Centro Coreografico Nazionale / Aterballetto

MicroDanze / Brescia
2023-03-04 17:00 - 21:30, 2023-03-05 17:00 - 21:30 (Europe/Rome) | BRESCIA, Brescia, BS, Italia
After Athens (Acropolis Museum, EMST Museum, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, Greek National Opera), Brussels (Les Halles de Schaerbeek) and Rome (Castel Sant’Angelo), the site-specific performance MicroDanze signed Fondazione Nazionale della Danza/Aterballetto arrives in Brescia, thanks to the project of Fondazione Brescia Musei and FND/Aterballetto, for a great event conceived for Brescia and declined in its civic museums, in the year of the Italian Capital of Culture 2023.
MicroDanze Capitale Italiana della Cultura 2023 Brescia/Performance di danza in percorsi urbani is an ambitious project of “danced” performances.
Styles and expressive worlds confront and mix in a single project addressing both art and performing arts audiences. It is a project that aims to explore the potential of dance as public art, grafted into an urban landscape; dance that creatively wanders between very different choreographers, creating radically new opportunities for encounters with the public and for comparison between significant European urban contexts.

WHERE AND WHEN
The performance will be showcased from 3 to 5 March.
You can choose between:
-Turn A: (17.00 – 18.30 – 20.00)
lasting h.1′ 15″
-Turn B: (17.30 – 19.00 – 20.30)
of a duration of h. 1′ 30″
Departure from Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo, Piazza Moretto 4 – Brescia
Tickets and reservations

Ticket: 15 euro
Purchasable online

Tel. 0302928609

Cell. 3760450269
biglietteria@centroteatralebresciano.it

Over Dance
2023-03-04 19:00 - 20:00 | Pavillon Noir, 530 Avenue Mozart, Aix-en-Provence, Francia
Over Dance arrives in Aix-en-Provence, to the Pavillon Noir, home of Ballet Preljocaj.
The body transforming with the years is a central theme in our society, and in the sensibility of each of us. Aging is not a problem for the actor, writer or visual artist: For those who dance, however? What is the true age of the body?
In a new creation for the Fondazione Nazionale della Danza/Aterballetto, the two renowned choreographers Angelin Preljocaj and Rachid Ouramdane address the theme of the transformation of the body with an evening with senior performers (ages 65 to 79) that premiered on Feb. 15, 2023 in Paris.
Performances at Pavillon Noir (Aix-en-Provence):

Thursday 02.03 – 20h00
Friday 03.03 – 20h00
Saturday 04.03 – 19h00

Learn more about the project

OVER DANCE (working title) is a co-production of Fondazione Nazionale della Danza/Aterballetto with Ballet Preljocaj (Aix-en-Provence), Chaillot – Théâtre national de la Danse (Paris), ERT/Teatro Nazionale (Modena), Fondazione I Teatri (Reggio Emilia), Centro Servizi Culturali Santa Chiara (Trento).
Supporter and scientific partner: Ravasi Garzanti Foundation (Milan)
In partnership with Comune di Reggio Emilia and Farmacie Comunali Riunite

EROIDE CONTEMPORANEA / EUFEMIA - OPEN REHEARSAL
2023-03-06 18:00 - 19:30 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Massimo Monticelli – Eroide Contemporanea
Giorgia Lolli – Eufemia, ph. Andrea Couceiro
OPEN REHEARSAL
Two young choreographers from Emilia-Romagna confront on stage a deromanticized present and a past with a nostalgic flavor.
Massimo Monticelli, an internationally known dancer and choreographer, drawing inspiration from Ovid’s collections of love epistles, rewrites one of them: his Eroide Contemporanea. The letter becomes an opportunity to pose a reflection on love, art and loneliness.
Giorgia Lolli, through collaboration with Sophie Claire Annen and Vittoria Caneva, creates Eufemia. On stage, a non-romantic vision of romance and a nostalgia for eras never lived meet.
With the patronage of

EROIDE CONTEMPORANEA
Choreography, text, dance: Massimo Monticelli
Music: C. Debussy, B. Bàrtok
Production: TIR dance
With the support of: ImPulsTanz, Vienna (AT), Santarcangelo Festival, Rete h(abita)t Bologna.
In his Heroides, Ovid imagines a collection of letters written by some of the most famous women of myth for their respective men who, for one reason or another, abandoned them. Massimo Monticelli wants here to compose a new eroid. Going through a fragment of life, a letter becomes an opportunity to pose a reflection on love, art and loneliness.
Acknowledgements:
Project selected for the ATLAS – create your dance trails program of the ImPulsTanz festival in Vienna, with dramaturgy support by Guy Cools and Angelique Wilkie.
Project selected for KRAAK, residency path of Santarcangelo Festival.

MASSIMO MONTICELLI
Massimo Monticelli is a dancer, choreographer and teacher from Bologna, and since 2023 he has been an associate artist of TIR Danza.
In recent years, Massimo has danced in works by international choreographers in several European countries, and since 2022 he has started a collaboration as performer with Italian choreographer Nicola Galli.
In the last two years Massimo has been able to present his work in contexts such as Gender Bender International Festival, Romaeuropa festival, in ImPulsTanz’s ATLAS artist review in Vienna (AT), Corte Ospitale, Thuner Tanzfest (CH).
Between 2021 and 2023 Massimo has been selected for the following opportunities: national call ERetici promoted by Arboreto and Corte Ospitale, Nuove Traiettorie XL promoted by Rete Anticorpi XL, ATLAS – create your dance trails, program within ImPulsTanz festival in Vienna, DNAppunti Coreografici 2022 as a finalist, and among the four winning artists of SupportER, support action promoted by Rete Anticorpi Emilia-Romagna.
In 2020 Massimo was a founding member of the Swiss company EREM dance, with which he worked as dramaturg and choreographic consultant.
He graduated with honors from Trinity Laban in London, received a Master’s degree in Performance from NSCD in Leeds, spent a period of study at the National Conservatory of Paris, while in parallel he earned a Bachelor of Arts and a Master’s degree in Theatre Disciplines from the University of Bologna.
EUFEMIA
By Giorgia Lolli
With Sophie Claire Annen, Vittoria Caneva, Giorgia Lolli
Production: Anghiari Dance Hub 2020
Winner project of the Abitante Call for Proposals – National Center for Dance Production Virgilio Sieni and Fondazione CR Firenze. With the support of SdFactory Laboratorio Creativo (Reggio Emilia) and blueFACTORY (Fribourg, CH).
Selected for the Young Author’s Dance Showcase – action of the Network Antibodies XL 2021.
–
Eufemia, from the Greek, she who speaks well, or she who is spoken of well, is a creation for three young women and a typewriter. On stage, a non-romantic vision of romance and a nostalgia for eras never lived meet. The performers, furnishing the rooms of a utopian world, construct between the abstract and the concrete a dimension in which everything becomes both subject and frame. They cultivate an “imperfectionism” devoid of approximations, which opens to new possible views and oversights.
Eufemia: celestial, moody, eloquent, intimate, sophisticated, light.
It is everything you decide it is.

Eufemia, Giorgia Lolli – ph. Andrea Couceiro
GIORGIA LOLLI
Giorgia Lolli (Reggio Emilia, 1996) graduated in Contemporary Dance from Zürich University of the Arts and moved to Israel, completing training with Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company. She has an active collaboration as a dancer in Finland for How the land lies by Bianca Hisse & Laura Cemin, selected for Aerowaves 2023. Giorgia is teaching Dance Well, movement research for Parkinson’s at Triennale Milano.
Her practice interweaves dramaturgical-choreographic research and community processes. Since 2020 she has been collaborating with Sophie Claire Annen and Vittoria Caneva: with Eufemia they are finalists in Direction Under 30 (Teatro Sociale di Gualtieri), selected by Network Anticorpi XL for the Young Author’s Dance Showcase 2021, and guests of Festivals in Switzerland, Portugal, Germany.
INFO & TICKETS
TICKETS
Full: 3 euro
Under 6: free
PURCHASING TICKETS
Tickets can be purchased online at www.biglietteriafonderia39.it.
Ticket service in the Fonderia is active from 5 pm.
Tickets are not numbered.
CONTACTS
Cell and whatsapp 3341023554
Email biglietteria@aterballetto.it

EROIDE CONTEMPORANEA / EUFEMIA
2023-03-08 20:30 - 22:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Massimo Monticelli – Eroide Contemporanea
Giorgia Lolli – Eufemia, ph. Andrea Couceiro
Two young choreographers from Emilia-Romagna confront on stage a deromanticized present and a past with a nostalgic flavor.
Massimo Monticelli, an internationally known dancer and choreographer, drawing inspiration from Ovid’s collections of love epistles, rewrites one of them: his Eroide Contemporanea. The letter becomes an opportunity to pose a reflection on love, art and loneliness.
Giorgia Lolli, through collaboration with Sophie Claire Annen and Vittoria Caneva, creates Eufemia. On stage, a non-romantic vision of romance and a nostalgia for eras never lived meet.
With the patronage of

EROIDE CONTEMPORANEA Choreography, text, dance: Massimo Monticelli
Music: C. Debussy, B. Bàrtok
Production: TIR dance
With the support of: ImPulsTanz, Vienna (AT), Santarcangelo Festival, Rete h(abita)t Bologna.
In his Heroides, Ovid imagines a collection of letters written by some of the most famous women of myth for their respective men who, for one reason or another, abandoned them. Massimo Monticelli wants here to compose a new eroid. Going through a fragment of life, a letter becomes an opportunity to pose a reflection on love, art and loneliness.
Acknowledgements:
Project selected for the ATLAS – create your dance trails program of the ImPulsTanz festival in Vienna, with dramaturgy support by Guy Cools and Angelique Wilkie.
Project selected for KRAAK, residency path of Santarcangelo Festival.

MASSIMO MONTICELLIMassimo Monticelli is a dancer, choreographer and teacher from Bologna, and since 2023 he has been an associate artist of TIR Danza.
In recent years, Massimo has danced in works by international choreographers in several European countries, and since 2022 he has started a collaboration as performer with Italian choreographer Nicola Galli.
In the last two years Massimo has been able to present his work in contexts such as Gender Bender International Festival, Romaeuropa festival, in ImPulsTanz’s ATLAS artist review in Vienna (AT), Corte Ospitale, Thuner Tanzfest (CH).
Between 2021 and 2023 Massimo has been selected for the following opportunities: national call ERetici promoted by Arboreto and Corte Ospitale, Nuove Traiettorie XL promoted by Rete Anticorpi XL, ATLAS – create your dance trails, program within ImPulsTanz festival in Vienna, DNAppunti Coreografici 2022 as a finalist, and among the four winning artists of SupportER, support action promoted by Rete Anticorpi Emilia-Romagna.
In 2020 Massimo was a founding member of the Swiss company EREM dance, with which he worked as dramaturg and choreographic consultant.
He graduated with honors from Trinity Laban in London, received a Master’s degree in Performance from NSCD in Leeds, spent a period of study at the National Conservatory of Paris, while in parallel he earned a Bachelor of Arts and a Master’s degree in Theatre Disciplines from the University of Bologna.EUFEMIABy Giorgia Lolli
With Sophie Claire Annen, Vittoria Caneva, Giorgia Lolli
Production: Anghiari Dance Hub 2020
Winner project of the Abitante Call for Proposals – National Center for Dance Production Virgilio Sieni and Fondazione CR Firenze. With the support of SdFactory Laboratorio Creativo (Reggio Emilia) and blueFACTORY (Fribourg, CH).
Selected for the Young Author’s Dance Showcase – action of the Network Antibodies XL 2021.
–
Eufemia, from the Greek, she who speaks well, or she who is spoken of well, is a creation for three young women and a typewriter. On stage, a non-romantic vision of romance and a nostalgia for eras never lived meet. The performers, furnishing the rooms of a utopian world, construct between the abstract and the concrete a dimension in which everything becomes both subject and frame. They cultivate an “imperfectionism” devoid of approximations, which opens to new possible views and oversights.
Euphemia: celestial, moody, eloquent, intimate, sophisticated, light.
It is everything you decide it is.

Eufemia, Giorgia Lolli – ph. Andrea Couceiro

GIORGIA LOLLI Giorgia Lolli (Reggio Emilia, 1996) graduated in Contemporary Dance from Zürich University of the Arts and moved to Israel, completing training with Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company. She has an active collaboration as a dancer in Finland for How the land lies by Bianca Hisse & Laura Cemin, selected for Aerowaves 2023. Giorgia is teaching Dance Well, movement research for Parkinson’s at Triennale Milano.
Her practice interweaves dramaturgical-choreographic research and community processes. Since 2020 she has been collaborating with Sophie Claire Annen and Vittoria Caneva: with Euphemia they are finalists in Direction Under 30 (Teatro Sociale di Gualtieri), selected by Network Anticorpi XL for the Young Author’s Dance Showcase 2021, and guests of Festivals in Switzerland, Portugal, Germany.INFO & TICKETSTICKETS
Full price: 10 euro
Reduced under 30, dance schools, Liceo Coreutico Matilde di Canossa, over 65, members CRAL Municipality of Reggio Emilia: 6 euro
Reduced under 8: 3 euro
PURCHASING TICKETS
Tickets can be purchased online at www.biglietteriafonderia39.it.
Ticket service in Fonderia is active from 7:30 pm.
Tickets are not numbered.
CONTACTS
Cell and whatsapp 3341023554
Email biglietteria@aterballetto.it

Over Dance
2023-03-12 16:00 - 17:00 | Arena del Sole, Via dell'Indipendenza, 44, Bologna, 40121, Italia
Over Dance is in Bologna, at Arena del Sole.
The body transforming with the years is a central theme in our society, and in the sensibility of each of us. Aging is not a problem for the actor, writer or visual artist: For those who dance, however? What is the true age of the body?
In a new creation for the Fondazione Nazionale della Danza/Aterballetto, the two renowned choreographers Angelin Preljocaj and Rachid Ouramdane address the theme of the transformation of the body with an evening with senior performers (ages 65 to 79) that premiered Feb. 15, 2023 in Paris.

Learn more about the project

OVER DANCE (working title) is a co-production of Fondazione Nazionale della Danza/Aterballetto with Ballet Preljocaj (Aix-en-Provence), Chaillot – Théâtre national de la Danse (Paris), ERT/Teatro Nazionale (Modena), Fondazione I Teatri (Reggio Emilia), Centro Servizi Culturali Santa Chiara (Trento).
Supporter and scientific partner: Ravasi Garzanti Foundation (Milan)
In partnership with Comune di Reggio Emilia and Farmacie Comunali Riunite

Double Side
2023-03-14 20:00 - 21:30 | Theater Casino, Artherstrasse 4, Zug, 6300, Svizzera
In March Double Side starts its tour in Switzerland and Germany. first stop is Zug, in the central Switzerland
Baroque music and contemporary dance are combined in the new programme of the Italian Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto, which features two choreographers from Canada and Cuba who are little known in Italy, Danièle Desnoyers and Norge Cedeño Raffo. In close collaboration with the Fondazione Arturo Toscanini from Parma, its orchestral counterpart from Emilia-Romagna Region, the renowned company brings along a musical ensemble of singers and string players, dancing to a baroque suite and a “Stabat Mater” by Arvo Pärt.

Synopsis
The Cuban Norge Cedeño Raffo creates to religious music, of all things. The young, up-and-coming choreographer was a soloist with Danza Contemporánea de Cuba, the most important contemporary company in Cuba. Arvo Pärt’s “Stabat Mater” becomes a painful farewell work for him. The Estonian composer set the medieval text about the pain of the Mother of God to music in his characteristic, reduced style. The moving effect of this music also characterises the expressive, free and, in the most beautiful sense, pure dance: how can one find hope again in a destroyed world and after such a great loss, how can one go on living, Norge Cedeño Raffo asks himself in his work.

Choreographer Danièle Desnoyers comes from Montréal, the metropolis of modern Canadian dance, where her light, fluid style and her own company make her a permanent fixture on the contemporary scene. In addition to a theatrical element, her pieces always have a strong relationship to music. Her creation for Aterballetto is based on a suite by the Italian composer Federico Gon; the specialist for baroque music was inspired by Henry Purcell.

Credits
STABAT MATER
(Creation for 3 dancers, 3 musicians, 3 singers)
Choreography Norge Cedeño Raffo
Set and lighting design Fabiana Piccioli
Music Stabat Mater by Arvo Pärt
Costume design Norge Cedeño Raffo and Fabiana Piccioli
Assistant to the choreographer Thais Suàrez Fernàndez
WITH DROOPING WINGS
(Creation for 8 dancers, 4 strings)
Choreography Danièle Desnoyers
Music An English Suite by Federico Gon after Henry Purcell
Set and lighting design Fabiana Piccioli
Costume design Danièle Desnoyers
With the support of Délégation du Québec à Rome and Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec

Co-design and co-production Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto and Fondazione Arturo Toscanini
Co-production Festspiele Ludwigshafen, Fondazione I Teatri di Reggio Emilia
World-premiere 23 October 2022, Reggio Emilia, Festival Aperto, Teatro Municipale Romolo Valli (I)
German premiere 9-10 December 2022, Ludwigshafen, Theater Im Pfalzbau (D)

Dancers Aterballetto Company
Quartetto Motus for La Toscanini: Giulia Soli, Agnese Rava violin, Dario Carrera viola, Margherita Curti cello
Soprano: Theodora Io Koutsothodoru
Countertenor: Nicolò Balducci
Tenor: Kim Bowoo
Musical coaching: Antonio De Lorenzi
Docufilm Stabat Mater - Danzare oltre i confini
Norge Cedeño Raffo’s creation Stabat Mater inspired Rai5 to make the docufilm Stabat Mater – Danzare oltre i confini (Dancing Beyond Borders).
The docufilm closely reports the artistic and human experience of the young talented choreographer, for the first time in Italy, and shows his creative process, in the setting of the Teatro Asioli in Correggio, a small Italian-style theatre immersed in the Po Valley, one of the most fascinating and evocative.
The filming of the docufilm (directed by Alessandro D’Onghia) began on 29 January 2021 (the choreographer’s first day of work with the three dancers) and ended on 6 March 2021 (the day of the closed-door preview at the Teatro Asioli in Correggio, with musicians and singers from the Istituto Superiore di Studi Musicali Achille Peri in Reggio Emilia). The airing of the docufilm on Rai5 was on 29 April 2021, on the occasion of the International Day of Dance.
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STORIE
2023-03-14 20:45 - 22:00 | Teatro Comunale, Via Cavour, 10, Russi, RA, 48026, Italia
Aterballetto dances Storie in Russi, near Ravenna.

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.

Double Side
2023-03-16 19:30 - 21:00 | Stadttheater Schaffhausen, Herrenacker 23, Schaffhausen, 8200, Svizzera
Schaffhausen is the second Swiss city to host Double Side.
Baroque music and contemporary dance are combined in the new programme of the Italian Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto, which features two choreographers from Canada and Cuba who are little known in Italy, Danièle Desnoyers and Norge Cedeño Raffo. In close collaboration with the Fondazione Arturo Toscanini from Parma, its orchestral counterpart from Emilia-Romagna Region, the renowned company brings along a musical ensemble of singers and string players, dancing to a baroque suite and a “Stabat Mater” by Arvo Pärt.

Synopsis
The Cuban Norge Cedeño Raffo creates to religious music, of all things. The young, up-and-coming choreographer was a soloist with Danza Contemporánea de Cuba, the most important contemporary company in Cuba. Arvo Pärt’s “Stabat Mater” becomes a painful farewell work for him. The Estonian composer set the medieval text about the pain of the Mother of God to music in his characteristic, reduced style. The moving effect of this music also characterises the expressive, free and, in the most beautiful sense, pure dance: how can one find hope again in a destroyed world and after such a great loss, how can one go on living, Norge Cedeño Raffo asks himself in his work.

Choreographer Danièle Desnoyers comes from Montréal, the metropolis of modern Canadian dance, where her light, fluid style and her own company make her a permanent fixture on the contemporary scene. In addition to a theatrical element, her pieces always have a strong relationship to music. Her creation for Aterballetto is based on a suite by the Italian composer Federico Gon; the specialist for baroque music was inspired by Henry Purcell.

Credits
STABAT MATER
(Creation for 3 dancers, 3 musicians, 3 singers)
Choreography Norge Cedeño Raffo
Set and lighting design Fabiana Piccioli
Music Stabat Mater by Arvo Pärt
Costume design Norge Cedeño Raffo and Fabiana Piccioli
Assistant to the choreographer Thais Suàrez Fernàndez
WITH DROOPING WINGS
(Creation for 8 dancers, 4 strings)
Choreography Danièle Desnoyers
Music An English Suite by Federico Gon after Henry Purcell
Set and lighting design Fabiana Piccioli
Costume design Danièle Desnoyers
With the support of Délégation du Québec à Rome and Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec

Co-design and co-production Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto and Fondazione Arturo Toscanini
Co-production Festspiele Ludwigshafen, Fondazione I Teatri di Reggio Emilia
World-premiere 23 October 2022, Reggio Emilia, Festival Aperto, Teatro Municipale Romolo Valli (I)
German premiere 9-10 December 2022, Ludwigshafen, Theater Im Pfalzbau (D)

Dancers Aterballetto Company
Quartetto Motus for La Toscanini: Giulia Soli, Agnese Rava violin, Dario Carrera viola, Margherita Curti cello
Soprano: Theodora Io Koutsothodoru
Countertenor: Nicolò Balducci
Tenor: Kim Bowoo
Musical coaching: Antonio De Lorenzi
Docufilm Stabat Mater - Danzare oltre i confini
Norge Cedeño Raffo’s creation Stabat Mater inspired Rai5 to make the docufilm Stabat Mater – Danzare oltre i confini (Dancing Beyond Borders).
The docufilm closely reports the artistic and human experience of the young talented choreographer, for the first time in Italy, and shows his creative process, in the setting of the Teatro Asioli in Correggio, a small Italian-style theatre immersed in the Po Valley, one of the most fascinating and evocative.
The filming of the docufilm (directed by Alessandro D’Onghia) began on 29 January 2021 (the choreographer’s first day of work with the three dancers) and ended on 6 March 2021 (the day of the closed-door preview at the Teatro Asioli in Correggio, with musicians and singers from the Istituto Superiore di Studi Musicali Achille Peri in Reggio Emilia). The airing of the docufilm on Rai5 was on 29 April 2021, on the occasion of the International Day of Dance.
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Watch the docufilm

Storie
2023-03-16 21:00 - 22:30 | Teatro Magnani, Piazza Giuseppe Verdi, 1, Fidenza, PR, 43036, Italia
Aterballetto dances Storie in Fidenza, near Parma.

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.

Storie
2023-03-18 21:00 - 22:30 | Cinema Teatro Comunale, via Giuseppe Verdi 8/a, Bomporto, MO, 41030, Italia
Aterballetto dances Storie in Bomporto, near Modena.

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.

Double Side
2023-03-19 17:00 - 18:10 | Escher Theater, 122, rue de l’Alzette, Esch-sur-Alzette, L-4010, Lussemburgo
The Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto flies to Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg, and dances Double Side.
Baroque music and contemporary dance are combined in the new programme of the Italian Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto, which features two choreographers from Canada and Cuba who are little known in Italy, Danièle Desnoyers and Norge Cedeño Raffo. In close collaboration with the Fondazione Arturo Toscanini from Parma, its orchestral counterpart from Emilia-Romagna Region, the renowned company brings along a musical ensemble of singers and string players, dancing to a baroque suite and a “Stabat Mater” by Arvo Pärt.

Synopsis
The Cuban Norge Cedeño Raffo creates to religious music, of all things. The young, up-and-coming choreographer was a soloist with Danza Contemporánea de Cuba, the most important contemporary company in Cuba. Arvo Pärt’s “Stabat Mater” becomes a painful farewell work for him. The Estonian composer set the medieval text about the pain of the Mother of God to music in his characteristic, reduced style. The moving effect of this music also characterises the expressive, free and, in the most beautiful sense, pure dance: how can one find hope again in a destroyed world and after such a great loss, how can one go on living, Norge Cedeño Raffo asks himself in his work.

Choreographer Danièle Desnoyers comes from Montréal, the metropolis of modern Canadian dance, where her light, fluid style and her own company make her a permanent fixture on the contemporary scene. In addition to a theatrical element, her pieces always have a strong relationship to music. Her creation for Aterballetto is based on a suite by the Italian composer Federico Gon; the specialist for baroque music was inspired by Henry Purcell.

Credits
STABAT MATER
(Creation for 3 dancers, 3 musicians, 3 singers)
Choreography Norge Cedeño Raffo
Set and lighting design Fabiana Piccioli
Music Stabat Mater by Arvo Pärt
Costume design Norge Cedeño Raffo and Fabiana Piccioli
Assistant to the choreographer Thais Suàrez Fernàndez
WITH DROPPING WINGS
(Creation for 8 dancers, 4 strings)
Choreography Danièle Desnoyers
Music An English Suite by Federico Gon after Henry Purcell
Set and lighting design Fabiana Piccioli
Costume design Danièle Desnoyers
With the support of Délégation du Québec à Rome and Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec

Co-design and co-production Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto and Fondazione Arturo Toscanini
Co-production Festspiele Ludwigshafen, Fondazione I Teatri di Reggio Emilia
World-premiere 23 October 2022, Reggio Emilia, Festival Aperto, Teatro Municipale Romolo Valli (I)
German premiere 9-10 December 2022, Ludwigshafen, Theater Im Pfalzbau (D)

Dancers Aterballetto Company
Quartetto Motus for La Toscanini: Giulia Soli, Agnese Rava violin, Dario Carrera viola, Margherita Curti cello
Soprano: Theodora Io Koutsothodoru
Countertenor: Nicolò Balducci
Tenor: Kim Bowoo
Musical coaching: Antonio De Lorenzi
Docufilm Stabat Mater - Danzare oltre i confini
Norge Cedeño Raffo’s creation Stabat Mater inspired Rai5 to make the docufilm Stabat Mater – Danzare oltre i confini (Dancing Beyond Borders).
The docufilm closely reports the artistic and human experience of the young talented choreographer, for the first time in Italy, and shows his creative process, in the setting of the Teatro Asioli in Correggio, a small Italian-style theatre immersed in the Po Valley, one of the most fascinating and evocative.
The filming of the docufilm (directed by Alessandro D’Onghia) began on 29 January 2021 (the choreographer’s first day of work with the three dancers) and ended on 6 March 2021 (the day of the closed-door preview at the Teatro Asioli in Correggio, with musicians and singers from the Istituto Superiore di Studi Musicali Achille Peri in Reggio Emilia). The airing of the docufilm on Rai5 was on 29 April 2021, on the occasion of the International Day of Dance.
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Stravaganze in sol minore
2023-03-19 18:00 - 19:00, 2023-03-20 10:00 - 11:00 | TEATRO SPERIMENTALE, Via Redipuglia, 59, Ancona, AN, 60122, Italia
PREMIERE

/ New performance for families with a dancer and a singer /
The magical virtuosity of Toti Scialoja (1914-1998), a master not only of images but also of words, is the basis of this new creation for boys and girls, boys and girls signed by the Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto.
The almost magical vibrations that spring from Scialoja’s poems are like the infinite rings that are created at the surface of the water when a stone is thrown: evocative of unreal or hyperreal images, bearers of a musicality that mixes poetry and nursery rhyme, they make the extraordinary and the frightening go hand in hand.
Sotto un cespo di rose scarlatte
Offre il rospo tè caldo con latte
Sotto un cespo di rose paonazze
Tocca al rospo sciacquare le tazze.
(Toti Scialoja, La mela di Amleto, 1984)
CREDITS
Direction and choreography: Francesca Lattuada
Texts: Toti Scialoja (from La mela di Amleto)
Music: The Klezmorin, Gustav Mahler, Dean Martin, Clara Rockmore
Masks and props: Natali Fortier
Performers: Vittoria Franchina, Piersilvio De Santis
Production: Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto
In co-production with Centro Teatrale Bresciano, Centro Servizi Culturali Santa Chiara

Double Side
2023-03-22 19:30 - 20:40 | Stadttheater Aschaffenburg, Schloßgasse 8, Aschaffenburg, 63739, Germania
The Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto dances Double Side in Aschaffenburg, in Bavaria.
Baroque music and contemporary dance are combined in the new programme of the Italian Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto, which features two choreographers from Canada and Cuba who are little known in Italy, Danièle Desnoyers and Norge Cedeño Raffo. In close collaboration with the Fondazione Arturo Toscanini from Parma, its orchestral counterpart from Emilia-Romagna Region, the renowned company brings along a musical ensemble of singers and string players, dancing to a baroque suite and a “Stabat Mater” by Arvo Pärt.

Synopsis
The Cuban Norge Cedeño Raffo creates to religious music, of all things. The young, up-and-coming choreographer was a soloist with Danza Contemporánea de Cuba, the most important contemporary company in Cuba. Arvo Pärt’s “Stabat Mater” becomes a painful farewell work for him. The Estonian composer set the medieval text about the pain of the Mother of God to music in his characteristic, reduced style. The moving effect of this music also characterises the expressive, free and, in the most beautiful sense, pure dance: how can one find hope again in a destroyed world and after such a great loss, how can one go on living, Norge Cedeño Raffo asks himself in his work.

Choreographer Danièle Desnoyers comes from Montréal, the metropolis of modern Canadian dance, where her light, fluid style and her own company make her a permanent fixture on the contemporary scene. In addition to a theatrical element, her pieces always have a strong relationship to music. Her creation for Aterballetto is based on a suite by the Italian composer Federico Gon; the specialist for baroque music was inspired by Henry Purcell.

Credits
STABAT MATER
(Creation for 3 dancers, 3 musicians, 3 singers)
Choreography Norge Cedeño Raffo
Set and lighting design Fabiana Piccioli
Music Stabat Mater by Arvo Pärt
Costume design Norge Cedeño Raffo and Fabiana Piccioli
Assistant to the choreographer Thais Suàrez Fernàndez
WITH DROPPING WINGS
(Creation for 8 dancers, 4 strings)
Choreography Danièle Desnoyers
Music An English Suite by Federico Gon after Henry Purcell
Set and lighting design Fabiana Piccioli
Costume design Danièle Desnoyers
With the support of Délégation du Québec à Rome and Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec

Co-design and co-production Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto and Fondazione Arturo Toscanini
Co-production Festspiele Ludwigshafen, Fondazione I Teatri di Reggio Emilia
World-premiere 23 October 2022, Reggio Emilia, Festival Aperto, Teatro Municipale Romolo Valli (I)
German premiere 9-10 December 2022, Ludwigshafen, Theater Im Pfalzbau (D)

Dancers Aterballetto Company
Quartetto Motus for La Toscanini: Giulia Soli, Agnese Rava violin, Dario Carrera viola, Margherita Curti cello
Soprano: Theodora Io Koutsothodoru
Countertenor: Niccolò Balducci
Tenor: Kim Bowoo
Musical coaching: Antonio De Lorenzi
Docufilm Stabat Mater - Danzare oltre i confini
Norge Cedeño Raffo’s creation Stabat Mater inspired Rai5 to make the docufilm Stabat Mater – Danzare oltre i confini (Dancing Beyond Borders).
The docufilm closely reports the artistic and human experience of the young talented choreographer, for the first time in Italy, and shows his creative process, in the setting of the Teatro Asioli in Correggio, a small Italian-style theatre immersed in the Po Valley, one of the most fascinating and evocative.
The filming of the docufilm (directed by Alessandro D’Onghia) began on 29 January 2021 (the choreographer’s first day of work with the three dancers) and ended on 6 March 2021 (the day of the closed-door preview at the Teatro Asioli in Correggio, with musicians and singers from the Istituto Superiore di Studi Musicali Achille Peri in Reggio Emilia). The airing of the docufilm on Rai5 was on 29 April 2021, on the occasion of the International Day of Dance.
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STORIE
2023-03-22 21:00 - 22:30, 2023-03-23 21:00 - 22:30 | Teatro Lauro Rossi, Piazza della Libertà, Macerata, 62100, Italia
Aterballetto performs Storie in Macerata.
Storie is a small anthology of danced fragments. They constitute 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 evening, is a love letter to the body for five dancers on the music of Nick Cave, Another story is a duet on the impossible gesture of 2020, the embrace. Between past and future are Kratz’s two creations. The “O” duo offers us two bodies/robots, forcing us to question how the meaning of physical contact might change: will it remain emotional and felt, or will it become serial and alienated?
Alpha Grace, a six-step in the evening’s conclusion, is a reflection on empathy, a form of gentle communication between people who feel on the same level. It too is challenged by the present times.

Double Side
2023-03-25 19:30 - 20:40 | Kurtheater, Parkstrasse 20, Baden, 5401, Svizzera
The Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto dances Double Side in Baden, Switzerland.
Baroque music and contemporary dance are combined in the new programme of the Italian Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto, which features two choreographers from Canada and Cuba who are little known in Italy, Danièle Desnoyers and Norge Cedeño Raffo. In close collaboration with the Fondazione Arturo Toscanini from Parma, its orchestral counterpart from Emilia-Romagna Region, the renowned company brings along a musical ensemble of singers and string players, dancing to a baroque suite and a “Stabat Mater” by Arvo Pärt.

Synopsis
The Cuban Norge Cedeño Raffo creates to religious music, of all things. The young, up-and-coming choreographer was a soloist with Danza Contemporánea de Cuba, the most important contemporary company in Cuba. Arvo Pärt’s “Stabat Mater” becomes a painful farewell work for him. The Estonian composer set the medieval text about the pain of the Mother of God to music in his characteristic, reduced style. The moving effect of this music also characterises the expressive, free and, in the most beautiful sense, pure dance: how can one find hope again in a destroyed world and after such a great loss, how can one go on living, Norge Cedeño Raffo asks himself in his work.

Choreographer Danièle Desnoyers comes from Montréal, the metropolis of modern Canadian dance, where her light, fluid style and her own company make her a permanent fixture on the contemporary scene. In addition to a theatrical element, her pieces always have a strong relationship to music. Her creation for Aterballetto is based on a suite by the Italian composer Federico Gon; the specialist for baroque music was inspired by Henry Purcell.

Credits
STABAT MATER
(Creation for 3 dancers, 3 musicians, 3 singers)
Choreography Norge Cedeño Raffo
Set and lighting design Fabiana Piccioli
Music Stabat Mater by Arvo Pärt
Costume design Norge Cedeño Raffo and Fabiana Piccioli
Assistant to the choreographer Thais Suàrez Fernàndez
WITH DROPPING WINGS
(Creation for 8 dancers, 4 strings)
Choreography Danièle Desnoyers
Music An English Suite by Federico Gon after Henry Purcell
Set and lighting design Fabiana Piccioli
Costume design Danièle Desnoyers
With the support of Délégation du Québec à Rome and Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec

Co-design and co-production Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto and Fondazione Arturo Toscanini
Co-production Festspiele Ludwigshafen, Fondazione I Teatri di Reggio Emilia
World-premiere 23 October 2022, Reggio Emilia, Festival Aperto, Teatro Municipale Romolo Valli (I)
German premiere 9-10 December 2022, Ludwigshafen, Theater Im Pfalzbau (D)

Dancers Aterballetto Company
Quartetto Motus for La Toscanini: Giulia Soli, Agnese Rava violin, Dario Carrera viola, Margherita Curti cello
Soprano: Theodora Io Koutsothodoru
Countertenor: Niccolò Balducci
Tenor: Kim Bowoo
Musical coaching: Antonio De Lorenzi
Docufilm Stabat Mater - Danzare oltre i confini
Norge Cedeño Raffo’s creation Stabat Mater inspired Rai5 to make the docufilm Stabat Mater – Danzare oltre i confini (Dancing Beyond Borders).
The docufilm closely reports the artistic and human experience of the young talented choreographer, for the first time in Italy, and shows his creative process, in the setting of the Teatro Asioli in Correggio, a small Italian-style theatre immersed in the Po Valley, one of the most fascinating and evocative.
The filming of the docufilm (directed by Alessandro D’Onghia) began on 29 January 2021 (the choreographer’s first day of work with the three dancers) and ended on 6 March 2021 (the day of the closed-door preview at the Teatro Asioli in Correggio, with musicians and singers from the Istituto Superiore di Studi Musicali Achille Peri in Reggio Emilia). The airing of the docufilm on Rai5 was on 29 April 2021, on the occasion of the International Day of Dance.
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Storie
2023-03-28 21:00 - 22:15 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Aterballetto dances Storie at its own Fonderia.

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.

Double Side
2023-03-29 19:30 - 20:40, 2023-03-30 19:30 - 20:40 | Theater Gütersloh, Barkeystraße 15, Gütersloh, 33330, Germania
The Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto dances its new production Double Side in Gütersloh, Germany, on 29 and 30 March.
Baroque music and contemporary dance are combined in the new programme of the Italian Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto, which features two choreographers from Canada and Cuba who are little known in Italy, Danièle Desnoyers and Norge Cedeño Raffo. In close collaboration with the Fondazione Arturo Toscanini from Parma, its orchestral counterpart from Emilia-Romagna Region, the renowned company brings along a musical ensemble of singers and string players, dancing to a baroque suite and a “Stabat Mater” by Arvo Pärt.

Synopsis
The Cuban Norge Cedeño Raffo creates to religious music, of all things. The young, up-and-coming choreographer was a soloist with Danza Contemporánea de Cuba, the most important contemporary company in Cuba. Arvo Pärt’s “Stabat Mater” becomes a painful farewell work for him. The Estonian composer set the medieval text about the pain of the Mother of God to music in his characteristic, reduced style. The moving effect of this music also characterises the expressive, free and, in the most beautiful sense, pure dance: how can one find hope again in a destroyed world and after such a great loss, how can one go on living, Norge Cedeño Raffo asks himself in his work.

Choreographer Danièle Desnoyers comes from Montréal, the metropolis of modern Canadian dance, where her light, fluid style and her own company make her a permanent fixture on the contemporary scene. In addition to a theatrical element, her pieces always have a strong relationship to music. Her creation for Aterballetto is based on a suite by the Italian composer Federico Gon; the specialist for baroque music was inspired by Henry Purcell.

Credits
STABAT MATER
(Creation for 3 dancers, 3 musicians, 3 singers)
Choreography Norge Cedeño Raffo
Set and lighting design Fabiana Piccioli
Music Stabat Mater by Arvo Pärt
Costume design Norge Cedeño Raffo and Fabiana Piccioli
Assistant to the choreographer Thais Suàrez Fernàndez
WITH DROPPING WINGS
(Creation for 8 dancers, 4 strings)
Choreography Danièle Desnoyers
Music An English Suite by Federico Gon after Henry Purcell
Set and lighting design Fabiana Piccioli
Costume design Danièle Desnoyers
With the support of Délégation du Québec à Rome and Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec

Co-design and co-production Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto and Fondazione Arturo Toscanini
Co-production Festspiele Ludwigshafen, Fondazione I Teatri di Reggio Emilia
World-premiere 23 October 2022, Reggio Emilia, Festival Aperto, Teatro Municipale Romolo Valli (I)
German premiere 9-10 December 2022, Ludwigshafen, Theater Im Pfalzbau (D)

Dancers Aterballetto Company
Quartetto Motus for La Toscanini: Giulia Soli, Agnese Rava violin, Dario Carrera viola, Margherita Curti cello
Soprano: Theodora Io Koutsothodoru
Countertenor: Niccolò Balducci
Tenor: Kim Bowoo
Musical coaching: Antonio De Lorenzi
Docufilm Stabat Mater - Danzare oltre i confini

Norge Cedeño Raffo’s creation Stabat Mater inspired Rai5 to make the docufilm Stabat Mater – Danzare oltre i confini (Dancing Beyond Borders).
The docufilm closely reports the artistic and human experience of the young talented choreographer, for the first time in Italy, and shows his creative process, in the setting of the Teatro Asioli in Correggio, a small Italian-style theatre immersed in the Po Valley, one of the most fascinating and evocative.
The filming of the docufilm (directed by Alessandro D’Onghia) began on 29 January 2021 (the choreographer’s first day of work with the three dancers) and ended on 6 March 2021 (the day of the closed-door preview at the Teatro Asioli in Correggio, with musicians and singers from the Istituto Superiore di Studi Musicali Achille Peri in Reggio Emilia). The airing of the docufilm on Rai5 was on 29 April 2021, on the occasion of the International Day of Dance.
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Double Side
2023-03-30 19:30 - 20:40 | Theater Gütersloh, Barkeystraße 15, Gütersloh, 33330, Germania
The Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto dances Double Side in Gütersloh, Germany, on 29th and 30th March.
Baroque music and contemporary dance are combined in the new programme of the Italian Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto, which features two choreographers from Canada and Cuba who are little known in Italy, Danièle Desnoyers and Norge Cedeño Raffo. In close collaboration with the Fondazione Arturo Toscanini from Parma, its orchestral counterpart from Emilia-Romagna Region, the renowned company brings along a musical ensemble of singers and string players, dancing to a baroque suite and a “Stabat Mater” by Arvo Pärt.

Synopsis
The Cuban Norge Cedeño Raffo creates to religious music, of all things. The young, up-and-coming choreographer was a soloist with Danza Contemporánea de Cuba, the most important contemporary company in Cuba. Arvo Pärt’s “Stabat Mater” becomes a painful farewell work for him. The Estonian composer set the medieval text about the pain of the Mother of God to music in his characteristic, reduced style. The moving effect of this music also characterises the expressive, free and, in the most beautiful sense, pure dance: how can one find hope again in a destroyed world and after such a great loss, how can one go on living, Norge Cedeño Raffo asks himself in his work.

Choreographer Danièle Desnoyers comes from Montréal, the metropolis of modern Canadian dance, where her light, fluid style and her own company make her a permanent fixture on the contemporary scene. In addition to a theatrical element, her pieces always have a strong relationship to music. Her creation for Aterballetto is based on a suite by the Italian composer Federico Gon; the specialist for baroque music was inspired by Henry Purcell.

Credits
STABAT MATER
(Creation for 3 dancers, 3 musicians, 3 singers)
Choreography Norge Cedeño Raffo
Set and lighting design Fabiana Piccioli
Music Stabat Mater by Arvo Pärt
Costume design Norge Cedeño Raffo and Fabiana Piccioli
Assistant to the choreographer Thais Suàrez Fernàndez
WITH DROPPING WINGS
(Creation for 8 dancers, 4 strings)
Choreography Danièle Desnoyers
Music An English Suite by Federico Gon after Henry Purcell
Set and lighting design Fabiana Piccioli
Costume design Danièle Desnoyers
With the support of Délégation du Québec à Rome and Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec

Co-design and co-production Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto and Fondazione Arturo Toscanini
Co-production Festspiele Ludwigshafen, Fondazione I Teatri di Reggio Emilia
World-premiere 23 October 2022, Reggio Emilia, Festival Aperto, Teatro Municipale Romolo Valli (I)
German premiere 9-10 December 2022, Ludwigshafen, Theater Im Pfalzbau (D)

Dancers Aterballetto Company
Quartetto Motus for La Toscanini: Giulia Soli, Agnese Rava violin, Dario Carrera viola, Margherita Curti cello
Soprano: Theodora Io Koutsothodoru
Countertenor: Niccolò Balducci
Tenor: Kim Bowoo
Musical coaching: Antonio De Lorenzi
Docufilm Stabat Mater - Danzare oltre i confini
Norge Cedeño Raffo’s creation Stabat Mater inspired Rai5 to make the docufilm Stabat Mater – Danzare oltre i confini (Dancing Beyond Borders).
The docufilm closely reports the artistic and human experience of the young talented choreographer, for the first time in Italy, and shows his creative process, in the setting of the Teatro Asioli in Correggio, a small Italian-style theatre immersed in the Po Valley, one of the most fascinating and evocative.
The filming of the docufilm (directed by Alessandro D’Onghia) began on 29 January 2021 (the choreographer’s first day of work with the three dancers) and ended on 6 March 2021 (the day of the closed-door preview at the Teatro Asioli in Correggio, with musicians and singers from the Istituto Superiore di Studi Musicali Achille Peri in Reggio Emilia). The airing of the docufilm on Rai5 was on 29 April 2021, on the occasion of the International Day of Dance.
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MADE IN ITALY 28.0
2023-03-30 21:00 - 22:30 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Agora Coaching Project – Made in Italy 27.0 – ph Nicola Stasi

The protagonists of the evening are the dancers of the Agora Coaching Project, an advanced 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 gaining full recognition in the European dance world and boasts collaborations with internationally renowned teachers and choreographers.
On stage Made in Italy 28.0 with choreography by Sasha Waltz and Paolo Mohovich. IN C
Study for ‘In C’
Choreography by Sasha Waltz
Music by Terry Riley
Re-staged by Davide Di Pretoro

An important opportunity for enrichment is the encounter of the young dancers of Agora Coaching Project with the work “In C” by the great choreographer Sasha Waltz. A considerable achievement for the training course supported by the MM Contemporary Dance Company, which is enriched by such a prestigious collaboration as Sasha Waltz & Guest, bringing Agora fully into a wide-ranging European training context. “In C”, which the Fondazione I Teatri will host at the Teatro Valli in a few months, danced by Sasha Waltz’s company, is one of the German choreographer’s latest works. The work was created to the musical score by Terry Riley, composed in 1964 and revolutionary for the time, as it constitutes the first example of minimalist music
On this milestone in the history of music, the great German choreographer Sasha Waltz and the dancers of her company developed a choreographic work that follows an equally variable structure, deliberately designed not to be a finished scenic piece, but one that is constantly evolving. The result is an experimental system of choreographic figures that fit within a structured improvisation, a dynamic and modular system that can be adapted to different times and formats.
PICCOLI RITI NOTTURNI
Choreography: Paolo Mohovich
Music: Michael Kiwanuka
Assistant to the choreographer: Diletta Torelli

The first walk in a dark wood. The first moonlight swim. The first party, the first encounters and disencounters (amorous and otherwise)… to be a little older the next day…
Night rituals that in hindsight appear small, but how can we forget the emotion that made them appear immense?
AGORA COACHING PROJECT
AGORA COACHING PROJECT is a two-year dance training project for dancers between the ages of 16 and 22. Agora aims to train artists ready to flexibly face the variety of the international dance market, artists capable of responding to the different technical/stylistic demands of this same market.
The aim is to provide a solid basis for learning the various techniques in use on the international contemporary dance scene and the different repertoires through the alternation of qualified teachers and artists by bringing to the stage the works created by guest choreographers. The course aims to offer a wide range of stimuli, technical, cultural 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 brings dancers together with established choreographers and directors of prestigious companies, thus giving students the opportunity to obtain work contracts; Agora thus represents an active and effective bridge between training and the world of work, having built a network of collaborations with numerous European companies over the years. Many Agora students are currently working in these prestigious ensembles.
Artistic direction: Michele Merola and Enrico Morelli
Dancers: Camilla Aiazzi, Corrado Azzollini, Beatrice Ballarò, Erica Barusco, Gaia Belli, Marek Brafa, Anna Dal Maso, Laura Dell’Agnese, Sally Demonte, Vittoria Facci, Chiara Gionti, Luca Guerrieri, Sofia Lacava, Carlotta Lo Piano, Erika Loprieno, Giulia Lusetti, Giorgia Mantovan, Gioele Marcante, Carlotta Maucioni, Marta Monaci, Federico Musumeci, Carmine Olivazzi, Martina Pagliari, Martina Procacci, Susanna Russing, Emily Rondanini, Alessia Russo, Alessio Saccheri, Viviana Sanfilippo, Sara Scarponi, Micol Scotto, Diletta Suman, Giorgia Talami, Gennaro Todisco.
INFO & TICKETS
TICKETS
Full: 10 euro
Reduced under 30, scuole di danza, Liceo Coreutico Matilde di Canossa, over 65, soci CRAL Comune di Reggio Emilia: 6 euro
Reduced under 8: 3 euro
PURCHASING TICKETS
Tickets can be purchased online su www.biglietteriafonderia39.it.
The ticket office service at the Fonderia is open from 8 pm.
Tickets are not numbered.
CONTACTS
Cell and whatsapp 3341023554
Email biglietteria@aterballetto.it

STORIE
2023-03-31 21:00 - 22:30 | Teatro Sperimentale, Via Gioacchino Rossini, Pesaro, 61121, Italia
Aterballetto performs Storie in Pesaro.
Storie is a small anthology of danced fragments. They constitute 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 evening, is a love letter to the body for five dancers on the music of Nick Cave, Another story is a duet on the impossible gesture of 2020, the embrace. Between past and future are Kratz’s two creations. The “O” duo offers us two bodies/robots, forcing us to question how the meaning of physical contact might change: will it remain emotional and felt, or will it become serial and alienated?
Alpha Grace, a six-step in the evening’s conclusion, is a reflection on empathy, a form of gentle communication between people who feel on the same plane. It too is challenged by the present times.

Double Side
2023-04-02 19:30 - 20:40 | Burghof, Herrenstraße 5, Lörrach, 79539, Germania
The Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto dances Double Side in Lörrach, Germany.
Baroque music and contemporary dance are combined in the new programme of the Italian Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto, which features two choreographers from Canada and Cuba who are little known in Italy, Danièle Desnoyers and Norge Cedeño Raffo. In close collaboration with the Fondazione Arturo Toscanini from Parma, its orchestral counterpart from Emilia-Romagna Region, the renowned company brings along a musical ensemble of singers and string players, dancing to a baroque suite and a “Stabat Mater” by Arvo Pärt.

Synopsis
The Cuban Norge Cedeño Raffo creates to religious music, of all things. The young, up-and-coming choreographer was a soloist with Danza Contemporánea de Cuba, the most important contemporary company in Cuba. Arvo Pärt’s “Stabat Mater” becomes a painful farewell work for him. The Estonian composer set the medieval text about the pain of the Mother of God to music in his characteristic, reduced style. The moving effect of this music also characterises the expressive, free and, in the most beautiful sense, pure dance: how can one find hope again in a destroyed world and after such a great loss, how can one go on living, Norge Cedeño Raffo asks himself in his work.

Choreographer Danièle Desnoyers comes from Montréal, the metropolis of modern Canadian dance, where her light, fluid style and her own company make her a permanent fixture on the contemporary scene. In addition to a theatrical element, her pieces always have a strong relationship to music. Her creation for Aterballetto is based on a suite by the Italian composer Federico Gon; the specialist for baroque music was inspired by Henry Purcell.

Credits
STABAT MATER
(Creation for 3 dancers, 3 musicians, 3 singers)
Choreography Norge Cedeño Raffo
Set and lighting design Fabiana Piccioli
Music Stabat Mater by Arvo Pärt
Costume design Norge Cedeño Raffo and Fabiana Piccioli
Assistant to the choreographer Thais Suàrez Fernàndez
WITH DROPPING WINGS
(Creation for 8 dancers, 4 strings)
Choreography Danièle Desnoyers
Music An English Suite by Federico Gon after Henry Purcell
Set and lighting design Fabiana Piccioli
Costume design Danièle Desnoyers
With the support of Délégation du Québec à Rome and Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec

Co-design and co-production Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto and Fondazione Arturo Toscanini
Co-production Festspiele Ludwigshafen, Fondazione I Teatri di Reggio Emilia
World-premiere 23 October 2022, Reggio Emilia, Festival Aperto, Teatro Municipale Romolo Valli (I)
German premiere 9-10 December 2022, Ludwigshafen, Theater Im Pfalzbau (D)

Dancers Aterballetto Company
Quartetto Motus for La Toscanini: Giulia Soli, Agnese Rava violin, Dario Carrera viola, Margherita Curti cello
Soprano: Theodora Io Koutsothodoru
Countertenor: Niccolò Balducci
Tenor: Kim Bowoo
Musical coaching: Antonio De Lorenzi
Docufilm Stabat Mater - Danzare oltre i confini
Norge Cedeño Raffo’s creation Stabat Mater inspired Rai5 to make the docufilm Stabat Mater – Danzare oltre i confini (Dancing Beyond Borders).
The docufilm closely reports the artistic and human experience of the young talented choreographer, for the first time in Italy, and shows his creative process, in the setting of the Teatro Asioli in Correggio, a small Italian-style theatre immersed in the Po Valley, one of the most fascinating and evocative.
The filming of the docufilm (directed by Alessandro D’Onghia) began on 29 January 2021 (the choreographer’s first day of work with the three dancers) and ended on 6 March 2021 (the day of the closed-door preview at the Teatro Asioli in Correggio, with musicians and singers from the Istituto Superiore di Studi Musicali Achille Peri in Reggio Emilia). The airing of the docufilm on Rai5 was on 29 April 2021, on the occasion of the International Day of Dance.
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Yeled - open rehearsal
2023-04-05 18:00 - 19:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
FND/Aterballetto - rehearsal - ph. Christophe Bernard
OPEN REHEARSAL

After the tour in Germany and Italy, Aterballetto stops at Fonderia and rehearses YELED by Eyal Dadon for the performances in Budapest.
Open rehearsals are unique moments when you can experience the backstage of a performance, dialogue with the artists and be surprised by the art of dance: an exclusive experience of entering the daily routine of the dancers and choreographers.
INFO & TICKETS
TICKETS
Full: 3 euro
Under 6: free
PURCHASING TICKETS
Tickets can be purchased online at www.biglietteriafonderia39.it.
The ticket service in Fonderia runs from 5:30 pm.
Tickets are not numbered.
CONTACTS
Cell and whatsapp 3341023554
Email biglietteria@aterballetto.it

SHOOT ME - open rehearsal
2023-04-11 18:00 - 19:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
FND Aterballetto – SHOOT ME by Diego Tortelli – ph Christophe Bernard

OPEN REHEARSAL
Aterballetto rehearses SHOOT ME by Diego Tortelli for the performances in Budapest.
Open rehearsals are unique moments when you can experience the backstage of a performance, dialogue with the artists and be surprised by the art of dance: an exclusive experience of entering the daily routine of the dancers and choreographers.
INFO & TICKETS
TICKETS
Full: 3 euro
Under 6: free
PURCHASING TICKETS
Tickets can be purchased online at www.biglietteriafonderia39.it.
The ticket service in Fonderia runs from 5:30 pm.
Tickets are not numbered.
CONTACTS
Cell and whatsapp 3341023554
Email biglietteria@aterballetto.it

DON JUAN
2023-04-13 21:00 - 22:30 | Teatro Comunale, Viale Trieste, 5, Sassari, SS, 07100, Italia
Aterballetto is in Sassari, a superb Sardinian province, with Don Juan by Johan Inger.
The choreography stems from Inger’s desire to confront Don Juan, an ancient and still contemporary paradigmatic myth. 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 were able to consult twenty-five different texts inspired by the character.
In the creation we find all the characters in the story, from Donna Elvira to Donna Anna to Zerlina and Masetto. Don Juan can be considered a Kammerspiel, with its ability to emphasize nuances and emotions: and in the case of this creation, dance becomes a magnifying glass for the individual characters, and subtly but clearly reveals the inner worlds of the men and women on stage.
Danza&Danza ‘Best Production’ Award 2020

GAP OF 42
2023-04-15 18:00 - 19:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
GAP of 42 – Chris Iris – ph. Kai Hebestreit

The acrobatic dance show Gap of 42 created and performed by two very talented German artists, Christopher Schlunk and Iris Pelz, is coming to the Fonderia for the first time. Extraordinary acrobatics and situational comedy meet in a contemporary and entertaining show where two apparently very different bodies come together to create something incredible.
CREDITS
By and with Iris Pelz e Christopher Schlunk
Outside-eye: Stefan Schönfeld
Musicc: Schroeder (with Jan Fitschen | Felix Borel | Bella Nugent)
Object theatre coaching: Anne-Kathrin Klatt
Dance coaching: Laura Börtlein
Lighting design: Marvin Wöllner
SYNOPSIS
Two dissimilar bodies meet acrobatically. 42 cm separate them in height, 42 kg in weight. A difference that unites and creates possibilities instead of being an obstacle. The extraordinary acrobatics surprise the audience while the duo’s subtle humour makes them smile. The performers sympathetically and thought-provokingly show how relationships change and how they meet at eye level. Philosophical questions are raised, absurd moments arise and there is a glimmer of magic. Three wooden objects even out the height difference and become a third partner on stage. The piece is a compilation of contemporary circus, physical theatre, dance and object theatre. Acrobatics performed with precision and ease; touching, poetic and original.
“Rarely has a dance or acrobatic couple been seen that portrays the great themes of being so subtly, so poetically.” (Bernd Guido Weber in ‘Schwäbische’ about GAP of 42)
CHRIS IRIS
Christopher Schlunk and Iris Pelz met at the Academy of Circus and Performing Arts in Tilburg, the Netherlands, where they graduated in 2011. They perform all over the world with renowned companies such as Cirque Éloize (Canada), Cikus Monti (Switzerland), Cirkus Cirkör (Sweden), La Soirée (Australia) and Palazzo (Germany). Their innovative number ‘The Microphone’ won numerous awards, including a silver medal at the Festival Mondial du Cirque de Demain, the audience award at Young Stage, first place at Newcomershow and a special award at the Moscow International Circus Festival. The duo has performed in venues such as the famous Sydney Opera House, Roundhouse in London, La Tohu in Montreal and the Chamäleon Theater in Berlin. Together with four colleagues from the circus school, they founded the collective Common Ground. Their first tour took them to festivals such as Atoll (Germany), Theater op de Markt (Belgium) and Circus Circle (Netherlands).
In 2020/21 Chris and Iris created the duo piece GAP of 42, their first full-length production as a duo.
INFO & TICKETS
TICKETS
Full: 6 euro
PURCHASING TICKETS
Tickets can be purchased online at www.biglietteriafonderia39.it.
The ticket office service at the Fonderia is open from 5 p.m. onwards.
Tickets are not numbered.
CONTACTS
Mobile and whatsapp 3341023554
Email biglietteria@aterballetto.it
