Made in Italy 33.0
2024-12-20 21:00 - 22:30 (Europe/Rome) | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Double performance:
Friday, December 20 – 6:00 PM
Friday, December 20 – 9:00 PM
The protagonists of the evening are the dancers of Agora Coaching Project, a high-level training program promoted and supported by the MM Contemporary Dance Company and the A.S.D Progetto Danza of Reggio Emilia, under the artistic direction of Michele Merola and Enrico Morelli. Launched in 2010, the course is gaining full recognition in the European dance world and boasts collaborations with internationally renowned teachers and choreographers.
The evening includes FOE by Emanuele Soavi, inspired by Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, and the choreography of Michele Merola Vivaldi Umane Passioni. The performance concludes the Danza in Fonderia 2024 season and is the perfect moment to wish you Happy Holidays.

AGORA COACHING PROJECT
Agora Coaching Project is an annual dance training program aimed at dancers between the ages of 18 and 22, based in Reggio Emilia. Established in 2010, it is directed by Michele Merola and Enrico Morelli, and is promoted and supported by the MM Contemporary Dance Company and the Centro Permanente Danza of Reggio Emilia. The project aims to train artists who are flexible enough to face the variety of the international dance market, artists capable of responding to requests of a technical/stylistic nature that come from the same market. The project seeks to offer a wide range of stimuli, both technical and cultural, as well as opportunities for exchange between students and choreographers, each coming from different and interesting realities in the international dance scene. Agora allows students to meet established choreographers from various stylistic backgrounds and has seen the participation of many illustrious names over the years: alongside Michele Merola and Enrico Morelli, several teachers with proven and qualified experience in the field collaborate on the project.
CREDITS
FOE
Choreography: Emanuele Soavi
Choreographic Assistant: Lorenzo Molinaro
Music: Various Authors
Costumes: Nuvia Valestri
Lighting: Gessica Germini
Performers: Agora Coaching Project
Duration: 30 min.
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VIVALDI UMANE PASSIONI
Choreography: Michele Merola
Music: Antonio Vivaldi
Lighting Design: Gessica Germini
Rehearsal Director: Nicola Stasi
Costumes: Nuvia Valestri
Performers: Agora Coaching Project
Duration: 30 min.
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PERFORMERS 18:00
Abbati Matilde, Begici Jasmine, Berlinschi Laura, Boccarossa Giulia, Bocconi Elisa, Bondor Màlna, Borriello Giovanni Karol, Briganti Arianna, Capuzzelli Lucrezia, Dal Maso Anna, Dorsich Hanna, Giacalone Claudia, Lale Murix Jasmine, Marchi Luca, Oliva Sofia, Palmieri Andrea, Schiavon Maxime.
PERFORMERS 21:00
Bertino Facile Angelica, Bruno Salvatore, Esposito Chiara, Ferentino Sara, Giannini Giulia, Grossi Arianna, Grosso Paolo Giovanni, Intermite Rebecca, Làszlóffy Emòke, Maggiore Lucrezia, Manfredini Elena, Manzini Sara, Procacci Martina, Scarcia Gabriele, Spagnuolo Clara, Szabó Csenge, Todisco Gennaro.

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Reduced under 30, dance schools, Liceo Coreutico Matilde di Canossa, over 65, CRAL members of the Municipality of Reggio Emilia: 6 euros
Reduced under 8: 3 euros
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Stravaganze in sol minore
2024-12-21 17:00 - 18:00, 2024-12-22 11:30 - 12:30 | Teatro Biondo, Via Roma 258, Palermo, 90133, Italia
FND/Aterballetto-Stravaganze in Sol Minore
Stravaganze in Sol Minore by Francesca Lattuada arrives in Palermo with a new staging, thanks to the coproduction with Teatro Biondo.
From December 11 to 22, 2024
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday at 10:00 AM
Saturday at 5:00 PM
Sunday at 11:30 AM
The magical virtuosity of Toti Scialoja (1914–1998), a master not only of images but also of words, forms the foundation of this new creation for children and young audiences by Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto.
The almost magical vibrations emanating from Scialoja’s poetry are like the endless ripples created on the surface of water when a stone is thrown: evocative of surreal or hyperreal images, carrying a musicality that blends poetry and nursery rhyme, and uniting the extraordinary and the eerie.
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 The Apple of Hamlet)
Music: The Klezmorin, Gustav Mahler, Dean Martin, Clara Rockmore
Masks and Props: Natali Fortier
Performers: Vittoria Franchina, Rocco Ancarola
Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto
In coproduction with Teatro Biondo di Palermo, Centro Servizi Culturali Santa Chiara, Centro Teatrale Bresciano

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NOTTE MORRICONE
2024-12-21 19:00 - 20:30, 2024-12-22 17:00 - 18:30 | Forum am Schlosspark, Stuttgarter Straße 33, Ludwigsburg, 71638, Germania
The National Choreographic Center/Aterballetto pays tribute to Ennio Morricone with a new production by Spanish choreographer Marcos Morau.
The Spanish artist, with his visionary power and ability to transform musical universes, presents a unique creation that intertwines the music of Academy Award winner Ennio Morricone with dance, visual arts, and cinematic inspirations.
Marcos Morau, the youngest choreographer to date to receive the National Dance Award, Spain’s highest honor in dance, constructs imaginary worlds and landscapes where image, text, movement, music, and space form a unique universe constantly nurtured by cinema, photography, and literature. Now, for his first collaboration with the CCN/Aterballetto, he has chosen to draw from iconic compositions of the cinematic landscape of the last seventy years: those of Academy Award winner Ennio Morricone.
The director says: “With classical training and an avant-garde vocation, Morricone has always been beyond the trends of his time. His music spans an entire century and has revived the works of many great masters. For this evening, I aim to build a universe based on his sensitivity, confirming that his legacy is more alive than ever, and, as he himself would say, ‘My music has a life of its own, which can live beyond the films for which it was created.'”
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Duration 90′

NOTTE MORRICONE
2024-12-31 20:30 - 22:00, 2025-01-01 17:00 - 18:30 | Théâtre d’Orléans, Boulevard Pierre Ségelle, Orléans, 45000, Francia
«”I, Ennio Morricone, am dead”, wrote the composer before saying goodbye. His music, on the other hand, cannot. And this is how creators and artists always leave us without leaving us, and this is how memory takes care of keeping them alive, keeping them safe. Notte Morricone is my gift, a devoted tribute to the beauty he gave to the world. Ennio Morricone could be my father, or my grandfather, I am a direct heir of his legacy, of the films that (whether masterpieces, good, mediocre, or bad) owe him an immeasurable debt.» – Marcos Morau
Notte Morricone, the new creation of CCN/Aterballetto signed by the award-winning choreographer Marcos Morau, is at the Théâtre d’Orléans to bid farewell to 2024 and welcome 2025.
Tuesday, December 31, 2024 at 8:30 PM
Wednesday, January 1, 2025 at 5:00 PM

Notte Morricone is a devoted tribute by choreographer Marcos Morau to the beauty that Oscar winner Ennio Morricone gave to the world.
Notte Morricone takes place in the twilight of an ordinary night in the life of a creator, who alone and dazed in front of his sheets, takes notes and visualizes melodies for films that do not yet exist, bringing stories back to life in the rarefied air of his room.

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CREDITS
Direction and choreography MARCOS MORAU
Music ENNIO MORRICONE
Musical direction and adaptation by MAURIZIO BILLI
Sound design ALEX RÖSER VATICHÉ, BEN MEERWEIN
Set and lighting MARC SALICRÚ
Costumes SILVIA DELAGNEAU
Choreography assistants SHAY PARTUSH, MARINA RODRÍGUEZ
Production Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto
Commission, co-production, first outdoor performance Macerata Opera Festival
Co-production, first indoor performance Fondazione Teatro di Roma
Co-productions Fondazione I Teatri di Reggio Emilia, Centro Servizi Culturali Santa Chiara Trento, Centro Teatrale Bresciano
Co-production Ravenna Festival | Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini
Outdoor premiere August 1, 2024, Macerata Opera Festival
Indoor premiere October 24 – November 10, 2024, Rome, Teatro Argentina
The performances at Teatro Argentina are co-presented with Fondazione Teatro di Roma and Romaeuropa Festival
EARLY SUGGESTIONS
«People often ask me what music I listen to, what music inspires or accompanies me in my daily life, and I always respond the same way: from classical music to the new contemporary waves, I draw inspiration from many different sources, and Ennio Morricone is always at the top of the list.
Morricone’s music embodies that abstract sense of what is unspoken and unseen in films. Although it is almost impossible to separate his music from the images it accompanies, Morricone transcends and intertwines with life itself, with memories, and with the beauty and cruelty of a world that continues to move forward, destroying and rebuilding itself every day. His music has a powerful melancholic quality that comes from both the contemplation of the past and the impossibility of capturing any past experience.
Classically trained and avant-garde by vocation, Morricone has always been beyond the trends of the moment. Today, three years after his death, Morricone continues to inspire artists and visionaries from different fields, and his music belongs to an entire century, having revived many of our great masters. His music was a genre unto itself, and for this evening I want to build a universe based on his sensibility to confirm that his legacy is more alive than ever and that, as he would say himself, “my music has a life of its own, which can live far from the films for which it was created.”»
Marcos Morau
MARCOS MORAU
Recently appointed Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Ministry of Culture and selected as the best choreographer of the year 2023 by the German magazine TANZ, the career of Marcos Morau (Valencia 1982) continues to grow as a creator and stage director.
Trained between Barcelona and New York in photography, choreography, and theatrical theory and dramaturgy, Marcos Morau constructs imaginary worlds and landscapes where image, text, movement, music, and space form a unique universe that is constantly nourished by cinema, photography, and literature.
Since 2004, Marcos has directed La Veronal, a company present in the best theaters and festivals in over thirty countries: Théâtre National de Chaillot in Paris, the Venice Biennale, the Avignon Festival, Tanz Im August in Berlin, the RomaEuropa Festival, the SIDance Festival in Seoul, Sadler’s Wells in London, Danse Danse Montreal, among many others.
In addition to his work with La Veronal, Marcos Morau is an international guest artist in various companies and theaters where he develops new creations, always halfway between the performing arts and dance: Nederlands Dans Theater, Lyon Opera Ballet, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, Royal Danish Ballet, and The Royal Ballet of Flanders, among others.
As the youngest creator to receive the National Dance Award, the highest recognition in Spain, the future of Morau and La Veronal aims at exploring new formats and languages where opera, dance, and physical theater interact more than ever, seeking new ways to express and communicate in our ever-turbulent and constantly evolving present time.
From this season, he is an associate artist at Staatsballett Berlin.
“La Veronal is a reminder that dance is often at the forefront of the most innovative theater.” – The New York Times
“Morau’s visual treatment is so brilliant, so vividly strange, that we find ourselves immersed in what turns out to be a story of transmission and emancipation.” – Le Monde
“Morau, one of the most interesting young choreographers on the contemporary dance scene.” – El País

NOTTE MORRICONE
2024-12-31 20:30 - 22:00 | Théâtre d’Orléans, Boulevard Pierre Ségelle, Orléans, 45000, Francia

K (A) O
2025-01-19 18:00 - 19:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
If in chat we use the laughing emoji, are we laughing with it? And if we use the one shedding copious tears? What expression do we really have? Choreographer Kenji Shinohe explores, through the body and digital technologies, how emotions are expressed through keyboard symbols. A show that sets aside words to tackle the highly relevant theme of “superficial communication” created by new technologies.
Recommended age: from 8 years old

CREDITS
by and with Kenji Shinohe
lighting design Cristina Fresia
Production Fondazione Sipario Toscana
Recommended age: from 8 years old | running time: 45′
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At the heart of the performance are emojis, the colorful faces tasked with expressing feelings in digital communication, and the doubt that their overuse impoverishes and conceals real emotional expressions.
If in a chat we use the laughing face emoji, do we laugh with it? And if we use the one that sheds copious tears, what face do we really make? But the real question at the core of the work is: how can we recover our true feelings?

Choreographer Kenji Shinohe explores, through the body and digital technologies, the way emotions are expressed through the symbols of the keyboard. A performance that sets aside words to address the very contemporary issue of “superficial communication,” created by new technologies and especially—though not exclusively—used by younger generations.
Kenji Shinohe
Kenji Shinohe is a Japanese choreographer and dancer born in 1990, currently residing in Wuppertal, Germany. He started ballroom dancing in early childhood with his grandmother and represented Japan at the Junior World Ballroom Dance Championships when he was a teenager.
He studied dance philosophy and art history at the University of Japan, where he later earned a master’s degree. In 2015, he received an international exchange student scholarship at the Folkwang Universität der Künste in Essen, Germany. After graduating in the summer of 2019, he began his career as a freelance dancer and choreographer.
As a dancer, he has worked with the NEUR TANZ company (Düsseldorf), Tanztheater Erfurt (Erfurt), Carla Jordão (Cologne), Kompanie merighi | mercy (Wuppertal), Saeed Hani (Luxembourg), Dinamo Danza (Pamplona, Spain), and other international choreographers.
As a choreographer, he was awarded the first prize and the audience award “contact.energy 16” at the 5th Internationales Tanz Theater Festival 2016 in Erfurt, the Best Newcomer Solo award at the 10th Internationales Tanzfestival SoloDuo NRW in Cologne 2018, the Best Solo award and the audience award at the SzólóDuó International Dance Festival 2019 in Budapest, Hungary. In addition, he won 5 awards at TEATRI RIFLESSI in Catania, Italy in 2023. He has received international recognition for various choreographic works, both for his solos and group dances.
In his artistic work, he is interested in uniting body movements in relation to the structures of music, extending the expression of dance through metanarrative techniques. His choreographic pieces are hosted and performed in many theaters across more than 15 countries and 55 cities.
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SUNDAY, JANUARY 19, 4:30 PM FAMILY CONTACT
WORKSHOP LED BY CHOREOGRAPHER LAURA MATANO
Family Contact is a moment of sharing between children and parents that seeks to explore new worlds. Being together through the body, movement, and physical contact, creating and building a new harmonic connection. For children accompanied by one parent.
(includes a ticket for the performance K(A)O at 6:00 PM)
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ALCE
2025-01-23 20:30 - 21:30 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
A work by Fabrizio Favale / Le Supplici, a rare and powerful dance, at times rhythmic and tribal, at times ethereal and elusive, performed by a cast of exceptional dancers. Ten dancers shape an unnatural, artificial, otherworldly landscape and inhabit it as its creatures.
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CREDITS
Choreography Fabrizio Favale
Dancers Daniele Bianco, Daniel Cantero, Vincenzo Cappuccio, Giuseppe Catalfamo, Matteo Di Ciommo, Martina Di Giacomo, Alessandro Girardi, Alicia Ianeselli, Valentina Verini, Po-Nien Wang
Music Christian Fennesz, James Holden, Dark Morph, Nathan Fake, Team Ghost, Jónsi & Alex, M83, Sigur Rós
Set, lighting, costumes First Rose
Co-produced by Festival MILANoLTRE / KLM – Kinkaleri / Le Supplici / mk
With the support of MIBAC, Regione Emilia-Romagna
With the contribution of ATER / h(abita)t – Rete di Spazi per la Danza / Sementerie Artistiche, Crevalcore; Regione Lombardia and Fondazione Cariplo for the Next project
Special thanks to Teatro Consorziale di Budrio, Teatro Duse Bologna, and DAS Bologna for the kind use of their spaces
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With this work, the group delves into a theme that has long been explored and has inspired the creation of several works: the presence of animals and our relationship with them.
The presence of animals has always sparked human imagination and seems mysteriously connected to dreams. But it also seems to suggest new senses of space and time, new languages, impossible intelligences of shapes and movement.
From these premises, this work moves in search of abstractions of movement that seem to belong to worlds different from the human one. The enigmatic aerial spinning of an ultra-light aluminum backdrop, operated by the performers at the beginning of the performance, introduces vast horizons of unknown landscapes. Here, a series of dances appears and disappears from a distant, misty place, illuminated by a light in the background.

The dancers often work closely together in a woven pattern, creating atmospheres that are sometimes rhythmic and tribal, sometimes rarefied and ethereal.
In Alce, zoomorphic figures (some inspired by ancient popular traditions, others invented) punctuate the choreography, like an enigmatic dialogue from afar.
Fabrizio Favale
Fabrizio Favale, Full Scholarship at the American Dance Festival in 1990. In 1996, he was named “Best Italian Dancer” by the Premio G. Tani. From 1991 to 2001, he danced for the Virgilio Sieni company. In 2011, he received the “Presidential Medal for Italian Choreographic Talent.” His works have been invited to prestigious venues such as: Théâtre National de la Danse Chaillot in Paris, Biennale de la Danse de Lyon, Varna Festival, and many others. He is the creator of programming projects including: the Balinese Dance Platform, Circo Massimo, and Plantings on Pluto. In 2019, the project Le Stagioni Invisibili won the PerChiCrea award from SIAE and MIBAC, and in 2021 it was shortlisted as one of the eight best outdoor projects in Europe by the Big Pulse Dance Alliance. From 2022 to 2024, Fabrizio Favale is Associate Artist of MILANoLTRE.
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Full price: 10 euros
Reduced price (Under 30, dance schools, Liceo Coreutico Matilde di Canossa, Over 65, CRAL Comune di Reggio Emilia members): 6 euros
Reduced price (Under 8): 3 euros
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OPEN REHEARSAL - GLORY HALL
2025-01-27 18:00 - 19:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
FND Aterballetto – rehearsals – ph. Christophe Bernard (18)
Monday, January 27, at 6:00 PM, the audience of the Fonderia will have the opportunity to witness the preparation of Glory Hall, a creation by choreographer Diego Tortelli, which will premiere on February 6 and 7 at the Teatro Comunale Nouveau in Bologna.
The event will be hosted by Valeria Crippa, journalist and dance critic for Corriere della Sera.
Open rehearsals are unique moments where you can watch the making of a performance, engage in dialogue with the artists, and be amazed by the art of dance: a special opportunity that allows the audience to step into the daily routine of dancers and choreographers.

14.610
2025-02-04 20:30 - 21:30 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
The title of the performance is 14.610, a number that hints at something never explicitly mentioned. But it is a key, like the code to a hotel room, that allows easy entry into the show. It is a small and sophisticated puzzle to solve. The latest work by Claudia Catarzi has something intimate and shameless.
Following the performance, a discussion with the choreographer will take place, joined by Carmelo A. Zapparrata, journalist and dance critic for *Repubblica-Bologna* and *Hystrio*.

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

And this is the other intimate dimension that runs through the entire show and speaks to us of fragility and strength, of change and resistance. The title of the show is 14.610, a number that hints at something never explicitly mentioned. But it is a key, like the code to a hotel room, that allows easy entry into the show. It’s a small and sophisticated puzzle to solve. Not too difficult, to be honest, but we want to leave it unresolved, so as not to spoil the pleasure of discovery. In the second part of the work, the pedestal reveals itself as a steep slide, and the descent becomes a sort of struggle; the muscular body strains to defeat the weight of gravity, as in the whirls of some Giambologna statue. Even though the aesthetics are tied to a sober normality, which makes the image even more intimate and common. About ten years ago, Catarzi debuted in her solo 40,000 Square Centimeters, again a number for a title, striking for presence and power in the small space drawn on the stage of only four square meters. Ten years later, this space has shrunk but has risen into the air. Not a diving board to jump from, but a mountain – like life – to embrace and climb.
(Rodolfo Sacchettini – July 18, 2023)
CLAUDIA CATARZI
After training at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, she began her career working with the Micha Van Hoecke Ensemble. She later danced with companies such as Dorky Park Constanza Macras (Berlin), Compagnia Virgilio Sieni, Aldes/Roberto Castello, Company Blu/Alessandro Certini and Charlotte Zerbey, En-Knap Group/Iztok Kovač (Ljubljana), László Hudi (J. Nadj – Budapest), among others. In 2009, she was part of Choreoroam, a research project by the Israeli choreographer Yasmeen Godder (Tel Aviv). She was later invited to follow the work of the Batsheva Dance Company by Ohad Naharin. She has collaborated with choreographer Ambra Senatore since the beginning of her company’s research work between Italy and France, participating in all her early works. Since 2011, she has been working on personal creations. The solo Arrivò senza colore won the co-production Sosta Palmizi, and Un giorno, a duo in collaboration with Mariano Nieddù, was a finalist at the “Premio Equilibrio 2010” (directed by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui). Her two latest creations see her sharing the stage for the first time with two female figures: Michal Mualem, a historical dancer in Sasha Waltz’s company, in A set of timings, and Claudia Caldarano, a former dancer of Virgilio Sieni, in Posare il tempo. The live presence of musician Gianni Maestrucci in Posare il tempo – percussionist of the renowned group Tetraktis – transforms the danced duet into a trio. Claudia Catarzi is currently an associate artist at CDCN of Bordeaux, La Manufacture | Bordeaux-Nouvelle Aquitaine.
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Aterballetto: Pite / Preljocaj / Tortelli
2025-02-06 20:30 - 22:00, 2025-02-07 20:30 - 22:00 | Teatro Comunale Nouveau, Piazza della Costituzione, Bologna, Italia
FND Aterballetto – rehearsals – ph. Christophe Bernard (18)
SOLO ECHO by CRYSTAL PITE | RECONCILIATIO by ANGELIN PRELJOCAJ | GLORY HALL by DIEGO TORTELLI
The National Choreographic Center / Aterballetto presents a brand-new triptych, set to add fresh and unexpected nuances to the company’s already eclectic repertoire. Solo Echo, created by the award-winning Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite, invokes winter, music, and movement to express something profound about acceptance and loss.
Reconciliatio is a delicate female duet inspired by the Book of Revelation, crafted by one of the world’s most acclaimed choreographers, Angelin Preljocaj.
A vibrant fresco of sensuality and overwhelming vitality, Glory Hall by Diego Tortelli, showcases one of Italy’s most innovative choreographers.
The triptych is a true dance concert, beginning with Brahms’ sonatas and concluding with the post-rock of the band Godspeed You! Black Emperor, interspersed with the famous notes of Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata.
Solo Echo

Choreography CRYSTAL PITE
Music Johannes Brahms
Sonata for Cello and Piano in E Minor, Op. 38: I. Allegro non troppo
Sonata for Cello and Piano in F Major, Op. 99: II. Adagio Affettuoso
Choreographer’s Assistant Eric Beauchesne
Restaging for CCN/Aterballetto
Production Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto
Co-production Fondazione Teatro Comunale di Bologna
Premiere performances: 6-7/02/2025, Teatro Comunale di Bologna
7 dancers – 20’

Love, loss, and acceptance lie at the heart of the stunning dance work Solo Echo by Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite.
Solo Echo is inspired by two sonatas for cello and piano by Johannes Brahms and the poem “Lines for Winter” by Mark Strand. As in Strand’s poem, Solo Echo evokes winter, music, and the moving body to express something essential about acceptance and loss.
Reconciliatio

Choreography ANGELIN PRELJOCAJ
Music Ludwig van Beethoven, Moonlight Sonata
Choreographer’s Assistant Claudia De Smet
Restaging from the 2010 creation Suivront mille ans de calme
Production Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto
First performance 16/09/2024, Memorare 2024, Basilica di San Petronio, Bologna
2 dancers – 10’

Dance, the quintessential art of the unspeakable, has the delicate role of unveiling our fears, anxieties, and hopes by evoking them. The duet chosen to convey the theme of reconciliation is from Suivront mille ans de calme (A Thousand Years of Calm Will Follow), a work marked by a poetic and impressionistic vein, inspired by a careful but not literal reading of the Apocalypse. For the choreographer, neither in the original performance nor in the female duet adapted for “Memorare 2024” should there be an attempt to seek precise references to the text of St. John. Rather, the goal is to reveal, uncover, and highlight (as the etymology of the word apocalypse suggests: to lift the veil) elements present in our world but hidden from our eyes. And in the delicate relationship between the two protagonists of the duet, both visible and invisible, emerge the themes to which we refer.
Glory Hall

Choreography DIEGO TORTELLI
Music Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Choreographer’s Assistant Hélias Tur-Dorvault
Production Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto
Co-production Fondazione Teatro Comunale di Bologna
Premiere performances: 6-7/02/2025, Teatro Comunale di Bologna
16 dancers – 30’

Glory Hall is the new creation by Diego Tortelli for the 16 dancers of Aterballetto, a sensory and rebellious journey into a liminal space suspended between light and darkness. In a black space but never truly dark, the choreography unfolds as an ecstatic ritual where sensuality and profane spirituality intertwine, creating an ongoing play between pleasure, virtuosity, and the search for a personal version of glory. The dance, rebellious against narrative, constantly regenerates itself, allowing ephemeral emotions to explode, destined to vanish and be reborn. In Glory Hall, anything is possible: the music guides in a crescendo of harmony and transgression, for an ecstasy that knows no boundaries, blending rock sounds with symphonic melodies.

Aterballetto: Pite / Preljocaj / Tortelli
2025-02-09 21:00 - 22:30 | Teatro Galli, Piazza Cavour, 22, Rimini, Italia

NOTTE MORRICONE
2025-02-13 20:30 - 22:00, 2025-02-14 20:00 - 21:30, 2025-02-15 18:00 - 19:30, 2025-02-16 16:00 - 17:30 | Teatro Sociale, Via Paolo Oss-Mazzurana, 19, Trento, 38122, Italia

ITALIA DANZA- ADDIS ABEBA
2025-02-14 17:30 - 19:00 | Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Addis Abeba, Bellai Zelleke Street, Addis Abeba, Ethiopia
Hai ragione! Ecco la versione corretta con *performed*:
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The third edition of Italia Danza starts from Ethiopia.
A cosmopolitan project, entrusted to the universal language of the body, promoted by the General Directorate for Public and Cultural Diplomacy of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and performed by CCN/Aterballetto thanks to its rich heritage of site-specific creations. A contemporary repertoire that includes the MicroDances (short creations for confined spaces, choreographed by Italian and international artists) as well as stage performances reimagined for the occasion, making them adaptable to any location.
Italian Cultural Institute of Addis Ababa, February 14, 2025
The project “Italia Danza 2025. An Italian-Ethiopian Dance Dialogue” is the result of the creativity of choreographers and dancers from both countries and takes shape on Friday, February 14, at 5:30 PM, in the spaces of the Italian Cultural Institute of Addis Ababa. Here, a site-specific performance will take place, representing a perfect fusion of the two cultures, featuring choreography by Roberto Tedesco and Melaku Belay, with the participation of performer Laila Lovino and the dancers of the renowned Fendika Cultural Center.

NOTTE MORRICONE
2025-02-19 21:00 - 22:30 | Teatro Guglielmi, Piazza del Teatro 1, Massa, 54100, Italia
The Centro Coreografico Nazionale/Aterballetto pays tribute to Ennio Morricone with a new production by Spanish choreographer Marcos Morau.
The Spanish creator, known for his visionary power and ability to transform musical universes, presents a unique creation intertwining the music of Academy Award winner Ennio Morricone with dance, visual arts, and cinematic inspirations.
Marcos Morau, currently the youngest choreographer to have received the National Dance Award, the highest recognition in Spain, constructs imaginary worlds and landscapes where image, text, movement, music, and space form a unique universe constantly nourished by cinema, photography, and literature. For his first collaboration with CCN/Aterballetto, he proposed turning to iconic compositions from the cinematic landscape of the last seventy years: those of Academy Award-winning composer Ennio Morricone.
The director states: «Classically trained and avant-garde by vocation, Morricone has always been beyond the trends of the moment. His music spans an entire century and has brought many of our great masters to life. For this evening, I want to build a universe based on his sensitivity to confirm that his legacy is more alive than ever and that, as he himself would say, my music has a life of its own, which can live far beyond the films for which it was created.»
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Duration 90′

NOTTE MORRICONE
2025-02-22 20:45 - 22:15, 2025-02-23 17:00 - 18:30 | Teatro Morlacchi, Piazza Francesco Morlacchi, 13, Perugia, 06123, Italia

PerAria
2025-02-23 18:00 - 19:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Go outside,
stand like this…
…with your head in the air.
Be silent,
and listen to the wind,
it has all the answers…
Once again this year, the Sosta Palmizi Company returns to Fonderia to make us dream, with a show dedicated to children from 5 years old.
With the freedom of spirit typical of childhood, the lightness and depth of imagination, a small room can become a place for great adventures: with eyes closed and ears wide open, the air and the wind whisper incredible stories to us! They can take us to that strange country, Anarea, the country without winds where everything is still and moving is a fascinating challenge. Or to the Land of Flying Hats, where the gusts of wind are so strong they swap people’s hats and identities! PerAria takes us into a world where adult logic becomes increasingly rarefied, making room for curiosity, wonder, creativity, play, and emotions, inviting the audience to become lighter and to stay (…at least for the duration of the show) a little more with their head perAria!
The idea for the show came from the desire to create a tribute to life, lightness, and carefree living. The authors were inspired by air and wind as vehicles and conduits of experiences and emotions, creating a nested narrative containing other stories born from the illogical, stimulating, and whirlwind curiosity of childhood and creativity.

“We are overwhelmed by the energy of dance, emotions pass through movement, light and delicate, as light as air, or wild and explosive.”
Nella Califano | AltreVelocità

Credits

choreography and stage creation Giorgio Rossi
dramaturgy and original texts Savino Maria Italiano
performers Anna Di Bari, Verdiana Gelao, and Savino Maria Italiano
music Livio Minafra
costumes Roberta Vacchetta
lighting design Roberto Cupertino
scenography Gisella Butera and Matilde Gori / Zaches Scenography Atelier
production Associazione Sosta Palmizi
co-production I Nuovi Scalzi
residential support Centro di Residenza della Toscana (Fondazione Armunia Castiglioncello – CapoTrave/Kilowatt Sansepolcro), HOME Centro Creazione Coreografica (PG), Comune di Barletta, Teatro Fonderia Leopolda Comune di Follonica (GR), Ad Arte Spettacoli, Zaches Teatro and Ass. Amici di Duccio
thanks to Azioni in Danza/Barletta, Olga Mascolo
Duration 50′
Show for children aged 5 and above

SOSTA PALMIZI/GIORGIO ROSSI
Giorgio Rossi is the co-founder in 1984 of the Compagnia Sosta Palmizi and its subsequent Association, of which he is still co-artistic director along with Raffaella Giordano. Giorgio Rossi, as E. Satie would say, “is a dancing mammal.” At the age of 4, after seeing the Swiss clown Dimitri, he realized that theater was his life. He owes his artistic success to having had the opportunity to witness the works of great masters (Kantor, Brook, Bausch, Carlson), and with some of them, he learned the art of the stage, both as a student and as a performer. He collaborates with artists from other fields, such as: P. Fresu, B. Bertolucci, T. Gylliam, S. Benni, P. Turci, L. Poli, D. Riondino, P. Rossi, Banda Osiris, G. Mirabassi, M. Rabbia, M. Baliani, and many others; he participated as a dancing author in the show *Vieni via con me* by R. Saviano and F. Fazio. In 2013, he choreographed all the movements for *Carmen* by Bizet with L’Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio. With over 30 productions, his shows have traveled the world thanks to the universality of the poetic art of movement. In recent years, he has created three performances aimed at younger audiences (*Con il naso all’insù*, *Costellazioni. Pronti, partenza… spazio!*, *Esercizi di fantastica*). In 2019, he curated the formative and creative residency at the École des Sables in Dakar for the exchange project “Italie, Culture, Afrique.” He has collaborated with the company El Grito both as a performer (*Gran Circo Rossini*) and as a choreographer (*Uomo Calamita*). In 2021 and 2022, he worked as an author and performer alongside R. Goretti and M. Bonechi for the production *Gli ultimi giorni di Pompeo* by Andrea Pazienza. In 2022, he began a collaboration with composer and pianist Livio Minafra (winner of the Top Jazz awards in 2005, 2008, and 2011); their encounter gave birth to *Agata*, an improvisation project for dance and piano. In 2023, the partnership with Minafra was confirmed by a new production that expanded the collaboration to Savino Italiano in the creation of *In_vento*, a work on the theme of air dedicated to younger generations, a prequel to the production *perAria*, which will debut in 2024. In 2023, he also directed the staging and choreography movements of *Vertigine della Lista*, a performance by and with F. Albanese, S. Baldini, L. De Simone, and L. Valli, born from the encounter with the essay of the same name by U. Eco. For many years, both in Italy and abroad, he has had a significant involvement in education, where workshops and collaborations with dance, theater, and circus schools contribute to the dissemination of the choreographic arts.
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FEMINA
2025-02-25 20:30 - 21:30 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Compagnia Abbondanza/Bertoni returns to Fonderia with the acclaimed Femina.

«A keen observer of reality, in her new choreography titled Femina, a declared tribute to women (…) Antonella Bertoni once again amazes by shifting from lyrical movement to the most absolute formal rigor, developing a visual and sound loop that generates, nurtures, and accompanies the mechanical, pulsating, and magnetic movement (…) The white stage is striking, as if one were inside a sterile room (..)»
Giuseppe Distefano, DANZA&DANZA, September 2023
«Four dancers with platinum blonde bob wigs, slender figures dancing frontally in a milk-colored space, doll-like like perfectly crafted Barbies, yet in reality fiery and rebellious in the rhythmic accents of individuality, from which an irrepressible, necessary affirmation of personality bursts forth. Excellent musical work as well.»
Francesca Pedroni, IL MANIFESTO, October 2024

Credits
By Michele Abbondanza and Antonella Bertoni
Choreography: Antonella Bertoni
Performers: Sara Cavalieri, Eleonora Chiocchini, Valentina Dal Mas, Ludovica Messina Poerio
Lighting design: Andrea Gentili
Technical direction: Claudio Modugno
Music: Dysnomia – Dawn of Midi
Audio editing: Orlando Cainelli
Organization, strategy, and development: Dalia Macii
Administration and coordination: Francesca Leonelli
Communication and press office: Francesca Venezia
Production: Compagnia Abbondanza/Bertoni
With the support of MiC – Ministry of Culture, Autonomous Province of Trento, Municipality of Rovereto, Cassa di Risparmio di Trento and Rovereto Foundation
Special thanks to: Danio Manfredini, Marco Dalpane, Lucio Diana, Nadezhda Simenova
Duration: 60′
Finalist of the Ubu Award 2023 in the category “Best Dance Performance”
CRITICAL TEXT
Plaudit: captatio benevolentiae or j’accuse?
In the beginning was the beat:
ironic clapping,
hunters flushing out the prey
or beginning of a sabbatical ritual.
The insistent, geometric loop
compresses and compels
sustaining and generating scores
rigorously formal scores,
thus momentarily leaving concealed
of the feminine soul the essence.
In the unfolding of the action
flows a surgical
choreographic self-flagellation
always listening
of a common and shared time.
Simultaneously beat and beat:
‘Beat but listen!’ (Plutarch)
With a posthumous disguise
and minimal movements
the flow takes us
into the game of female identity,
effeminating, malingering, disambiguating the four performers.
Disembodying and incorporating themselves and each other:
two poles,
two physical places
on opposite banks of the same river.
Accomplices of their own appearance, they mirror each other
restoring mirrored movements,
compressed and coated by a sound accompaniment
that magnetises and flows
without any real interruption
nor space for melody
but only for the aridity of rhythm.
‘Femina’ is the space of translation and hallucination
into a scenic framework of possible forms and names
of the feminine and feminine contemporary world.
M.A.
COMPAGNIA ABBONDANZA/BERTONI
Michele Abbondanza and Antonella Bertoni. From their New York experience at the Alwin Nikolais School to their French studies with Dominique Dupuy, through the ‘poetic’ improvisations of Carolyn Carlson, the study and practice of zen, Michele Abbondanza (co-founder of the Sosta Palmizi group and teacher at the Piccolo Teatro di Milano) and Antonella Bertoni founded the Compagnia Abbondanza/Bertoni, recognized as one of the most prolific artistic entities in the Italian scene for their creations, educational and pedagogical activities, and the dissemination of contemporary dance theater.
The Compagnia Abbondanza/Bertoni is in residence at the Teatro alla Cartiera in Rovereto (TN) – Italy and is supported by:
MIC – General Directorate for Live Performance, Municipality of Rovereto – Department of Culture, Autonomous Province of Trento – Cultural Activities Service, Autonomous Region Trentino Alto Adige

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STABAT MATER - OPEN REHEARSAL
2025-02-28 18:00 - 19:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
The Compagnia Artemis Danza / Monica Casadei offers the audience at the Fonderia something unique, opening the doors to the creative process of its new production Stabat Mater, which will premiere at the Teatro Rossini in Pesaro on March 14.
STABAT MATER
Choreography, direction, sets, lights, and costumes Monica Casadei
Music Gioachino Rossini
Production Compagnia Artemis Danza/Monica Casadei
In collaboration with AMAT and Teatro Rossini di Pesaro
With the contribution of Ministry of Culture, Regione Emilia-Romagna – Department of Culture, Municipality of Parma
The creation, signed by the choreographer from Ferrara Monica Casadei, is dedicated to Gioachino Rossini’s Stabat Mater; a choral tribute to the soul of women, to their universal love, embodied by the mother par excellence. The performance represents the evolution of a multi-year research journey that the choreographer has dedicated to the encounter between dance and religious music.
Stabat Mater is a collective prayer, timeless and universal, for a mater dolorosa, a woman’s heart broken by pain, a mater lacrimosa that crystallizes in the moment of lament the tragedy of losing a child.
The body becomes the medium to tell the emotional experience of those facing the transformation of the primordial bond between mother and child. The performance becomes a cry and a whisper, noise and silence, giving voice to a love that transcends loss and never ceases to illuminate, even in the darkest moments.
Stabat Mater offers a profound and moving fresco of maternity, in a deep and lyrical tension between pain and hope, making the mother’s suffering a universal symbol of empathy and resilience.
The power of Rossini’s composition plays a crucial role in conveying the emotional intensity of the text, while the dynamic music elevates the narrative from lament to a song of hope.
MONICA CASADEI
Originally from Ferrara and holding a degree in Philosophy with honors with a thesis on Plato and dance, Monica Casadei, after a competitive career in rhythmic gymnastics, dedicated herself to the study of classical and modern dance, first in Italy, then in London, and finally in Paris where she met choreographers Pierre Doussaint and Isabelle Doubouloz, as well as the master André Cognard Hanshi So shihan, with whom she still practices the martial art of Aikido. In 1994, she founded the company Artemis Danza in France, and in 1997, she moved to Italy, where she began an intense production activity that, to this day, counts over fifty original creations. From 1998 to 2007, the company was in residence at the Fondazione Teatro Due in Parma, while from 2014 to 2018, it was in artistic residence at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna. Fundamental to Monica Casadei’s artistic research were her encounters with Federico Fellini, her investigation into the great lyrical tradition with performances such as Il Barbiere di Siviglia and the series of works dedicated to the heroines of opera reinterpreted in a contemporary key (such as Traviata, Tosca X, Carmen K, Butterfly – Colori Proibiti, Private Callas, Puccini’s Opera.Voci di Donne). The productions of Artemis Danza are characterized by their fusion with different artistic, cultural, and geographical realms, as well as the exploration of urban spaces that become the stage for performative actions. Alongside its production activity, Artemis supports, produces, and promotes young authors and carries out numerous activities to educate the public.
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NOTTE MORRICONE
2025-03-04 20:30 - 22:00, 2025-03-05 20:30 - 22:00 | Teatro Municipale Valli, Piazza Martiri del 7 luglio, Reggio Emilia, 42121, Italia

NOTTE MORRICONE
2025-03-07 20:30 - 22:00 | Teatro Fraschini, Corso Strada Nuova, 136, Pavia, Italia

NOTTE MORRICONE
2025-03-11 20:30 - 22:00 | Teatro Ponchielli, Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, 52, Cremona, 26100, Italia
