Centro Coreografico Nazionale / Aterballetto

MM Contemporary Dance Company
2019-07-21 21:30 - 23:00 (Europe/Rome) | Chiostri San Pietro, via Emilia San Pietro 44, Reggio Emilia, 42121, Italia
The MM Contemporary Dance Company dances two great titles of the musical repertoire. Emanuele Soavi‘s Carmen immerses us in the plot made up of subtle relationships and tensions of Bizet’s famous work. Michele Merola confronted the obsessive and repetitive music of Bolero, staging the variety of moods that circulate around and within the couple’s relationship.
The evening is part of Danza at Chiostri, by the Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto for the billboard of REstate 2019.

Carmen
Carmen Sweet is an exclusive creation by Emanuele Soavi for the MM Contemporary Dance Company, conceived taking into account the composer’s original intention to create an opera-comique: this is how Georges Bizet defined his Carmen, presented in Paris in 1875.
In this work, drawing inspiration from and revisiting the traces of the legendary plot, the action, deliberately permeated with irony and sarcasm, begins in the arena where Carmen, Micaela, Frasquita, Mercédès, Don José, Zuniga, Escamillo give free rein to their emotions. Thus giving space to the strong technical and theatrical virtuosity of the performers on stage, Soavi plunges us dramaturgically into that plot made up of subtle relationships, balances and embroideries, between tension and suspension, where movements and gestures must be read beyond the apparent elegance that is over the top. All accompanied by the famous notes of Bizet, sometimes interrupted by the songs of the singing group Los Panchos, in whose texts antagonism, jealousy and desire are the omnipresent subjects.
In Seville’s Plaza de Toros, the characters meet for the day of the bullfight. Everyone is waiting for Escamillo, the Escamillo who believes that Carmen is her own and does not care about the warnings of Mercedes and Frasquita. Covered in dust, confused in their vices, the characters, like a group of histrions, stage Carmen’s passion in the metaphysical square of the stage.
Sarcastic and bizarre in their gestures and movements, these comedians try to avoid the perennial clash between Don José and Toreador, while Micaela, alone in the shadows, hides and shows herself, trying to steal their hearts and their attention in vain. But Don José is soon around. Ignoring her friends’ advice, Carmen meets him and José begs her to come back with him. José threatens the contemptuous rejections and, while the crowd applauds Escamillo victorious, blinded by anger, José kills Carmen.
In this moving fiction, a story is revealed to the public that can be true and not just imaginary, made of physical beauty expressed by the bodies of the dancers, where the narrative of the scenes is marked by the relationships between the senses, which repeatedly ignite with passion the protagonists on stage.
Choreography Emanuele Soavi
Music Georges Bizet, Los Panchos
Lighting design Cristina Spelti
Costume design Alessio Rosati with the collaboration of Nuvia Valestri
Bolero
Bolero (1928) is still one of the best-known and most listened to pieces in the history of music. In creating a new choreographic version of Bolero, Michele Merola confronted himself with this obsessive and repetitive music, trying to understand its identity, reason and function: at the end of this path, the choreographer’s inspiration focused on the inexhaustible range of human relationships, in particular those of couples, within which we often record the reciprocal and irreconcilable distances between men and women, that “transparent wall” that divides them. Thus, in the different shades assumed by the dance, the choreography declines the variety of moods that “circulate” around and within the couple relationship.
Stefano Corrias intervened on this same music, with the “license” and inventiveness that are the true sign of every artist. As a refined and expert composer, Corrias has created his own musical score, freely inspired by the original version of Ravel’s piece. The new score was composed by carefully analyzing the pages of Bolero, and integrates perfectly with it, placing itself in three different moments. Within the choreographic writing, the three fragments underline the most intimate, and truest, moments of each of us, when we are far from the looks of others, and far from the deafening noise of the world.
In Merola’s version, Bolero is therefore described as a non-history, fantastic but possible, however pertinent to the real world. From the allusive initial drum strokes to the final “explosion” of the entire orchestra, the dance, in close symbiosis with the music, conveys a sort of abstract “bitter fairy tale”, an allegory of the pain of living and misunderstanding between human beings. Thus Bolero becomes a metaphor for our existence, caught in the double tracks that each of us experiences during our lives, between contrast and dialogue, seduction and disillusionment, surprise and bewilderment.
Choreography Michele Merola
Music Maurice Ravel, Stefano Corrias
Light design Cristina Spelti
Costume design Alessio Rosati with the collaboration of Nuvia Valestri
INFO&TICKETS

Tickets
Full 12 euro
Reduction 9 euro for under 30, dance schools DanzaRE (Arcadia, Danzarte, Eidos Danza, Let’s Dance, Progetto Danza), Liceo Coreutico Matilde di Canossa, over 65
Reduction 3 euro for under 8
Info, reservations and tickets withdrawing
tel. +39 0522 273011
cell. and whatsapp +39 3341023554
email info@aterballetto.it
Reserved tickets must be collected by Friday, July 19th at the ticket office of the Fonderia, in via della Costituzione 39.
Uncollected tickets will be resold.
Purchase at ticket office
Fonderia, headquarters of Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto, via della Costituzione 39, Reggio Emilia
Monday and Friday from 10.00 a.m. to 1.00 p.m.
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 3.00 p.m. to 5.30 p.m.
Chiostri di San Pietro, via Emilia San Pietro 44, Reggio Emilia
Only Sunday 21 and Tuesday 23 July from 7.30 p.m.
Online purchase
www.biglietteriafonderia39.it
Tickets purchased online can be collected at the ticket office of the Fonderia in via della Costituzione 39, during opening hours, or on the evening of the shows (Sunday 21st and Tuesday 23rd July) at the ticket office of the Chiostri di San Pietro in via Emilia San Pietro 44, from 7.30 p.m.

Abiectio - "O" - BLISS
2019-07-23 21:30 - 23:00
The Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto closes its 2018-2019 season in the renovated Chiostri di San Pietro in Reggio Emilia.
Abiectio by Damiano Artale is an engaging duet on the notes of the Passion of Bach and the Requiem Pies Jesus by Fauré. Followed by “O” by Philippe Kratz, choreography from the unstoppable rhythm awarded at the prestigious competition in Hanover 2018. BLISS, a masterpiece by Johan Inger to the notes of Keith Jarrett’s Koln Concert, is a dance that emanates happiness and above all life. A joy for the performers, who surrender to the music without any resistance, and for the public, who can admire the maturity and skill of each dancer.

Abiectio
When violence bathes the soul of a human being, we celebrate the failure of communication, also the funeral of education. Frightened and disoriented, an injured individual looks at himself in the mirror with degrading mortification and responds to the outside world by attacking. Every man, however, in possession of that particular gift called empathy, places himself immediately and positively in the condition of
Choreography Damiano Artale
Music Johann Sebastian Bach and Gabriel Faurè
Costume design Francesca Messori
Lighting design Carlo Cerri
Dancers Damiano Artale and Arianna Kob
''O''
The idea at the base of “O” is eternity and how attaining it is humanity’s ultimate goal. As in the summer of 2017 in Hong Kong for the very first time two humanoid robots vocally interacted with one another it became clear to anyone watching that a future, in which accumulated human knowledge is passed on by communicating inorganic material, is within reach. Therefore “O” can be seen as two human beings or two robots celebrating in a state of transcendence and emotional fulfilment, both moving to the never-ending beat of their unstoppable hearts.
And as the spaceship computer Hal in Stanley Kubrick’s movie ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ puts it: “I know I’ve made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal. I’ve still got the greatest enthusiasm and confidence in the mission. And I want to help you.”
Choreography Philippe Kratz
Music Mark Pritchard, The Field
Costume design Francesca Messori
Lighting design Carlo Cerri
Dancers Philippe Kratz and Ivana Mastroviti
First prize at 32° Hannover Choreographic Competition – June 2018

BLISS
“Exciting BLISS by Johan Inger. It is an ode to the joy of dancing, to the pleasure of seeing the performers moving in an unstoppable chain of choreographic beauty. One of the best shots recently scored by Aterballetto.”
Sergio Trombetta, La Stampa
Choreography Johan Inger
Music Keith Jarrett
Set design Johan Inger
Costume design Johan Inger and Francesca Messori
Lighting design Peter Lundin
Assistant to the choreographer Yvan Dubreuil
Premio Danza&Danza 2016 “Best Italian Production”

INFO&TICKETS

Tickets
Full 12 euro
Reduction 9 euro for under 30, dance schools DanzaRE (Arcadia, Danzarte, Eidos Danza, Let’s Dance, Progetto Danza), Liceo Coreutico Matilde di Canossa, over 65
Reduction 3 euro for under 8
Info, reservations and tickets withdrawing
tel. +39 0522 273011
cell. and whatsapp +39 3341023554
email info@aterballetto.it
Reserved tickets must be collected by Friday, July 19th at the ticket office of the Fonderia, in via della Costituzione 39.
Uncollected tickets will be resold.
Purchase at ticket office
Fonderia, headquarters of Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto, via della Costituzione 39, Reggio Emilia
Monday and Friday from 10.00 a.m. to 1.00 p.m.
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 3.00 p.m. to 5.30 p.m.
Chiostri di San Pietro, via Emilia San Pietro 44, Reggio Emilia
Only Sunday 21 and Tuesday 23 July from 7.30 p.m.
Online purchase
www.biglietteriafonderia39.it
Tickets purchased online can be collected at the ticket office of the Fonderia in via della Costituzione 39, during opening hours, or on the evening of the shows (Sunday 21st and Tuesday 23rd July) at the ticket office of the Chiostri di San Pietro in via Emilia San Pietro 44, from 7.30 p.m.

Dreamers
2019-09-06 20:30 - 22:30
Aterballetto presents the world premiere of 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.

Aterballetto
2019-09-18 18:00 - 19:00, 2019-10-24 18:00 - 19:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
OPEN REHEARSAL_ATERBALLETTO
The Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto has been giving for years the opportunity to enter the daily routine of dancers and choreographers. Open rehearsals are unique moments in which it is possible to experience the backstage of a show, to dialogue with the artists and to be surprised by the art of dance.
In order to ensure greater artistic flexibility to the company, we can not define the exact program of open rehearsals of Aterballetto. A few days before the open rehearsal we will give you more information on our website and on the social networks.

Compagnia Artemis Danza
2019-10-01 18:00 - 19:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Prova aperta_Il Barbiere di Siviglia
In occasione dei centocinquant’anni dalla morte di Gioachino Rossini, Monica Casadei con la Compagnia Artemis Danza affronta uno dei titoli più celebri del maestro pesarese, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, che la coreografa ha immaginato come un avveniristico “balletto d’azione”. Ma chi è davvero Figaro? Nella lettura di Monica Casadei Figaro è il prototipo dell’uomo di successo nel mondo di oggi. L’eroe rossiniano diventa l’emblema di chi riesce a soddisfare con efficacia, vivacità e savoir faire le aspettative di una società che impone ogni giorno di raggiungere i propri obiettivi ottimizzando tempi ed energie.
COMPAGNIA ARTEMIS DANZA
Originally from Ferrara, Monica Casadei graduates in philosophy cum laude writing a dissertation on dance in Plato’s system. After a career as a professional acrobatic gymnast, she takes to studying classic and modern dance, at first in Italy, then in London, and eventually in Paris where she gets to meet choreographers Pierre Doussaint and Isabelle Doubouloz and the Master André Cognard Hanshi So shihan, with whom she still practices the martial art of Aikido.
In France, she founds the company Artemis Danza, with which she later moves to Italy, in 1997, giving birth to a fervent production activity that amounts, nowadays, to over 40 original creations.
From 1998 to 2007, the Company is part of an artist residency at Fondazione Teatro Due in Parma whereas, from 2014 up to this day, it partakes in an artist residency at Teatro Comunale in Bologna. Artemis Danza has been invited to the most important Italian theatres and festivals and to several international tours and festivals.
Pivotal elements in Monica Casadei’ s artistic research are the influences from different artistic, cultural and geographic fields and the exploration of urban spaces and places that turn into stages for performances.
Alongside the production activity, Artemis funds, produces and promotes young choreographers and organizes several activities meant to artistically educate the audience.
artemisdanza.com

Compagnia Artemis Danza
2019-10-02 20:30 - 22:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA_BALLETTO D’AZIONE
Uno, dieci, cento Figaro in azione. Determinati, potenti, coraggiosi, in un gioco camaleontico ricco di imprevisti e repentini mutamenti. Un balletto d’azione in chiave post moderna con l’ironia dissacrante e l’energia instancabile di una squadra speciale disposta a tutto, o quasi.

Crediti
Choreography, set and lighting design Monica Casadei
Music Gioachino Rossini
Sound design and original songs Luca Vianini
Costume design Daniela Usai
Assistant to musical dramaturgy and costumes Davide Tagliavini
Assistants to the choreographer Antonio Bissiri, Vittorio Colella, Teresa Morisano
Production Compagnia Artemis Danza in collaboration with AMAT and Municipality of Pesaro
Co-production Italian Festival in Bangkok, Festival Orizzonti, Armonie d’Arte Festival
in collaboration with Rossini Opera Festival and Teatro Comunale di Bologna
Thanks to A.N.G.E.L.O. Vintage Palace
With the contribution of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities, Emilia-Romagna Region Department of Culture
Insights
On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the death of Gioachino Rossini, Monica Casadei, with the Compagnia Artemis Danza, faces one of the most famous titles of the maestro from Pesaro, “Il Barbiere di Siviglia”, with a choreographic interpretation that debuted in Pesaro, in the historic Teatro Rossini, in collaboration with AMAT – Associazione Marchigiana Attività Teatrali and Comune di Pesaro.
A show that Monica Casadei imagined as a futuristic “action ballet” and that, as usual, involves in a contamination of languages all the creative body of Artemis, which is enriched by the costumes made by visual artist Daniela Usai and the musical elaborations of the composer Luca Vianini, who compares with Rossini.
But who is really Figaro? In Monica Casadei’s reading Figaro is the prototype of the successful man in today’s world. The Rossini hero becomes the emblem of those who succeed in satisfying with effectiveness, vivacity and savoir faire the expectations of a society that imposes every day to reach its goals optimizing time and energy.
On the choreographic level, Figaro’s character multiplies in the bodies of the entire company, where, without gender distinctions, the performers act with the determination, energy and rigour of a special team: toned, gritty and hyper-concentrated, their dance manipulates time and space without respite, continuously weaves and loosens an infinite network of changes of direction, intersections of trajectories and inlays of movements. As if they were following the routes of crowded and noisy highways, the dancers unravel with lucidity and martial energy, wise gears of the crazy mechanism of social living.
The result is an action performance, characterized by an atmosphere suspended between a past shadow and a flashing and frenetic present: the unreachable image of a perfect man appears and disappears under the eyes of the public to multiply in the dancers and their technical virtuosities.
The historical costumes are the result of a collaboration with the Rossini Opera Festival and the Teatro Comunale of Bologna, while the tailored dresses were made in collaboration with A.N.G.E.L.O Vintage Palace (Lugo di Romagna), reference pole of vintage in Italy.
The show was co-produced by the Italian Festival in Thailand in Bangkok, the Orizzonti Festival in Chiusi and the Armonie d’Arte Festival in Borgia.
COMPAGNIA ARTEMIS DANZA
Originally from Ferrara, Monica Casadei graduates in philosophy cum laude writing a dissertation on dance in Plato’s system. After a career as a professional acrobatic gymnast, she takes to studying classic and modern dance, at first in Italy, then in London, and eventually in Paris where she gets to meet choreographers Pierre Doussaint and Isabelle Doubouloz and the Master André Cognard Hanshi So shihan, with whom she still practices the martial art of Aikido.
In France, she founds the company Artemis Danza, with which she later moves to Italy, in 1997, giving birth to a fervent production activity that amounts, nowadays, to over 40 original creations.
From 1998 to 2007, the Company is part of an artist residency at Fondazione Teatro Due in Parma whereas, from 2014 up to this day, it partakes in an artist residency at Teatro Comunale in Bologna. Artemis Danza has been invited to the most important Italian theatres and festivals and to several international tours and festivals.
Pivotal elements in Monica Casadei’ s artistic research are the influences from different artistic, cultural and geographic fields and the exploration of urban spaces and places that turn into stages for performances.
Alongside the production activity, Artemis funds, produces and promotes young choreographers and organizes several activities meant to artistically educate the audience.
artemisdanza.com

Lost in - La stella nascosta - ''O''
2019-10-11 15:00 - 16:30 | Teatro Cavallerizza, viale Antonio Allegri, 8, Reggio Emilia, 42121, Italia
Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto, co-organizer of NID Platform, presents “O” by Philippe Kratz, a short performance winner of 32° Hannover Choreographic Competition. Following two creations by Saul Daniele Ardillo, Lost in and excerpts from La stella nascosta, a new creation for children with four dancers selected for this choreography. La stella nascosta is the result of a profound artistic and pedagogical research about the relantionship between the world of childhood and the languages of contemporary dance. In this research Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto was accompanied by Reggio Children and Accademia Perduta | Romagna Teatri.

In/Finito
2019-10-26 19:00 - 21:50, 2019-10-27 16:00 - 20:50 | Palazzo da Mosto, via Mari, 8, Reggio Emilia, 42121, Italia
Nuova edizione del progetto site-specific di danza e fotografia, che sarà rappresentata anche nel cantiere di un nuovo spazio sociale a Milano a novembre, grazie al sostegno di Cariplo. A Reggio Emilia i protagonisti del progetto In/Finito– sei interpreti della compagnia Aterballetto – danzano le sei coreografie a Palazzo da Mosto, nelle cui sale nel 2018 fu presentato per la prima volta il progetto, nato in collaborazione con Fondazione Palazzo Magnani / Fotografia Europea. Il contesto espositivo è rappresentato dalle nuove fotografie di Toni Thorimbert, che ritraggono i performer in spazi emblematici di alcune aree periferiche di Milano.
L’appuntamento è all’interno di ‘Incontri a Palazzo’, progetto in collaborazione con AlibertiLab e sostenuto da Fondazione Manodori e Par.Co. al fine di valorizzare e riconsegnare alla città gli spazi di Palazzo da Mosto.
Sabato 26 ottobre
programma B: h 19.00 / 20.00 / 21.00
programma A: h 19.30 / 20.30 / 21.30
Domenica 27 ottobre
programma A: h 16.00 / 17.00 / 18.00
programma B: h 16.30 / 17.30 / 18.30
Programma A: Notturni di Saul Daniele Ardillo | L 180 di Hektor Budlla | Maudit di Diego Tortelli
Programma B: Cemento di Roberto Tedesco | Purple Usurper di Philippe Kratz | Survivante di Damiano Artale

Info e prenotazioni
0522 273011
334 1023554
info@aterballetto.it
Biglietteria
Fonderia
via della Costituzione 39
Lunedì e venerdì dalle ore 10.00 alle ore 13.30
Martedì, mercoledì e giovedì dalle ore 15.00 alle ore 17.30
Palazzo da Mosto
Via Mari 7
Sabato 26 dalle ore 18.00
Domencia 27 dalle ore 15.00

La stella nascosta
2019-10-29 10:30 - 11:15 | Teatro Ariston, Via Principe Amedeo, 20, Mantova, 46100, Italia
La stella nascosta, our dance performance for children, debuts in Mantua at the Segni New Generations Festival.
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.
Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator
il nostro spettacolo dedicato all’infanzia, debutta a Mantova al Segni New Generations Festival.
Frutto di un lungo processo di ricerca artistica e pedagogica sul dialogo tra il mondo dell’infanzia e i linguaggi della danza contemporanea, La stella nascosta è una performance con 4 giovani danzatori selezionati specificamente per questa coreografia, che accompagnano bambini e adulti in un viaggio alla scoperta della bellezza fuori dai canoni e i cliché mediatici. Saul Daniele Ardillo ha lavorato per oltre un anno insieme al drammaturgo Simone Giorgi e ad una straordinaria equipe di Reggio Children (partner scientifico del processo di ricerca), misurandosi con l’esperienza di Accademia Perduta | Romagna Teatri (coproduttore) e soprattutto con lo sguardo e la creatività di classi di bambini.

DANCEHAUSPIù / CZD / ATERBALLETTO
2019-10-30 20:30 - 22:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud_X2_”O”
Una serata che mette in risalto le peculiari cifre distintive dei tre Centri di Produzione della Danza italiani. Apre la serata DanceHaus Company / DanceHauspiù di Milano con I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud del coreografo Matteo Bittante: i versi del poeta inglese Wordsworth fanno da sfondo al rito bucolico ed errabondo dei tre danzatori in cui la forza vitale e la quiete idilliaca della natura si contrappongono ai turbamenti e alla confusione della città. Scenario Pubblico/Compagnia Zappalà Danza di Catania presenta in prima nazionale x2, atto d’amore artistico che Roberto Zappalà vuole dedicare al grande compositore Johann Sebastian Bach. Chiude la serata la Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto di Reggio Emilia con “O”: Philippe Kratz e Ivana Mastroviti si muovono verso il ritmo infinito dei loro cuori inarrestabili in una coreografia entrata da poco nel repertorio della compagnia, ma già molto applaudita in molti teatri.

I WANDERED LONELY AS A CLOUD
Choreography Matteo Bittante
Music various authors
Dancers Fabio Calvisi, Alice Carrino, Giovanni Leone
Production DanceHauspiù
“I wandered lonely like a cloud” is the beginning of one of the most famous poems of English romanticism written at the beginning of the nineteenth century by William Wordsworth. In this new creation by choreographer Matteo Bittante, co-director and resident artist of the National Centre for Dance Production, DANCEHAUSpiù, the poet’s verses form the backdrop to the bucolic and wandering rite of the three dancers in which the vital force and idyllic quiet of nature contrast with the upheavals and confusion of the city. In the poetry, as in the show, the real protagonists are not the men but the elements of nature such as the lake, the narcissus or the clouds with which the bodies of the dancers try a possible metamorphosis.
Notes of the choreographer
I lived my childhood on a hill, in the middle of nature, running from one meadow to another, climbing the trees, I was always in constant contact, almost symbiotic with her.
Since ancient times, the countryside and rural life have served as a source of inspiration for many artists.
An idyllic place of escape, a refuge from the duties of life, once for the exploration of the self.
A landscape of the soul, today to be defended and protected against the ideologies of an era that contaminate and desertify Mother Earth.
Matteo Bittante

x2
Premiere
Choreography Roberto Zappalà
Music Johann Sebastian Bach
Dancers Maud de la Purification, Roberto Provenzano
Costume and lighting design Roberto Zappalà
Costume realization Debora Privitera
Technical director Sammy Torrisi
Production Scenario Pubblico / Compagnia Zappalà Danza
This short episode begins the act of artistic love that Roberto Zappalà wants to dedicate to great composer Johann Sebastian Bach. No dramaturgy, no intellectual reasoning, just a close relationship between music and dance. On the other hand Zappalà has made Charles Baudelaire’s thought his own: “Glorifying the cult of image and aesthetics is my goal even before its meaning”.
The creation represents one of the phases of a path divided into three different moments/episodes: x2, x4, which are also the respective numbers of dancers on stage, while the third episode will be a creation for the entire Company and will see its debut in autumn 2020. The final project will be inspired by the different versions that have been created and “remade” over time.
''O''
Choreography Philippe Kratz
Music Mark Pritchard and The Field
Costume design Francesca Messori
Lighting design Carlo Cerri
Dancers Philippe Kratz and Ivana Mastroviti
Production Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto
First prize at the 32nd Choreographic Competition in Hanover – June 2018
Philippe Kratz is a member of the stARTacademy of Bayer Arts & Culture.
The idea at the base of “O” is eternity and how attaining it is humanity’s ultimate goal. As in the summer of 2017 in Hong Kong for the very first time two humanoid robots vocally interacted with one another it became clear to anyone watching that a future, in which accumulated human knowledge is passed on by communicating inorganic material, is within reach.
Therefore “O” can be seen as two human beings or two robots celebrating in a state of transcendence and emotional fulfilment, both moving to the never-ending beat of their unstoppable hearts.
And as the spaceship computer Hal in Stanley Kubrick’s movie ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ puts it: “I know I’ve made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal. I’ve still got the greatest enthusiasm and confidence in the mission. And I want to help you.”

Food&Drink
Dalle 18.30 alle 20.15
AGRIAPERITIVO
Preparati a scoprire sapori e profumi diversi, che insieme alla danza renderanno unica la tua esperienza in Fonderia.
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