonte dal Vivo, Coorpi, Didee Arti e Comunicazione, Mosaico Danza, Zerogrammi)
Operaestate Festival Veneto e Centro per la Scena Contemporanea CSC Bassano del Grappa
Triennale Milano Teatro
Fondazione Teatro Grande di Brescia
Festival Bolzano Danza – Fondazione Haydn
Il Cassero LGBTI Center – Gender Bender Festival
Mnemedance
Università degli Studi di Torino – Corso di laurea in DAMS

Swaën
By and with Camilla Monga
Live music Filippo Vignato e Emanuele Maniscalco
Production VAN
Coproduction Lavanderia a Vapore/Piemonte dal Vivo, Operaestate Festival Veneto e Centro per la Scena Contemporanea CSC, Bassano del Grappa, Triennale Milano, Teatro Brescia, Torinodanza Festival, Festival Bolzano Danza; “Memory in Motion.
Camilla Monga’s creation starts from the artistic synesthesia between dance and music, which becomes a crasis in the chosen title: Swaën, a combination of the noun Swan and part of the surname of the composer of The Dying Swan: Saint-Saens.
Swaën is a jazz trio that combines improvised and more structured movements involving one female dancer, the trombone player Filippo Vignato and the multi-instrumentalist Emanuele Maniscalco.
They are the authors of a re-writing of piece no. 13 of The Carnival of the Animals.
Living like I know I’m gonna die
Choreography, invention and dance Francesco Saverio Cavaliere, Fabio Novembrini, Siro Guglielmi, Roberta Racis, Silvia Sisto
Performers Francesco Saverio Cavaliere, Fabio Novembrini, Siro Guglielmi, Roberta Racis, Silvia Sisto
Sound F. De Isabella
Styling Ettore Lombardi
Photo and video Tonia Laterza
Production Fabbrica Europa, Operaestate Festival/CSC Bassano
Living like I know I’m gonna die has been realized within Swans never die
(Danzare la memoria 2020-2022) with the support of Lavanderia a Vapore/Piemonte dal Vivo,
Operaestate Festival Veneto e Centro per la Scena Contemporanea CSC, Bassano del
Grappa, Triennale Milano, Teatro Brescia, Torinodanza Festival, Festival Bolzano Danza;
“Memory in Motion. Re-Membering Dance History (Mnemedance)” – Università Ca’ Foscari
Venezia; Ecole Universitaire de Recherche CREATES e Centre Transdisciplinaire
d’Epistémologie de la Littérature et des Arts Vivants, Université Côte d’Azur e con il
coordinamento scientifico di Susanne Franco.

” While we speak, time will have escaped greedily.
Grab this day”
Orazio
Living like I know I’m gonna die is a dance for five bodies.
Two couples and a single one form a group in reciprocity, a single body made by linked arms
unfolds in a network of lightning-fast encounters that cross the space with a progressive and
unavoidable rhythm.
The sudden rhythmic character articulates a continuous, intensely dense and intrinsically
fleeting movement, destined to change, dissolve and end challenging time and its ephemeral
nature.
In this way Pavlova daces the dying swan for Fokine, like a real fight against death,
embodying a constant symbol of the transience of existence and of life’s things.
The Dying Swan
Choreography Michel Fokine for Anna Pavlova
Music Camille Saint-Saëns
Dancer Martina Dall’Asta from Nuovo Balletto Classico
The historical choreography by Fokine The Dying Swan, performed from Nuovo Balletto di Toscana, ends the evening.
Info & Tickets
TICKETS
Full price: 3 euro
Under 6: free
PURCHASING TICKETS
In compliance with anti-Covid regulations, tickets can only be purchased online at www.biglietteriafonderia39.it up to one hour before the performance.
Therefore tickets cannot be booked by phone or by e-mail.
The ticket service in the Fonderia is suspended.
Tickets are not numbered.
ENTRANCE
You can enter the Fonderia 15 minutes before the performance, showing your online purchase.
At the entrance, the temperature will be tested and if the temperature exceeds 37.5°C, you will not be allowed to enter. Access to Fonderia is only allowed prior to the presentation of a valid Green Pass certification, excluding the children under the age of 12 and to subjects exempted on the basis of suitable medical certification – according to the criteria defined by the Ministry of Health. Our staff will check this certification at the entrance. It is required the correct use of the mask for the entire duration of the event.

Feeling Good
2021-11-25 20:45 - 21:45 | Scenario Pubblico, via Teatro Massimo, 16, Catania, 95131, Italia
Feeling Good, the duet by Diego Tortelli for a disabled dancer and a not-disabled dancer, is at Scenario Pubblico in Catania, as part of an evening that also includes creations from the two Dance Production Centres Scenario Pubblico/Compagnia Zappalà Danza e DanceHauspiù.
For this performance starring Cristian Cucco and Annemieke Mooij.
The creation is a co-production by Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto and Oriente Occidente Dance Festival, as part of EBA Europe Beyond Access, co-funded by the European Union’s Creative Europe Programme.
Feeling Good is within the project by the Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto “Danza e Fragilità”, supported by Gruppo Credem in partnership with Reggio Emilia Città senza Barriere and Consorzio Oscar Romero.

Feeling Good
2021-11-26 19:00 - 20:00, 2021-11-26 21:00 - 22:00 | Teatro Santa Chiara, Contrada Santa Chiara 50/a, Brescia, 25122, Italia
Feeling Good, the duet by Diego Tortelli for a disabled dancer and a not-disabled dancer, is at Teatro Santa Chiara Mina Mezzadri in Brescia, within the festival Area Fuorinorma 2021, organised by Somebody Teatro delle Diversità.
For this performance starring Cristian Cucco and Annemieke Mooij.
The performance will be followed by a talk with the choreographer Diego Tortelli and the director of Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto Gigi Cristoforetti and by a session of live creation curated by the choreographer and the two dancers.
The creation is a co-production by Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto and Oriente Occidente Dance Festival, as part of EBA Europe Beyond Access, co-funded by the European Union’s Creative Europe Programme.
Feeling Good is within the project by the Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto “Danza e Fragilità”, supported by Gruppo Credem in partnership with Reggio Emilia Città senza Barriere and Consorzio Oscar Romero.

PROVE IN CORSO - Don Juan
2021-11-26 21:00 - 21:40 | Fonderia – streaming, Italia
What is behind a performance of Aterballetto? What happens in the rooms of the Fonderia in Reggio Emilia?
Before the lockdown, our audience could discover the daily work of dancers and choreographers by attending the open rehearsals of the company.
Now our fans, and not only those from Reggio Emilia but from every city will be able to enter the universe of Aterballetto with PROVE IN CORSO, our first series of four episodes curated by Nicolas Ballario: one of the most appreciated journalists of contemporary art who, thanks to his unique verve and extraordinary competence, is bringing everyone closer to the art world with his broadcasts on Sky Arte and RadioUnoRai.
Together with Ballario we enter the world of the Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto.
Between hilarious encounters, ironic scenes involving people who work at the Fonderia every day, and dancing moments, in four episodes directed by Fabrizio Spucches, we will discover the secrets of the company and the backstage of the shows, in a way never told before.
PROVE IN CORSO will be broadcast on the OnTheatre.tv platform.
PROVE IN CORSO is supported by the Ministry of Culture / Special Projects 2021.
In the first episode, scheduled on Friday 26th November at 9 p.m. (available until 28th November at 12 p.m.), we will be seduced by the amazing Don Juan by Johan Inger, a choreography inspired by the myth of Don Giovanni.
Tickets

Ticket: 3€.
If you are planning to watch all 4 episodes, you can buy the package ticket: 10€
Buy your ticket on https://www.biglietteriafonderia39.it/home.aspx or https://www.ontheatre.tv/Prove-in-Corso-80c9a500 (for the package).
We will send you a personal code that will allow you to watch the show on OnTheatre platform.

The purchased episode will be viewable from the scheduled date (Friday 26 November at 21.00).
If you are unable to watch the episode on Friday, you will be able to start the episode within 28 days of purchase.
Once started, the episode will be available for 48 hours.
By purchasing the package, all shows will be visible in the MY SHOWS area of the OnTheatre website, but individual episodes can only be played from scheduled Fridays (Don Juan will be available from 26 November, Storie from 3 December…).
When you purchase the package, the 28 days period starts from the date the show is scheduled.

OnTheatre platform

Register for free on OnTheatre: ontheatre.tv/Sign up and confirm your registration by clicking on the link you will receive by e-mail.
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Choose the show ” PROVE IN CORSO ” and enter your personal code, which we have sent you by email, in the section “Do you have a code? Click here” or in the CODE section of the menu on the left.
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Feeling Good
2021-11-27 19:00 - 20:00, 2021-11-27 21:00 - 22:00 | DanceHaus, via Tertulliano, 70, Milan, 20137, Italia
Feeling Good, the duet by Diego Tortelli for a disabled dancer and a not-disabled dancer, is at DanceHaus in Milan, as part of an evening that also includes creations from the two Dance Production Centres Scenario Pubblico/Compagnia Zappalà Danza e DanceHauspiù.
For this performance starring Cristian Cucco and Annemieke Mooij.
The creation is a co-production by Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto and Oriente Occidente Dance Festival, as part of EBA Europe Beyond Access, co-funded by the European Union’s Creative Europe Programme.
Feeling Good is within the project by the Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto “Danza e Fragilità”, supported by Gruppo Credem in partnership with Reggio Emilia Città senza Barriere and Consorzio Oscar Romero.

Danza d'Autore - Open Rehearsal
2021-11-28 18:00 - 19:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Danza d’Autore – Open Rehearsal

MM Contemporary Dance Company directed by Michele Merola presents Danza d’Autore, a triple bill composed of Extended by Camilla Monga, Round Trip by Roberto Tedesco and La metà dell’ombra by Michele Merola.

Extended
Choreography and concept Camilla Monga
Music Federica Furlani and By This River by Brian Eno
Dancers Dylan Di Nola, Lorenzo Fiorito, Matilde Gherardi, Annalisa Perricone, Alice Ruspaggiari, Giuseppe Villarosa
Production MM Contemporary Dance Company
With the support of VAN
Project born from the action Prove d’autore XL, promoted by Network Anticorpi XL and coordinated by Associazione Cantieri
Duration 20′
Here we are
Stuck by this river
You and I
Underneath a sky that’s ever falling down, down, down
Ever falling down
Brian Eno’s By This River brings dancers and spectators into a rarefied atmosphere while the sound of the piano and keyboards caress each other embroidering a precious harmonic fabric. The song invites to a sweet disorientation to idealise a time without time and a space without borders. Camilla Monga works with the musician Federica Furlani to create a polyphony of images that are always new and unrepeatable, creating an elsewhere that is outlined minute by minute before the eyes of the spectator. Each musical framework guides the talented MMCDC dancers, giving each one few features that mark their characters; while closely connected actions provoke chain reactions, outlining increasingly meditative and ethereal panoramas. Extended is expanded music that seems to have neither a beginning nor an ending; it is a reflection on the nature and fragility of man, but also on his ability to evoke a universe, false or real, to create spaces in which one can fall and rise again.
Round Trip
Choreography Roberto Tedesco
Music Not Waving
Lighting Design Gessica Germini
Dancers Dylan Di Nola, Lorenzo Fiorito, Matilde Gherardi, Fabiana Lonardo, Alice Ruspaggiari, Giuseppe Villarosa
Duration 12′
There is no linear story but moments, images, situations that transfigure the formal aspect of the choreographic score into music, in what seems to be a “mosaic-work”.
An investigation into pure movement, starting from the awareness that “without space there would be no movement, but without movement space would not be conceivable. With Round Trip we enter into an analysis of different identities, of the encounter with the other and its many facets. Individuals engaged in a unique and multiple research confront and identify themselves, mixing again, not caring about any classification. A circular motion that consists of invading and abandoning space, going and returning that do not always coincide, as if every single situation were disconnected from the previous or the following one and could belong each time to an infinitely variable number of performers.
Roberto Tedesco
La metà dell'ombra

Choreography Michele Merola
Music Johann Sebastian Bach, Geert Hendrix, Senking
Costume design Carlotta Montanari
Dancers Dylan Di Nola, Lorenzo Fiorito, Paolo Lauri, Nicola Stasi, Giuseppe Villarosa
Duration 28′
La metà dell’ombra stages an ideal and impalpable journey into sacrality. The gestures and the music remind us of the ritual, of an archaic world, lost forever. The dancers alternate the physicality of the ‘dancing body’ with an intimate interpretation of the most spiritual part of man.

In Michele Merola’s dance there is always a time where the human tension and the truth about feelings get exalted: dance brings out the aching sense of life. His dance goes straight to heart, shaped as knife, without intermissions and it breaks our self-confidence. La metà dell’ombra is the last leg of this path: it’s structured on human male bodies and it can be considered as a journey to
explore the mystery of the sacred in us. The choreography moves in a continuous tension between the sense of expiation, expressed with gestures lacerating, self-punitive, and the hope of redemption and the liberation of the body. There is a constant movement between atonement, punishment, hope and freedom. The feelings are mixed, opposed and drawn in a collective ritual ending. Each frame we see and each choral dance performed exalt the human presence. By those choices the choreographer gains a new dance language that conquered us with power and evocation.
Ermanno Romanelli – Dance News

MM CONTEMPORARY DANCE COMPANY
MM Contemporary Dance Company, based in Reggio Emilia, Italy, is directed by choreographer Michele Merola. The company was born in 1999 as a permanent center for the production of events and shows and as a promoter of projects and workshops with the aim of supporting exchanges and alliances between italian and international artists, witnesses and spokesmen of contemporary culture.
Company repertoire is composed by a various range of styles: Merola’s works and other creations of international and Italian choreographers as Mats Ek, Mauro Bigonzetti, Thomas Noone, Gustavo Ramirez Sansano, Karl Alfred Schreiner, Emanuele Soavi, Enrico Morelli, Eugenio Scigliano, Daniele Ninarello.
In 2010 MMCDC won Danza&Danza Critics Award as Best Emergent Italian Dance Company and in 2017 got the Europaindanza – Merit Award to Choreography for the show Bolero by Michele Merola.
Today the company is, in effect, an outstanding ensemble of italian dance, with consolidated activity of shows all over the country: it is hosted in many theaters in most of Italian regions, is invited in major festivals, collaborates with almost all the regional circuits. Abroad, MMCDC was present in European and extra-European countries such as Korea, Colombia, Canada, Russia, Germany, Morocco, Belgium…
For the three-year period 2018-20 MM Contemporary Dance Company is associated company of InDanza Circuit of Trentino Alto Adige. MM Contemporary Dance Company is supported by Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali, Regione Emilia-Romagna, Fondazione Nazionale della Danza/Aterballetto, Teatro Asioli di Correggio, ASD Progetto Danza. Technical partner: Pro Music.
michelemerola.it
INFO & TICKETS
TICKETS
Full price: 3 euro
Under 6: free
PURCHASING TICKETS
In compliance with anti-Covid regulations, tickets can only be purchased online at www.biglietteriafonderia39.it up to one hour before the performance.
Therefore tickets cannot be booked by phone or by e-mail.
The ticket service in the Fonderia is suspended.
Tickets are not numbered.
ENTRANCE
You can enter the Fonderia 15 minutes before the performance, showing your online purchase.
At the entrance, the temperature will be tested and if the temperature exceeds 37.5°C, you will not be allowed to enter. Access to Fonderia is only allowed prior to the presentation of a valid Green Pass certification, excluding the children under the age of 12 and to subjects exempted on the basis of suitable medical certification – according to the criteria defined by the Ministry of Health. Our staff will check this certification at the entrance. It is required the correct use of the mask for the entire duration of the event.

DANZA D'AUTORE
2021-11-28 20:30 - 22:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
MM Contemporary Dance Company directed by Michele Merola presents Danza d’Autore, a triple bill composed of Extended by Camilla Monga, Round Trip by Roberto Tedesco and La metà dell’ombra by Michele Merola.

Extended
Choreography and concept Camilla Monga
Music Federica Furlani and By This River by Brian Eno
Dancers Dylan Di Nola, Lorenzo Fiorito, Matilde Gherardi, Annalisa Perricone, Alice Ruspaggiari, Giuseppe Villarosa
Production MM Contemporary Dance Company
With the support of VAN
Project born from the action Prove d’autore XL, promoted by Network Anticorpi XL and coordinated by Associazione Cantieri
Duration 20′
Here we are
Stuck by this river
You and I
Underneath a sky that’s ever falling down, down, down
Ever falling down
Brian Eno’s By This River brings dancers and spectators into a rarefied atmosphere while the sound of the piano and keyboards caress each other embroidering a precious harmonic fabric. The song invites to a sweet disorientation to idealise a time without time and a space without borders. Camilla Monga works with the musician Federica Furlani to create a polyphony of images that are always new and unrepeatable, creating an elsewhere that is outlined minute by minute before the eyes of the spectator. Each musical framework guides the talented MMCDC dancers, giving each one few features that mark their characters; while closely connected actions provoke chain reactions, outlining increasingly meditative and ethereal panoramas. Extended is expanded music that seems to have neither a beginning nor an ending; it is a reflection on the nature and fragility of man, but also on his ability to evoke a universe, false or real, to create spaces in which one can fall and rise again.
Round Trip
Choreography Roberto Tedesco
Music Not Waving
Lighting Design Gessica Germini
Dancers Dylan Di Nola, Lorenzo Fiorito, Matilde Gherardi, Fabiana Lonardo, Alice Ruspaggiari, Giuseppe Villarosa
Duration 12′
There is no linear story but moments, images, situations that transfigure the formal aspect of the choreographic score into music, in what seems to be a “mosaic-work”.
An investigation into pure movement, starting from the awareness that “without space there would be no movement, but without movement space would not be conceivable. With Round Trip we enter into an analysis of different identities, of the encounter with the other and its many facets. Individuals engaged in a unique and multiple research confront and identify themselves, mixing again, not caring about any classification. A circular motion that consists of invading and abandoning space, going and returning that do not always coincide, as if every single situation were disconnected from the previous or the following one and could belong each time to an infinitely variable number of performers.
Roberto Tedesco
La metà dell'ombra

Choreography Michele Merola
Music Johann Sebastian Bach, Geert Hendrix, Senking
Costume design Carlotta Montanari
Dancers Dylan Di Nola, Lorenzo Fiorito, Paolo Lauri, Nicola Stasi, Giuseppe Villarosa

Duration 28′
La metà dell’ombra stages an ideal and impalpable journey into sacrality. The gestures and the music remind us of the ritual, of an archaic world, lost forever. The dancers alternate the physicality of the ‘dancing body’ with an intimate interpretation of the most spiritual part of man.
In Michele Merola’s dance there is always a time where the human tension and the truth about feelings get exalted: dance brings out the aching sense of life. His dance goes straight to heart, shaped as knife, without intermissions and it breaks our self-confidence. La metà dell’ombra is the last leg of this path: it’s structured on human male bodies and it can be considered as a journey to
explore the mystery of the sacred in us. The choreography moves in a continuous tension between the sense of expiation, expressed with gestures lacerating, self-punitive, and the hope of redemption and the liberation of the body. There is a constant movement between atonement, punishment, hope and freedom. The feelings are mixed, opposed and drawn in a collective ritual ending. Each frame we see and each choral dance performed exalt the human presence. By those choices the choreographer gains a new dance language that conquered us with power and evocation.
Ermanno Romanelli – Dance News

MM CONTEMPORARY DANCE COMPANY
MM Contemporary Dance Company, based in Reggio Emilia, Italy, is directed by choreographer Michele Merola. The company was born in 1999 as a permanent center for the production of events and shows and as a promoter of projects and workshops with the aim of supporting exchanges and alliances between italian and international artists, witnesses and spokesmen of contemporary culture.
Company repertoire is composed by a various range of styles: Merola’s works and other creations of international and Italian choreographers as Mats Ek, Mauro Bigonzetti, Thomas Noone, Gustavo Ramirez Sansano, Karl Alfred Schreiner, Emanuele Soavi, Enrico Morelli, Eugenio Scigliano, Daniele Ninarello.
In 2010 MMCDC won Danza&Danza Critics Award as Best Emergent Italian Dance Company and in 2017 got the Europaindanza – Merit Award to Choreography for the show Bolero by Michele Merola.
Today the company is, in effect, an outstanding ensemble of italian dance, with consolidated activity of shows all over the country: it is hosted in many theaters in most of Italian regions, is invited in major festivals, collaborates with almost all the regional circuits. Abroad, MMCDC was present in European and extra-European countries such as Korea, Colombia, Canada, Russia, Germany, Morocco, Belgium…
For the three-year period 2018-20 MM Contemporary Dance Company is associated company of InDanza Circuit of Trentino Alto Adige. MM Contemporary Dance Company is supported by Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali, Regione Emilia-Romagna, Fondazione Nazionale della Danza/Aterballetto, Teatro Asioli di Correggio, ASD Progetto Danza. Technical partner: Pro Music.
michelemerola.it
INFO & TICKETS
TICKETS
Full price: 9 euro
Reduced price under 30, dance schools, Liceo Coreutico Matilde di Canossa, over 65: 6 euro
Under 8: free
PURCHASING TICKETS
In compliance with anti-Covid regulations, tickets can only be purchased online at www.biglietteriafonderia39.it up to one hour before the performance.
Therefore tickets cannot be booked by phone or by e-mail.
The ticket service in the Fonderia is suspended.
Tickets are not numbered.
ENTRANCE
You can enter the Fonderia 15 minutes before the performance, showing your online purchase.
At the entrance, the temperature will be tested and if the temperature exceeds 37.5°C, you will not be allowed to enter. Access to Fonderia is only allowed prior to the presentation of a valid Green Pass certification, excluding the children under the age of 12 and to subjects exempted on the basis of suitable medical certification – according to the criteria defined by the Ministry of Health. Our staff will check this certification at the entrance. It is required the correct use of the mask for the entire duration of the event.

PROVE IN CORSO - Storie
2021-12-03 21:00 - 21:40 | Fonderia – streaming, Italia
What is behind a performance of Aterballetto? What happens in the rooms of the Fonderia in Reggio Emilia?
Before the lockdown, our audience could discover the daily work of dancers and choreographers by attending the open rehearsals of the company.
Now our fans, and not only those from Reggio Emilia but from every city will be able to enter the universe of Aterballetto with PROVE IN CORSO, our first series of four episodes curated by Nicolas Ballario: one of the most appreciated journalists of contemporary art who, thanks to his unique verve and extraordinary competence, is bringing everyone closer to the art world with his broadcasts on Sky Arte and RadioUnoRai.
Together with Ballario we enter the world of the Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto.
Between hilarious encounters, ironic scenes involving people who work at the Fonderia every day, and dancing moments, in four episodes directed by Fabrizio Spucches, we will discover the secrets of the company and the backstage of the shows, in a way never told before.
PROVE IN CORSO will be broadcast on the OnTheatre.tv platform.
PROVE IN CORSO is supported by the Ministry of Culture / Special Projects 2021.
On Friday 3 December at 9 p.m. (available until 5th December at 12 p.m.), the second episode is focused on the rehearsals of the creations by Philippe Kratz and Diego Tortelli that are part of the evening Storie.
Tickets

Ticket: 3€.
If you are planning to watch all 4 episodes, you can buy the package ticket: 10€
Buy your ticket on https://www.biglietteriafonderia39.it/home.aspx or https://www.ontheatre.tv/Prove-in-Corso-80c9a500 (for the package).
We will send you a personal code that will allow you to watch the show on OnTheatre platform.

The purchased episode will be viewable from the scheduled date (Friday 3 December at 21.00).
If you are unable to watch the episode on Friday, you will be able to start the episode within 28 days of purchase.
Once started, the episode will be available for 48 hours.
By purchasing the package, all shows will be visible in the MY SHOWS area of the OnTheatre website, but individual episodes can only be played from scheduled Fridays (Don Juan will be available from 26 November, Storie from 3 December…).
When you purchase the package, the 28 days period starts from the date the show is scheduled.

OnTheatre Platform

Register for free on OnTheatre: ontheatre.tv/Sign up and confirm your registration by clicking on the link you will receive by e-mail.
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Dreamers #1
2021-12-04 20:30 - 22:00, 2021-12-05 18:00 - 19:30 | Le Cratère, Place Henri Barbusse, Alès, 30100, Francia
Aterballetto dances in Alès the triple bill Dreamers #1, composed of Secus by Ohad Naharin, “O” by Philippe Kratz and BLISS by Johan Inger.
Dreamers #1 offers a unique opportunity to admire the company through shades of contrast, from the joyful concert in dance by Johan Inger to the unstoppable and hypnotic rhythm of Philippe Kratz, to vigorous rituality of Ohad Naharin.

MicroDanze
2021-12-09 20:00 - 22:00, 2021-12-10 15:00 - 22:00, 2021-12-11 15:00 - 22:00 | Les Halles de Schaerbeek, 22 rue Royale Sainte-Marie, Brussels, B-1030, Belgio
After the performances in Athens and Reggio Emilia, MicroDanze is staged in Brussels, in the evocative setting of Les Halles de Schaerbeek, from Thursday 9 to Saturday 11 December.
The performances are presented, together with three choreographies of the Greek National Opera Ballet, within the dance season of the Belgian cultural centre.
The MicroDances are organised in two programmes:
Programme A (1h)
1. AFTERIMAGE – Philippe Kratz
2. NEAR LIFE EXPERIENCE – Angelin Preliocaj
3. PENSIERI DI CARTA – Hélias Tur-Dorvault
4. FORGET ME NOT – Konstantinos Rigos
5. THE WOUND/ARCHIVE OF WESTERN IMAGES – Pietro Marullo
6. EPPUR SI MUOVE – Francesca Lattuada
Programme B (1h)
1. ACTIVE MOTIVATION – Elena Kekkou
2. CARNE DA EROE 2.0 – Roberto Zappala
3. INSIDE – Norge Cedeno Raffo
4. KEPLER – Diego Tortelli
5. KNIGHT RIDER – Yannis Nikolaidis
6. THE BELL JAR – Fernando Melo
Programme A & B (2h)
1. ACTIVE MOTIVATION – Elena Kekkou
2. AFTERIMAGE – Philippe Kratz
3. NEAR LIFE EXPERIENCE – Angelin Preliocaj
4. CARNE DA EROE 2.0 – Roberto Zappala
5. PENSIERI DI CARTA – Hélias Tur-Dorvault
6. INSIDE – Norge Cedeno Raffo
7. FORGET ME NOT – Konstantinos Rigos
8. THE WOUND / ARCHIVE OF WESTERN IMAGES – Pietro Marullo
9. KEPLER – Diego Tortelli
10. EPPUR SI MUOVE – Francesca Lattuada
11. KNIGHT RIDER – Yannis Nikolaidis
12. THE BELL JAR – Fernando Melo

Programme A > 10, 11 December (two performances h. 15.00/17.00)
Programme B > 10, 11 December (two performances h. 16.00/18.00)
Programme A & B > 9, 10, 11 December (h. 20.00)

MicroDanze, the complex project of the Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto combining dance, visual art, public art and virtual reality is co-produced by the Fondazione Palazzo Magnani of Reggio Emilia and is part of the project An Ideal City, co-financed by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union and developed by the Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto in partnership with the Greek National Opera in Athens and Les Halles de Schaerbeek in Brussels.
MicroDanze – FND / Aterballetto
Kepler
chor. Diego Tortelli
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Afterimage
chor. Philippe Kratz
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The Bell Jar
chor. Fernando Melo
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Inside
chor. Norge Cedeño Raffo
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Near Life Experience
chor. Angelin Preljocaj
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Eppur si muove
chor. Francesca Lattuada
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PENSIERI DI CARTA
chor. Hélias Tur-Dorvault
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Carne da Eroe 2.0
chor. Roberto Zappalà
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THE WOUND / ARCHIVE OF WESTERN IMAGES
chor. Pietro Marullo
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MicroDanze – GNO Ballet
ACTIVE MOTIVATION
chor. Elena Kekkou
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FORGET ME NOT
chor. Konstantinos Rigos
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KNIGHT RIDER
chor. Yannis Nikolaidis
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Concerto Fisico
2021-12-09 20:30 - 21:30 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Concerto Fisico is a physical and vocal score that reviews and redraws the history of Balletto Civile, the story of the company born inside the former Psychiatric Hospital of Udine.

Credits
Concept and choreography Michela Lucenti
Created and performed by Michela Lucenti
Assistant to the creation Maurizio Camilli
Live sound design Tiziano Scali and Maurizio Camilli
Production Balletto Civile and Festival Resistere e Creare
With the support of UFO – UNIDENTIFIED ART RESIDENCES and MIBACT
To know you alive is to feel the planet crumble beneath you, to soar kicking try to throw yourself off while you cling to the edge, is to ride the planet like a log in the direction of the current, screaming.
Anne Dillard
Synopsis
I always sang in shows even when my dancing was furious. The body, my gestures are the map of what I feel and singing is my vehicle to keep me alive.
Concerto Fisico is a composition for physical and vocal instrument, a twisted and crooked greatest hits that has nothing nostalgic to tell the story of a group through the stories it has become a vehicle. A juke-box that awakens the emotional accents of a memory that is still the present, of how we transformed ourselves, of the sand from which we emerged, of the Creatures, of the wooden horses built for Troy, of the fire extinguishers thrown in the dark, of the sea of milk where Woyzeck and Andres talk about the void, of Desdemona’s desperate scream, of what happened to Thebes, of the Resistance, of the struggle and of the Revolution, of how in the end the Evil Lambs are all of us, of the mirrored floor and an orange rope, of the power and heavy coats of 1918, of stuffed foxes and sexual seasons, of death and a Brazilian with a green plume, of a small white dog, of taboos, of plastic ducks and Kenyan acrobats, of firemen and priests, of an accident and a gas station, of a radio and a city always on fire, of why things happen. Then everything disappears, sucked into the eyes, as if it never existed.
Concerto Fisico is a musical tale for actions that retraces and redraws the history of Balletto Civile, that is, my own, the history of my company. It was founded during a long artistic residence inside the former Psychiatric Hospital of Udine, one of the centres where Basaglia revolutionized the concept of madness. My art was born in that place, isolated from the world and at the same time in the centre of its burning fire.
Michela Lucenti
Balletto Civile
A nomadic group by definition, animated 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 theatre, dance and original singing interact naturally.
ballettocivile.org
INFO & TICKETS
TICKETS
Full price: 9 euro
Reduced price under 30, dance schools, Liceo Coreutico Matilde di Canossa, over 65: 6 euro
Under 8: free
PURCHASING TICKETS
In compliance with anti-Covid regulations, tickets can only be purchased online at www.biglietteriafonderia39.it up to one hour before the performance.
Therefore tickets cannot be booked by phone or by e-mail.
The ticket service in the Fonderia is suspended.
Tickets are not numbered.
ENTRANCE
You can enter the Fonderia 15 minutes before the performance, showing your online purchase.
At the entrance, the temperature will be tested and if the temperature exceeds 37.5°C, you will not be allowed to enter. Access to Fonderia is only allowed prior to the presentation of a valid Green Pass certification, excluding the children under the age of 12 and to subjects exempted on the basis of suitable medical certification – according to the criteria defined by the Ministry of Health. Our staff will check this certification at the entrance. It is required the correct use of the mask for the entire duration of the event.

PROVE IN CORSO - MicroDanze
2021-12-10 21:00 - 21:40 | Fonderia – streaming, Italia
What is behind a performance of Aterballetto? What happens in the rooms of the Fonderia in Reggio Emilia?
Before the lockdown, our audience could discover the daily work of dancers and choreographers by attending the open rehearsals of the company.
Now our fans, and not only those from Reggio Emilia but from every city will be able to enter the universe of Aterballetto with PROVE IN CORSO, our first series of four episodes curated by Nicolas Ballario: one of the most appreciated journalists of contemporary art who, thanks to his unique verve and extraordinary competence, is bringing everyone closer to the art world with his broadcasts on Sky Arte and RadioUnoRai.
Together with Ballario we enter the world of the Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto.
Between hilarious encounters, ironic scenes involving people who work at the Fonderia every day, and dancing moments, in four episodes directed by Fabrizio Spucches, we will discover the secrets of the company and the backstage of the shows, in a way never told before.
PROVE IN CORSO will be broadcast on the OnTheatre.tv platform.
PROVE IN CORSO is supported by the Ministry of Culture / Special Projects 2021.
On Friday 10 December at 9 p.m. (available until 12th December at 12 p.m.) comes the third episode with MicroDanze by Fernando Melo, Norge Cedeño Raffo, Francesca Lattuada and Ina Lesnakowski.
Tickets

Ticket: 3€.
If you are planning to watch all 4 episodes, you can buy the package ticket: 10€
Buy your ticket on https://www.biglietteriafonderia39.it/home.aspx or https://www.ontheatre.tv/Prove-in-Corso-80c9a500 (for the package).
We will send you a personal code that will allow you to watch the show on OnTheatre platform.

The purchased episode will be viewable from the scheduled date (Friday 10 December at 21.00).
If you are unable to watch the episode on Friday, you will be able to start the episode within 28 days of purchase.
Once started, the episode will be available for 48 hours.
By purchasing the package, all shows will be visible in the MY SHOWS area of the OnTheatre website, but individual episodes can only be played from scheduled Fridays (Don Juan will be available from 26 November, Storie from 3 December…).
When you purchase the package, the 28 days period starts from the date the show is scheduled.

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MADE IN ITALY 25.0 - OPEN REHEARSAL
2021-12-13 18:00 - 19:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Agora Coaching Project – ph. Nicola Stasi
OPEN REHEARSAL
The protagonists are the dancers of the Agora Coaching Project, an advanced dance training project promoted and supported by the MM Contemporary Dance Company and A.S.D Progetto Danza of Reggio Emilia under the artistic direction of Michele Merola and Enrico Morelli. Started in 2010, the course is now gaining full recognition in the world of European dance and boasts collaborations with internationally renowned teachers and choreographers.
On stage Made in Italy 25.0, with choreographies by Emanuele Soavi and Michele Merola.

AGORA COACHING PROJECT
AGORA COACHING PROJECT is an annual project of improvement in dance for dancers aged between 18 and 22 years, which is based in Reggio Emilia.
Born in 2010, the course is directed by Michele Merola and Enrico Morelli, and is promoted and supported by MM Contemporary Dance Company and A.S.D. Progetto Danza di Reggio Emilia. It aims to train artists ready to deal flexibly with the variety of the international dance market, artists able to respond to requests of different nature, technical / stylistic, which come from this same market.
The course aims to offer a wide range of technical and cultural stimuli and exchange between students and choreographers, each of whom comes from and works in different realities among the most interesting on the international scene. Agora, in fact, brings the students together with established choreographers of different stylistic orientations, and in recent years has seen the presence of many illustrious names: several teachers, each with proven and qualified experience in the field.with Michele Merola and Enrico Morelli collaborate in the implementation of the project
michelemerola.it
Info & Tickets
TICKETS
Full price: 3 euro
Under 6: free
PURCHASING TICKETS
In compliance with anti-Covid regulations, tickets can only be purchased online at www.biglietteriafonderia39.it up to one hour before the performance.
Therefore tickets cannot be booked by phone or by e-mail.
The ticket service in the Fonderia is suspended.
Tickets are not numbered.
ENTRANCE
You can enter the Fonderia 15 minutes before the performance, showing your online purchase.
At the entrance, the temperature will be tested and if the temperature exceeds 37.5°C, you will not be allowed to enter. Access to Fonderia is only allowed prior to the presentation of a valid Green Pass certification, excluding the children under the age of 12 and to subjects exempted on the basis of suitable medical certification – according to the criteria defined by the Ministry of Health. Our staff will check this certification at the entrance. It is required the correct use of the mask for the entire duration of the event

MADE IN ITALY 25.0
2021-12-14 20:30 - 22:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
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The protagonists are the dancers of the Agora Coaching Project, an advanced dance training project promoted and supported by the MM Contemporary Dance Company and A.S.D Progetto Danza of Reggio Emilia under the artistic direction of Michele Merola and Enrico Morelli. Started in 2010, the course is now gaining full recognition in the world of European dance and boasts collaborations with internationally renowned teachers and choreographers.
On stage Made in Italy 25.0, with choreographies by Emanuele Soavi and Enrico Morelli.

AGORA COACHING PROJECT
AGORA COACHING PROJECT is an annual project of improvement in dance for dancers aged between 18 and 22 years, which is based in Reggio Emilia.
Born in 2010, the course is directed by Michele Merola and Enrico Morelli, and is promoted and supported by MM Contemporary Dance Company and A.S.D. Progetto Danza di Reggio Emilia. It aims to train artists ready to deal flexibly with the variety of the international dance market, artists able to respond to requests of different nature, technical / stylistic, which come from this same market.
The course aims to offer a wide range of technical and cultural stimuli and exchange between students and choreographers, each of whom comes from and works in different realities among the most interesting on the international scene. Agora, in fact, brings the students together with established choreographers of different stylistic orientations, and in recent years has seen the presence of many illustrious names: several teachers, each with proven and qualified experience in the field.with Michele Merola and Enrico Morelli collaborate in the implementation of the project
michelemerola.it
Info & Tickets
TICKETS
Full price: 9 euro
Reduced price under 30, dance schools, Liceo Coreutico Matilde di Canossa, over 65: 6 euro
Under 8: free
PURCHASING TICKETS
In compliance with anti-Covid regulations, tickets can only be purchased online at www.biglietteriafonderia39.it up to one hour before the performance.
Therefore tickets cannot be booked by phone or by e-mail.
The ticket service in the Fonderia is suspended.
Tickets are not numbered.
ENTRANCE
You can enter the Fonderia 15 minutes before the performance, showing your online purchase.
At the entrance, the temperature will be tested and if the temperature is higher than 37.5°C, you will not be allowed to enter. Access to Fonderia is only allowed prior to the presentation of a valid Super Green Pass certification, excluding the children under the age of 12 and to subjects exempted on the basis of suitable medical certification – according to the criteria defined by the Ministry of Health. Our staff will check this certification at the entrance. It is required the correct use of the mask for the entire duration of the event.

Don Juan
2021-12-17 20:00 - 21:40 | Teatro Ponchielli, Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, 52, Cremona, 26100, Italia
At Teatro Ponchielli in Cremona, Aterballetto dances Don Juan, the full evening production by Johan Inger.
The choreography comes from Inger’s desire to confront Don Juan, a paradigmatic myth that is both ancient and still contemporary. The original comedy by Tirso de Molina, Molière, Bertold Brecht and the play by Suzanne Lilar are just some of the sources of inspiration: Inger and playwright Gregor Acuña-Pohl consulted twenty-five different texts inspired by the character.
In the creation we find all the characters of the story, from Donna Elvira to Donna Anna to Zerlina and Masetto. Don Juan can be considered a Kammerspiel, with its ability to emphasise nuances and emotions: and in the case of this creation, dance becomes a magnifying glass for the individual characters, subtly but clearly revealing the inner world of the men and women on stage.

Preludio - ''O'' - BLISS
2021-12-29 20:00 - 21:40, 2021-12-30 20:00 - 21:40, 2021-12-31 18:00 - 19:40, 2022-01-02 16:00 - 17:40 | Teatro Comunale, Fondazione, Largo Respighi 1, Bologna, 40126, Italia
Due to the quarantine that some of the protagonists of the ballet Don Juan had to undergo, the Teatro Comunale di Bologna and the Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto have decided to replace the title, scheduled from 29 December 2021 to 2 January 2022, with three of the most popular choreographies created in recent years by the dance company. The times and dates of the performances remain unchanged.
Wednesday 29 December h 20.00
Thursday 30 December h 20.00
Friday 31 December h 18.00
Sunday 2 January h 16.00
The evening opens with Preludio, a creation for five performers by Diego Tortelli – Aterballetto’s resident choreographer – created around some of the most intense poems and songs by Australian singer-songwriter Nick Cave, one of the greatest exponents of Post Punk. Cave tackles the interweaving of themes such as love, addiction, obsession and loss.
The programme continues with “O” by Philippe Kratz – a former Aterballetto dancer and choreographer – a duet that has already been appreciated abroad. “O” represents two human beings or two robots that force us to question ourselves on how the sense of physical contact could change: will it remain emotional and heart-felt, or will it become serial and alienated?
Closing is BLISS by Johan Inger, which won the 2016 Danza&Danza Award as ‘Italian Production of the Year’, inspired by the music of Keith Jarrett’s Köln Concert. Inger and the dancers on stage talk about how one relates to this iconic music: a compositional and emotional challenge.

MicroDanze
2022-01-14 18:00 - 21:00, 2022-01-15 18:00 - 21:00 | Palazzo da Mosto, via Mari, 8, Reggio Emilia, 42121, Italia
Due to several cases of dancers testing positive for Covid, the Fondazione Nazionale della Danza and the Fondazione Palazzo Magnani are forced to cancel the event.

However, the visiting hours for the exhibition have been extended, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.
The appointment with the MicroDances – recent winners of the prestigious “Danza & Danza 2021” Award for original project, multimediality and internationality – is only postponed to next summer, when they will be protagonists on the Reggio Emilia scene.
Spectators who had already purchased tickets for the live performances at Palazzo da Mosto will be contacted directly by Vivaticket for a refund.

Six of the thirteen MicroDances will be performed for the last time in Italy, in Reggio Emilia, in an innovative and original context: the contemporary art exhibition ORIZZONTI DEL CORPO Art / Dance / Virtual Reality, produced by Palazzo Magnani Foundation and curated by Marina Dacci, in the historical Palazzo da Mosto. The project combines visual, performing arts and technology in a continuous exchange: the MicroDances, in fact, are designed to be enjoyed together with the works of art and are performed live during the last weekend of the exhibition:

14, 15 January 2022 (three performances at h 18.00 / 19.30 / 21.00)
16 January 2022 (three performances at h 15.00 / 16.30 / 18.00)

Live performance:
Shelter by Saul Daniele Ardillo, Kepler by Diego Tortelli, Afterimage by Philippe Kratz, Platform02 by Ina Lesnakowski, Near Life Experience by Angelin Preljocaj
Virtual reality:
Meridiana by Diego Tortelli

Shelter
chor. Saul Daniele Ardillo
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Kepler
chor. Diego Tortelli
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Afterimage
chor. Philippe Kratz
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Platform02
chor. Ina Lesnakowski
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Near Life Experience
chor. Angelin Preljocaj
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Meridiana
chor. Diego Tortelli
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