Made in Italy 35.0
2025-06-05 21:00 - 22:30, 2025-06-06 21:00 - 22:30 (Europe/Rome) | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Double performance:
Thursday, June 5 – 9:00 PMFriday, June 6 – 9:00 PM
The protagonists of the evening are the dancers of Agora Coaching Project, an advanced training project promoted and supported by MM Contemporary Dance Company and 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 scene and boasts collaborations with internationally renowned teachers and choreographers.
The evening features two choreographies: Passo d’addio by Claudia Rossi Valli and Last movement of hope – III Chapter: Annunciation by Adriano Bolognino.
AGORA COACHING PROJECT
Agora Coaching Project is a year-long advanced dance training program for dancers aged between 18 and 22, based in Reggio Emilia. Founded in 2010, it is directed by Michele Merola and Enrico Morelli, and is promoted and supported by MM Contemporary Dance Company and the Centro Permanente Danza of Reggio Emilia.
The program aims to train artists who are prepared to face the diversity of the international dance market with flexibility — dancers capable of responding to its various technical and stylistic demands. The project offers a wide range of stimuli, including technical training, cultural enrichment, and opportunities for exchange between students and choreographers, each of whom brings a unique and valuable perspective from the international dance scene.
Agora allows young dancers to meet established choreographers from diverse stylistic backgrounds. Over the years, many renowned names have taken part in the project. Alongside Michele Merola and Enrico Morelli, the program is supported by a team of highly qualified instructors, each with proven experience in the field.
Passo d'addio
by Natiscalzi DT
concept/choreographic dramaturgy/texts: Claudia Rossi Valli
artistic assistance: Tommaso Monza
music: F. F. Chopin, Niccolò Fabi, Ori Litchi, Meitei, Olivia Sellerio, Michael Wall
dance and voices: Agora Coaching Project
duration: 40 min.
addìo: interjection and noun [A form of farewell used when parting for good. “Dare l’a.” — to say goodbye to a place or thing, to leave it forever. Also plural, “gli addii” — the final farewells, the separation.] — Treccani
Passo d’Addio is a sensorial and emotional journey through the many nuances of final moments. The performance explores the concept of “farewell” and “last time” as physical, sonic, and poetic acts, transforming images, thoughts, and memories into movement. By sharing the creative process with the performers, the stage becomes a sensory lab — a collective, corporeal narrative.
How do we know this will truly be the last time? How does our best farewell move? Sometimes, it makes space like revenge; other times, it tickles a laugh or gently brushes the cheek, consoles us like a prayer, cradles us like a lullaby. Sometimes, the farewell is whispered; other times, it crashes — tumbling down the stairs. What does a farewell taste like? The taste of melancholy?
My farewell tastes like salted caramel on the last ice cream cone of that summer.
What does our farewell sound like?
It strikes the bass drum of our lungs and then reverberates to the edges of us.
It stumbles on our teeth, bounces off the palate, falling in and out of us, not knowing where its echo will land.
It skips across our goosebumps, turning into dismay — and a nocturnal forest.

LAST MOVEMENT OF HOPE - III CHAPTER: ANNUNCIAZIONE
choreography: Adriano Bolognino
assistant: Rosaria Di Maro
music: Luke Howard, Giuseppe Villarosa, M83
performers: Agora Coaching Project
duration: 20 min.
“Facing dust storms, I will fight until the end.
Creatures of my dreams: rise and dance with me.
Now and forever, I am your King.”
The need to be reborn arrives loudly — and perhaps you hear it shout even louder when faced with the fear of loss. Then, perhaps, filling up before it empties, building before it collapses, seems like the right path. The need for rebirth comes when you start to envision a void you cannot leap over. So you decide to plant seeds around it, to water a garden you can lie on — a garden that can hold you when pain brings you to your knees. A garden not of flowers, but of breath, waiting, and names not yet spoken. An energy that moves, tears, pushes. It descends, flows through bodies, uniting them. It opens a space, a passage. A pulsating collective body that crosses the threshold.
This work is part of a collection of micro-dances titled Last Movement of Hope, conceived as a larger project — a collection, a book in which each chapter represents a moment of creative exploration, an emotion, an encounter, or a reflection. It was born from the desire to explore and narrate the human experience through dance, in all its complexity: our relationships with ourselves and others, our fears, struggles, and, above all, the hope that drives us forward.
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NOTTE MORRICONE
2025-06-06 20:00 - 21:30 (Europe/Rome) | Pavillon Noir, 530 Avenue Mozart, Aix-en-Provence, Francia
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.'”
Discover more »
Duration 90′
The shows are in partnership with Directorate-General for Public and Cultural Diplomacy of Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and Italian Institute of Culture in Marseille

Italia Danza - Edinburgh
2025-06-12 18:00 - 20:00 (Europe/Sofia) | Istituto Italiano di Cultura, 20-22 East London Street, Edimburgo, United Kingdom
Italia Danza arrives in Edinburgh.
A cosmopolitan project, entrusted to the universal language of the body, promoted by the Directorate General for Public and Cultural Diplomacy of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and interpreted by CCN/Aterballetto thanks to its extensive repertoire of site-specific creations. A contemporary repertoire that includes the MicroDanze (short choreographies for confined spaces, created by Italian and international choreographers), as well as stage performances adapted for the occasion, making them suitable to be presented anywhere.
Italian Cultural Institute of Edinburgh, 12 June 2025 at 6:00 PM and 7:00 PM
On the occasion of the inauguration of the new premises of the IIC, CCN/Aterballetto will perform four MicroDanze in the indoor and outdoor spaces of the Institute. On stage: Eppur si muove by Francesca Lattuada, Turn the Tide by Roberto Tedesco, Near life experience by Angelin Preljocaj, and A Gig by Diego Tortelli.

SANTA
2025-06-12 19:30 - 23:15 (Europe/Rome) | Reggiane Parco Innovazione, Piazzale Europa, 1, Reggio Emilia, Italy
From an idea by director Gigi Cristoforetti, the new project SANTA by the Centro Coreografico Nazionale / Aterballetto, in co-production with the Sanpapié Company, is an urban experience between art and dance curated by journalist and cultural communicator Nicolas Ballario, through a journey that unfolds between the choreographic actions of Lara Guidetti and the works of Maurizio Cattelan, one of the most renowned and controversial contemporary Italian artists, famous for his provocative and ironic language.
The new project SANTA by the Centro Coreografico Nazionale / Aterballetto, co-produced with Compagnia Sanpapié, is an urban experience blending art and dance. Conceived in collaboration with curator and cultural communicator Nicolas Ballario and choreographer Lara Guidetti, the project features artworks by Maurizio Cattelan—such as the homeless figure seen in the photo—as central protagonists.

Starting June 12, for three weekends, audiences will be guided through Pavilions 17 and 18 of Reggiane Parco Innovazione: an urban regeneration project that has transformed a former industrial site in the Santa Croce district of Reggio Emilia (hence the name SANTA) into a hub for research, culture, and new technologies.

Wearing silent-disco headphones and guided by the voice of Nicolas Ballario along with choreographic actions, visitors will experience a unique perceptual journey that weaves together historical memory and architecture—an invitation to imagine new futures within one of the city’s symbolic spaces.
It’s something that resembles a kind of ritual, where the final destination of the site-specific performance is not immediately revealed. Only those who take part—rewarded for placing their trust in this artistic offering—will discover something truly unexpected. And perhaps it is precisely for this reason that the title SANTA was chosen.

Credits

Concept and Curatorship: Nicolas BallarioChoreographic Action: Lara Guidetti
Special thanks to Maurizio Cattelan and his private collection
Music: various composersSound Design: Marcello GoriLighting Design: Marcello MarchiCostume and Accessories Design: Maria Barbara De Marco / Fabrizio CalannaCostume Realization: Nuvia Valestri
Performers:Gioele Cosentino, Vittoria Franchina, Gador Lago Benito, Alberto TerribileKiran Luc Gezels, Alessia Giacomelli, Michele Hu, Karline Olivia Kotila
A co-production by CCN/Aterballetto and Compagnia SanpapiéIn collaboration with STU Reggiane, with the support of the City of Reggio Emilia
SANTA is the first chapter of the three-year project Danze dell’Utopia by the Centro Coreografico Nazionale / Aterballetto, conceived by director Gigi Cristoforetti to explore the relationship between body, space, and imagination in processes of urban regeneration.

Dates and Times
Thursday 12, Friday 13, Saturday 14 June 2025 – 7:30 PM, 9:00 PM, 10:15 PMThursday 26, Friday 27, Saturday 28 June 2025 – 7:30 PM, 9:00 PM, 10:15 PMThursday 3, Friday 4, Saturday 5 July 2025 – 7:30 PM, 9:00 PM, 10:15 PM

Duration: 1 hour
Where
Reggiane Parco Innovazione
Piazzale Europa, 1, Reggio Emilia
Ticketing

Single ticket: €5Online purchase: www.biglietteriafonderia39.it/home.aspx
On-site box office is open at the Tecnopolo, Reggiane Parco Innovazione from 6:30 PM on the following dates:12, 13, 14 – 26, 27, 28 June – 3, 4, 5 July 2025
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The SANTA experience is a walking itinerary with no seating, and includes some stair passages.Total duration is approximately one hour.We recommend wearing comfortable shoes.Please arrive 15 minutes before the start time to collect your silent-disco headphones and complete check-in procedures.

NOTTE MORRICONE
2025-06-19 21:30 - 23:00 (Europe/Rome) | Palazzo Mauro De André, viale Europa,1, Ravenna, Italy
At Ravenna Festival the Centro Coreografico Nazionale/Aterballetto dances Notte Morricone, the tribute to Ennio Morricone from Spanish choreographer Marcos Morau.
With his visionary power and ability to transfigure musical universes, the Spanish artist presents a unique creation intertwining the music of Academy Award-winning composer Ennio Morricone with dance, visual arts, and cinematic influences.
Marcos Morau, the youngest choreographer to receive the National Dance Award—Spain’s highest dance honor—builds imaginary worlds and landscapes where image, text, movement, music, and space form a unique universe, constantly nourished by cinema, photography, and literature. Now, in his first collaboration with CCN/Aterballetto, he has chosen to work with the iconic compositions that have shaped the cinematic landscape over the past seventy years: those of Academy Award-winning composer Ennio Morricone.
The director says: «Classically trained yet avant-garde in spirit, Morricone was always beyond the trends of his time. His music belongs to an entire century and has brought many of our great masters back 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, one that can live beyond the films for which it was created.»
Find out more »
Duration: 90′

MICRODANCES
2025-06-20 18:00 - 22:00 (Europe/Rome) | Classis Ravenna, Via Classense, 29, 48124 Ravenna RA, Ravenna, 48124, Italia
The MicroDanze, within the setting of the Ravenna Festival, will return in 2025 to the Classis Ravenna. Museo della Città e del Territorio.
After last year’s success, CCN/Aterballetto presents a new dance itinerary that will lead the Ravenna Festival audience through and into the spaces of the Classis Museum.
With a novelty! In addition to three MicroDanze, Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda will also be performed.
The program

Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda
directed and visual concept by Fabio Cherstich
choreography and scenic movement by Philippe Kratz
music by Claudio Monteverdi
Raffaele Giordani tenor
Deniel Perer harpsichord
Alessia Giacomelli, Kiran Gezels dancers

Eppur si muove
choreography by Francesca Lattuada
music by Ludwig van Beethoven
dancers Vittoria Franchina, Paolo Giovanni Grosso
creation for CCN/Aterballetto
restaged and presented by MM Contemporary Dance Company

Shelter
choreography by Saul Daniele Ardillo
music by Pasquale Catalano
dancer Sara De Greef

Platform 02
choreography by Ina Lesnakowski
music by Loscil
dancer Gador Lago Benito

DON JUAN
2025-06-28 22:30 - 23:59 (Europe/Rome) | Teatro del Generalife, P.º del Generalife, 1B, Granada, Centro, 18009, Spain
The CCN/Aterballetto at the prestigious Festival de Granada presents the full-length evening performance Don Juan, choreographed by Johan Inger.
The performance is in collaboration with the Directorate General for Public and Cultural Diplomacy of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and the Italian Cultural Institute of Madrid

The choreography stems from Inger’s desire to explore Don Giovanni, a paradigmatic myth both ancient and still contemporary. The original comedy by Tirso de Molina, Molière, Bertolt Brecht, and the theatrical work of Suzanne Lilar are just some of the sources of inspiration: Inger and dramaturg Gregor Acuña-Pohl consulted twenty-five different texts inspired by the character.
All the story’s key figures are featured in the piece, from Donna Elvira to Donna Anna to Zerlina and Masetto. Don Juan can be considered a Kammerspiel, with its focus on nuance and emotion: in this creation, dance becomes a magnifying glass on each character, subtly yet clearly revealing the inner world of the men and women on stage.
Danza&Danza Award ‘Best Production’ 2020

MICRODANCES
2025-06-29 20:00 - 21:30 (Europe/Rome) | Alhambra y Generalife, Plaza de los Aljibes, Granada, Spain
The MicroDances by CCN/Aterballetto arrive at FEX, the Festival Extension of Granada, to inhabit the incredible palace complex of the Alhambra.

The performance is held in collaboration with the Directorate General for Public and Cultural Diplomacy of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (Maeci) and the Italian Cultural Institute of Madrid

Two routes are scheduled (8:00 PM and 8:30 PM), guiding audience-visitors from Plaza de los Aljibes to the Torres Bermejas, passing through the Fundación Rodríguez-Acosta.
An Echo, A Wave by Philippe Kratz
Performer: Federica Lamonaca, Nolan Millioud
Turn the Tide by Roberto Tedesco
Performers: Arianna Kob, Matteo Fiorani
A Gig by Diego Tortelli
Performer: Estelle Bovay, Leonardo Farina
Near Life Experience by Angelin Preljocaj
Performer: Ivana Mastroviti, Albert Carol Perdiguer
Platform 02 by Ina Lesnakowski
Performer: Gador Lago Benito
Eppur si muove by Francesca Lattuada
Performer: Clément Haenen

NOTTE MORRICONE
2025-07-04 21:00 - 22:30, 2025-07-05 21:00 - 22:30 (Europe/Rome) | Teatro Grande – Scavi di Pompei, Piazza Porta Marina Inferiore, Pompei, NA, 80045, Italy
The Centro Coreografico Nazionale/Aterballetto presents Notte Morricone by Marcos Morau on July 4 and 5 at 9:00 PM at the Teatro Grande in Pompeii, as part of the Pompeii Theatrum Mundi festival organized by Teatro di Napoli and the Archaeological Park of Pompeii.

The Spanish choreographer, 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 influences.
Marcos Morau, to date the youngest choreographer to receive the National Dance Award—Spain’s highest recognition—builds imaginary worlds and landscapes where image, text, movement, music, and space form a unique universe constantly nourished by cinema, photography, and literature. Now, for his first collaboration with CCN/Aterballetto, he has chosen to explore iconic compositions from the cinematic landscape of the past seventy years: the works of Ennio Morricone.
The director says: “Classically trained and avant-garde in spirit, Morricone was always beyond the trends of the moment. His music belongs to an entire century and has brought many of our great masters back to life. For this evening, I would like to build a universe based on his sensitivity, to confirm that his legacy is more alive than ever and that, as he himself would say, my music has a life of its own, which can live far from the films it was created for.” Find out more »
Duration 90′

MicroDanze
2025-07-10 18:30 - 20:30 (Europe/Sofia) | Chiesa di San Bartolomeo Apostolo, Via Borzano, 157, Canossa, RE, Italy
MicroDanze arrive in the hills of Canossa, in the province of Reggio Emilia, at the Church of San Bartolomeo Apostolo in Borzano.
Surrounded by legendary and breathtaking landscapes, Aterballetto dancers will present Eppur si muove by Francesca Lattuada, Near Life Experience by Angelin Preljocaj, An Echo, A Wave by Philippe Kratz, and A Gig by Diego Tortelli.
The event, organized by Entroterre Festival, is part of the Festival dei Borghi.
July 10, 20256:30 PM and 7:30 PMDuration: 45 minutes
Access is possible only by car; carpooling is highly recommended.
Find the exact location here.A map marking parking, dining options, and points of interest is available here: click here to view.

Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda
2025-09-13 20:00 - 22:00 (Europe/Rome) | Puerta de Bisagra, Toledo, Spain
Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda in Toledo is the first performance of CCN/Aterballetto’s 2025–2026 season.
Puerta de Bisagra – Toledo, September 13, 2025 at 8:00 pm and 9:30 pm
With the support of the Italian Cultural Institute of Madrid, CCN/Aterballetto celebrates Spain’s Noche del Patrimonio with Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda.

The Puerta de Bisagra provides the majestic setting where the tale of love and death told by Torquato Tasso in Jerusalem Delivered (1575) and set to music by Claudio Monteverdi (1624) will come to life. The performance, created by Fabio Cherstich and Philippe Kratz, is interpreted by dancers Alessia Giacomelli and Kiran Gezels, tenor Matteo Straffi, and harpsichordist Deniel Perer.

https://youtu.be/mjZQdcn1fgc
CREDITS
Direction and Visuals: Fabio CherstichChoreography and Stage Movement: Philippe KratzMusic: Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda by Claudio MonteverdiDancers: Alessia Giacomelli, Kiran GezelsSinger: Matteo StraffiHarpsichord: Deniel Perer

Co-production: Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto, Teatro Regio di Parma / Festival Verdi, Torinodanza Festival – Teatro Stabile di Torino – Teatro Nazionale, Ghislierimusica – Centro di Musica Antica

Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda is a project for the promotion of live performance in museums and cultural heritage sites, supported by the Directorate-General for Museums and co-financed by the Directorate-General for Performing Arts.

For the implementation of the project, the National Museums of Perugia – Regional Directorate of National Museums of Umbria – and in particular the National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre of Spoleto, with the support of the Directorate-General for Museums, have established a partnership with five other major cultural sites: Villa Pisani in Stra, the Castle and Park of Racconigi, the Swabian Castle of Bari, the Certosa di San Martino in Naples, and the Archaeological Park of Venosa. In addition, Castel Sant’Angelo in Rome will host the initiative as part of the summer festival Sotto l’angelo di Castello.

The project is part of Italia Danza, a co-designed initiative by the Directorate General for Public and Cultural Diplomacy of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and CCN/Aterballetto, aimed at promoting Italy’s artistic heritage abroad.
BODIES AS MIRRORS
In my vision of Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, I imagine a confined, circular space, where proximity and the resemblance of bodies play a fundamental role. Together with choreographer Philippe Kratz, we explore the idea of bodies as mirrors, thus narrating a humanity in conflict with itself. Eros and Thanatos emerge as equally powerful forces, creating a paradoxical atmosphere in this perfectly balanced struggle between human beings. In our vision, Tancredi and Clorinda are contemporary warriors, indissolubly bound to one another, compelled to fight and to enact a story already written.

A single voice will give life to three characters: the text itself, Tancredi, and Clorinda will merge into the body and sound of one singer. This estranged sound, constrained by a circular path, creates a sense of constant repetition, underlining the endless cycle of this story of love and death—destined, tragically, to repeat itself through the centuries and to reach us with all its force, as an emanation of Tasso’s poetic power and Monteverdi’s sublime music.

Fabio Cherstich, Director
STRUGGLE WITHIN
In Tasso’s tale, set to music by Claudio Monteverdi, the most obvious themes are the struggle between man and woman and religious conversion, but these are also the aspects I find least intriguing: when adapted into dance, they risk becoming a mere narration of factual circumstances.

A more philosophical or psychoanalytic reading of this struggle—one from which both protagonists emerge defeated, deceived, and solitary—strikes me as far more compelling. Within the opposition of the two roles lies an entire world: the search for one another, the confrontation, the wounding of each other. The dynamic is that of a warlike, conflictual ritual between two entities drawing close. The absurdity of the act becomes clear when one of the two loses their life, and we realize that the other, in any case, has not won… a deep, shared wound remains, inscribed on both bodies. So, are they two people fighting one another, or perhaps one person struggling with themselves?

Philippe Kratz, Choreographer

Cani lunari - open session
2025-09-16 18:00 - 19:00 (Europe/Rome) | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Francesco Marilungo’s Cani lunari is the opening event of the autumn edition of Danza in Fonderia.

Francesco Marilungo inaugurates Antologie. New Readings of the Body, the Danza in Fonderia series, with the open rehearsal of his latest work. Cani lunari reveals the first fragments of his new creation. Inspired by a rare lunar optical phenomenon and steeped in ancestral symbols, the piece delves into the imagery of the witch, the healer, the sorceress: figures on the margins of society, suspended between fear and desire, science and magic, exclusion and power.
https://vimeo.com/1048362306
Credits
Choreography and Direction: Francesco MarilungoWith: Vera Di Lecce, Barbara Novati, Roberta Racis, Alice Raffaelli, Francesca Linnea UgoliniCostumes: Lessico FamiliareMusic and Vocal Coaching: Vera Di LecceLighting Design: Gianni StaropoliPhotography and Video: Luca Del Pia

Production: Körper | National Dance Production CentreCo-production: SNAPORAZVEREIN, IRA Institute

With the support of ResiDance – an initiative of the Anticorpi XL Network,Tuscany Residency Centre (Fondazione Armunia Castiglioncello – CapoTrave/Kilowatt Sansepolcro),AMAT – Associazione Marchigiana per le Attività Teatrali,Consorzio PUGLIA CULTURE – Regional Consortium for Arts and Culture,in collaboration with Associazione Menhir / festival LE DANZATRICI en plein air in Ruvo di Puglia and Ass. Cult. TEATRO MENZATI’ / TEX – Il Teatro dell’ExFadda in San Vito dei Normanni (Puglia).

With the support of Cross Festival, Primavera dei Teatri CastrovillariWith the contribution of Marosi Festival, Teatro delle Moire
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During the winter months, when the moon is full or nearly full, its light can sometimes be refracted by ice crystals in the high clouds, creating a circular halo around the satellite with two symmetrical gleams at its sides: the moon dogs. Atmospheric phenomena that folk tradition once read as omens of storms, but also as signals of transition—visual thresholds into the invisible.
CANI LUNARI is a choreographic project that crosses these thresholds and immerses itself in an imaginary rooted in the archaic feminine, in magical knowledge, in ecstatic bodies. A sensitive inquiry into the figure of the witch, the healer: not as folkloric residue or demonized stereotype, but as the emblem of marginal yet powerful knowledge, resisting the logic of utility and visibility.

Through a process of research combining archival materials, oral testimonies, folkloric iconographies, and bodily practices, CANI LUNARI builds a performative rite in which the body dances trance, ecstasy, metamorphosis. The performers, holding taxidermy crows—souls released, spirit animals, threshold guides—enact gestures suspended between ritual and fiction, magic and theatrical play. Movement feeds on fragmentations, limps, archaic gestures, and sudden slips into animality, evoking a world where the boundary between human and beyond-human is porous and mutable. The body moves “above water and above wind,” echoing ancient formulas that still resonate in some Italian territories at the margins.

At the heart of the project lies a reflection on the hysterical body, a feminine site of crisis and enigma, historically linked to the figure of the witch and to states of possession. The 19th-century photographs of the Salpêtrière become symbolic material to embody: bodies out of control, traversed by the invisible, performing a different kind of knowledge. The witch’s body becomes a threshold-organism between dimensions—as John Cotta once wrote, “not a traveler between worlds, but the site of encounter between different spheres of being.”

CANI LUNARI recalls a knowledge that is both political and sensorial, an embodied epistemology. The soul—bird or breath—leaves the mouth, flies, detaches, and then returns to the body. As in the confessions extorted from persecuted women—often visionaries, storytellers, healers—the body becomes narrative, ritual of healing, exercise in survival. The soundscape, created by Vera Di Lecce, interweaves electronics and natural sound, oral chants and magical formulas, in a score suspended between the earthly and the divine.
CANI LUNARI is a crossing, a white sabbath, a collective ritual to re-enchant the world.

Francesco Marilungo
After studying Engineering and conducting research at the Von Karman Institute in Brussels, Francesco Marilungo attended the Theatre-Dance Atelier at Paolo Grassi in Milan. Since 2010, he has worked with internationally renowned choreographers such as Julie Anne Stanzak, Masaki Iwana, Yasmine Hugonnet, Jan Fabre, and Romeo Castellucci. Over the years, he has performed for Enzo Cosimi, Antonio Marras, and Alessandro Sciarroni. He then began his own artistic path, seeking a personal language at the intersection of performance, dance, and visual arts.

Paradise, winner of the NEXT 2015/2016 call in Lombardy, was selected by Anticorpi XL for the 2016 Vetrina della Giovane Danza d’Autore. Love Souvenir (2018) won the Inteatro Festival call and the Lombardy NEXT 2017/2018 call. With Party Girl, he received the Prospettiva Danza Award 2020 and the Cross Award 2020, and was selected for the Nid Platform 2021. Stuporosa premiered at Short Theatre Rome in September 2023 and began an international tour. In 2024, Stuporosa was presented at the Nid Platform in the programming section and won the 2024 UBU Award for Best Dance Performance.

His new project, Cani Lunari, winner of the Premio CollaborAction – Anticorpi XL Network, will premiere in September 2025.
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Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda
2025-09-22 18:00 - 18:30, 2025-09-24 18:00 - 18:30, 2025-09-25 18:00 - 18:30 (Europe/Rome) | Teatro Padiglione Italia, Osaka, Japan
CCN/Aterballetto is at Expo 2025 Osaka with Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda.
Italian Pavilion Theatre, September 22–24–25, 2025 at 6:00 pm
Thanks to the support of the Emilia-Romagna Region, CCN/Aterballetto takes part in Emilia-Romagna Week at Expo 2025 Osaka with Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda.

On stage at the Italian Pavilion Theatre, the story of love and death told by Torquato Tasso in Jerusalem Delivered (1575) and set to music by Claudio Monteverdi (1624) comes to life. The performance, created by Fabio Cherstich and Philippe Kratz, is interpreted by dancers Alessia Giacomelli and Kiran Gezels.

https://youtu.be/mjZQdcn1fgc
CREDITS

Direction and Visuals: Fabio CherstichChoreography and Stage Movement: Philippe KratzMusic: Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda by Claudio Monteverdi (recorded music by Matteo Straffi, tenor, and Deniel Perer, harpsichord)Dancers: Alessia Giacomelli, Kiran Gezels
Co-production: Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto, Teatro Regio di Parma / Festival Verdi, Torinodanza Festival – Teatro Stabile di Torino – Teatro Nazionale, Ghislierimusica – Centro di Musica Antica

Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda is a project for the promotion of live performance in museums and cultural heritage sites, supported by the Directorate-General for Museums and co-financed by the Directorate-General for Performing Arts.

For the implementation of the project, the National Museums of Perugia – Regional Directorate of National Museums of Umbria – and in particular the National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre of Spoleto, with the support of the Directorate-General for Museums, have established a partnership involving five other major cultural venues: Villa Pisani in Stra, the Castle and Park of Racconigi, the Swabian Castle of Bari, the Certosa di San Martino in Naples, and the Archaeological Park of Venosa. In addition, Castel Sant’Angelo in Rome will host the initiative as part of the summer festival Sotto l’angelo di Castello.

The project is part of Italia Danza, a co-designed initiative by the Directorate General for Public and Cultural Diplomacy of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and CCN/Aterballetto, aimed at promoting Italian artistic heritage abroad.
BODIES AS MIRROR
In my vision of Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, I imagine a confined, circular space, where proximity and the likeness of bodies play a fundamental role. Together with choreographer Philippe Kratz, we explore the idea of bodies as mirrors, thus narrating a humanity in conflict with itself. Eros and Thanatos emerge as equally powerful forces, creating a paradoxical atmosphere in this perfectly balanced struggle between human beings. In our vision, Tancredi and Clorinda are contemporary warriors, indissolubly bound to one another, compelled to fight and to enact a story already written.

A single voice will give life to three characters: the text itself, Tancredi, and Clorinda will merge into the body and sound of one singer. This estranged sound, constrained by a circular path, creates a sense of constant repetition, emphasizing the endless cycle of this tale of love and death—destined, tragically, to repeat itself through the centuries and to reach us with all its force, as an emanation of Tasso’s poetic power and Monteverdi’s sublime music.

Fabio Cherstich, Director
STRUGGLE WITHIN
In Tasso’s tale, set to music by Claudio Monteverdi, the most obvious themes are the struggle between man and woman and religious conversion, but these are also the aspects I find least intriguing: when adapted into dance, they risk becoming a mere narration of factual circumstances.

A more philosophical or psychoanalytic reading of this struggle—one from which both protagonists emerge defeated, deceived, and solitary—strikes me as far more compelling. Within the opposition of the two roles lies an entire world: the search for one another, the confrontation, the wounding of each other. The dynamic is that of a warlike, conflictual ritual between two entities drawing close. The absurdity of the act becomes clear when one of the two loses their life, and we realize that the other, in any case, has not won… a deep, shared wound remains, inscribed on both bodies. So, are they two people fighting one another, or perhaps one person struggling with themselves?

Philippe Kratz, Choreographer

Notte Morricone - open session
2025-09-22 18:00 - 19:00 (Europe/Rome) | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
CCN/Aterballetto – Notte Morricone – ph. Claudio Montanari
Aterballetto’s first open rehearsal of the 2025–26 season, offering the chance to meet the company’s new dancers.
On Monday, September 22 at 6:00 pm, Aterballetto welcomes its audience into the rehearsal room of the Fonderia to the notes of Notte Morricone by Marcos Morau. During the open rehearsal, the three new dancers who have joined the company—Gador Lago Benito, Gaia Mentoglio, and Luigi Civitarese—will also be introduced.
Open rehearsals are unique occasions where the audience can witness the making of a performance, engage in dialogue with the artists, and be surprised by the art of dance: a special opportunity that opens the door to the daily life of dancers and choreographers.

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Caracalla Danza
2025-09-26 17:45 - 19:15, 2025-09-27 17:45 - 19:15, 2025-09-28 17:45 - 19:15 (Europe/Rome) | Terme di Caracalla, Viale delle Terme di Caracalla n.52, Roma, Roma, Roma, 00153, Italia
CARACALLA DANZA
FIRST EDITION · SEPTEMBER 26–28
A new initiative by the Special Superintendency of Rome and CCN/AterballettoGuest company: Gauthier Dance // Dance Company Theaterhaus Stuttgart

In collaboration with Romaeuropa Festival 2025
An extraordinary site, with its archaeological heritage unique in the world, has since 2024 hosted a stage suspended above a pool of water—an installation created to bring water, its essential element, back to the Baths of Caracalla, where the monument is reflected.

With Caracalla Danza, the Special Superintendency of Rome, in co-design with CCN/Aterballetto—returning to the space it inaugurated on April 13, 2024, to the notes of George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue—places dance at the center of a new model for enhancing a unique heritage site.

CCN/Aterballetto will perform the lunar duet Reconciliatio by Angelin Preljocaj and present the world premiere of a new creation by Diego Tortelli, conceived to be danced in the water itself. The stage will also be shared with one of Europe’s leading companies, Gauthier Dance // Dance Company Theaterhaus Stuttgart, directed by Eric Gauthier, performing works by Marco Goecke, Hofesh Shechter, and Sharon Eyal.

On September 26, 27, and 28, Caracalla Danza will be launched with three evenings that, in the coming years, will establish themselves as a recurring September event, following the major restoration works at the Baths of Caracalla.

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The performances will begin shortly before sunset, approximately between 5:45 pm and 6:00 pm. Admission to the stage area will be possible starting at 5:00 pm. Entry to the seating area will not be permitted once the performance has started.

Tickets:From €20

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EVENING PROGRAM
Sharon Eyal: ALONE
With the dancers of Gauthier Dance // Dance Company Theaterhaus Stuttgart. Rome premiere.

Choreography and Costumes: Sharon EyalSound Design: Josef LaimonMusic: ElizaLighting Design: Alon CohenAssistant to the Choreographer: Clyde Emmanuel Archer

With ALONE, Sharon Eyal returns to the large ensemble that made her renowned. The choreographer demonstrates the hypnotic power of synchrony and the extraordinary dynamics of a body-as-machine organism. Subtle variations or serial transformations disrupt the order of her groups of dancers; individuals break free from the repetitive patterns of an apparently post-human society.
Marco Goecke: Monstruo Grande
With two dancers of Gauthier Dance // Dance Company Theaterhaus Stuttgart. Rome premiere.

Choreography: Marco GoeckeMusic: Mercedes SosaLighting Design: Mario DaszeniesCostumes: Michaela Springer

Marco Goecke’s creation stands out for its precision and energy. Set to the powerful music of Mercedes Sosa, this duet unfolds in a performance full of dynamic movement and emotional tension, captivating the audience from the very first moment.
Angelin Preljocaj: RECONCILIATIO

With Estelle Bovay and Arianna Kob, dancers of CCN/Aterballetto. Rome premiere

Choreography: Angelin PreljocajMusic: Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Sonata No. 14 “Moonlight”Costumes: Igor ChapurinLighting: Cécile GiovansiliAssistant to the Choreographer: Claudia De SmetRestaging from the 2010 creation Suivront mille ans de calmeProduction: Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / AterballettoCo-production: Fondazione Teatro Comunale di Bologna

Dance, the art of the unspeakable par excellence, has the delicate power to reveal our fears, anxieties, and hopes by evoking them. The duet chosen to embody the theme of reconciliation is drawn from Suivront mille ans de calme (A Thousand Years of Calm Will Follow), a work imbued with a poetic and impressionistic vein, inspired by an attentive though non-literal reading of the Apocalypse.

For the choreographer, neither in the original work nor in this female duet—adapted for Memorare 2024 at the Basilica of San Petronio in Bologna—should one seek precise references to St. John’s text. As the etymology of the word apocalypse suggests—“to lift the veil”—it is instead a matter of revealing, uncovering, bringing to light elements present in our world yet hidden from our gaze. These emerge, visible and invisible, in the delicate relationship between the two protagonists of the duet.
Marco Goecke: INFANT SPIRIT
With the dancers of Gauthier Dance // Dance Company Theaterhaus Stuttgart. Rome premiere

Choreography: Marco GoeckeLighting Design: Udo HaberlandCostumes: Michaela SpringerMusic: Antony and the Johnsons

The initial spark that led Marco Goecke toward dance came from the legendary company of his hometown, Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch. Although he only met the pioneer of dance-theatre a few times, she nevertheless played an important role in his career—even long after he had left Wuppertal. In 2004, she invited the young choreographer to present his works Blushing and Mopey at the festival 30 Years of Tanztheater Wuppertal. To this day, Goecke’s gratitude is evident when he speaks of how much that trust meant to him. His solo Infant Spirit is a tribute to Pina Bausch, to whom the choreographer owes so much.
Hofesh Shechter: BONUS TRACK
With the dancers of Gauthier Dance // Theaterhaus Stuttgart. Italian premiere

Choreography and Composition: Hofesh ShechterLighting Design: Mario DaszeniesCostumes: Gudrun Schretzmeier & Hofesh ShechterRehearsal Director: Kim Kohlmann

Eric Gauthier asked Hofesh Shechter, resident artist of his company, to create a choreography that could stand as an independent work—adaptable for touring and ideally suited for outdoor performances. The goal was to produce a truly accessible piece, one that would bring contemporary dance especially to younger audiences.

For those familiar with Shechter, it comes as no surprise that he embraced this challenge with ease—particularly since the origins of Bonus Track lie precisely in an outreach project. Some time ago, Shechter had adapted elements of his choreography Clowns for a series of open-air performances in London with a reduced cast of eight dancers. From that foundation, he created a new version tailor-made for and with Gauthier Dance, also reworking his own soundtrack—once again, as always, original.
Diego Tortelli: LIMEN
With Estelle Bovay and Arianna Kob, dancers of CCN/Aterballetto

Choreography: Diego TortelliCostumes: SportmaxMusic: Weyes BloodNew production created especially for the Baths of Caracalla, world premiere

Limen (from the Latin: threshold — between real and reflected, between presence and dissolution) is a choreographic dialogue between two female presences emerging from the veil of water as if from an invisible threshold. They mirror each other, brush against one another, seek and dissolve, like unstable reflections on the liquid skin of the surface.

Their dance moves along the boundary — between body and echo, between gesture and memory, between what appears and what fades away. The work reactivates the memory of the site — once a temple of the body, of care, of collective ritual — and transforms it into an intimate, circular, almost whispered gesture. The two dancers do not embody characters, but mirrored forces, twin archetypes seeking one another without ever fully coinciding, like two halves of a reflected image trembling in the water.
Gauthier Dance//Dance Company Theaterhaus Stuttgart
Gauthier Dance // Dance Company Theaterhaus Stuttgart is a young and dynamic company of 16 highly individual and versatile artists, led by dancer, choreographer, musician, and charismatic dance ambassador Eric Gauthier. Founded in October 2007, the company quickly established itself on the German dance scene and has long since become an internationally recognized name.

Its repertoire includes works by Gauthier himself as well as by renowned contemporary choreographers such as Mauro Bigonzetti, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Marie Chouinard, Sharon Eyal, Andonis Foniadakis, William Forsythe, Itzik Galili, Jiří Kylián, Lightfoot/León, Hans van Manen, Marcos Morau, Ohad Naharin, and Sasha Waltz.

In addition to performances at its home base Theaterhaus Stuttgart, the company regularly tours major international dance capitals, including Toronto, New York, Tel Aviv, Venice, Amsterdam, St. Petersburg, Munich, Québec City, Montréal, Berlin, and Chicago. Gauthier Dance // Dance Company Theaterhaus Stuttgart was highlighted as a “German Highlight” in the 2022 yearbook of the specialist magazine tanz.

Alongside its growing acclaim, Gauthier Dance has strengthened collaborations with world-renowned choreographers—especially with resident artists Marco Goecke (January 2019 to summer 2023), Hofesh Shechter (since 2021), and Barak Marshall (from the 2024/25 season). Even during the pandemic, the company did not stop, launching an inspiring initiative that drew wide attention beyond the dance world: between winter and spring 2021, 16 choreographers, 16 filmmakers, and 16 composers each created a solo for one of the company’s members. The Dying Swans Project is still available free of charge on the media library of the German broadcaster 3sat. The project was enthusiastically received, even catching the attention of the President of the Federal Republic of Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who arranged a video call with Eric Gauthier to learn more.

Recent highlights include the themed evening Swan Lakes (2021), with world premieres by Marie Chouinard, Marco Goecke, Hofesh Shechter, and Cayetano Soto; The Seven Sins (2022), in which Aszure Barton, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Sharon Eyal, Marco Goecke, Marcos Morau, Hofesh Shechter, and Sasha Waltz each transformed a deadly sin into a choreographic creation; the 2022/23 season’s 15th-anniversary celebration 15 YEARS ALIVE; and in 2024, ELEMENTS, featuring world premieres by Mauro Bigonzetti, Sharon Eyal, Andonis Foniadakis, and Louise Lecavalier.

The 2024/25 season brought two spectacular new productions: FireWorks, in which Mauro Bigonzetti, Virginie Brunelle, Stijn Celis, Dominique Dumais, Andonis Foniadakis, Marco Goecke, Johan Inger, Barak Marshall, Benjamin Millepied, and Sofia Nappi each created a short new work to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Theaterhaus as a cultural landmark for Stuttgart; and in summer 2025, the company opened the COLOURS International Dance Festival with the world premiere of The Turning of Bones, created by international choreography star Akram Khan.

Beyond its “traditional” performance activities, Gauthier Dance has stood out since its founding for its pioneering socio-cultural initiatives. With Gauthier Dance Mobile, the company brings dance to those unable to attend the theatre, performing in nursing homes, hospitals, and facilities for people with disabilities. In 2022, Theaterhaus and Eric Gauthier launched a new chapter of this program with the MOVES FOR FUTURE initiative, involving the new youth company. The Gauthier Dance JUNIORS // Theaterhaus Stuttgart ignite enthusiasm for dance among younger generations through numerous school performances across the region, showing remarkable maturity in their own independent productions, which rival those of their more experienced colleagues.

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NOTTE MORRICONE
2025-10-02 19:30 - 21:00, 2025-10-03 19:30 - 21:00, 2025-10-04 19:30 - 21:00 (Europe/Rome) | Theater Winterthur, Theaterstrasse 4-6, Winterthur, 8402, Svizzera
From October 2 to 4 in Winterthur, the Centro Coreografico Nazionale/Aterballetto will perform Notte Morricone by Marcos Morau, alongside the Musikkollegium Winterthur orchestra.
From October 3 to 5, 2025, Aterballetto presents a tribute to the music of Ennio Morricone, performed live at the Swiss theater by the Musikkollegium Winterthur Orchestra under the baton of Maestro Maurizio Billi. These performances mark the beginning of the company’s 2025-2026 tour.
“I, Ennio Morricone, am dead,” wrote the composer before his farewell. But his music cannot die. This is how creators and artists always leave us without truly leaving, and how memory keeps them alive, keeping them safe. Notte Morricone is my gift—a devoted tribute to the beauty he gave to the world.Notte Morricone unfolds in the twilight of an ordinary night in the life of a creative mind, alone and dazed before his sheets, taking notes and envisioning melodies for films that do not yet exist, bringing stories back to life in the rarefied air of his room.— Marcos Morau, director and choreographer
It is impossible to describe Notte Morricone, a masterful piece that washes over the audience in waves, embracing them with emotional tides, capturing them in the memory of timeless melodies that have outlived the images that inspired them. The choreography, too, is enchanting—crafted with obsessive attention to detail: legs and neck seem jointless, bending and snapping rhythmically like metronomes.— Maria Luisa Buzzi, Danza&Danza
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Duration: 90 minutes

VISIONI DEL CORPO: LE DONNE DELLA FOTOGRAFIA CONTEMPORANEA (WOMEN IN CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY)
2025-10-08 20:30 - 21:30 (Europe/Rome) | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Women’s photography is the focus of the new Visioni del corpo event — discovering contemporary art through signature dance.
Thanks to the curatorial collaboration of Nicolas Ballario (listed among the 100 most influential figures in the art world by Il Giornale dell’Arte), the “dancing encyclopedia” continues to take shape — a project that tells the story of the world through dance, placing the body at the center of the human experience.
For the festival Anthologies. New Readings of the Body, Nicolas Ballario has chosen to present the photographic works of Tina Modotti, Diane Arbus, Cindy Sherman, Nan Goldin, and Lisetta Carmi, accompanied by original choreographies created for the occasion by Sofia Nappi, one of the most acclaimed Italian choreographers on the contemporary scene.

APERITIF AT THE FONDERIA
From 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., enjoy a tasting of local wines and products, in collaboration with Coldiretti Reggio Emilia.

Sofia Nappi

Sofia Nappi is a choreographer and the artistic director of KOMOCO, a contemporary dance company based in Italy and active internationally, which she co-founded together with her first muses, Adriano Popolo Rubbio and Paolo Piancastelli. From the outset, Sofia’s early creations with KOMOCO earned major recognition, including the Partner Introdans Award (Rotterdam International Duet Choreography Competition 2021) and the First Prize, Critics’ Award, and Production Award at the 35th International Choreography Competition Hannover, presented by the Tanja Liedtke Foundation and Marco Goecke (2021).
Today, KOMOCO’s works choreographed by Sofia are performed throughout Italy and internationally across Europe, as well as in Mexico, Canada, and Serbia, featured in renowned institutions and festivals. As an independent choreographer, Sofia also creates original works for internationally acclaimed dance companies and theatres such as Nederlands Dans Theater 2, Leipzig Ballet, Gauthier Dance // Dance Company Theaterhaus Stuttgart, Ballet BC, Göteborg Opera, National Theatre Mannheim, Staatsoper Hannover, and Scottish Dance Theatre.
Alongside her creative work, Sofia Nappi is deeply engaged in research and professional training on an international level, in close collaboration with the dancers of KOMOCO. Since 2022, she has organized the Komoco Intensive workshop twice a year in Florence, welcoming professional dancers from around the world. A graduate of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in New York, Sofia’s artistic development has been profoundly shaped by her close connection with the Hofesh Shechter Dance Company and her study of Gaga, the movement language developed by the renowned choreographer Ohad Naharin.

Nicolas Ballario
Born in 1984, Nicolas Ballario works at the intersection of contemporary art and media. After completing his studies at the Academy of Photography, he joined Oliviero Toscani’s creative factory La Sterpaia, where he later became Cultural Director. Over the years, he has collaborated with major artistic institutions and numerous publications, and in 2016 he became the youngest recipient ever of the Premio Bassani, one of Italy’s most prestigious awards for journalists distinguished in the fields of culture and the environment.
He is currently the author and host of contemporary art programs on Radio Uno Rai and a contributor to L’Espresso (where he writes a weekly column), Living / Corriere della Sera, Il Post, and Il Giornale dell’Arte. In 2019, he hosted Camera Oscura, a photography series on LA7, and since 2020 he has been presenting Io ti vedo, tu mi senti?, Italia Contemporanea, and The Square on Sky Arte.
Nicolas is also the director of the new exhibition production company Piuma, and founder and president of Cucù, a communication studio dedicated to culture. He curates exhibitions and catalogues, and has been featured twice in Artribune’s “Best of” list of leading art professionals — in 2019 for radio and in 2020 for television projects.

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Viaggio nel repertorio del balletto (Journey into Ballet Repertoire). Teatro San Carlo di Napoli
2025-10-11 18:00 - 19:15 (Europe/Rome) | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Viaggio nel repertorio del balletto (Journey into Ballet Repertoire), curated and presented by dance journalist and critic Francesca Pedroni, featuring the étoiles of Teatro San Carlo, Naples.

Giselle: Romanticism, Pointe Shoes, and the Ballet Blanc
Curated by Francesca Pedroni
With Étoiles Anna Chiara Amirante and Alessandro Staiano, Ballet Company of Teatro San Carlo, Naples
An iconic title of Romanticism, Giselle premiered in Paris in 1841 with choreography by Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot and music by Charles Adam. It remains an essential work in the repertoire of every major classical ballet company. A love story unfolding between the radiant, pastoral realism of the first act and the nocturnal forest realm of the Wilis — spirits of young women who died of heartbreak after being abandoned before their weddings. Diaphanous in their white tutus and pointe shoes, they rise from midnight to dawn, forcing any man who enters their haunted circle to dance to his death.
The Ballet Company of Teatro San Carlo, directed by Clotilde Vayer, will stage Giselle in Naples this November in Patricia Ruanne’s choreographic version. Around this title, the Journey into Ballet Repertoire series curated by Francesca Pedroni for the National Choreographic Centre / Aterballetto resumes. This performance-conversation blends readings, stories, and video excerpts, featuring the invaluable participation of Étoiles Anna Chiara Amirante and Alessandro Staiano of the Teatro San Carlo Ballet, who will perform live some of the ballet’s most emblematic scenes in dialogue with the curator.

ANNA CHIARA AMIRANTE

Born in Naples, she trained at the Ballet School of the Teatro San Carlo.In 2006, she joined the ballet company of the Teatro San Carlo in Naples under the direction of Elisabetta Terabust. That same year, Alberto Testa awarded her the “Premio Positano” as an emerging young talent. In December 2006, she joined the ballet company of Teatro alla Scala in Milan, directed by Frédéric Olivieri.
In 2007, she became a member of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma company, directed by Carla Fracci, where she immediately performed soloist and principal roles — among them the Russian Princess, the two Big Swans and the Pas de trois in Swan Lake, the Jewels in The Sleeping Beauty, and the Three Odalisques in Scheherazade. For A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Paul Chalmer created the role of Venus especially for her, and she was later chosen to dance the Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker.
In October 2011, La Bayadère premiered at the Teatro dell’Opera, with Anna Chiara cast in the leading role of Nikia. In October 2012, she danced the principal role of the Street Dancer and one of Kitri’s friends in Messerer’s Don Quixote.

Also in 2014, she performed various principal and soloist roles at her home theatre, the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, including Giselle by Lyudmila Semenyaka.In 2016, she was chosen by Mikhail Lavrovsky to dance the role of one of the “Young Troubadours” in Romeo and Juliet.More recently, she has performed as the Sugar Plum Fairy in Charles Jude’s The Nutcracker.
She has also danced other leading roles, including:

Queen of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland (chor. Gianluca Schiavoni)
Echos Pas de Deux in Pink Floyd Ballet (chor. Roland Petit)
Gymnopédies Pas de Deux (chor. Roland Petit)
Marina in Zorba the Greek (chor. Lorca Massine)
Cinderella (chor. Giuseppe Picone)
Marguerite in The Lady of the Camellias (chor. Derek Deane)
Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (chor. Paul Chalmer)
Queen of the Dryads in Don Quixote (chor. Aleksej Fadeechev)
Odette/Odile in Swan Lake (chor. Patrice Bart)
Theme and Variations (chor. George Balanchine)
Juliet in Romeo & Juliet (chor. Kenneth MacMillan)

In December 2022, following her performance as Odette/Odile, she was named Étoile of the Teatro San Carlo by Artistic Director Clotilde Vayer.
In January 2023, she took part as the leading performer in Francesco Ventriglia’s A Thousand Tales at the Dubai Opera, also dancing the role of Raymonda in Raymonda and Serenade by George Balanchine.
In September 2023, she was once again awarded the “Premio Positano”, this time as Best Performer.
She has since appeared in productions such as Suite en Blanc by Serge Lifar, In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated by William Forsythe, and Onegin by John Cranko.
She also performs in numerous national and international galas, interpreting both classical and contemporary repertoire.

ALESSANDRO STAIANO

He graduated in 2011 from the Ballet School of the Teatro di San Carlo. In 2012, he joined the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma for the production of Romeo and Juliet by Patrice Bart. With the Ballet Company of the Teatro di San Carlo, he has performed as a soloist and principal dancer in productions such as The Nutcracker, Romeo and Juliet, Carmen, Swan Lake, Without Words, The Bat (Czarda soloist), Cantata, Don Quixote, Carmina Burana, Mozart Requiem, and Le Corsaire (as Conrad).
In 2015, he danced as principal in The Nutcracker and Giselle, and took part in the 9th Festival Internacional de Ballet in Cali, Colombia. In 2016, he performed the role of Frantz in Roland Petit’s Coppélia, and was selected by Mikhail Lavrovsky to interpret one of the leading roles in Romeo and Juliet. He also appeared in “Bolle and Friends”, performing alongside the international star in the Pas de deux from Proust ou les Intermittences du Cœur (Roland Petit) in the role of Saint Loup.
He was invited as a guest principal dancer by the Opéra National de Bordeaux, performing the role of Frantz in Charles Jude’s Coppélia. In 2017, he danced the role of the Prince, partnering Maria Eichwald, in Cinderella, and in the same year performed as the Knave in Alice in Wonderland (chor. Gianluca Schiavoni) alongside Alicia Amatrain.

In 2022, under the direction of Clotilde Vayer, he was named Étoile of the Teatro San Carlo, following his performance as Romeo in Romeo and Juliet (chor. Kenneth MacMillan).
As an Étoile, he has performed:La Rose Malade (chor. Roland Petit), leading roles in Pink Floyd Ballet (chor. Roland Petit), Zorba the Greek (chor. Leonide Massine), The Lady of the Camellias (chor. Derek Deane), Don Quixote (chor. Aleksej Fadeechev), Swan Lake (R. Nureyev / P. Bart / R. Nuñez), Theme and Variations (chor. George Balanchine), In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated (chor. William Forsythe), Serenade (chor. George Balanchine), A Thousand Tales (chor. Francesco Ventriglia), Don Quixote (R. Nureyev), Suite en Blanc (chor. Serge Lifar), Le Jeune Homme et la Mort (chor. Roland Petit), and Onegin (chor. John Cranko).
He has participated in numerous national and international galas, performing pas de deux such as Diana and Acteon, Swan Lake, Pas d’Esclave, Le Corsaire, Raymonda, The Talisman, Don Quixote, Scheherazade, and Thaïs.
Throughout his career, he has danced alongside internationally renowned étoiles including Maria Eichwald, Alicia Amatriain, Maia Makhateli, Ludmila Konovalova, Maria Yakovleva, and many others.

FRANCESCA PEDRONI

Dance critic for the daily newspaper Il Manifesto and for the magazine Danza&Danza. For Classica HD (formerly Sky Classica, channel 124), she has worked as author and director of the series Danza in Scena — over 70 documentaries dedicated to artists such as William Forsythe, Pina Bausch, and Alessandra Ferri.
For cinema, she wrote and directed the docufilm Roberto Bolle. L’arte della danza, produced by Classica and Artedanza srl. She also curated the DVD collection I capolavori della danza, published by Classica HD and Corriere della Sera.
Since 2000, she has been teaching Dance History at the Accademia Teatro alla Scala, where she also leads ballet talks for the theatre’s Under 30/35 subscribers.

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ONLINE: https://www.biglietteriafonderia39.it/home.aspx
Fonderia Box Office: The box office opens half an hour before the start of the performance (via della Costituzione 39, Reggio Emilia).

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Email biglietteria@aterballetto.it

NOTTE MORRICONE
2025-10-15 20:00 - 21:30 (Europe/Rome) | National Theater of Opera and Ballet, Pallati i Kulturës, Sheshi Skënderbej, Tirana, Albania
Aterballetto performs Notte Morricone by Marcos Morau at the International Dance Festival of Tirana, directed by Angelin Preljocaj.
“I, Ennio Morricone, am dead,” wrote the composer before taking his leave. His music, however, cannot die. This is how creators and artists always leave us without ever truly leaving, and how memory takes care to keep them alive, to keep them safe. Notte Morricone is my gift, a devoted tribute to the beauty he gave to the world.Notte Morricone takes place in the twilight of an ordinary night in the life of a creative mind, who, alone and dazed before his sheets of paper, takes notes and envisions melodies for films that do not yet exist, bringing stories back to life in the rarefied air of his room.Marcos Morau – Director and Choreographer
It is impossible to describe Notte Morricone, a masterful piece that arrives in waves to the spectator, envelops them with emotional currents, and captures them through the memory of timeless melodies that have long outlived the images that first generated them. Equally enchanting is the finely crafted, ever-poetic choreography, composed with meticulous attention to detail: legs and necks seem jointless, bending and snapping rhythmically like metronomes.Maria Luisa Buzzi – Danza&Danza
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Stuporosa
2025-10-16 20:30 - 21:30 (Europe/Rome) | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Francesco Marilungo’s Stuporosa is a whirling dance in which tarantism, “possession,” and funeral lament hypnotize the audience.

The Ubu Award for Best Dance Performance 2024 comes to Fonderia. Francesco Marilungo draws inspiration from popular funeral rituals, tarantism, and the dance of Saint Vitus to create Stuporosa, an extraordinary collective work for five performers exploring the universality of grief and its healing.

Credits
Direction and Choreography: Francesco MarilungoWith: Vera Di Lecce, Martina Di Prato, Barbara Novati, Roberta Racis, Francesca Linnea Ugolini, Music and Vocal Coaching: Vera Di LecceSet and Lighting Design: Gianni StaropoliCostumes: Lessico FamiliarePhotography and Video: Luca Del Pia

Production: Körper | National Dance Production CentreCo-production: Fabbrica EuropaWith the support of IntercettAzioni – Centro di Residenza Artistica della LombardiaWith the support of Short Theatre Festival, Fuori Programma Festival, Teatro Akropolis & Dracma Teatro – Progetto CURA, Did Studio, Base Milano, Qenhun
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Thus, apparently without reason, the five performers of Stuporosa weep, giving life to a cry that takes on many shades: at times restrained, at times stifled, at times becoming music, then flowing into hope, then transforming into song, echoing the sounds of an ancient Salentinian funeral lament.

Their bodies fragment in search of archaic, distant forms that vanish and dissolve instantly. These forms are figures of pathos, archetypal images of human suffering handed down over centuries and civilizations—images drawn from ancient funeral rites but universal in meaning, for since the dawn of humanity, suffering has always been endured in the same way. The five performers attempt to reclaim a sense of collectivity, of rituality, to create new forms of mutual support—whispering ancient magical formulas, evoking traditional dances, singing a Salentinian lullaby.

In Stuporosa, as in ritual weeping, one witnesses a stylization of pathos, a de-hystericization of grief; and the performance itself seeks to be an invitation to reflect on mourning, on the human need for a shared cultural institution, a communal rite, to overcome moments of individual crisis.

Francesco Marilungo
After studying Engineering and conducting research at the Von Karman Institute in Brussels, Francesco Marilungo attended the Theatre-Dance Atelier at Paolo Grassi in Milan. Since 2010, he has collaborated with internationally renowned choreographers such as Julie Anne Stanzak, Masaki Iwana, Yasmine Hugonnet, Jan Fabre, and Romeo Castellucci. Over the years, he has performed for Enzo Cosimi, Antonio Marras, and Alessandro Sciarroni. He then began his own creative journey, seeking a personal language between performance, dance, and visual arts.

Paradise, winner of the NEXT 2015/2016 call in Lombardy, was selected by Anticorpi XL for the 2016 Vetrina della Giovane Danza d’Autore. Love Souvenir (2018) won the Inteatro Festival call and the NEXT 2017/2018 call in Lombardy. With Party Girl, he received the Prospettiva Danza Award 2020 and the Cross Award 2020, and was selected for the Nid Platform 2021. Stuporosa premiered at Short Theatre Rome in September 2023 and began an international tour. In 2024, Stuporosa was presented at the Nid Platform in the programming section and won the 2024 UBU Award for Best Dance Performance.

His new project, Cani Lunari, winner of the Premio CollaborAction – Anticorpi XL Network, will premiere in September 2025.
Info&Tickets
TICKETS

Full price: €10Reduced: €6 (under 30, dance schools, Liceo Coreutico Matilde di Canossa, over 65, CRAL members of the Municipality of Reggio Emilia)Reduced: €3 (under 8)

TICKET PURCHASE

ONLINE: https://www.biglietteriafonderia39.it/home.aspxFonderia Box Office: opens one hour before the performance (via della Costituzione 39, Reggio Emilia).

Tickets are unreserved (general admission).

CONTACTS FOR RESERVATIONS

Phone & WhatsApp: +39 334 1023554Email: biglietteria@aterballetto.it

Ti vedo. La leggenda del Basilisco
2025-10-18 18:00 - 18:50 (Europe/Rome) | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
What if a fairy tale were told by an enormous dress of fabric?

Ti vedo. La leggenda del Basilisco

by Teatro del Buratto is an immersive and poetic performance designed for children, weaving together theatre, myth, and magic. Among witches, spells, and the dreaded King of Serpents, children will be carried on an exciting journey where fear and courage meet. A little hero and a fearsome basilisk teach us that sometimes it is enough to look beyond appearances to discover that every creature holds the possibility of change.

Recommended age: from 4 years

CREDITS
A project by: Emanuela Dall’AglioWith: Emanuela Dall’Aglio, Riccardo PaltenghiDirection: Emanuela Dall’AglioSoundscapes and Lighting: Mirto BalianiConstructions: Emanuela Dall’Aglio, Michele Columna, Riccardo Paltenghi, Caterina BertaAssistant Director: Beatrice Masala

A co-production by: Teatro del Buratto, CSS Teatro Stabile di Innovazione del Friuli Venezia Giulia

Recommended age: from 4 yearsDuration: 50 minutes
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“I see you, all the creatures that men call monsters.
Monstrous creatures? Monstrous?… Who are they, really? They are those who cannot be saved, who are of a form unsuited to this world. But what if, for once, they were the heroes—clumsy, reckless, involuntary saviors of themselves?”
N. Haynes

A dress-story that tells a myth.A great skirt that contains within itself all the elements of this tale. A mountain of red fabric in which a narrator recounts the story of a witch and her basilisk.

Humankind has always needed to create and to fight monsters that embody evil and the flaws of the world, and this performance begins with the act of creation—the magical rite that gives birth to a basilisk.

But now we must face the King of Serpents, a creature unsuited to life among men, with supernatural powers, sowing terror, and with a single gaze turning living beings into stone. Through the centuries, countless legends have cast him as a terrible and deadly figure. Drawing on some of these, our story begins with the arrival of the Basilisk in a peaceful village. His power breeds fear and dismay; the villagers, not knowing how to banish him and powerless against his magic, lock themselves in their homes in fear.

But is this creature truly a monster, or is it simply unable to change its nature?Perhaps, unaware of how to handle its power, it is imprisoned by it.Only through the encounter and clash with a small, unsuspecting hero—through his reckless courage and his gentleness—will the Basilisk be offered a way out: in this case, a magical antidote, a trick to ensure that no one dies—neither the monster nor the village.

Through knowledge, courage, encounter, and even a touch of magic, we find a new solution to an old legend.
Teatro del Buratto
Founded in 1975 in Milan, Teatro del Buratto is a theatre production center that combines actor’s theatre, puppet and animation theatre, and black theatre, with a strong focus on visual, musical, and scenographic research. Its productions, aimed at children, adolescents, and adults, range from reimagined classics to new dramaturgies, often addressing contemporary social issues.

Active both nationally and internationally, Buratto is recognized by the Italian Ministry of Culture as a Theatre Production Centre and manages the Teatro Bruno Munari and Teatro Verdi in Milan. Beyond production, it promotes residencies, training, workshops, and festivals such as IF Festival and Segnali, standing as a key reference point for visual and innovative theatre.
Info, Tickets, Workshop
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18 – 4:30 pmFAMILY CONTACT

Workshop led by choreographer Laura Matano

Family Contact is a moment of sharing between children and parents, exploring new worlds together. Through the body, movement, and physical contact, participants create and build a new sense of harmonious connection. For children accompanied by one parent.

(Includes ticket for the 6:00 pm performance)

TICKETSSingle ticket: €6

TICKET PURCHASE

ONLINE: https://www.biglietteriafonderia39.it/home.aspxFonderia Box Office: opens one hour before the performance (via della Costituzione 39, Reggio Emilia).

Tickets are unreserved (general admission).

CONTACTS FOR RESERVATIONSPhone & WhatsApp: +39 334 1023554Email: biglietteria@aterballetto.it

Solo Echo / Reconciliatio / Glory Hall
2025-10-22 20:30 - 22:00 (Europe/Rome) | Teatro Municipale Valli, Piazza Martiri del 7 luglio, Reggio Emilia, 42121, Italia
CCN/Aterballetto performs at Teatro Valli in Reggio Emilia for Festival Aperto.

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

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

The final piece, Glory Hall, is a new creation by Diego Tortelli, offering the company and the audience a fresco of sensuality and overwhelming vitality.

CREDITS
Solo Echo

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

Reconciliatio

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

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