Centro Coreografico Nazionale / Aterballetto

Wolf-14'20''-Antitesi
2020-01-04 20:30 - 22:00 (Europe/Rome) | Auditorium, Mahanayim St 7, Haifa, Israele
Aterballetto continues its tour in Israel, dancing in Haifa.
On stage, an incredible triple bill: Wolf, wild and energetic work by Hofesh Shechter, the poignant and elusive 14’20” by Jiří Kylián, the adrenaline-filled Antitesi by Andonis Foniadakis.

Wolf-14'20"-Antitesi
2020-01-05 20:30 - 22:00 | The Sherover Theatre, David Marcus St 20, Jerusalem, 9104001, Israele
Aterballetto concludes his tour in Israel, dancing in Jerusalem.
On stage, an incredible triple bill: Wolf, wild and energetic work by Hofesh Shechter, the poignant and elusive 14’20” by Jiří Kylián, the adrenaline-filled Antitesi by Andonis Foniadakis.

Dreamers
2020-01-11 20:30 - 22:30 | Teatro Municipale Valli, Piazza Martiri del 7 luglio, Reggio Emilia, 42121, Italia
Aterballetto dances at Teatro Valli in Reggio Emilia the new triple bill Dreamers, composed of cloud|materia by Philippe Kratz, Traces by Rihoko Sato and Secus by Ohad Naharin.
Dreamers offers a unique opportunity to admire the company through shades of contrast, from the rational physicality of Philippe Kratz, Aterballetto choreographer and dancer, to the sophisticated, ethereal style of Japanese Rihoko Sato, the muse and favorite performer of Saburo Teshigawara, to vigorous rituality of Ohad Naharin, the choreographer from Batsheva Dance Company.
All this is possible thanks to this international co-production that relates us to Festival Oriente Occidente in Rovereto, Les Halles de Schaerbeek in Brussels, Malraux scène nationale Chambéry Savoie in France and, for the creation cloud|materia by Philippe Kratz, Bayer Culture Engagement in Leverkusen.

SHORTCUT
2020-01-20 20:30 - 22:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Shortcut retraces and combines important steps of Emanuela Tagliavia‘s choreographic career. Fragments of a scenic biography come together in the sign of a recognizable language, and tell a personal journey and his inspirations: music, figurative arts, poetry.
With Stefania Ballone, Christian Fagetti, Giulia Lunardi, Andrea Risso, Giulia Schenato, Gioacchino Starace
Dancers of the Corps de Ballet of the Teatro alla Scala in Milan
Credits
Choreography: Emanuela Tagliavia
Costume design: Lou Antinori
Lighting design: Emanuela Tagliavia and Fabio Passerini
Duration: 60′
excerpts from

Variations for five
Music by Johann Sebastian Bach
(Premiere March 2019, Festival Al Bustan, Beirut)
with Christian Fagetti, Giulia Lunardi, Giulia Schenato, Gioacchino Starace, Andrea Risso
Combustioni
Music by Giampaolo Testoni
(Premiere May 2015, Teatro Continuo Burri, Milano)
with Stefania Ballone, Emanuela Tagliavia, Christian Fagetti, Andrea Risso, Giulia Schenato
Luminare Minus
Music by Giampaolo Testoni
Video by Davide Montagna and Giuseppe de Angelis
(Premiere September 2007, MiTo Settembre Musica, Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia “Leonardo da Vinci”, Milano.)
with Giulia Lunardi, Gioacchino Starace
En écoutant du Schumann
Music by Robert Schumann orchestred by Giampaolo Testoni
(Premiere 2004, Teatro Bolshoi, Mosca)
with Stefania Ballone, Christian Fagetti
Combustioni
Music by Giampaolo Testoni
(Premiere May 2015, Teatro Continuo Burri, Milano.)
with Emanuela Tagliavia, Giulia Lunardi, Giulia Schenato
Hopper Variations
Music by John Cage
(Premiere 2013, Teatro Grassi, Milano)
with Stefania Ballone, Andrea Risso, Gioacchino Starace, Christian Fagetti
Balthus Variations
Music by Giampaolo Testoni
(Premiere May 2012, Teatro Strehler, Milano.)
with Giulia Lunardi
Funambolia
Music by Giampaolo Testoni
(Premiere March 2017, Teatro Gerolamo, Milano)
with Stefania Ballone, Christian Fagetti, Giulia Lunardi, Giulia Schenato, Gioacchino Starace, Andrea Risso

Insights
Fragments of a scenic biography come together in the sign of a recognizable language, and tell a personal journey and its inspirations: music, figurative arts, poetry. From Combustioni, a show created to celebrate the reopening of the Teatro Continuo in Burri, to Luminare Minus, commissioned by the Science Museum of Milan, to continue with Funambolia, which inaugurates the dance season of the Teatro Gerolamo in 2017.
Then again Hopper Variations, En écoutant du Schumann, on stage at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, Balthus and Variations for Five, the latter programmed at the Al Bustan festival in Beirut in 2019. Different contexts and creative impulses, for a single creative vocation.
In retracing her choreographic work since 2004, Shortcut does not choose the path of chronological exhibition, but creates a narrative based on affinity; the same that links the choreographer to the beautiful music specially written by the composer Giampaolo Testoni. Each extract from the main works is mirrored in the next, following a reasoned thread.
Emanuela Tagliavia
Dancer and choreographer, she trained in Italy and then perfected her skills in contemporary dance in France. Her works have been performed in some of the most important theatres and festivals in Italy and abroad (Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Teatro dell’Opera in Rome and Teatro Bolshoi in Moscow, Piccolo Teatro and Teatro Strehler in Milan, to name a few). In recent years he has worked with Gabriele Salvatores for the production of La Gazza Ladra (Milan, Teatro alla Scala, 2017) and with Liliana Cavani for the staging of Alì Baba e i Quaranta Ladroni (Milan, Teatro alla Scala, 2018). In 2019 he curated the Gala di Danza organized by Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto at Teatro Diego Fabbri in Forlì. She created the choreographic movements of the show Qohelet, which was staged with great success at the Teatro Franco Parenti in Milan (February 2019); she participated in the Al Bustan Festival in Beirut, with young dancers from the Scuola di Ballo Accademia Teatro alla Scala. In the summer of 2019 he created the choreography for the Dolce & Gabbana AltaSartoria event held in Sciacca, Sicily. In September his choreographies were the protagonists of the opening show of the 24th World Energy Forum held in Abu Dhabi. Numerous are the awards and recognitions to his career and his creations. She is artistic director of the contemporary dance festival “Pulchra minima” at the Teatro Gerolamo in Milan.
Since 1999 Emanuela Tagliavia has taught contemporary dance at the Dance School of the Accademia delle Arti e Mestieri of the Teatro alla Scala. Since 2007 she has taught at the Civica Scuola di Teatro Paolo Grassi.

BLISS - OPEN REHEARSAL
2020-01-23 18:00 - 19:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
OPEN REHEARSAL
The Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto gives the opportunity to enter the daily routine of dancers and choreographers. Open rehearsals are unique moments in which you can experience the backstage of a performance, dialogue with the artists and surprise yourself with the art of dance.
Aterballetto rehearses BLISS, creation by Johan Inger on the notes of Keith Jarrett’s Koln Concert, in preparation for the shows at the Holland Dance Festival.

Wolf - ''O'' - BLISS
2020-01-29 20:00 - 21:30, 2020-01-30 20:00 - 21:30 | Zuiderstrandtheater, Houtrustweg 505, Den Haag, 2583 WB, Olanda
Aterballetto dances at the prestigious Holland Dance Festival an evening signed by Hofesh Shechter, Philippe Kratz and Johan Inger.
In Wolf by Hofesh Shechter we find a sort of wild animality, which sometimes crosses men and sometimes women. The painting that is composed drags us a mysterious and engaging universe. “O” is a beautiful duo with an unstoppable rhythm signed by Philippe Kratz. At the end, we close with the contagious joy of BLISS by Johan Inger.

Wolf - ''O'' - BLISS
2020-02-01 20:15 - 21:30 | Theaters Tilburg, Louis Bouwmeesterplein 1, Tilburg, 5038 TN, Olanda

Repeat / Harleking
2020-02-05 20:30 - 21:45 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Fabrizio Di Franco, very young dancer of Agora Coaching Project, presents his first choreography Repeat. Following Harleking, a bizarre, ironic and caricatured duet by the talented duo Ginevra Panzetti and Enrico Ticconi inspired by the mask of Harlequin.
Repeat
Choreography Fabrizio Di Franco
Dancers Fabrizio Di Franco, Matilde Gherardi
Music AGF, Olafur Arnalds, Basstrio Mosfellsdals
Production Agora Coaching Project
Harleking
By and with Ginevra Panzetti, Enrico Ticconi
Sound design Demetrio Castellucci
Light design Annegret Schalke
Technical direction Paolo Tizianel
Costume Ginevra Panzetti, Enrico Ticconi
Promotion Marco Villari
Video documentation Ettore Spezza
Illustrations and graphic Ginevra Panzetti
With the support of VAN (IT) // Tanzfabrik, Berlin (DE) // PACT Zollverein, Essen (DE) // NAOcrea – Ariella Vidach AiEP, Milano (IT) // KommTanz – Compagnia Abbondanza/Bertoni, Rovereto (IT) // L’arboreto – Teatro Dimora, Mondaino (IT) // AtelierSì, Bologna (IT) // C.L.A.P.Spettacolodalvivo, Brescia (IT)
Further supports Cronopios – Teatro Petrella, Longiano (IT) // Vera Stasi – Progetti per la Scena, Tuscania (IT) // Network Anticorpi XL (IT) 2018
HARLEKING is a demon with multiple identities.
His body expression resembles that of Harlequin of the Commedia dell’Arte, a sly servant moved by an insatiable hunger. HARLEKING’s mode of communication has a specific hypnotic quality in which its contents, often extreme and contradictory, merge to create a fluid, metamorphic system wherein anything can happen, yet all is blurred. It is reminiscent of the Grotesques, ancient wall decorations, in which monstrous figures emerge and blend in with elegant ornamental volutes.
Figures, which, although can evoke amusement, do not elicit any joy.
The work premiered in July 2018 in the frame of Open Spaces Sommer Tanz at Tanzfabrik Berlin and it has been presented among several European dance festivals and theatres. In 2019 it has been selected by the Aerowaves Twenty19 for the Spring Forward 2019 and the New Italian Dance (NID) Platform.
panzettiticconi.com

Feeling Good
2020-02-06 20:30 - 21:30, 2020-02-07 20:30 - 21:30, 2020-02-08 20:30 - 21:30 | Korzo Theater, Prinsestraat 42, Den Haag, 2513 CE, Olanda
Feeling Good, the new duet by Diego Tortelli for an abled dancer and a disabled dancer, premieres at the Holland Dance Festival.
The creation, a co-production by Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto and Oriente Occidente Dance Festival, as part of EBA Europe Beyond Access, co-funded by the European Union’s Creative Europe Programme, is presented on Mixed Doubles evening, along with three other duets produced by Onassis Cultural Centre (GR), Holland Dance Festival (NL), Skånes Dansteater (SE).
Feeling Good is within the project by the Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto “Danza e Fragilità”, supported by Gruppo Credem in partnership with Reggio Emilia Città senza Barriere and Consorzio Oscar Romero.

Wolf - Secus
2020-02-07 21:00 - 21:15 | Teatro degli Illuminati, via dei Fucci, Città di Castello, PG, 06012, Italia
Aterballetto dances at the Teatro Rossini in Pesaro an evening that combines the choreographies of Hofesh Shechter and Ohad Naharin.
Hofesh Shechter is one of the most intense and visceral contemporary choreographers. Perhaps because the music is almost always composed by himself and is closely in tune with the energy of his movement. The result is a punch, as he himself says, a punch with which the viewer is hit by a wave of energy. In Wolf we find a sort of wild animality that crosses sometimes men and sometimes women. The painting that is composed drags us into a mysterious and engaging universe.

Secus is a creation by Ohad Naharin that boasts a musical collage that extends from the unusual electronic styles of AGF to the seductive Indian melodies of Kaho Naa Pyar Hai to the resonant harmonies of the Beach Boys. This adventurously eclectic mix serves as a suitable backdrop for the boldly extravagant choreography. Under our unbelieving eyes, we compose a human alphabet made up of races, solos, clear and clean gestures, interrupted duets, which, through precise and sudden kicks, sinuous disarticulations of the hips, torsos that bend in all directions like rubber to be shaped, expresses pure emotions and feelings without becoming sentimental. Joy, vulnerability, fear, innocence, confusion and anger weave a harmonious and dynamic canvas that oscillates between delicacy and exaggeration.

Tempesta
2020-02-09 17:00 - 18:10 | Teatro Nuovo Menotti, Via Vaita S. Andrea, 20, Spoleto, PG, 06049, Italia
Aterballetto lands on the stage of the Teatro Nuovo Menotti in Spoleto to give life to a Tempesta in dance.
“Can the wealth of writing and meaning in this work be transferred into gesture and movement? This is the challenge facing the performance. It is an extremely arduous one because it invites a comparison with a text that has a special and absolute value in the whole of Shakespeare’s output. It is his last work and is considered as his spiritual testament, an adieu to the theatre and it is no coincidence that it presents a creator of magic onstage which, as Strehler rightly understood, alludes to a creator of theatrical wonders.” Antonio Audino
Thanks to the choreography by Giuseppe Spota and the music by Giuliano Sangiorgi you can live seventy magic minutes.

Open Rehearsal
2020-02-12 18:00 - 19:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
The Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto gives the opportunity to enter the daily routine of dancers and choreographers. Open rehearsals are unique moments in which you can experience the backstage of a performance, dialogue with the artists and surprise yourself with the art of dance.
In order to ensure greater artistic flexibility to the company, we cannot communicate the exact program of Aterballetto’s open rehearsals. A few days before the open rehearsal we will give on our website and on social media more information.
THE OPEN REHEARSAL HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

Present Continuous - open rehearsal
2020-02-17 18:00 - 19:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
OPEN REHEARSAL_SALVO LOMBARDO
Between parody and attempt to bring on stage those dances really contemporary and anthropological as the latest generation disco dance, Salvo Lombardo photographs a moment of extreme topicality, a youthful and alienating nocturnal excerpt, creating a funny but deeply tragic documentary in which the human seems to cancel itself to the rhythm of digital beats. (Benedetta Colasanti – Recensito)
Salvo Lombardo
Salvo Lombardo is an italian perfomer, coreographer and director who bases his work on a constant research of a relation between theatre, dance and visual art. He lives and works in Rome. He is the artistic director of the Chiasma Company whose works were presented in the main Festivals and Theatres in Italy.
In 2015-2016 he was resident choreographer at Anghiari Dance Hub where he worked at the project “Casual Bystanders” based on a choreographic pattern representing an archive of “not-extraordinary” gestures proceeding from kinetic fragments of common people observed in public places. From 2016 till today Salvo Lombardo is supported by the Festival Fabbrica Europa that produces many of his dance pieces. From 2017 he is one of the associated artists of the Festival Oriente Occidente, the principal co-producer of the performance “Present Continuous” inspired by a memory system of gestures which stem from a night’s work at a music club and also the interactive installation in augmented reality titled “Reappearances” conceived for the MART Museum of Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto, involving the participation of the local community.
In 2017 he is guest choreographer at Aura Dance Theatre of Kaunas (LIT) for which he conceived the performance “Twister” studying the relationship between gestures memory, play and sociality. In 2018 he worked on the project “L’Esemplare Capovolto”, aims to generate a series of performative actions, installations, conferences, workshops and the creation of the show “Excelsior”, co-produced by the Théâtre National de Chaillot of Paris and the Romaeuropa Festival.
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salvolombardo.org

PRESENT CONTINUOUS
2020-02-18 20:30 - 21:10 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Between parody and attempt to bring on stage those dances really contemporary and anthropological as the latest generation disco dance, Salvo Lombardo photographs a moment of extreme topicality, a youthful and alienating nocturnal excerpt, creating a funny but deeply tragic documentary in which the human seems to cancel itself to the rhythm of digital beats. (Benedetta Colasanti – Recensito)
Credits
Conceived, choreographed and directed by Salvo Lombardo
Performers Cesare Benedetti, Lucia Cammalleri, Daria Greco, Salvo Lombardo
Collaborating choreographer Daria Greco
Lighting design Loris Giancola
Sound design Fabrizio Alviti
Production Festival Oriente Occidente
Co-producers Chiasma, Versiliadanza
With the support of DiD Studio – Ariella Vidach AiEP, Versilia Danza, Anghiari Dance Hub, Teatri di Vita
Special thanks to Studio Azzurro – Area Ricerca Progressiva
Duration 40′
Premiere September 2017 – Festival Oriente Occidente

INSIGHTS
After having collected the movements and gestures of passersby with the project Casual Bystanders and developed game and social dynamic standards with the project Twister, Salvo Lombardo continues with Present Continuous in his research into the relationship between memory, perception and movement by observing real life. In this case, the choreography is “derivative” once again and often calls upon “ready-made” gestures.
The performance is based on the shared memory of the same experience – an evening in a night club – during which, performers observed and appropriated a system of postures, motor-actions and relational means of those present. In every daily act we produce tracks that attest to our being in the world. We immortalise surrogates of reality, bodiless mists, which nail events to an eternal present, spreading themselves on our behalf and reproducing a fixed condition that excludes any real relationship with their original subject.
Present Continuous simply seeks to mark the points of a choreographic narrative that has been developed on the basis of the negotiation of memory through the sharing of reproducible motor sequences. The memory of real movement intertwines with a subjective micro-narrative that reveals the emotional life of the performer in their attempt to reconfigure a shared memory of movement and the experience it created, which, exploding from its actual re-enactment, leaves the “now” and becomes bounded to a future in the making.
Salvo Lombardo
Salvo Lombardo is an italian perfomer, coreographer and director who bases his work on a constant research of a relation between theatre, dance and visual art. He lives and works in Rome. He is the artistic director of the Chiasma Company whose works were presented in the main Festivals and Theatres in Italy.
In 2015-2016 he was resident choreographer at Anghiari Dance Hub where he worked at the project “Casual Bystanders” based on a choreographic pattern representing an archive of “not-extraordinary” gestures proceeding from kinetic fragments of common people observed in public places. From 2016 till today Salvo Lombardo is supported by the Festival Fabbrica Europa that produces many of his dance pieces.
From 2017 he is one of the associated artists of the Festival Oriente Occidente, the principal co-producer of the performance “Present Continuous” inspired by a memory system of gestures which stem from a night’s work at a music club and also the interactive installation in augmented reality titled “Reappearances” conceived for the MART Museum of Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto, involving the participation of the local community.
In 2017 he is guest choreographer at Aura Dance Theatre of Kaunas (LIT) for which he conceived the performance “Twister” studying the relationship between gestures memory, play and sociality. In 2018 he worked on the project “L’Esemplare Capovolto”, aims to generate a series of performative actions, installations, conferences, workshops and the creation of the show “Excelsior”, co-produced by the Théâtre National de Chaillot of Paris and the Romaeuropa Festival.
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La stella nascosta
2020-02-20 10:00 - 10:45 | Teatro Comunale, Viale Mazzini 39, Vicenza, 36100, Italia
La stella nascosta, our dance performance for children, is at the Teatro Comunale in Vicenza.
La stella nascosta is the result of a long process of artistic and pedagogical research on the dialogue between the world of childhood and the languages of contemporary dance. La stella nascosta is a performance with 4 young dancers selected specifically for this choreography, which accompany children and adults on a journey of discovery of beauty outside the canons and media clichés. Saul Daniele Ardillo worked for over a year with playwright Simone Giorgi and an extraordinary team of Reggio Children (scientific partner of the research process), measuring himself with the experience of Accademia Perduta | Romagna Teatri (co-producer) and especially with the gaze and creativity of children’s classes.

cloud|materia / ''O'' - Open Rehearsal
2020-02-20 18:00 - 19:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
The Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto gives the opportunity to enter the daily routine of dancers and choreographers. Open rehearsals are unique moments in which you can experience the backstage of a performance, dialogue with the artists and surprise yourself with the art of dance.
The company rehearses cloud|materia and “O” by Philippe Kratz, Danza & Danza Award 2019 “Best Choreographer”, with a view of the show in Bari on 29th February.

Bach Project
2020-02-28 21:00 - 22:00 | Teatro Piccinni, Corso Vittorio Emanuele, 84, Bari, 70122, Italia
Aterballetto dances Bach Project at Teatro Piccinni of Bari.
Bach Project is an important step in exploring the relationship between dance and music, between classical composition and its contemporary re-creation.
On stage Sarabande, masterpiece by Jiří Kylián, and Domus Aurea by Diego Tortelli, Italian choreography up-and-comer who, through Bach’s French suite transcribed by Giorgio Colombo Taccani and played live by the Ensemble Sentieri Selvaggi, has created an oneiric architecture made of movement, involving the visual artist Massimo Uberti.
Through its musical dimension the Bach Project thus embodies an intergenerational, open and curious vision of choreographic creation.
This production benefits from the support of Torinodanza Festival/Teatro Stabile di Torino – Teatro Nazionale, Les Halles de Schaerbeek of Bruxelles, Festival MiTo, MILANoLTRE Festival and the partnership of the Theatres of tradition of Region Emilia-Romagna.

cloud|materia - ''O'' - Secus
2020-02-29 21:00 - 22:30 | Teatro Piccinni, Corso Vittorio Emanuele, 84, Bari, 70122, Italia
Aterballetto dances at Teatro Piccinni in Bari a triple bill composed by cloud|materia and “O” by Philippe Kratz, and Secus by Ohad Naharin.
A unique occasion to admire the company through contrasting nuances: from the physical and rational approach of Philippe Kratz choreographer and dancer of Aterballetto, Dance & Dance Award 2019 ‘Best Choreographer’, to the vigorous ritual of Ohad Naharin, choreographer of the Batsheva Dance Company.

Wolf - ''O'' - BLISS
2020-03-04 20:00 - 21:30 | Théâtre de Beausobre, Av. de Vertou 2, Morges, 1110, Svizzera

Patchwork, un mosaico di storie
2020-03-07 18:00 - 19:00, 2020-03-08 18:00 - 19:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Patchwork, un mosaico di storie, written and directed by four hands, is the result of an international co-production.
The production has two twin castles, one Italian and one Canadian. The show, more visual and expressive than words, deals with the theme of identity in today’s contemporary and multicultural society by staging the meeting of two characters who express themselves in Italian, English and French without hindering the understanding of the story.
CANCELLED PERFORMANCE
Fondazione Nazionale della Danza informs, according to the DPCM of March 4th, 2020, on “Measures to combat and contain the spread of the COVID-19 virus on the entire national territory”, being evidently of absolute inapplicability the possibility to allow places of theatrical performance to respect the interpersonal distance of at least 1 meter, the SUSPENSION until April 3rd of all activities scheduled in its spaces.

Credits
Text and direction Cristina Cazzola and Carol Cassistat
Written in collaboration with Lucio Diana
With Sara Zoia and Daniele Tessaro
Set and Lighting Design Lucio Diana
Original music Nicolas Jobin
Production Accademia Perduta/Romagna Teatri, Théâtre du Gros Mécano (Québec City), Signs of Childhood Association, Atrium de Chaville (Paris), Musée national des beaux arts du Québec (Paris), Museo Benaki (Athens)
Duration 55′
Recommended age from 5 years old and up
The inspiration
Who are we?
How do we create our identity?
We started with an image.
A patchwork blanket, a courtepointe as they call it in Québec, made of many different pieces of fabric.
Often woven by several hands, it can tell the story of a person, an event, an entire family or a generation. It speaks of the identity made up of many different fragments, it speaks of us, and of our being multicultural, of humanity that is increasingly multicolored and multi-ethnic, but with intertwining roots.
Family stories and family trees that can only contain and be the fruit of many journeys. An identity generated by encounters and clashes, the fruit of a thousand migrations.
And so our private history, our identity, a mosaic of stories that starting from Africa with our ancestor Lucy the first Australopithecus, retraces the great journeys of humanity.
The plot
Two characters meet in a place without space or time.
He’s an anthropologist, she’s a seamstress and they meet for work in a place of passage, an airport.
They do not speak the same language but by communicating with looks, gestures and simple words using the narrative power of objects they create a common language that makes communication possible and fun.
Every detail of their luggage tells something, some objects bring them together, others surprise them and so they begin to tell about family trips and adventures. The meeting soon turns into a theatrical game where adults and children are involved in the reflection on two questions that have always accompanied us: who we are and where we come from.
An amusing journey back through the branches of family trees and the migrations that have built the history of humanity, to discover that, since ever, our identity is a patchwork, part of a larger story where each of us is a unique and indispensable piece.

Les Miserables - Open rehearsal
2020-03-20 18:00 - 19:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
OPEN REHEARSAL_C&C Company
Ladies and Gentlemen! Consider the creature as God first made it; nothing, just nothing. Add civilization and see what you’ve got: walks upright, wears trousers and carries a cane. It’s all education, he’s got animal brains, or rather: brainy animality, he’s not the pig-stupid sort like some people … The monkey’s already a soldier, though that’s not saying much-the bottom-most species of human kind!
Woyzeck – Georg Büchner

CANCELLED OPEN REHEARSAL
Fondazione Nazionale della Danza informs, according to the DPCM of March 4th, 2020, on “Measures to combat and contain the spread of the COVID-19 virus on the entire national territory”, being evidently of absolute inapplicability the possibility to allow places of theatrical performance to respect the interpersonal distance of at least 1 meter, the SUSPENSION until April 3rd of all activities scheduled in its spaces.

Credits
Choreography: Carlo Massari
Dancers: Carlo Massari, Alice Monti, Stefano Roveda, Nicola Stasi
Vocal Coaching: Chiara Osella
Production: C&C Company
Co-production: Triangolo Scaleno/Glass Theatres; Festival Danza in Rete Fondazione Teatro Comunale Città di Vicenza; Festival Oriente Occidente/CID Centro Internazionale della Danza
With the support of Teatro Akropolis/Project CURA
Insights
A ruthless and immoral fresco on today, a middle-class contemporary drama at times familiar, resonates, we are “involuntarily” complicit in it. An overview of stereotypes, of already seen, already said, acted upon. The little theatre of human misery: body and voice at the service of a painful chorus that echoes “The Frogs” by Aristophanes, or perhaps an operetta by Offenbach, or the famous Brechtian “Opera”. Staticity and immobility in response to the imminent, evident collapse (physical, political, social, environmental…). We can’t do anything about it, too late, game over; we watch helplessly, we take note of it, we shrug, sigh and turn around again.
In the question “what is happening around us?” lies the genesis of this creation: a deepening of the international current affairs and the search for connections between the present forms of protest – rarely based on the idea of human evolution and revolution – and the historical Enlightenment (enlightened) vision, which puts Culture and Art at the centre of change.
A creation that once again leads the Company to investigate contemporary social issues, through an amphibious language of strong impact and a complex dramaturgical level in support of the work.
C&C Company
C&C Company was born from the union between Carlo Massari and Chiara Taviani, performers with an eclectic background, in the last decade on international stages as interpreters and creators of different companies. The debut of the first work in 2011: Corpo e Cultura (Body and Culture) immediately highlighted a strong vocation of the Company in search of a necessary physical language, strongly dramaturgical, in close relation with contemporary social issues. This was followed by the international debuts of: “Maria Addolorata”, “Tristissimo” (AnticorpiXL), “012”, “Peurbleue”, “Don’t Be Afraid”, “Dead Weight”, “Beast Without Beauty”. They have received prestigious awards, among them: “1st” Hiver Oclytes/Les Hivernales (F), “2nd” Hannover International Choreographers Competition (D), “2nd” Zawirowania Competition (PL), “Audience Award” Konzert Theater Berne (CH), “Finalist” Machol Shalem Dance Competition (I), “Special Mention” Premio Roma Danza (IT), “2nd” Corto in Danza (IT), Premio Palco Aperto (IT), “1st” E “Premio del Pubblico” CrashTest, “1°” Premio Twain.
In these years, in parallel with the production activity, have taken life performative projects with public participation: ContaminAzioni, SpringRoll (RomaEuropa ’16), Femminile Plurale. Currently the Company is engaged in the development of the extensive research “Beast Without Beauty”, which sees within it the alternation of social projects and international co-productions.
Since 2017 the artistic direction of the Company has been entrusted to Carlo Massari.
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Tempesta - Open Rehearsal
2020-03-25 18:00 - 19:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
OPEN REHEARSAL
The Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto gives the opportunity to enter the daily routine of dancers and choreographers. Open rehearsals are unique moments in which you can experience the backstage of a performance, dialogue with the artists and surprise yourself with the art of dance.
Aterballetto rehearses Tempesta by Giuseppe Spota on the original music by Giuliano Sangiorgi, in view of the performances at the Teatro Metastasio of Prato.
CANCELLED OPEN REHEARSAL
The Fondazione Nazionale della Danza informs, according to the DPCM of March 4th, 2020, on “Measures to combat and contain the spread of the COVID-19 virus on the entire national territory”, being evidently of absolute inapplicability the possibility to allow places of theatrical performance to respect the interpersonal distance of at least 1 meter, the SUSPENSION until April 3rd of all activities scheduled in its spaces.

Tempesta
2020-03-26 20:45 - 22:00, 2020-03-27 20:45 - 22:00, 2020-03-28 19:30 - 20:10, 2020-03-29 16:30 - 17:40 | Teatro Metastasio, via Benedetto Cairoli, 59, Prato, 59100, Italia
Aterballetto lands on the stage of the Teatro Metastasio in Prato to give life to a Tempesta in dance.
“Can the wealth of writing and meaning in this work be transferred into gesture and movement? This is the challenge facing the performance. It is an extremely arduous one because it invites a comparison with a text that has a special and absolute value in the whole of Shakespeare’s output. It is his last work and is considered as his spiritual testament, an adieu to the theatre and it is no coincidence that it presents a creator of magic onstage which, as Strehler rightly understood, alludes to a creator of theatrical wonders.” Antonio Audino
Thanks to the choreography by Giuseppe Spota and the music by Giuliano Sangiorgi you can live seventy magic minutes.
CANCELLED PERFORMANCE
Teatro Metastasio informs, according to the DPCM of March 4th, 2020, on “Measures to combat and contain the spread of the COVID-19 virus on the entire national territory”, being evidently of absolute inapplicability the possibility to allow places of theatrical performance to respect the interpersonal distance of at least 1 meter, the SUSPENSION until April 3rd of all activities scheduled in its spaces.
