ITALIA DANZA - VISIONI DEL CORPO. MAURIZIO CATTELAN
2025-11-04 18:30 - 19:30 (Europe/Rome) | Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Parigi, 50, rue de Varenne, Parigi, France
Maurizio Cattelan Bidibidobidiboo 1996 photo Zeno Zotti copia (Palazzo Grassi, Venezia)
On Tuesday, November 4, the CCN/Aterballetto will be at the Italian Cultural Institute in Paris with Visioni del corpo — discovering contemporary art through signature dance.

Nicolas Ballario, listed among the 100 most influential figures in the art world by Il Giornale dell’Arte, guides the audience through the story and poetics of Maurizio Cattelan, one of Italy’s most renowned and controversial contemporary artists on the international stage.
At the heart of the evening are three of Cattelan’s works — irreverent, provocative pieces that challenge both art and society through biting irony and powerful visual impact.
Choreographer Lara Guidetti, together with CCN/Aterballetto dancers Alessia Giacomelli and Kiran Gezels, gives body and movement to Cattelan’s visions, transforming the irony, paradox, and silences of his art into physical gesture.

Visioni del corpo. Maurizio Cattelan for the Italian Cultural Institute in Paris is part of Italia Danza, a co-designed initiative by the Direzione Generale per la Diplomazia Pubblica e Culturale (MAECI) and the CCN/Aterballetto.

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

Lara Guidetti

In 2006, Lara Guidetti graduated as a dancer and choreographer from the Dance-Theatre Atelier of the Paolo Grassi School in Milan, where she trained with major national and international masters. She continued her education in dance and performing arts, studying various pedagogical and training methods through workshops and productions.
In 2008, she founded the Sanpapié Company, where she serves as artistic director, choreographer, director, and performer, presenting works throughout Italy, Europe, China, and Saudi Arabia. In 2017, her production LEI won the Premio Bonacina.
She collaborates with the JGM Company in Lisbon, with La Scala in Milan as a dancer and acrobat, and creates choreography for opera productions. She has taught at the Paolo Grassi School and DanceHaus in Milan, as well as at the Teatro Stabile di Torino school.
Since 2022, she has been an associate artist of the MilanOltre Festival and a collaborator of the CCN/Aterballetto, working as a choreographer and curator of site-specific and cultural welfare projects.

Nicolas Ballario

Born in 1984, Nicolas Ballario works in the field of contemporary art applied to 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. He has collaborated with major artistic institutions and numerous publications, and in 2016 became the youngest recipient ever of the Premio Bassani, one of Italy’s most prestigious awards for journalists distinguished in cultural and environmental reporting.
He is currently the author and host of contemporary art programmes 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 has been presenting Io ti vedo, tu mi senti?, Italia Contemporanea, and The Square on Sky Arte.
He is also the director of the new exhibition production company Piuma, and founder and president of Cucù, a communication studio dedicated to culture. Ballario curates exhibitions and catalogues, and was included twice in Artribune’s “Best of” list of leading figures in the art world — in 2019 for radio and in 2020 for television projects.

Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda
2025-11-06 11:00 - 12:00, 2025-11-06 19:30 - 20:30 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda opens the Dance Week of the CCN/Aterballetto.
Fonderia – Thursday, November 6 at 11:00 a.m. and 7:30 p.m.

The theme of love overwhelmed by war and death — inspired by the story of Tancredi and Clorinda from Torquato Tasso’s Gerusalemme Liberata (whose first draft celebrates its 450th anniversary in 2025) and set to music by Claudio Monteverdi (1624) — retains a striking contemporary relevance. The CCN/Aterballetto reinterprets this legacy through dance, its privileged language for conveying the intensity and drama of the work, in a performance conceived by Fabio Cherstich and Philippe Kratz, featuring dancers Alessia Giacomelli and Kiran Gezels, tenor Raffaele Giordani, and harpsichordist Francesco Luigi Trivisano.
The performance is preceded and followed by contributions from Antonio Audino, theatre critic and journalist for RadioRai3, who, with his signature clarity, will cast a contemporary light on these “sacred texts” of Italian cultural heritage.

The 11:00 a.m. performance is dedicated to upper secondary school students.
APERITIF AT LA FONDERIA
From 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., enjoy a tasting of local wines and products, in collaboration with the Mercato Campagna Amica del Tricolore.

https://youtu.be/mjZQdcn1fgc
CREDITS
Direction and visual: Fabio CherstichChoreography and stage movement: Philippe KratzMusic: Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda by Claudio MonteverdiDancers: Alessia Giacomelli, Kiran GezelsSinger: Raffaele GiordaniHarpsichord: Francesco Luigi Trivisano
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

Born in September 2024, Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda is a project aimed at enhancing live performing arts within museums and cultural sites, promoted by the Direzione Generale Musei and co-funded by the Direzione Generale Spettacolo.

For its realization, the Musei Nazionali di Perugia – Direzione Regionale Musei Nazionali Umbria — and in particular the Museo Archeologico Nazionale e Teatro Romano di Spoleto — established, with the support of the Direzione Generale Musei, a partnership shared with five other major cultural venues: Villa Pisani in Stra, Castello e Parco di Racconigi, Castello Svevo in Bari, Certosa di San Martino in Naples, and the Parco Archeologico di Venosa. Later, Castel Sant’Angelo in Rome joined the initiative, hosting it as part of the 2024 summer festival Sotto l’angelo di Castello.

The project is part of Italia Danza, a co-designed initiative by the Direzione Generale per la Diplomazia Pubblica e Culturale del MAECI and the 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, telling the story of a humanity at war with itself. Eros and Thanatos emerge as equally powerful forces, creating a paradoxical atmosphere within this perfectly balanced struggle between human beings. In our interpretation, Tancredi and Clorinda are contemporary warriors, bound to one another inextricably, compelled to fight and to relive a story already written.
A single voice gives life to three characters — the text itself, Tancredi, and Clorinda — merging within the body and sound of one singer. This estranged voice, bound to a circular path, evokes a sense of constant repetition, underscoring the endless cycle of this story of love and death — a story destined, tragically, to repeat itself through the centuries and reach us still, carrying all its force as an emanation of Tasso’s poetic power and Monteverdi’s sublime music.
Fabio Cherstich, Director

INNER STRUGGLE

In Tasso’s tale, set to music by Claudio Monteverdi, the most obvious themes are the struggle between woman and man and religious conversion — yet these are also the aspects I find least compelling. Transposed into dance, they would risk becoming a mere narrative of circumstances.
A more philosophical or psychoanalytic reading of this struggle — from which both protagonists emerge defeated, deceived, and alone — feels far more engaging to me. Within the opposition of the two roles lies an entire world: the seeking, confronting, and wounding of one another. The dynamic is that of a ritual, a warlike confrontation between two entities drawing closer. The absurdity of the act is revealed when one of them loses their life, and we realize that the other has not won either… a powerful, shared wound that remains imprinted on both bodies. So, are these two people fighting each other — or a single person fighting against themselves?
Philippe Kratz, Choreographer

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Preludio / An Echo, A Wave / Solo Echo
2025-11-07 20:30 - 21:45, 2025-11-08 20:30 - 21:45, 2025-11-09 20:30 - 21:45 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
https://youtu.be/0WgBEKxzPxY
For the Dance Week, Aterballetto performs from November 7 to 9 at its home venue, La Fonderia.

While half of the company is on tour in South Africa, the remaining eight dancers of Aterballetto offer the Reggio Emilia audience three evenings of performance, dancing on the stage of La Fonderia (via della Costituzione 39) with the following programme:
Preludio by Diego Tortelli, built around some of the most intense poems and songs by Australian singer-songwriter Nick Cave, explores love, faith, dependence, obsession, loss, and the intricate ways these themes intertwine.
An Echo, A Wave by Philippe Kratz, officially premiering during Dance Week, translates the sense of wonder and eternity evoked by the sight of the sea: the dancers’ flowing movements recall the natural, unending motion of the waves, while also reflecting the passage through shifting emotional states.
Finally, Solo Echo by Crystal Pite is inspired by two sonatas for cello and piano by Johannes Brahms and by the poem Lines for Winter by Mark Strand, invoking winter, music, and the moving body to express something essential about acceptance and loss.
The evening opens with a new MicroDanza piece created by Antonella Bertoni especially for the CCN/Aterballetto.

APERITIF IN FONDERIA
From 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., enjoy a tasting of local wines and products, in collaboration with the Mercato Campagna Amica del Tricolore.

FND/Aterballetto – Preludio – ph. Celeste Lombardi
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Full price: €10Reduced price (under 30, dance schools, Liceo Coreutico Matilde di Canossa, over 65, CRAL Comune di Reggio Emilia members): €6Reduced price (under 8): €3

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

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Preludio / "O" / Alpha Grace
2025-11-08 18:30 - 19:40 | UJ Arts & Culture, University Road, Johannesburg, GP 2092, South Africa
From November 8 to 12, 2025, Aterballetto embarks on its first tour in South Africa.

Thanks to the collaboration of the Embassy of Italy in Pretoria and the Italian Cultural Institute of Pretoria, Aterballetto performs the triptych Dreamers in three South African cities.

TOUR

Saturday, November 8 – 6:30 p.m. – Johannesburg, UJ Arts & Culture
Monday, November 10 – 6:00 p.m. – Stellenbosch, The Adam Small Theatre
Wednesday, November 12 – 6:30 p.m. – Pretoria, The Fairtree Atterbury Theatre

The triptych opens with Preludio by Italian choreographer Diego Tortelli, who has been collaborating with the company since 2018: a love letter to the body for five dancers, built around some of the most intense poems and songs by Australian singer-songwriter Nick Cave, whose unmistakable voice envelops the audience.
At the heart of the evening is the duet O by German choreographer Philippe Kratz, former principal dancer with Aterballetto and now a sought-after creator for major international theatres. A small masterpiece of unstoppable rhythm, it hypnotically draws the viewer in.
The evening concludes with the sextet Alpha Grace, also by Philippe Kratz — a reflection on empathy, “a gentle form of communication,” as the choreographer says, “between people who feel they stand on the same level.”

VISIONI DEL CORPO: MAURIZIO CATTELAN
2025-11-09 18:00 - 19:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Maurizio Cattelan Bidibidobidiboo 1996 photo Zeno Zotti copia (Palazzo Grassi, Venezia)
For Dance Week, three works by Maurizio Cattelan are the focus of the new edition of Visioni del corpo — discovering contemporary art through signature dance.

Nicolas Ballario, listed among the 100 most influential figures in the art world by Il Giornale dell’Arte, guides the audience through the story and poetics of Maurizio Cattelan, one of the most renowned and controversial Italian contemporary artists on the international scene.
At the heart of the evening are three of Cattelan’s works — irreverent and provocative pieces that challenge both art and society through sharp irony and powerful visual impact.
Choreographer Lara Guidetti, together with CCN/Aterballetto dancers Alessia Giacomelli and Kiran Gezels, gives body and movement to Cattelan’s visions, transforming the irony, paradox, and unspoken essence of his works into physical gesture.
On the occasion of Dance Week, Visioni del Corpo: Maurizio Cattelan will have three performances at La Fonderia, via della Costituzione 39:

Sunday, November 9 at 6:00 p.m.
Monday, November 10 at 11:00 a.m. – for upper secondary schools
Monday, November 10 at 8:30 p.m.

HAPPY HOUR AT LA FONDERIA

From 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., enjoy a tasting of local wines and products, in collaboration with the Mercato Campagna Amica del Tricolore.

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

Lara Guidetti

In 2006, Lara Guidetti graduated as a dancer and choreographer from the Dance-Theatre Atelier of the Paolo Grassi School in Milan, where she trained with major national and international masters. She continued her education in dance and performing arts, studying various pedagogical and training methods through workshops and productions.
In 2008, she founded the Sanpapié Company, where she serves as artistic director, choreographer, director, and performer, presenting works throughout Italy, Europe, China, and Saudi Arabia. In 2017, her production LEI won the Premio Bonacina.
She collaborates with the JGM Company in Lisbon, with La Scala in Milan as a dancer and acrobat, and creates choreography for opera productions. She has taught at the Paolo Grassi School and DanceHaus in Milan, as well as at the Teatro Stabile di Torino school.
Since 2022, she has been an associate artist of the MilanOltre Festival and a collaborator of the CCN/Aterballetto, working as a choreographer and curator of site-specific and cultural welfare projects.

Nicolas Ballario

Born in 1984, Nicolas Ballario works in the field of contemporary art applied to 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. He has collaborated with major artistic institutions and numerous publications, and in 2016 became the youngest recipient ever of the Premio Bassani, one of Italy’s most prestigious awards for journalists distinguished in cultural and environmental reporting.
He is currently the author and host of contemporary art programmes 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 has been presenting Io ti vedo, tu mi senti?, Italia Contemporanea, and The Square on Sky Arte.
He is also the director of the new exhibition production company Piuma, and founder and president of Cucù, a communication studio dedicated to culture. Ballario curates exhibitions and catalogues, and was included twice in Artribune’s “Best of” list of leading figures in the art world — in 2019 for radio and in 2020 for television projects.

Info & Tickets
TICKETS

Single ticket: €3

TICKET PURCHASE
Tickets can be purchased online at www.biglietteriafonderia39.it.The box office at La Fonderia opens at 7:30 p.m.Seats are unassigned.
CONTACTSMobile e whatsapp +39 3341023554Email biglietteria@aterballetto.it
FONDERIA ATERBALLETTOvia della Costituzione 39, Reggio Emilia

VISIONI DEL CORPO: MAURIZIO CATTELAN
2025-11-10 11:00 - 12:00, 2025-11-10 20:30 - 21:30 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Maurizio Cattelan Bidibidobidiboo 1996 photo Zeno Zotti copia (Palazzo Grassi, Venezia)
For Dance Week, three works by Maurizio Cattelan are the focus of the new edition of Visioni del corpo — discovering contemporary art through signature dance.

Nicolas Ballario, listed among the 100 most influential figures in the art world by Il Giornale dell’Arte, guides the audience through the story and poetics of Maurizio Cattelan, one of the most renowned and controversial Italian contemporary artists on the international scene.
At the heart of the evening are three of Cattelan’s works — irreverent and provocative pieces that challenge both art and society through sharp irony and powerful visual impact.
Choreographer Lara Guidetti, together with CCN/Aterballetto dancers Alessia Giacomelli and Kiran Gezels, gives body and movement to Cattelan’s visions, transforming the irony, paradox, and unspoken essence of his works into physical gesture.
On the occasion of Dance Week, Visioni del Corpo: Maurizio Cattelan will have three performances at La Fonderia, via della Costituzione 39:

Sunday, November 9 at 6:00 p.m.
Monday, November 10 at 11:00 a.m. – for upper secondary schools
Monday, November 10 at 8:30 p.m.

APERITIF AT LA FONDERIA

From 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., enjoy a tasting of local wines and products, in collaboration with the Mercato Campagna Amica del Tricolore.

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

Lara Guidetti

In 2006, Lara Guidetti graduated as a dancer and choreographer from the Dance-Theatre Atelier of the Paolo Grassi School in Milan, where she trained with major national and international masters. She continued her education in dance and performing arts, studying various pedagogical and training methods through workshops and productions.
In 2008, she founded the Sanpapié Company, where she serves as artistic director, choreographer, director, and performer, presenting works throughout Italy, Europe, China, and Saudi Arabia. In 2017, her production LEI won the Premio Bonacina.
She collaborates with the JGM Company in Lisbon, with La Scala in Milan as a dancer and acrobat, and creates choreography for opera productions. She has taught at the Paolo Grassi School and DanceHaus in Milan, as well as at the Teatro Stabile di Torino school.
Since 2022, she has been an associate artist of the MilanOltre Festival and a collaborator of the CCN/Aterballetto, working as a choreographer and curator of site-specific and cultural welfare projects.

Nicolas Ballario

Born in 1984, Nicolas Ballario works in the field of contemporary art applied to 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. He has collaborated with major artistic institutions and numerous publications, and in 2016 became the youngest recipient ever of the Premio Bassani, one of Italy’s most prestigious awards for journalists distinguished in cultural and environmental reporting.
He is currently the author and host of contemporary art programmes 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 has been presenting Io ti vedo, tu mi senti?, Italia Contemporanea, and The Square on Sky Arte.
He is also the director of the new exhibition production company Piuma, and founder and president of Cucù, a communication studio dedicated to culture. Ballario curates exhibitions and catalogues, and was included twice in Artribune’s “Best of” list of leading figures in the art world — in 2019 for radio and in 2020 for television projects.

Info & Biglietti
TICKETS
Single ticket: €3
TICKET PURCHASE
Tickets can be purchased online at www.biglietteriafonderia39.it.The box office at La Fonderia opens at 7:30 p.m.
Seats are unassigned.
CONTACTSMobile e whatsapp +39 3341023554Email biglietteria@aterballetto.it
FONDERIA ATERBALLETTOvia della Costituzione 39, Reggio Emilia

Preludio / "O" / Alpha Grace
2025-11-10 18:00 - 19:10 | The Adam Small Theatre, 15 Victoria Street, Stellenbosch, WC 7602, South Africa

Stravaganze in sol minore
2025-11-11 10:30 - 11:30, 2025-11-11 14:30 - 15:30 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Dance Week is for the children of Reggio Emilia too!

On Monday, November 10 at 10:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m., the doors of La Fonderia open to nursery and primary schools of Reggio Emilia.
The magical virtuosity of Toti Scialoja (1914–1998) — a master not only of images but also of words — is at the heart of Stravaganze in sol minore by Francesca Lattuada, a creation for children presented by the CCN/Aterballetto.
The almost magical vibrations that flow from Scialoja’s poems are like the endless ripples formed on the surface of water when a stone is thrown: evoking unreal or hyperreal images, imbued with a musicality that blends poetry and nursery rhyme, where the extraordinary and the frightening meet and hold hands.

Beneath a bush of scarlet rosesThe toad serves hot tea with milk.Beneath a bush of purple rosesIt’s the toad’s turn to wash the cups.(Toti Scialoja, La mela di Amleto, 1984)
CREDITS

Direction and choreography: Francesca LattuadaTexts: Toti Scialoja (from La mela di Amleto)Music: The Klezmorin, Gustav Mahler, Dean Martin, Clara RockmoreMasks and objects: Natali FortierPerformers: Vittoria Franchina, Rocco Ancarola
Co-production: Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto and Centro Teatrale BrescianoIn co-production with Centro Servizi Culturali Santa Chiara

Info & Tickets
TICKETS
3 euro
TICKET PURCHASE

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

Seats are unassigned.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wouh0x0D4HQ

Preludio / "O" / Alpha Grace
2025-11-12 18:30 - 19:40 | The Fairtree Atterbury Theatre, 4 Daventry St, Lynnwood Manor, Pretoria, South Africa

Duo d'Eden | Grosse Fugue
2025-11-13 20:30 - 21:30 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Maguy Marin’s dance arrives at Fonderia through the interpretation of the MM Contemporary Dance Company.

Directed by Michela Merola, the company presents for Danza in Fonderia two masterpieces by the multi-award-winning French choreographer Maguy Marin: Duo d’Eden, a duet of rare, almost mythical beauty, and the all-female quartet Grosse Fugue, Marin’s personal interpretation of Ludwig van Beethoven’s work, considered a milestone in the relationship between classical music and contemporary dance. After the performance, a short talk with a dance critic is scheduled.

The MM Contemporary Dance Company won the 2024 Danza&Danza Award for Repertoire Enhancement with Maguy Marin’s Grosse Fugue.
https://vimeo.com/480791125/2e8682f7fb

Duo d'Eden

Choreography and Soundtrack: Maguy MarinRestaged by: Cathy Polo and Ennio SammarcoCostumes: Montserrat CasanovaLighting: Alexandre BéneteaudRehearsal Director: Enrico MorelliPerformers: Mario Genovese, Fabiana Lonardo
Duration: 18 minutes
Production: MM Contemporary Dance CompanyCo-production: Fondazione I Teatri di Reggio Emilia
World Premiere – Compagnie Maguy Marin: December 12, 1986 – AngersFirst Performance with MM Contemporary Dance Company: October 21, 2020 – Teatro Sociale di Trento

“Two bodies, as if naked, advance on stage, entwining with one another and never letting go. A man and a woman, their bodies drawn together and clinging, joined until they become inseparable. She, a vine that wraps and coils. He, who holds her, restrains her, supports her. There is something mythical in their dance, in this total fusion of two beings who become one, never to part again.

Eden is original love, love of the time of innocence. There is also something raw and primitive in this duet. The soundscape of waterfalls and storms accompanies the dance.

Eden is a dance full of strength and beauty, perhaps because of the natural force that emanates from the purity of movement and the precision of gesture, from the almost sculptural forms, from the power of the bodies. That is where the emotion arises—from this simplicity that reveals the essential. If love is a dance, it is surely Eden.”

Yasmine Tigoe

In Duo d’Eden, two dancers of MMCDC perform with mastery and style a work of rare beauty—original, complex, and demanding—created in 1986 by Maguy Marin for her company. Simply a man and a woman: flesh-colored unitards highlighting their nudity, a long wig for her, entwined with each other throughout the piece as she continuously evolves across his body. An Adam and Eve immersed in a journey of sensuality, eros, defense, and attack, within a world that is anything but calm, safe, and idyllic. A poetic and intense work.
Grosse Fugue
Choreography: Maguy MarinRestaged by: Dorothée DelabieMusic: Ludwig van Beethoven, Die Grosse Fuge, Op. 133Costumes: Chantal CloupetLighting: François RenardRehearsal Director: Enrico MorelliPerformers: Fabiana Lonardo, Giorgia Raffetto, Alice Ruspaggiari, Diletta Savini

Duration: 20 minutes

Production: MM Contemporary Dance CompanyCo-production: Reggio Parma Festival, Festival Bolzano Danza / Fondazione Haydn di Bolzano e Trento, MilanOltre Festival

World Premiere – Compagnie Maguy Marin: 2001 – Espace Jean Poperen, MeyzieuNational Preview with MM Contemporary Dance Company: December 16, 2023 – Reggio Parma Festival – Teatro Ariosto, Reggio EmiliaNational Premiere with MM Contemporary Dance Company: July 16, 2024 – Festival Bolzano Danza

Four women and an extraordinary musical work such as Die Grosse Fuge: Maguy Marin’s personal reading of Ludwig van Beethoven’s masterpiece—considered a milestone in the relationship between classical music and contemporary dance—is built on a constant, intimate dialogue between dance and music, on a profound connection between the two arts.

Created in 2001 for the C.ie Maguy Marin, it is revived here in the interpretation of four dancers from the MM Contemporary Dance Company. From the encounter between these four women and the music emerges a complexity between the growing vital force of the feminine and the state of exhilaration and despair of this score.

The dance becomes an euphoric explosion of energy, where the four performers, dressed in red, in an almost frenetic alternation, leap, run, collapse, and rise again in a whirlwind of life and frenzy. A metaphor of life that turns into a vortex, an exhilarating race against death, where the very vertigo of the end drives us to run breathlessly, to live every moment as if it were the last. A powerful, moving work, a moment of pure emotion.

MM Contemporary Dance Company
The MM Contemporary Dance Company is a contemporary dance ensemble directed by choreographer Michele Merola. Founded in 1999, it was conceived both as a production center for events and performances and as a promoter of festivals and workshops, with the aim of fostering exchanges and collaborations between Italian and international artists as witnesses and spokespeople of contemporary culture.

Based in Reggio Emilia, the company’s repertoire is rich and diverse, thanks to the works of Michele Merola and creations by leading European and Italian choreographers such as Maguy Marin, Mats Ek, Mauro Bigonzetti, Thomas Noone, Gustavo Ramírez Sansano, Karl Alfred Schreiner, Silvia Gribaudi, Eugenio Scigliano, Emanuele Soavi, Enrico Morelli, Daniele Ninarello, Ginevra Panzetti and Enrico Ticconi, Roberto Tedesco, Camilla Monga, and Adriano Bolognino.

In 2010, MM Contemporary Dance Company won the prestigious Danza&Danza Award as Best Emerging Company and has since become a recognized excellence of Italian dance, with an established presence across the national stage. In recent years, it has also gained international acclaim, performing in both European and non-European countries (Korea, Colombia, Canada, Germany, Russia, Morocco, Belgium, Spain, Slovenia, Hungary, Czech Republic, Sweden, France, Finland, Serbia, Norway, Croatia).

In 2017, the company won the Europaindanza Award for Choreographic Merit with Michele Merola’s Bolero. In 2022, MMCDC received the Danza&Danza Award for Best Italian Production with Ballade (choreography by Mauro Bigonzetti and Enrico Morelli). In 2024, it was awarded the Danza&Danza Prize for Repertoire Enhancement for Maguy Marin’s Grosse Fugue.

In 2021, 2022, and 2024, MMCDC appeared on RAI 1 in Roberto Bolle’s TV programs Danza con me and Viva la danza, performing works by Mauro Bigonzetti and Lorca Massine. For the 2018–2020 and 2022–2024 triennia, as well as in 2021, the company was an associate ensemble of the InDanza Circuit of Trentino-Alto Adige.

MM Contemporary Dance Company is supported by the Italian Ministry of Culture, the Emilia-Romagna Region, the Municipality of Reggio Emilia, and the Centro Permanente Danza Danza / Reggio Emilia.
Maguy Marin
Maguy Marin was born in Toulouse in 1951. After her dance studies, in 1972 she joined Mudra, the school and choreographic residence created by Maurice Béjart in Brussels, where she took part in the formation of the group Chandra, which gathered the school’s talents under the direction of Micha van Hoecke. From 1974 to 1977 she was a full member of Les Ballets du XXe Siècle, directed by Béjart, where she not only performed repertoire works and new creations, but also choreographed Yu-Ku-Ri (1976).

In 1984, she founded the Compagnie Maguy Marin. After residencies at the Centre Chorégraphique National de Créteil, the Centre Chorégraphique National de Rillieux-la-Pape (Lyon), and later in Toulouse, in 2015 the company settled in Ramdam, in the Lyon region, a space dedicated to artistic creation, to develop an ambitious project: Ramdam, a center for the arts.

Maguy Marin is one of the leading figures of the “new French dance” and has created many works that have become renowned, including Babel Babel (1976), Cendrillon (1985), Coups d’État (1988), Made in France (1992), Aujourd’hui peut-être (1996), Quoi qu’il en soit (1999), Pièces détachées (2002), Umwelt (2004), Turba (2007), Salves (2010). Yet it is May B (1981), inspired by the literary world of Samuel Beckett, that remains a true masterpiece, still performed today in France and worldwide.

In addition to creating all the works for her own company, she has also choreographed for major companies such as Dutch National Ballet, Nederlands Dans Theater 3, Paris Opera, and Lyon Opera Ballet.

Alongside numerous honors received in her home country—including being named Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters in 1998—she is among the few non-Americans to have been awarded the American Dance Festival Award (2003) and, in 2008, the Bessie Award in New York for Umwelt. In 2016, she received the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Biennale Danza.

Overall, Maguy Marin’s creative production could be gathered under the title “the human condition”: from May B to her most recent works, she has brought to life characters that reveal the grotesque soul, intrinsically tied to the essence of humanity. The result is powerful, ironic, and at times fierce.
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Dreamers
2025-11-13 20:30 - 21:45 | Teatro Sociale, Via Paolo Oss-Mazzurana, 19, Trento, 38122, Italia
At the Teatro Sociale in Trento, on November 13 and 14, 2025, Aterballetto performs Dreamers, a triptych featuring choreographies by Tortelli, Kratz, and Pite.
Dreamers is a choreographic journey through three visions, three distinct poetics, which together form a single reflection on desire, memory, loss, and the strength of the body as an emotional and spiritual space. Three creations by some of the most significant choreographers on the contemporary scene — Philippe Kratz, Crystal Pite, and Diego Tortelli — unfold like chapters of a single dream.
In An echo, a wave, Philippe Kratz draws inspiration from the sea as a metaphor for eternity, for encounter and separation. The waves, like the dancers’ bodies, carry with them stories, emotions, and continuous movement, in a flow that recalls the endless departures and returns of our existence. The Mediterranean thus becomes a mirror of our ephemeral nature, yet also of our capacity for beauty and connection.
© Festival de Granada | Fermín Rodríguez
With Preludio, Diego Tortelli creates a love letter to the body—its fragility and its strength, its constant state of transformation. Through the poetic and musical universe of Nick Cave, the work explores personal “creed,” the human need to give meaning and shape to emotions. On stage, the dancers are not individuals but emotional pulsations, inhabiting space with urgency and lyricism.
FND/Aterballetto – Preludio – ph. Claudio Montanari
Solo Echo by Crystal Pite is inspired by two sonatas for cello and piano by Johannes Brahms and by the profound verses of Mark Strand. On stage, one breathes the winter of the soul: time slows down, and the body becomes a vessel for a moving and powerful introspection. With delicacy and intensity, Pite reflects on the themes of loss, the acceptance of change, and the mystery of resilience.

Dreamers is an encounter between three ways of sensing and narrating the world—an invitation to let oneself be carried by dance as a lucid dream, a mirror of our most intimate tensions, a memory of our deepest desires.

Dreamers
2025-11-14 20:30 - 21:45 | Teatro Sociale, Via Paolo Oss-Mazzurana, 19, Trento, 38122, Italia
Al Teatro Sociale di Trento, il 13 e 14 novembre 2025, Aterballetto danza Dreamers, trittico composto dalle coreografie firmate da Tortelli, Kratz e Pite.
Dreamers è un viaggio coreografico in tre visioni, tre poetiche differenti, che insieme compongono un’unica riflessione sul desiderio, la memoria, la perdita e la forza del corpo come spazio emotivo e spirituale. Tre creazioni firmate da coreografi tra i più significativi della scena contemporanea — Philippe Kratz, Crystal Pite e Diego Tortelli — si susseguono come capitoli di un unico sogno.
In An echo, a wave Philippe Kratz parte dalla suggestione del mare come metafora dell’eternità, dell’incontro e della separazione. Le onde, come i corpi dei danzatori, portano con sé storie, emozioni e movimenti continui, in un flusso che richiama le infinite partenze e ritorni della nostra esistenza. Il Mediterraneo diventa così specchio del nostro essere effimeri, ma anche capaci di bellezza e connessione.
© Festival de Granada | Fermín Rodríguez
Con Preludio Diego Tortelli firma una dichiarazione d’amore al corpo, alla sua fragilità e potenza, al suo continuo trasformarsi. Attraverso l’universo poetico e musicale di Nick Cave, la creazione si interroga sul “credo” personale, sul bisogno umano di trovare senso e forma alle emozioni. In scena, i danzatori non sono individui, ma pulsazioni emotive che abitano lo spazio con urgenza e lirismo.
FND/Aterballetto – Preludio – ph. Claudio Montanari
Solo Echo di Crystal Pite si ispira a due sonate per violoncello e pianoforte di Johannes Brahms e ai versi profondi di Mark Strand. In scena si respira l’inverno dell’anima: il tempo rallenta, il corpo si fa veicolo di un’introspezione commossa e potente. Con delicatezza e intensità, Pite riflette sul tema della perdita, sull’accettazione del cambiamento e sul mistero della resilienza.

Dreamers è un incontro tra tre modi di sentire e raccontare il mondo, un invito a lasciarsi attraversare dalla danza come sogno lucido, specchio delle nostre tensioni più intime, memoria dei nostri desideri più profondi.

VISIONI DEL CORPO: MAURIZIO CATTELAN
2025-11-14 21:00 - 22:00 | PARC, Piazzale delle Cascine 4/5/7, Firenze, 50144
Maurizio Cattelan Bidibidobidiboo 1996 photo Zeno Zotti copia (Palazzo Grassi, Venezia)
At PARC in Florence, three works by Maurizio Cattelan are the focus of the new edition of Visioni del corpo — discovering contemporary art through the lens of choreographic creation.

Nicolas Ballario, listed among the 100 most influential figures in the art world by Il Giornale dell’Arte, guides the audience through the history and poetics of Maurizio Cattelan, one of the most renowned and controversial contemporary Italian artists on the international scene.
At the heart of the evening are three of Cattelan’s works — irreverent and provocative pieces that challenge art and society with sharp irony and striking visual power.
Choreographer Lara Guidetti, together with CCN/Aterballetto dancers Alessia Giacomelli and Kiran Gezels, gives body and movement to Cattelan’s visions, transforming the irony, paradox, and silence of his works into physical gesture.
The three choreographic pieces created for this evening stem from works that are vastly different from one another, compelling the dancers to inhabit ever-changing physical grammars: from physical theatre to abstract form, from extreme restraint to the poetic power of the mask. The challenge is not to create a stylistic continuum, but to generate radical metamorphoses that free the performers from the traces of the author and lead them into unforeseen territories.
On stage, images intertwine, oscillating between beauty and rawness: a Milan that resembles a factory farm of unconscious bodies, a child on the verge of becoming a monster, an ordinary man facing a gun. It is dance that recomposes these fragmented visions, restoring unity to what is dissonant — turning each artwork into a physical experience and each vision into a living presence.

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

Lara Guidetti

In 2006, Lara Guidetti graduated as a dancer and choreographer from the Theatre-Dance Atelier of the Paolo Grassi School in Milan, studying with leading national and international masters. She continued her education in dance and performing arts by exploring various pedagogical and training methods through workshops and productions.
In 2008, she founded the Sanpapié Company, where she serves as artistic director, choreographer, director, and performer, presenting works across Italy, Europe, China, and Saudi Arabia. In 2017, her performance LEI won the Bonacina Prize.
She collaborates with the JGM Company in Lisbon and with La Scala Theatre in Milan as a dancer and acrobat, and she has created choreography for several opera productions. She has also taught at the Paolo Grassi School, DanceHaus Milano, and the Teatro Stabile di Torino School.
Since 2022, she has been an associated artist at the MilanOltre Festival and a collaborator with CCN/Aterballetto as a choreographer and curator of site-specific and cultural welfare projects.

Nicolas Ballario

Born in Saluzzo in 1984, Nicolas Ballario works in the field of contemporary art applied to the media. His professional career began in Oliviero Toscani’s creative factory, “La Sterpaia,” where he went on to become cultural director.
He has collaborated with major artistic institutions and numerous publications. He is currently the author and host of contemporary art programs on Radio Uno Rai, and a contributor to L’Espresso and Il Giornale dell’Arte.
In 2019, he hosted the photography series “Camera Oscura” on LA7, and since 2020 he has led several Sky Arte programs, including “Io ti vedo, tu mi senti?”, “The Square,” and “Italia Contemporanea.”
He is also the founder of Studio Cucù and curated the dossier that led to Alba being named Italian Capital of Contemporary Art 2027.

Dreamers
2025-11-16 20:30 - 21:45 | Teatro Cristallo, via Dalmazia, 30, Bolzano, 39100, Italia
At the Teatro Cristallo in Bolzano, Aterballetto performs Dreamers, a triptych featuring choreographies by Tortelli, Kratz, and Pite.
Dreamers is a choreographic journey through three visions, three distinct poetics, which together form a single reflection on desire, memory, loss, and the strength of the body as an emotional and spiritual space. Three creations by some of the most significant choreographers on the contemporary scene — Philippe Kratz, Crystal Pite, and Diego Tortelli — unfold like chapters of a single dream.
In An echo, a wave, Philippe Kratz draws inspiration from the sea as a metaphor for eternity, for encounter and separation. The waves, like the dancers’ bodies, carry with them stories, emotions, and continuous movement, in a flow that recalls the endless departures and returns of our existence. The Mediterranean thus becomes a mirror of our ephemeral nature, yet also of our capacity for beauty and connection.
© Festival de Granada | Fermín Rodríguez
With Preludio, Diego Tortelli creates a love letter to the body—its fragility and its strength, its constant state of transformation. Through the poetic and musical universe of Nick Cave, the work explores personal “creed,” the human need to give meaning and shape to emotions. On stage, the dancers are not individuals but emotional pulsations, inhabiting space with urgency and lyricism.
FND/Aterballetto – Preludio – ph. Claudio Montanari
Solo Echo by Crystal Pite is inspired by two sonatas for cello and piano by Johannes Brahms and by the profound verses of Mark Strand. On stage, one breathes the winter of the soul: time slows down, and the body becomes a vessel for a moving and powerful introspection. With delicacy and intensity, Pite reflects on the themes of loss, the acceptance of change, and the mystery of resilience.

Dreamers is an encounter between three ways of sensing and narrating the world—an invitation to let oneself be carried by dance as a lucid dream, a mirror of our most intimate tensions, a memory of our deepest desires.

Dreamers
2025-11-18 20:30 - 22:00 | Teatro Asioli, Corso Cavour, 9, Correggio, Italy
Aterballetto performs Dreamers at the Teatro Asioli in Correggio on Tuesday, November 18.

On stage, four creations unfold:
Preludio by Diego Tortelli, built around some of the most intense poems and songs by Australian singer-songwriter Nick Cave, explores love, faith, dependence, obsession, loss, and the intricate ways these themes intertwine.
The second piece, An echo, a wave by Philippe Kratz, translates the sense of wonder and eternity evoked by the view of the sea: the dancers’ flowing movements recall the natural, unending motion of the waves, while also reflecting the passage through shifting emotional states.
Reconciliatio, by the extraordinary Angelin Preljocaj, delves into the theme of reconciliation — a poetic, impressionistic tableau inspired by the imagery of Saint John’s Apocalypse.
Finally, Solo Echo by Crystal Pite draws inspiration from two cello and piano sonatas by Johannes Brahms and the poem Lines for Winter by Mark Strand, invoking winter, music, and the moving body to express something essential about acceptance and loss.

Author’s Evening
2025-11-21 20:30 - 21:30 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Opus Ballet Company presents the world premiere of its new “Choreographers’ Evening,” featuring works by Roberto Tedesco, Adriano Bolognino, and Giovanni Insaudo.

The evening is born from the encounter of three choreographers — Adriano Bolognino, Giovanni Insaudo, and Roberto Tedesco — all winners of the Danza&Danza Award. The idea is to bring their creations together in a single program, offering the audience a mosaic of visions that, though distinct in style, engage in a dialogue of intensity and coherence.
Piano-Forte by Roberto Tedesco, set to Chopin’s Nocturnes, explores the tension of opposites — presence and absence, strength and fragility, fall and elevation — revealing how every polarity exists through its counterpart, until it is recomposed into a profound unity.
Behind You by Adriano Bolognino is an intense, dramatic work that evokes winter as an existential condition: a journey through hardship and fear that reshapes our inner boundaries, leading us toward poetic resistance and the possibility of renewal.
The evening concludes with Vespri by Giovanni Insaudo, where Sicilian folklore becomes a field of reflection on the tension between tradition and modernity — a bridge between past and present that transforms collective ritual into contemporary gesture.
Three choreographers, three visions, three languages intertwining roots and modernity, light and shadow, fragility and strength. A journey that turns movement into a mirror of life, offering the audience the energy of a dance that unites the individual and collective poetic experience.

Credits
PIANO-FORTE

Choreography: Roberto TedescoLighting and Space Design: Davide CavandoliCostumes: Santi RinciariTechnical Direction: Laura De BernardisPerformers: Matheus Alves De Oliveira, Ginevra GioliBallet Master: Giusi Santagati
BEHIND YOU (excerpt from White Room)

Choreography: Adriano BologninoAssistant Choreographer: Rosaria Di MaroWith the support of Rosa CoppolaLighting Design: Laura De BernardisCostumes: Santi RinciariPerformers: Gaia Mondini, Frederic ZounglaBallet Master: Giusi Santagati

With the support of the Centro Nazionale di Produzione della Danza Virgilio Sieni and the Fondazione CR Firenze (Bando Abitante)
VESPRI

Concept and Choreography: Giovanni InsaudoAssistant Choreographer: Sandra SaliettiLighting Design: Giovanni InsaudoTechnical Direction: Laura De BernardisSet Elements: Margherita CitranCostume Production: Lisa PerinPerformers: Matheus Alves De Oliveira, Ginevra Gioli, Gaia Mondini, Frederic Zoungla, Rebeca ZucchegniBallet Master: Giusi Santagati
COB | Compagnia Opus Ballet

Directed by Rosanna Brocanello since its founding, the company is composed of a stable ensemble of professional dancers and has developed an extensive repertoire of productions over the years.
Among its most recent works:

Le Quattro Stagioni (2020) by Vivaldi, choreographed by Aurélie Mounier, with live music performed by the Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto;

RIGHT. La Sagra della Primavera (2021) by Carlo Massari, co-produced with C&C Company, Teatro Stabile del Veneto, Oriente Occidente Dance Festival, and Associazione Culturale Mosaico Danza / Interplay Festival (Winner of the CollaborAction XL 2020 Award, part of the Anticorpi XL Network, coordinated by Ass. Cantieri Danza, in support of independent choreography);

Il Labirinto. Il mito di Arianna e il Minotauro (2021) by Arianna Benedetti;

White Room (2022) by Adriano Bolognino, in collaboration with the Centro Nazionale Virgilio Sieni;

La diversità che mi fece stupendo. Pasolini, l’irrealtà del quotidiano (2022) by Giovanni Leonarduzzi, co-produced with Compagnia Bellanda;

Coding Dance (2023) by Leonardo Diana, co-produced with Versiliadanza;

OTOTEMAN_what if by Sofia Galvan and Stefania Menestrina, winner of the 13th edition of the International Prospettiva Danza Teatro Award, co-produced with Festival Danza In Rete – Teatro Comunale Città di Vicenza.

Since 2021, the company has been supported by the Italian Ministry of Culture.

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AN ECHO, A WAVE
2025-11-22 21:30 - 21:45 | Liceo Classico Vittorio Emanuele II, via Bologna, 8, Lanciano, CH, Italy
The new Aterballetto duet will be performed at FLIC in Lanciano on Saturday, 22 November.

The Lanciano in Contemporanea Festival presents An Echo, a Wave by Philippe Kratz, performed by Alessia Giacomelli and Kiran Gezels.
There is perhaps no view like that of the sea that can help us grasp the elusive idea of eternity. It mesmerizes us and can fill us with a sense of spiritual wonder. Watching the flowing movement of a dancer, we sometimes rediscover that same natural motion of the sea’s surface.

Stravaganze in sol minore
2025-11-26 10:00 - 10:50, 2025-11-27 10:00 - 10:50, 2025-11-28 10:00 - 10:50, 2025-11-29 17:00 - 17:50 | Teatro Metastasio, via Benedetto Cairoli, 59, Prato, 59100, Italia
Stravaganze in sol minore by Francesca Lattuada arrives at the Teatro Metastasio in Prato from 26 to 29 November 2025.

The magical virtuosity of Toti Scialoja (1914–1998) — a master not only of images but also of words — lies at the heart of this new creation by the Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto, designed for children and young audiences, where a dancer and an actor play with his poetic imagination.
The almost magical vibrations that spring from Scialoja’s poems are like the endless ripples formed on the surface of water when a stone is thrown in: they evoke unreal or hyper-real images and carry a musicality that blends poetry and nursery rhyme, where the extraordinary and the frightening go hand in hand.

Sotto un cespo di rose scarlatte (Under a bush of scarlet roses)Offre il rospo tè caldo con latte (The toad serves hot tea with milk.)Sotto un cespo di rose paonazze (Under a bush of purple roses)Tocca al rospo sciacquare le tazze. (It’s the toad’s turn to rinse the cups.)(Toti Scialoja, La mela di Amleto, 1984)
CREDITS

Regia e coreografia: Francesca LattuadaTesti: Toti Scialoja (tratti da La mela di Amleto)Musica: The Klezmorin, Gustav Mahler, Dean Martin, Clara RockmoreMaschere e oggetti: Natali FortierInterpreti: Vittoria Franchina, Rocco Ancarola
Coproduzione: Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto e Centro Teatrale BrescianoIn coproduzione con: Centro Servizi Culturali Santa Chiara

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wouh0x0D4HQ

Il mare che ci unisce
2025-11-26 20:30 - 21:30 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
For the first time at Danza in Fonderia, the company ArtgarageDanceCo, led by Emma Cianchi, takes part.

Il mare che ci unisce is an emotional experience that invites the audience, through an abstract structure, to reflect on their roots and on the power of human connection that transcends time and space. With a clear reference to the mythological women of ancient Italy and Greece, four dancers — with their powerful and mysterious presence — explore the connections between their bodies, expressing a sensory, visual, and sonic journey between the real and the immaterial.
Mythological creatures whose legacy continues to inspire, reminding us that — in ancient stories as in modern life — the role of women is fundamental and intrinsically linked to growth and transformation, equality and peace.

CREDITS

Choreography: Emma CianchiOriginal Music: Lino CannavacciuoloCostumes: Leandro FabbriSet Design: Alessandro Sodano

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A journey suspended between myth and reality, where the prophetic figure of the Cumaean Sibyl becomes a symbol of wisdom and ancestral connection.
The choreography draws inspiration from her prophetic power and mystical bond with the sea, transforming the stage into a ritual of memory and oracles. The figure of the Sibyl, embodied in dance by the performers — guardian of prophecies — becomes a bridge between past and present.
The Sibyls, brought to life through the dancers’ strength and the evocative music, guide the audience through the voices of generations and migrations, evoking stories and identities interwoven across the Mediterranean.

ArtgarageDanceCo

ArtGarage is a dance production organization active since 2003 on both national and international stages, recognized by the Italian Ministry of Culture and the Campania Region.The company has always supported and collaborated with artists from diverse backgrounds who explore the languages of contemporary dance and new audiovisual and multimedia technologies.
ArtGarage’s work is grounded in the cross-pollination of different expressive forms, in a constant search for new creative possibilities to give life to live performances, sound installations, and visual environments.
The core ensemble of ArtgarageDanceCo is led by Emma Cianchi, Italian choreographer and artistic director, and includes a multidisciplinary team composed of a permanent group of dancers, videomaker Gilles Dubroca, and sound designer Dario Casillo.
The organization also curates and promotes HumanBodies — a professional training program for contemporary dancers, recognized by the Campania Region — and Immagi]Na FilmFestival, an event dedicated to videodance, supported by the Campania Region Film Commission.

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NOTTE MORRICONE
2025-11-27 20:30 - 22:00 | Teatro Comunale, Piazza Giuseppe Verdi, 40, Bozen, 39100, Italy
From November 27 to 30, 2025, Aterballetto performs Notte Morricone by Marcos Morau at the Teatro Comunale di Bolzano.
“I, Ennio Morricone, am dead,” wrote the composer before taking his leave. His music, however, cannot die. This is how creators and artists always leave us without ever truly leaving, and how memory takes care to keep them alive, to keep them safe. Notte Morricone is my gift, a devoted tribute to the beauty he gave to the world.Notte Morricone unfolds in the twilight of an ordinary night in the life of a creative spirit who, alone and dazed before his papers, jots down notes and envisions melodies for films that do not yet exist, bringing stories back to life in the rarefied air of his room.Marcos Morau – Director and Choreographer
It is impossible to describe Notte Morricone, a masterful work that washes over the spectator in waves, embraces them with emotional currents, and captivates them with the memory of timeless melodies that have long outlived the images that first inspired them. Equally enchanting is the finely chiselled, ever-poetic choreography, composed with meticulous attention to detail: legs and necks seem jointless, bending and snapping rhythmically like metronomes.Maria Luisa Buzzi – Danza&Danza
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NOTTE MORRICONE
2025-11-28 19:00 - 20:30 | Teatro Comunale, Piazza Giuseppe Verdi, 40, Bozen, 39100, Italy
Dal 27 al 30 novembre 2025 Aterballetto danza Notte Morricone di Marcos Morau al Teatro Comunale di Bolzano.
“Io, Ennio Morricone, sono morto”, scrisse il compositore prima di congedarsi. La sua musica, invece, non può farlo. Ed è così che i creatori e gli artisti sempre ci lasciano senza lasciarci, ed è in questo modo che la memoria si preoccupa di tenerli vivi, di tenerli al sicuro. Notte Morricone è il mio regalo, un devoto tributo alla bellezza che ha donato al mondo.
Notte Morricone si svolge nel crepuscolo di una notte ordinaria nella vita di un creativo, che solo e stordito davanti ai suoi fogli, prende appunti e visualizza melodie per film che non esistono ancora, riportando in vita storie nell’aria rarefatta della sua stanza.
Marcos Morau – Regista e coreografo

Impossibile descrivere Notte Morricone, pezzo magistrale che arriva a flutti allo spettatore, lo abbraccia con onde emotive, lo cattura nella memoria di melodie intramontabili sopravvissute di gran lunga alle immagini che le hanno generate. Incantevole pure la coreografia cesellata e sempre poetica, composta con maniacale attenzione al dettaglio: gambe e collo sembrano privi di giunture, si flettono e scattano ritmicamente come metronomi.
Maria Luisa Buzzi – Danza&Danza
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Durata 90′

Viaggio nel repertorio del balletto (A journey through the ballet repertoire). Teatro dell'Opera di Roma
2025-11-29 18:00 - 19:15 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Viaggio nel repertorio del balletto (A journey through the ballet repertoire), curated and presented by Francesca Pedroni, dance journalist and critic, with the dancers of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma.

Nutcracker: between reality and magic, the timeless Christmas ballet

Curated by Francesca Pedroni
With Étoile Alessio Rezza, Primi Ballerini Marianna Suriano and Claudio Cocino, and Soloist Flavia Stocchi, Ballet Company of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma
Guest: Paul Chalmer, international choreographer

In the world of classical-academic ballet, Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without The Nutcracker. Alongside The Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake, it completes the triad of masterpieces composed in late 19th-century Russia by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The Nutcracker premiered at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg in 1892, with a libretto by the first maître of the Imperial Theatres, Marius Petipa, and choreography by Lev Ivanov. A Christmas Eve filled with wonders — from the battle between toy soldiers and mice to the Waltz of the Snowflakes, the Sugar Plum Fairy’s variation with its crystalline celesta sound, and the transformation of the Nutcracker toy into a Prince who leads the young heroine on magical adventures.
The Ballet Company of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, directed by Eleonora Abbagnato, will bring it to the stage this December at the Teatro Costanzi in the version by Paul Chalmer — the focus of the November edition of Viaggio nel repertorio del balletto (A journey through the ballet repertoire), curated by Francesca Pedroni for the Centro Coreografico Nazionale / Aterballetto.
A performance-conversation blending readings, stories, and video clips, featuring the invaluable participation of Étoile Alessio Rezza, Primi Ballerini Marianna Suriano and Claudio Cocino, and Soloist Flavia Stocchi from the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, who will dance some of the ballet’s most iconic excerpts — along with Paul Chalmer himself.

ALESSIO REZZA

Born in Modugno (Bari), Alessio Rezza graduated from the La Scala Ballet School in 2008. After performing with the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, and the Paris Opéra Ballet, he joined the Ballet Company of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma in 2010. Under the direction of Eleonora Abbagnato, he was promoted to Soloist, later named Principal Dancer (The Nutcracker), and in May 2022, appointed Étoile (Le Corsaire).
Throughout his career, he has danced leading roles from both the classical and contemporary repertoire, including Basilio in Don Quixote, Albrecht in Giselle, Prince Désiré in The Sleeping Beauty, James in La Sylphide, The Prince in The Nutcracker, Solor and the Golden Idol in La Bayadère, Frédéri in L’Arlésienne, Colas in La Fille mal gardée, Franz in Coppélia, and Lensky in Onegin.
He has also performed in works by William Forsythe, Jiří Kylián, Rudolf Nureyev, Angelin Preljocaj, Roland Petit, Jerome Robbins, Frederick Ashton, Mauro Bigonzetti, Uwe Scholz, Johan Inger, Maurice Béjart, José Limón, Benjamin Millepied, Christopher Wheeldon, David Dawson, Paul Chalmer, and Jiří Bubeníček, working with world-renowned ballet masters such as Mikhail Baryshnikov, Julio Bocca, Patricia Ruanne, Laurent Hilaire, José Martinez, and Sylvie Guillem.
In 2023, he was invited to dance at the Dubai Opera in A Thousand Tales by Francesco Ventriglia, and also performed in the “Les Étoiles” galas (2023 and 2024) and “Il cigno nero”, produced by Daniele Cipriani Entertainment. In 2024, he portrayed Prince Siegfried in the Rai5 televised recording of Swan Lake, choreographed by Benjamin Pech.
Among the many awards he has received are the Premio Positano, Danza&Danza, Roma in Danza, Anita Bucchi, Roma è Arte, and Europa in Danza.

FLAVIA STOCCHI

Born in Rome, Flavia Stocchi trained at the Opera di Roma Ballet School, performing in productions directed by Carla Fracci, including La Gitana (Chalmer), The Nutcracker with Fracci, and Michelangelo with Mario Marozzi. She has won several international competitions and awards such as Aurel Millos, Anita Bucchi, and Guido Lauri (Best Emerging Performer), as well as a scholarship to the Royal Ballet School in London (2010).
After graduating with top honors, she performed alongside Alessio Carbone and Giuseppe Picone in Daniele Cipriani’s galas, and in 2013 she joined the Ballet Company of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, then directed by Van Hoecke. She has also danced with MaggioDanza (La Sylphide by Bournonville; The Four Temperaments by Balanchine) and at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo (The Nutcracker and Carmen by Amodio, for which she received the Premio Capri for Best Emerging Talent 2014).
At the Opera di Roma, she has performed in Carmina Burana (Van Hoecke), The River (Ailey), and The Nutcracker (Amodio). Under Eleonora Abbagnato’s direction, she has appeared in Pink Floyd Ballet (Petit), Giselle (Ruanne), the pas de trois in Swan Lake (Pech), Amorino and Kitri in Don Quixote (Hilaire), Suite en blanc (Lifar), and as Bluebird and Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty (Bart), a performance that earned her the Danza&Danza Award for Best Emerging Performer 2018.
In 2016, she was chosen by Iancu to perform Swan Lake (Odette/Odile) in Bucharest. She took part in the Italians in the World Gala at the Coliseo Theatre in Buenos Aires alongside Eleonora Abbagnato and Giuseppe Picone.
Her recent performances at the Opera di Roma include The Nutcracker by Peparini (as Clara) and by Chalmer (as Young Clara), Nuit romaine by Preljocaj, Giselle by Fracci (Peasant Pas de deux), Il rosso e il nero by Scholz (Mathilde de La Mole), Onegin by Cranko (Olga), Within the Golden Hour by Wheeldon at Caracalla, and Creature, a new creation by Francesco Annarumma at La Nuvola.

PAUL CHALMER

Born in Ottawa in 1962, Paul Chalmer studied with Oliphant, Seillier, and Bruhn at the National Ballet School before joining the National Ballet of Canada. In 1980, he became a member of John Cranko’s Stuttgart Ballet, where he was later promoted to Principal Dancer. In 1985, he joined Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo in the same rank and went on to perform with companies such as the English National Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Scottish Ballet, London City Ballet, the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, and La Scala in Milan.
Throughout his career, he has performed major roles from the classical repertoire as well as works by Balanchine, Tetley, MacMillan, Kylián, Forsythe, and Scholz. He has partnered some of the greatest étoiles, including Thesmar, Fracci, Seymour, Makarova, Evdokimova, Jaffe, Marcia Haydée, Dessutter, Keil, Savignano, and Terabust.
He was appointed Ballet Master at the Semperoper Ballett Dresden in 1999, and the following year at the Leipziger Ballett at the invitation of Uwe Scholz, whose successor he became as Artistic Director of the company from 2005 to 2010.
As a choreographer, he has created La Fille du Danube for the Arena di Verona Ballet (1996), La Gitana (1996), and Il Talismano (awarded the Premio Massine in 1997). In 2009, he presented Piaf à Deux at the Madrid en Danza Festival and Romeo and Juliet at the St. Prex Festival in Switzerland. He served on the Prix de Lausanne jury in 2011, the same year he created Swan Lake – The Tchaikovsky Enigma for MaggioDanza.
In 2013, he choreographed Romeo and Juliet for the Junior Ballet of the Conservatoire National de Paris and Cinderella for the Teatr Wielki in Poznań, later revived in 2014 at the National Moravian-Silesian Theatre Ballet in the Czech Republic, where he also created The Three Musketeers (music by Jan Kučera, 2017) and The Picture of Dorian Gray (music by Aniello Mallardo, 2022). For Opera Nova Bydgoszcz in Poland, he created The Nutcracker (2015) and Romeo and Juliet (2018).
A new production of The Three Musketeers premiered at the Latvian National Ballet in Riga in October 2018, followed by A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples in 2019.
For the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Chalmer has choreographed Lungo Viaggio (2000), The Sleeping Beauty (2002), La Gitana (2005), La Vestale (2006), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2008), Chopin racconta Chopin (2010), La Sylphide (2019), and The Nutcracker (2023).

FRANCESCA PEDRONI

Dance critic for the daily newspaper Il manifesto and the magazine Danza&Danza. For Classica HD (formerly Sky Classica, Channel 124), she worked as author and director of the series Danza in Scena, producing over 70 documentaries dedicated to artists such as William Forsythe, Pina Bausch, and Alessandra Ferri.
For cinema, she wrote and directed the documentary film Roberto Bolle. L’arte della Danza, produced by Classica and Artedanza srl. She 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, and she also leads ballet talks for the Teatro alla Scala’s Under30/35 audience program.

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