Centro Coreografico Nazionale / Aterballetto

MicroDanze - urban setting
2022-06-12 17:30 - 19:30, 2022-06-12 18:30 - 20:30 (Europe/Rome) | Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia, 42121, Italia
In the framework of the Creative Europe An Ideal City project, the MicroDances are in Reggio Emilia on 10-12 June.
In the past months some of the MicroDances were at the center of a process of reenactment: a transposition of the original versions for young dancers and public spaces aimed at the creation of an urban version that can interpret the spirit and characteristics of the three cities involved: Reggio Emilia, Athens and Brussels.
Find out more about reenactment here.
In Reggio Emilia, the 8 MicroDances that are the subject of the reenactment are immersed in an urban route that starts in the historic centre and stops at the Parco Innovazione on the northern outskirts of the town.
Protagonists of the performances are the young talents from the advanced training courses Agora Coaching Project and Studio XL.
In addition to the urban MicroDances route, other events are organised from 10 to 12 June to discover public art and the city itself.
An Ideal City | Reggio Emilia is curated by Costanza Meli.
FND_Aterballetto – MicroDanze -Eppur si muove-chor. Francesca Lattuada – dancers Arianna Ganassi, Antonio Tafuni – Palazzo da Mosto – ph Alice Vacondio
MicroDances - Urban Route
Eight 8 MicroDances are performed in Reggio Emilia along a path that links its historic city center both physically and symbolically with the new area of urban renewal and development known as Parco Innovazione, the former industrial area previously occupied by Officine Meccaniche Reggiane. The route winds through the city’s pedestrian island with locations to stop and witness the performances on a path that takes around two hours to complete.
For two days (10 and 12 June), these MicroDances will be staged in places of strategic significance and areas of passage between the town center and its outskirts on a journey to rediscovering and redefining Reggio Emilia’s social, cultural, and historical heritage of the past and present.
The presentation throughout the city is at the disposal of both casual audiences that encounter the performances by chance and those who decide to follow its seven itineraries and discover how dance suits the city’s locations of greatest social, historical, and future relevance.
The Project combines the languages of dance and public art in developing its ideal of the inclusive, dynamic, and experimental city, one that takes part by placing all its various forms of energy into relationship and working for a shared objective. No city is ever ideal, however: each is real and keeps growing also in the circulation of knowledge and experiences among its citizens, especially those who consider the dimension of the community and shared space a precious asset. With this aspiration, An Ideal City – Reggio Emilia decided to create a network of collaborations with institutional partners, associations, and local actors and actresses to animate the city’s social and cultural life in different ways.
In its urban version, An Ideal City involves the reenactment of the MicroDances with participation from the Peri-Merulo Conservatory, the K-Lab community tailory, the SemiLiberi social carpentry shop set up inside a prison by Cooperativa L’Ovile and the Via Roma Citizens’ Committee in creating essential parts of performance stage design and choreography and others required for the enjoyment of the city’s events and cultural heritage by the public at large.
Costanza Meli
An Ideal City curator
Stages of the route
1 Teatro San Prospero
Forget Me Not
Choreography: Konstantinos Rigos
Performer: Alessio Saccheri
Music: Giorgos Koumendakis
Clarinet: Jennifer Piazza
2 Piazza Casotti
Turn the Tide
Choreography, set, costumes: Roberto Tedesco
Performers: Marianna Basso, Federico Russo
Music: BowLand
3 Via Roma, 22
Eppur si Muove
Choreography: Francesca Lattuada
Performer: Arianna Ganassi
Music: Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony n. 7, 2nd movement: Allegretto
Costume: Bruno Fatalot
4 Viale Ramazzini, 9
Fantasmagoria
Choreography: Markella Manoliadi
Performer: Sally Demonte
Music: Gabriel Fauré, “Après un rêve”
Singer: Loredana Ferrante
5 VR33 / Viale Ramazzini, 33
Pensieri di Carta
Choreography, original music: Hélias Tur-Dorvault
Performer: Rossana Samele
Sound design: Alessandro Grisendi
6 Garage Poppi / Viale Ramazzini, 33
Knight Rider
Choreography: Yannis Nikolaidis
Performer: Veronica Biondini
Sound design: Manolis Manousakis
Costume: Ioanna Tsami
7 Ex Reggiane – Capannone 18
Strôma
Choreography and costumes: Giovanni Insaudo
Performers: Agnese Biavati, Marek Brafa
Music: BFRND, “La vie en rose”
8 Green Park Centro Internazionale Loris Malaguzzi
Active Motivation
Choreography: Elena Kekkou
Perfomer: Lorenzo Molinaro
Music: Antonis Vlachos
Info & reservations
Friday 10 June 5.00 p.m. and 6.30 p.m.
Sunday 12 June at 4.30 p.m., 5.30 p.m. and 6.30 p.m.
Start from Teatro San Prospero, Via Guidelli, 5
Guided tour on foot, duration approximately 2 hours
Info: 0522273011 / whatsapp 3341023554
Ticket: 5 euro
Online purchase: www.biglietteriafonderia39.it

SIDE EVENTS

Atelier with Reggio Children
Friday 10 June from 4.30 p.m. to 6.15 p.m.
Centro Internazionale Loris Malaguzzi – Viale Ramazzini, 72/a
In partnership with Reggio Children
Workshop “A pin on a journey”
A space to make your own pin with unusual materials.
From age 3 and up – Free entrance for small groups

Friday 10 June from 4.45 p.m. to 6.15 p.m.
Centro Internazionale Loris Malaguzzi – Viale Ramazzini, 72/a
In partnership with Reggio Children
Atelier Mosaic of Graphics Words Matter
An atelier to experiment with unexpected graphic tools and material surfaces.
from 3 to 7 years – max 24 participants
Adults 5 euros – Children 3 euros
booking required: http://bitly.ws/rjcB
info: www.reggiochildren.it
Reggio Children – Atelier
Conference An Ideal City: where dance meets the urban landscape
Saturday 11 June from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Fonderia Aterballetto – via della Costituzione, 39
Also available in online streaming: www.aterballetto.it

Speakers:
– Gigi Cristoforetti, Director of the Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto:
What is the project An Ideal City? The importance of the project in the path of the Foundation and the dancers regarding the relationship with the city.
– Annalisa Rabitti, Councillor for Culture of the Municipality of Reggio Emilia:
Considerations on how cultural projects relate to the city and the social context.
– Costanza Meli – Nadja Argyropoulou – Pauline de la Boulaye, curators of the project An Ideal City:
What is the relationship between the first version of MicroDances and the reenactment? Considerations on the meaning of the project in relation to the ideal city and the real city.
– Choreographers and performers involved in An Ideal City:
Considerations on this project of dance, public art and encounter with the city.
– Vittorio Salmoni, coordinator of the Italian UNESCO Creative Cities network:
Concluding analysis of the project in relation to urban regeneration processes.
The partners who took part in the project will also speak, presenting their reality within the social environment and sharing their experience within the An Ideal City project.
Guided tour of the Street Museum Via Roma zero
Sunday 12 June from 10 a.m. to 10.30 a.m.
Departure Porta Santa Croce
In partnership with the Associazione ‘Via Roma Zero’
Two exceptional guides will take you through the stories of yesterday and today. A leap back in time to meet the Popol Giòst, imagine the 1980s, revisit the old taverns and discover the latest practices of sustainability and social cohesion.
Reservations required: cittadiniviaroma@gmail.com; messages at 335330948
Urban walk: art in Santa Croce between past and present
Sunday 12 June from 11 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.
Start from Via Cirillo Manicardi, 1 – Santa Croce railway station
In partnership with Progetto Strade / coop.va sociale CORESS
URBAN WALK: artistic and cultural memory in Santa Croce. The innovative cultural approach of the urban walk shifts attention to the communities that inhabit places and the practices of using spaces and describing them; they are valuable resources for those who want to get to know an area in depth, to involve and integrate old and new inhabitants. Starting from Viale Ramazzini 33, we will discover some places in the neighbourhood that bear witness to and preserve traces and memories of a past dense with art and culture.
The urban walk is organised and led by educators and adults with fragility who are part of the STRADE project (Social and Occupational Area of Reggio Emilia and district) in collaboration with the CORESS Social Cooperative.
Max 20 people
reservations: 3668212116

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MICRODANZE - REENACTMENT
2022-06-17 17:30 - 21:00 | Agricultural University of Athens, Iera Odos 75, Atene, 11855, Grecia
In the framework of the Creative Europe An Ideal City project, the MicroDances are in Athens on 17 June.
In the past months some of the MicroDances were at the center of a process of reenactment: a transposition of the original versions for young dancers and public spaces aimed at the creation of an urban version that can interpret the spirit and characteristics of the three cities involved: Reggio Emilia, Athens and Brussels.
Find out more about reenactment here.
In Athens, the 8 MicroDances that are the subject of the reenactment are immersed in the indoor and outdoor spaces of the city’s Agricultural University.
Protagonists of the performances are the young talents from the professional dance school of the Greek National Opera.
Performances are on 17 June at 17.30-18.30-19.30.

MicroDanze - urban route

As the European project An Ideal City enters the phase of the recast of MicroDances for the public space – Athens is introducing those dance reenactments as re-enchantments:
a reminder of the agency of the natural within the cultural, a visit out into patterns of difference, a walk through the web of life that nourishes (para)urban realities, artistic creation, the more-than-human communities.
Eight of the short dance performances that were presented within museum spaces in 2021, are reconfigured and will unfold at the premises of the Agricultural University of Athens (AUA).
The third oldest public university in Greece, is situated within the beating heart of the capital and covers a sprawling area of botanical gardens, greenhouses, cultivated fields, animal shelters, barns, vineyards, beekeeping and compost units, conservation laboratories, teaching halls, a museum and a library, important material archives, student hubs, seed depositories, a treasure of artistic-scientific representations of Greek flaura.
AUA is emblematic in that it shares the historic and re-developing area of Votanikos (Botanical Gardens) with, both abandoned and new small businesses, with reconfigured industrial units and independent art spaces, with night-clubs and houses.
Its academic units spread across both sides of the ‘Sacred Way’ (Iera Odos) that connected Athens to Eleusis – the ancient center of the cult of Mysteries – and are bordering with the important archaeological sites of Kerameikos and Plato’s Academy.
If it is true that no city can be ‘ideal’ and no art can be about change unless they are animated by cosmoecological mindfulness and fertile pedagogies, the Athens MicroDances are engaging with the active laboratory of the urban body, its long-term economies and precarious circumstances.
They are moving us through the locus of this major Greek agricultural Institution with the international outreach, as if within the open ‘stomach’ of the city and its multiple networks. There where the politics of food meet the future of care-full thought and creative ecologies are growing in study, in the cultivation of everyday, embodied cosmopolitics.
Each of the reenacted dance pieces emerges organically from within this rich eco-system. Each offers a pause and a celebration of various functions and their symbiotic value:

the architecturally imposing central square;
the central building hall with the preserved ancient olive tree;
the old side-yard;
the semi-hidden Flower Nursery;
the glass Floriculture Greenhouse;
the meandering interstitial spaces;
the area of arboriculture;
the tractor shed near the old arboretum, the blooming alleys and forking pathways, the busy student body, the polyphony of life, the roaming nature of knowledge.

Immersed in the paradox of a rural atmosphere within a contemporary city scape we can be reminded of the very roots of the idea of the city, the response-ability of the bodies that shape its future, the wild that always lives at the heart of the domestic.
Nadja Argyropoulou
Project Advising Curator

All'esterno e davanti all'edificio dell'amministrazione centrale
MicroDance: Strôma by Giovanni Insaudo

Performers: Agnese Biavati, Marek Brafa Misicoro
All'interno del Salone principale dell'edificio dell'Amministrazione centrale

MicroDance: Knight Rider by Yannis Nikolaidis
Performer: Despoina Chrysostomou

Nella piazza antistante l'edificio Evelpides
MicroDance: Fantasmagoria by Markella Manoliadi
Performer: Ilia Koukouzeli
Giardino della Floricultura
MicroDance: Forget me not by Konstantinos Rigos
Performer: Pavlos Orfeas Argyropoulos
Serra di Floricultura
MicroDance: Pensieri di carta by Hélias Tur-Dorvault
Performer: Despoina Karakatsani
Dietro le serre centrali di piante ornamentali
MicroDance: Turn the Tide by Roberto Tedesco
Performers: Theoni Peraki, Spyridon Zikos
Giardino dell'Arboricoltura - Spazio cinematografico all'aperto
MicroDance: Active Motivation by Elena Kekkou
Performer: Konstantina Tsimeka

Entrata del vecchio arboreto
MicroDance: Eppur si muove by Francesca Lattuada

Performer: Marios Athanasios Bozikas

Another Story
2022-06-23 20:00 - 20:15 | Giardino Pomario del Castello dell’Acciaiolo, via Pantin 63, Scandicci, FI, 50018, Italia
Another Story, the duet by Diego Tortelli, is at Scandicci, near Florence, for the festival Nutida.
Another Storytells the new story of the most feared and at the same time desired gesture of 2020: the hug. A gesture as simple as a hug has been transformed into the most hidden desire and at the opposite into an almost “terrorist” act, without losing its deep meaning of carnal sharing. Another Story becomes a solitary, shared, violent, painful, tiring and also desired, hidden, intimate embrace. What choreographer Diego Tortelli intends to do is to write another story to be mutually felt and observed by performer and spectator.

SHOOT ME - BLISS
2022-06-28 21:30 - 22:45 | Chiostro Grande Santa Maria Novella, Piazza Santa Maria Novella, 18, Firenze, 50123, Italia
At the 33rd edition of the Florence Dance Festival Aterballetto dances SHOOT ME, the latest choreography by Diego Tortelli, for the first time on stage since its debut in April 2022. On the strong rhythms of the English rock group Spiritualized, mixed with poems recited by Jim Morrison, the 16 dancers with glittery hair create on stage a dizzying game of seduction, glances and complicity with the audience.
BLISS is one of the company’s hits, created by award-winning Swedish choreographer Johan Inger. The choreography, accompanied by the notes of Keith Jarrett’s famous and iconic Köln Concert, is a true hymn to the joy of dancing. The euphoria of the performers is a pleasure to behold, so captivating and powerful that it is still charming theatres all over the world since 2016.

MicroDanze
2022-06-29 21:30 - 22:30 | Museo d’Arte Cinese ed Etnografico, Viale S. Martino, 8, Parma, 43123, Italia
In the framework of “Intersezioni – Incroci di arti perfomative”, the contemporary dance review curated by Artemis Danza, 4 MicroDances are in the halls of the Museum of Chinese Art and Ethnography in Parma.
The MicroDances performed are:

Eppur si muove by Francesca Lattuada with Arianna Ganassi and Antonio Tafuni
Pensieri di carta by Hélias Tur-Dorvault with Martina Forioso
The Wound – Archive of western images by Pietro Marullo with Arianna Kob
Strôma by Giovanni Insaudo with Agnese Biavati, Marek Brafa

MicroDanze
2022-07-01 19:00 - 22:30, 2022-07-02 19:00 - 22:30, 2022-07-03 19:00 - 22:30 | Castel Sant’Angelo, Lungotevere Castello, 50, Rome, 00193, Italia
Thanks to the partnership with the Polo Museale del Lazio, Castel Sant’Angelo in Rome is the unique setting for 9 of our MicroDances.
Fabio Cherstich supervises the staging of the danced exhibition in the rooms and bastions of one of the symbolic places of the city and Italian art.
Friday 1 July: 7 p.m., 8 p.m., 9 p.m.
Saturday 2 July: 7 p.m., 8 p.m., 9 p.m.
Sunday 3 July: 7 p.m., 8 p.m., 9 p.m.

Kepler
chor. Diego Tortelli
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Afterimage
chor. Philippe Kratz
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The Bell Jar
chor. Fernando Melo
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Inside
chor. Norge Cedeño Raffo
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Near Life Experience
chor. Angelin Preljocaj
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Eppur si muove
chor. Francesca Lattuada
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Shelter
chor. Saul Daniele Ardillo
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Platform 02
chor. Ina Lesnakowski
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Turn the Tide
chor. Roberto Tedesco
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DIVINO_PRIMA APPARIZIONE
2022-07-05 19:30 - 20:00
COMPAGNIA NATISCALZI DT
For choreographers Tommaso Monza and Claudia Rossi Valli, the word ‘divine’ is not synonymous with ‘religious’. The project questions where the sense of the divine resides in everyday urban life and wants to do so by confronting itself with the generation of rappers and trappers under 25, who will be the backbone of the project. The word in metrics conceived as “The Word” and its flow, the parallelism of theatre and dance with the metrics of rap in an attempt to generate an aesthetic short-circuit.
The performance is within the summer festival DANZA AI CHIOSTRI curated by Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto and Fondazione I Teatri di Reggio Emilia.

CREDITS
concept and choreography Tommaso Monza and Claudia Rossi Valli
dance Chiara Di Guardo, Blanca Lo Verde, Ludovica Messina, Federico Russo
Live music FLOW NASA and BABA BEATBOX
A production by Natiscalzi DT, Compagnia Abbondanza/Bertoni, Associazione Cinqueminuti
with the support of Piemonte dal Vivo, Fondazione I Teatri di Reggio Emilia and Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto
with the contribution of the Municipality of Reggio Emilia
winner of Toscana Terra Accogliente, a project by R.A.T. Residenze Artistiche Toscane, in collaboration with Teatro Metastasio, Fondazione Toscana Spettacolo, Virgilio Sieni Danza, Fabbrica Europa

NATISCALZI DT
Natiscalzi Danza Teatro is the organic result of the creative journey shared between Tommaso Monza and Claudia Rossi Valli, a collaboration that began in 2012 and has been successfully pursued over the years. The company initially developed as a rib of the Abbondanza/Bertoni company to then affirm its independent identity in 2016, establishing itself as a cultural association after years of projects, productions, residencies and tours.
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INFO & TICKETS
The performance takes place at the Chiostro Piccolo of the Chiostri di San Pietro complex.
TICKETS
Single seat 5 €.
The performances at the Chiostro Piccolo entitle you to a reduction on the tickets for the performances of the review DANZA AI CHIOSTRI at the Chiostro grande: reduced ticket at € 8 instead of € 10
INFO & TICKET RESERVATION
info@aterballetto.it / 0522 273016 / 334 1023554 (Whatsapp)
TICKET PURCHASE
Online www.biglietteriafonderia39.it
At the Chiostri San Pietro: from one hour before the start of the performance

GERSHWIN SUITE | SCHUBERT FRAMES
2022-07-05 21:30 - 22:45
MM CONTEMPORARY DANCE COMPANY
An evening dedicated to music is the one proposed by the company directed by Michele Merola. On the notes of famous pieces, but also on more intimate and seductive music by the American composer, Merola looks to the 20th century and the atmosphere of the Roaring Twenties, drawing inspiration from the dynamic compositions of George Gershwin and the realistic and almost ‘cinematographic’ painting of Edward Hopper. Schubert frames is a work full of poetic images by Enrico Morelli, who lets himself be enveloped by the delicate and moving music of Franz Schubert.
The performance is within the summer festival DANZA AI CHIOSTRI curated by Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto and Fondazione I Teatri di Reggio Emilia.

GERSHWIN SUITE
Choreography: Michele Merola
Music: George Gershwin, Stefano Corrias
Lighting and set design: Cristina Spelti
Set design: Alice De Lorenzi
Costumes: Carlotta Montanari
Music adaptation and recomposing: Stefano Corrias
Choreography assistant: Paolo Lauri
Performers: Emiliana Campo, Dylan Di Nola, Mario Genovese, Matilde Gherardi, Fabiana Lonardo, Annalisa Perricone, Alice Ruspaggiari, Nicola Stasi, Giuseppe Villarosa
Duration: 40 min.
Premiere: 8 February 2018, Teatro Ristori, Verona
The notes of George Gershwin (1898-1937), one of the most representative musicians of the 20th century, reflect the spirit of the time in which they were created, with the moods and atmospheres of the Roaring Twenties. Starting with the composer’s best pieces and suggestions from the pictorial works of another great 20th century American artist, Edward Hopper (1882-1967), Michele Merola has created Gershwin Suite, whose soundtrack anthologises the author’s most captivating pages, such as, among others, Summertime, which seals the show and recurs in several moments and in different versions, and Rhapsody in Blue. But it is not only the lush and lively music that attracts the choreographer: Merola chooses Gershwin’s music in its various facets, not only the more euphoric and brilliant pieces, but also the more romantic and intimate, sensual and seductive ones. A new composition by Stefano Corrias welds it all together, a musical carpet that gives unity to the rich mosaic of scents, now overflowing with dynamism, now fully lyrical, suspended in rethinking and thickened in melancholy. Another authorial contribution to the realisation of the show was made by Cristina Spelti, who designed the lighting and set design, and co-wrote the concept with Merola.

Some scenes are therefore inspired by the connection between the composer’s various pieces and various paintings – such as New York Movie, Soir Bleu, Summer in the City, People in the sun – by Edward Hopper, a painter who, thanks to his realism and his modus operandi of ‘framing’, is considered an artist very close to the world of photography and cinema, capable of poetically and evocatively depicting even humble and simple moments of everyday life.
“I was attracted” – says the choreographer – “by the painter’s ability to construct atmospheres and nuances that outline the implications and secrets of the human condition. The direction of the danced images and the staging of the scenes create characters and situations that are not determined once and for all, but open to different endings and solutions”.
Directly inspired by Hopper’s paintings, the intimacy of the pas de deux and solos are paraded, complemented by ensemble scenes, where the will to live and redemption from everyday life take over. On stage, so much variety takes on the guise of a film set, thanks to a set design that changes constantly, just like a set, and a choreography that touches several keys, thanks to the versatility of the choreographer, who is able to apply his creativity and talent in step with contemporary times.
SCHUBERT FRAMES

Choreography: Enrico Morelli
Music: Franz Schubert
Lighting design: Cristina Spelti
Costumes: Carlotta Montanari
Performers: Emiliana Campo, Dylan Di Nola, Mario Genovese, Matilde Gherardi, Fabiana Lonardo, Annalisa Perricone, Alice Ruspaggiari, Nicola Stasi, Giuseppe Villarosa
Enrico Morelli wanted to entrust his new work to the extraordinary music of Franz Schubert: no one better than the Viennese composer was able to interpret the conflicting feelings of love, tension, melancholy, regret, but also hope.
A collage of Schubert’s celebrated pieces, extracts from real masterpieces of infinite beauty – composed two centuries ago, they still amaze today for their great topicality – serve as the soundtrack to this work dedicated to the many souls of contemporary man, where love gives way to disenchantment, detachment to sharing, passion to fear, and vice versa, in a coming and going between crescendo and diminuendo, revealing entire universes and secret bonds.

The choreography has no pretence or descriptive ambition: it is an abstract tale of loneliness and kindred souls, in an era such as ours, tired, turbid, disenchanted, tormented by a malaise that hangs in the air, but also anxiously searching for meaning and hope for happiness. It is a story in which we focus above all on the moment of return, because happiness is a home to return to, perhaps changed, heedless of the accelerated speed of a present that frightens us and a future that we may be afraid to explore. The problem is not to arrive, but to return. Learning each time to love, again. Having the courage to recognise ourselves as fragile, and therefore generous in tenderness.

MM CONTEMPORARY DANCE COMPANY
The MM Contemporary Dance Company is a contemporary dance company directed by choreographer Michele Merola. It was established in 1999 as a centre for the production of events and performances and as a promoter of festivals and workshops with the aim of fostering exchanges and alliances between Italian and international artists, witnesses and spokesmen of contemporary culture.
The repertoire of the company, based in Reggio Emilia, is rich and varied, thanks to works by Michele Merola and creations by European and Italian choreographers such as Mats Ek, Gustavo Ramirez Sansano, Karl Alfred Schreiner, Emanuele Soavi, and Enrico Morelli.
In 2010, the MM Contemporary Dance Company won the prestigious Danza&Danza Award as best emerging company and today, it is, to all intents and purposes, a reality of excellence in Italian dance, with a consolidated activity of performances throughout the country. For some years now, it has conquered an international market with performances in European and non-European countries (Korea, Colombia, Canada, Germany, Russia, Morocco…).
In 2017, the MM Contemporary Dance Company won the 2017 Europaindanza Prize – Prize for Merit in Choreography, for the show Bolero by Michele Merola.
For the three-year period 2018-20, the MM Contemporary Dance Company is an associated company of the Trentino Alto Adige InDanza Circuit.
MMCDC is supported by the Ministry of Culture, Emilia-Romagna Region, National Dance Foundation/Aterballetto, Teatro Asioli in Correggio, ASD Progetto Danza. Technical partner: Pro Music.
INFO & TICKETS
The performance takes place at the Chiostro Grande of the Chiostri di San Pietro complex.
TICKETS
Single seat 10 €.
The performances at the Chiostro Piccolo at h 19.30 entitle you to a reduction on the tickets for the performances of the review DANZA AI CHIOSTRI at the Chiostro grande: reduced ticket at € 8 instead of € 10
INFO & TICKET RESERVATION
info@aterballetto.it / 0522 273016 / 334 1023554 (Whatsapp)
TICKET PURCHASE
Online www.biglietteriafonderia39.it
At the Chiostri San Pietro: from one hour before the start of the performance

Never odd or even
2022-07-08 16:30 - 20:00, 2022-07-09 16:30 - 20:00 | Biblioteca Classense, Via A. Baccarini, 3, Ravenna, RA, Italia
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At Ravenna Festival it premieres Never odd or even, our new creation in the framework of Virtual Dance for Real People.
What happens when dance, technology and an immersive experience in the artistic sites of the Emilia Romagna region get together? Choreographer Fernando Melo has no choice but to abandon himself to the dream, and explore it, even if it turns out to be a nightmare where movements are in slow motion, and gravity follows different rules. This is what happens to the two dancers, dreamlike figures that try in vain to reunite while an irresistible force pulls them apart. The audience will do away with the “fourth wall” and the usual conceptions of space and time, and follow the dancers into the Classense Library. Upon awakening, in the Mosaics Hall, the mind will still be projected into a dimension where the barriers between dance and virtual reality are broken.
Never odd or even
Virtual Dance for Real People #Ravenna
New paths for a unique theatre eventImmersive and live experience
Never odd or evenconcept and choreography Fernando Melomusic Stars of the Lidperformers Philippe Kratz and Grace Lyellcostumes Nuvia Valestrivideo direction Guido Acampa
technological development and user experience design RE:Labvideo production & editing Riot Studio (Lapej)
a production Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / AterballettoIn the framework of Virtual Dance for Real People promoted and co-produced by Fondazione Palazzo Magnanico-production Ravenna Festival
Info and Hours
Where
Biblioteca Classense (Classense Library), Sala del Mosaico (Mosaics’ Hall)
via Baccarini 3 – Ravenna
When
Friday 8 and Saturday 9 July 2022
H 16.30, 18.00 e 19.30
Duration
30′
Tickets and Reservations
Admission 5 euro
Purchase on line
Info tickets@ravennafestival.org
Telephone +39 0544 249244

MicroDanze - urban setting
2022-07-09 18:00 - 20:00 | Palazzo Malfatti Azzolini, Piazza San Giovanni, Ala, TN, 38061, Italia
As part of the Ala – Città di Velluto – Memorie, in partnership with Centro Servizi Culturali Santa Chiara, we offer the urban version of MicroDances.
8 MicroDances are at the center of a process of reenactment: a transposition of the original versions for young dancers and public spaces aimed at the creation of an urban version.
The result is a project that creatively wanders among very different contexts – historical centers, industrial areas, residual spaces, symbolic places of the cities – defining unusual stages and creating radically new opportunities to meet the public. The leitmotif of the three experiments is research into dance as a form of living, in relation to contemporary artistic practices that are rooted in the territory.
The micro/macro relationship established by the confrontation with the urban space is the same that articulates the conceptual space of the choreography and the lived space, as well as the dialectic I/other, activated by the transmission of the choreographies to the dancers in training who become mediators of an unprecedented experience.
The binary gaze that links spectator↔artwork becomes a performer-spectator-urban landscape triangulation.
8 MicroDances are: Forget Me Not by Konstantinos Rigos, Turn the Tide by Roberto Tedesco, Eppur si muove by Francesca Lattuada, Fantasmagoria d by Markella Manoliadi, Pensieri di Carta by Hélias Tur-Dorvault, Knight Rider by Yannis Nikolaidis, Strôma by Giovanni Insaudo, Active Motivation by Elena Kekkou.
Saturday 9 July
h 18 – 19 – 20
Starting from Palazzo Malfatti Azzolini, Piazza San Giovanni
MicroDanze reenactment -Strôma di Giovanni Insaudo

DIVINO_SECONDA APPARIZIONE
2022-07-10 19:30 - 20:00

SHOOT ME - "O" - SECUS
2022-07-10 21:30 - 23:00, 2022-07-11 21:30 - 23:00
ANNULLAMENTO SPETTACOLI 10-11 LUGLIO

Gentilissimo pubblico,
con enorme dispiacere vi comunichiamo che gli spettacoli di Aterballetto programmati per il 10 e 11 luglio ai Chiostri di San Pietro sono annullati, a seguito di casi positivi al Covid19.
Modalità per il rimborso dei biglietti:
– Chi ha acquistato il biglietto di domenica 10 luglio (Aterballetto, ore 21.30), deve presentarsi con la ricevuta d’acquisto online o con il biglietto cartaceo alla biglietteria dei Chiostri di San Pietro domenica 10 luglio dalle ore 18.30 alle ore 21.30;

– Chi ha acquistato il biglietto di lunedì 11 luglio (Aterballetto, ore 21.30) deve presentarsi con la ricevuta d’acquisto online o con il biglietto cartaceo alla biglietteria dei Chiostri di San Pietro domenica 10 o lunedì 11 luglio dalle ore 18.30 alle ore 21.30.
Oltre queste date non sarà più possibile il rimborso.
È possibile sostituire i biglietti di domenica 10 e lunedì 11 luglio (Aterballetto, ore 21.30) con i biglietti degli spettacoli di Compagnia Natiscalzi DT – Divino_seconda apparizione (domenica 10 luglio ore 19.30), di C&C Company – Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda (lunedì 11 luglio, ore 19.30), di Equilibrio Dinamico – Equal to Men (martedì 12 luglio, ore 19.30), di Greek National Opera Ballet – Human Behaviour (martedì 12 luglio, ore 21.30), di Aterballetto & Greek National Opera Ballet – MicroDanze (venerdì 15, sabato 16, domenica 17 luglio ore 18.30-20.15-22.00).
La sostituzione potrà essere fatta solamente domenica 10 e lunedì 11 luglio dalle ore 18.30 alle ore 21.30 presso la biglietteria dei Chiostri di San Pietro, secondo le modalità scritte sopra.
Per info: info@aterballetto.it; 3341023554

Aterballetto is back dancing at the Chiostri with a perfect summer programme. The evening opens with Shoot me, a new creation by Diego Tortelli to the music of the rock group Spiritualized, an abstract but tense choreography full of energy. This is followed by “O”, Philippe Kratz’s small masterpiece, a hypnotic two-step with an unstoppable rhythm. All 16 dancers of the company close the evening with the visceral Secus, a creation by Israeli Ohad Naharin with an enthralling soundtrack.
The performance is within the summer festival DANZA AI CHIOSTRI curated by Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto and Fondazione I Teatri di Reggio Emilia.

INFO&TICKETS
The performance takes place at the Chiostro Grande of the Chiostri di San Pietro complex.
TICKETS
Single seat 10 €.
The performances at the Chiostro Piccolo at h 19.30 entitle you to a reduction on the tickets for the performances of the review DANZA AI CHIOSTRI at the Chiostro grande: reduced ticket at € 8 instead of € 10
INFO & TICKET RESERVATION
info@aterballetto.it / 0522 273016 / 334 1023554 (Whatsapp)
TICKET PURCHASE
Online www.biglietteriafonderia39.it
At the Chiostri San Pietro: from one hour before the start of the performance

Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda
2022-07-11 19:30 - 20:00
A contemporary staging for one of the most celebrated Baroque masterpieces by Claudio Monteverdi. A 17th-century madrigal in performance form inspired by the text La Gerusalemme liberata by Torquato Tasso. On stage the baroque mezzo-soprano Chiara Osella narrates the epic tale from the sad epilogue of the two young warrior lovers Tancredi and Clorinda, physically interpreted by the two German performers Lisa Hofmann and Luzi Madrid Villaneuva (twobetween).
A project born from an idea of Maestro Marcello Panni and from the collaboration with ‘Bologna Festival’, ‘Ferrara Musica’ and ‘IUC-Università La sapienza’ in Rome, featuring the choreographic creation by Carlo Massari.
The performance is within the summer festival DANZA AI CHIOSTRI curated by Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto and Fondazione I Teatri di Reggio Emilia.

CREDITS
Original creation: Carlo Massari
Performers: Lisa Hofmann and Luzi Madrid Villaneuva
Sung voice: Chiara Osella (mezzo-soprano)
Choreographic collaboration: Emanuele Rosa
Texts by Torquato Tasso
Original composition: Claudio Monteverdi
Transcription: Luciano Berio
Musical Consultancy: M°Marcello Panni
Production: C&C Company
First performance 2021 Bologna Festival – Ferrara Musica – IUC
Duration: 30′
C&C COMPANY
A project for the creation and development of an artistic language directed towards a physical and dramaturgical investigation, in close relation with contemporary social issues, it is characterised by constant research free of superstructures, and is interested in the depth of interpersonal relationships, with the aim of bringing ‘truth’ to the stage through a profoundly physical language that allows the spectator to feel represented in its universality. Founded in 2011, the Company denotes a strong vocation for cross-over and hybridity in the use of dance in relation to other contemporary performance codes, consolidating to date as an “amphibious” creative identity.
Among the numerous productions, the most recent are Beast without Beauty, Les Miserables and A peso morto, which boast international recognition and touring. There are recurring creations that involve communities, in a dialogue that enhances the artistic project: a search for relational truth combined with a total imaginative openness capable of bringing the audience closer to the theatrical experience. In 2020, C&C and its founder Carlo Massari won CollaborAction# / Rete AnticorpiXL with the project RIGHT.
INFO & TICKETS
The performance takes place at the Chiostro Piccolo of the Chiostri di San Pietro complex.
TICKETS
Single seat 5 €.
The performances at the Chiostro Piccolo entitle you to a reduction on the tickets for the performances of the review DANZA AI CHIOSTRI at the Chiostro grande: reduced ticket at € 8 instead of € 10
INFO & TICKET RESERVATION
info@aterballetto.it / 0522 273016 / 334 1023554 (Whatsapp)
TICKET PURCHASE
Online www.biglietteriafonderia39.it
At the Chiostri San Pietro: from one hour before the start of the performance

EQUAL TO MEN
2022-07-12 19:30 - 19:45
The Amazons.
The immortal myth of warrior women riding fiery horses, wielding bows, vigorous legs amid a storm, threatening eyes on delicate faces. Beautiful, young, resolute, ready to defend their independence with swords and arrows.
The archetype of the Amazons, women warriors inferior to no man, wishes to encourage a reflection on contemporary society and women’s roles. Homerus described them as “equal to men”, a sign of respect in the patriarchal society of ancient Greece.
The performance is within the summer festival DANZA AI CHIOSTRI curated by Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto and Fondazione I Teatri di Reggio Emilia.

CREDITS
Choreography and set concept: Roberta Ferrara
Lighting Design: Roberta Ferrara
Costumes: Franco Colamorea
Duration: 15 minutes
Winning performance for Best Choreography and Best Dancer categories at SoloTanz Festival 2018
Recommended by Network Danza Urbana 2018 & Vetrina della Giovane Danza D’autore Anticorpi XL 2019
EQUILIBRIO DINAMICO
The Equilibrio Dinamico company was founded in Apulia in 2011 by Roberta Ferrara, a choreographer, in order to offer a selected group of dancers from Southern Italy the opportunity to compete in an eclectic repertoire of international standing. The openness to quality experimentation, a painstaking and effective dramaturgical work, define the production of Ferrara herself and of the choreographers called to collaborate with Equilibrio Dinamico. In 2014 Vincenzo Losito joined the company, taking on the role of organisational and production manager, and contributing to increasing the group’s international visibility. Thanks to an effective network of exchanges with Europe and Asia, supported by the Teatro Pubblico Pugliese and, among others, the Italian Cultural Institutes of Cologne, Mexico, New York, Athens, Sao Paulo of Brazil, San Francisco and Zagreb, the company performs in countries such as the United States, Mexico, Singapore, Belgium, Germany, Greece, Albania, Kosovo, India, Japan, Spain, Brazil, ODT International – Singapore, Korea Ballet House – Seoul, Staatstheater Ballet Augsburg – Germany and Teatrul De Balet Sibiu – Romania.
equilibriodinamico.org
INFO&TICKETS
The performance takes place at the Chiostro Piccolo of the Chiostri di San Pietro complex.
TICKETS
Single seat 5 €.
The performances at the Chiostro Piccolo entitle you to a reduction on the tickets for the performances of the review DANZA AI CHIOSTRI at the Chiostro grande: reduced ticket at € 8 instead of € 10
INFO & TICKET RESERVATION
info@aterballetto.it / 0522 273016 / 334 1023554 (Whatsapp)
TICKET PURCHASE
Online www.biglietteriafonderia39.it
At the Chiostri San Pietro: from one hour before the start of the performance

HUMAN BEHAVIOUR
2022-07-12 21:30 - 23:00
The Greek National Opera Ballet presents a modern dance triptych composed of Point of No Return by Ioannis Mandafounis, Lieder ohne Worte by Konstantinos Rigos, director of the ensemble, and Plan B by Ermira Goro. The choreographies move between classical and modern styles, giving the dancers the opportunity to experiment with new dance forms, accompanied by the music of Giorgos Koumendakis, Dimitri Terzakis and Dimitra Trypani.

Lead Donor of the Greek National Opera

Aegean Airlines
Official Air Carrier

The performance is within the summer festival DANZA AI CHIOSTRI curated by Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto and Fondazione I Teatri di Reggio Emilia.

POINT OF NO RETURN
Choreographer, costume supervisor: Ioannis Mandafounis
Music: Giorgos Koumendakis
Lighting designer: Christos Tziogkas
Human Behaviour_Point of No Return_Photo Andreas Simopoulos
In Point of No Return, the internationally recognised dancer and choreographer Ioannis Mandafounis composes a modern piece out of dance elements deeply rooted in the tradition of classical ballet. In tune with the music of Giorgos Koumendakis, the GNO Ballet dancers focus on the transparency and authenticity of their moves via the arsenal of classical ballet steps. Although the group experience of their bodies reveals an extremely classical choreographical approach, one may discern the personal identity of the performers as well as a particularly modern treatment of presence and interpretation of movement – obvious elements that indicate the choreographer’s regular touch.
“Guided by the title Point of No Return, this dance piece highlights classical technique as performed by a dancer of today, without falsifying it. Joy, communication, complex choreography and performing immediacy are some of the elements presented by the dancers and shared with the public,” according to Ioannis Mandafounis. Giorgos Koumendakis’ music follows the example of the “anonymous” folksong creators, “recasting or recomposing traditional musical themes while retaining their energy and subtlety, the authenticity of their primordial model, their pulse and their soul.”
The choreography Point of No Return is a co-production of the GNO and the CIE Ioannis Mandafounis. The CIE Ioannis Mandafounis benefits from the joint support of the City of Geneva, the State of Geneva and the Pro Helvetia – Swiss Art Council for the 2018-2023 period.
Lieder ohne Worte
Choreographer, set designer: Konstantinos Rigos
Music: Dimitri Terzakis
Costume designer: Yiorgos Mesimeris
Lighting designer: Christos Tziogkas
Associate architect: Mary Tsangari

The GNO Ballet director Konstantinos Rigos bases his choreography for the second part of this “alternative journey” on three works by the accomplished Greek-German composer Dimitri Terzakis, inspired by modern Greek history and the legacy of ancient Greece. The delicate Sprüche im Wind consists of ten brief, succinct “haikus” for violin and piano. The work Der Hölle Nachklang I constitutes the composer’s emotionally charged reaction to his unbearable childhood memories of the German Occupation of Greece during his early childhood in Athens in the years 1941-1944, while the third piece, Lieder ohne Worte, is an apotheosis of melody based on the musical system of antiquity.
The composer notes: “To present the infinitesimal melodic nuances and rapidly changing characters, the interpretation of this composition may and must be endlessly free, poetic, song-like, speech-like and, yes, ‘old-fashioned’ – like in the theatre of ancient Greece.”
PLAN B
Choreographer: Ermira Goro
Music: Dimitra Trypani
Set & costume designer: Christos Delidimos
Lighting designer: Christos Tziogkas

Ermira Goro, a movement and dance theatre artist always in search for new forms of researching and communicating her ideas, says about the choreography of Plan B:
“Plan B is a choreographic experiment on rigorously structured, asymmetrical sonic forms. The dancers move through space in a constantly shifting flux from the particular to the abstract and vice-versa. Plan B, because Plan A proved impossible and Plan C is already taking place.” In tandem, the composer Dimitra Trypani likens her music to a “sonic impression of an imaginary videogame in a single-level environment which is to be traversed by the player. However, within this level, there are many ‘trap-rooms’ in quick, unexpected succession, often without warning. The player’s goal, of course, is to survive until they exit the last ‘trap-room’ of the game.”
Info&Tickets
The performance takes place at the Chiostro Grande of the Chiostri di San Pietro complex.
TICKETS
Single seat 10 €.
The performances at the Chiostro Piccolo at h 19.30 entitle you to a reduction on the tickets for the performances of the review DANZA AI CHIOSTRI at the Chiostro grande: reduced ticket at € 8 instead of € 10
INFO & TICKET RESERVATION
info@aterballetto.it / 0522 273016 / 334 1023554 (Whatsapp)
TICKET PURCHASE
Online www.biglietteriafonderia39.it
At the Chiostri San Pietro: from one hour before the start of the performance

AN IDEAL CITY / MICRODANZE
2022-07-15 18:30 - 23:00, 2022-07-16 18:30 - 23:00, 2022-07-17 18:30 - 23:00
A project by FONDAZIONE NAZIONALE DELLA DANZA /ATERBALLETTO
in co-production with FONDAZIONE PALAZZO MAGNANI
MICRODANZE is a production within AN IDEAL CITY, a project in partnership with
LES HALLES DE SCHAERBEEK – BRUSSELS and GREEK NATIONAL OPERA – ATHENS,
co-funded by the CREATIVE EUROPE programme of the European Union.
DANZA&DANZA “Special Project” Award 2021

A dance exhibition in the magnificent complex of the Chiostri di San Pietro. 15 choreographers – Italian and international – have conceived MicroDances, short pieces to be danced in a tiny space, to be watched in succession as if one were visiting a museum. A project that escapes the dynamics of the stage, the distance that separates the spectator from the performer, creating a continuum between the viewer and the one being watched. An emotional and aesthetic experience as varied as it is original.

The MicroDances are danced by the Compagnia Aterballetto and the Greek National Opera Ballet within two exhibition routes curated by Fabio Cherstich.
Route A – duration 1h 30′
Route B – duration 1h 30′
Both routes will start at the same time:
Friday 15 July 6.30 pm – 8.15 pm – 10 pm
Saturday 16 July 6.30 pm – 8.15 pm – 10 pm
Sunday 17 July 6.30 pm – 8.15 pm – 10 pm
You can see route A and route B by choosing different times and/or days
The performance is part of the summer festival DANZA AI CHIOSTRI organised by the Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto and Fondazione I Teatri di Reggio Emilia.

ROUTE A
1. Shelter by Saul Daniele Ardillo with Minouche Van De Ven
2. The bell jar by Fernando Melo with Ina Lesnakowski
3. Kepler by Diego Tortelli with Leonardo Farina, Sandra Salietti Aguilera, Jamal Uhlmann
4. Carne da eroe 2.0 by Roberto Zappalà with Giulio Pighini
5. Inside by Norge Cedeño Raffo with Estelle Bovay
6. The Wound. Archive of Western Images by Pietro Marullo with Arianna Kob
7. Afterimage by Philippe Kratz with Thomas Van De Ven
8. Turn the tide by Roberto Tedesco with Serena Vinzio and Matteo Fiorani
FND Aterballetto – MicroDanze – Shelter – chor Saul Daniele Ardillo – ph. Celeste Lombardi
FND Aterballetto – MicroDanze – The bell jar – chor Fernando Melo – ph. Celeste Lombardi
FND_Aterballetto – MicroDanze – Carne da eroe 2.0 – install. Roberto Zappalà – dancer Giulio Pighini – Athens SNFCC ph. Valeria Isaeva
FND_Aterballetto – MicroDanze – Inside – chor. Norge Cedeno Raffo – dancer Estelle Bovay – Athens EMST Museum – Valeria_Isaeva-03
FND Aterballetto – MicroDanze – Wound… – chor Pietro Marullo – ph. Celeste Lombardi
FND Aterballetto – MicroDanze – Afterimage – chor Philippe Kratz – ph. Celeste Lombardi
FND Aterballetto – MicroDanze – turn the Tide – chor Roberto Tedesco – ph. Celeste Lombardi
ROUTE B
1. Eppur si muove by Francesca Lattuada with Clément Haenen
2. Pensieri di carta by Hélias Tur-Dorvault with Martina Forioso
3. Platform 02 by Ina Lesnakowski with Saul Daniele Ardillo
4. Active motivation by and with Elena Kekkou
5. Knight riderby Yannis Nikolaidis with Margarita Kostoglou
6. Near life experience by Angelin Preljocaj with Ivana Mastroviti and Hélias Tur-Dorvault
7. Forget me notby Konstantinos Rigos with Vaggelis Bikos, sax Guido De Flaviis
FND_Aterballetto – MicroDanze – Eppur si muove – chor. Francesca Lattuada – dancer Clement Haenen – Athens Acropolis Museum – Ioannis Kampanis

FND Aterballetto – MicroDanze – Pensieri di carta – chor. Hélias Tur-Dorvault – ph. Celeste Lombardi (2)
FND Aterballetto – MicroDanze – Platform02 – chor Ina Lesnakowski – ph. Celeste Lombardi (9)
GNO Ballet – MicroDanze – Active Motivation – chor. Elena Kekkou – dancer Elena Kekkou – Athens Acropolis Museum ph. Valeria Isaeva
GNO Ballet – MicroDanze – Knight Rider – chor. Yannis Nikolaidis – dancer Margarita Kostoglou – Athens Acropolis Museum ph. Valeria Isaeva
FND_Aterballetto – MicroDanze -Near Life Experience -chor. A.Preljocaj -dancers I. Mastroviti, H. Tur-Dorvault – Palazzo da Mosto -ph Alice Vacondio

GNO Ballet – MicroDanze – Forget me not-chor. Konstantinos Rigos – dancer Danilo Zeka-Athens Acropolis Museum ph. Ioannis Kampanis
INFO&TICKETS
Route A – duration 1 hour
Route B – duration 1 hour
Both routes will start at the same time:
Friday 15 July 6.30 pm – 8.45 pm – 10 pm
Saturday 16 July 6.30 pm – 8.45 pm – 10 pm
Sunday 17 July 6.30 pm – 8.45 pm – 10 pm
You can see route A and route B by choosing different times and/or days
TICKETS
Route A: 8 €

Route B: 8 €

Route A + Route B: 13 € (the second route gives the reduced ticket at 5 €. So 1 full ticket at 8 € + 1 reduced ticket at 5 €)
INFO & TICKET RESERVATION
info@aterballetto.it / 0522 273016 / 334 1023554 (Whatsapp)
TICKET PURCHASE
Online www.biglietteriafonderia39.it
At San Pietro Cloisters: from one hour before the start of the performance

Shoot me - Secus
2022-07-22 21:20 - 22:30 | Teatro al Castello “Tito Gobbi”, Piazza Castello Ezzelini, Bassano del Grappa, (VI), 36061, Italia
Aterballetto is back in the spotlight at the Operaestate festival in Bassano del Grappa with SHOOT ME and Secus, two choreographies that between plasticity and energy seem to translate Canova’s work into movement.
For the creation SHOOT ME, choreographer Diego Tortelli reinterprets the idea of the concert-ballet in a contemporary key: music and dance thus accompany each other in a composition without narrative, but which guides the spectator to create open imagery and to feel emotions, inspired by the imagery of demonstrations, pride, catwalks… everything that connects in a group and that at the same time allows one not to lose one’s own voice. A work that puts the dancers on stage and the audience in the stalls in direct contact: a game of seduction, of glances, an assault on the senses and an ode to the body.

Secus, on the other hand, is a creation by Ohad Naharin, boasting a musical collage that stretches 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. An adventurously eclectic mix, which serves as a backdrop for a daring and extravagant choreography: in which a human alphabet is composed of runs, solos, terse and clean gestures, interrupted duets, which, through precise and sudden gestures, 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.

MicroDanze - urban setting
2022-07-23 18:30 - 20:00 | Piazza Libertà, Piazza Libertà, Bassano del Grappa, VI, 36061, Italia
As part of the Operaestate Festival we offer the urban version of MicroDances.
Some MicroDances are at the center of a process of reenactment: a transposition of the original versions for young dancers and public spaces aimed at the creation of an urban version.
The result is a project that creatively wanders among very different contexts – historical centers, industrial areas, residual spaces, symbolic places of the cities – defining unusual stages and creating radically new opportunities to meet the public. The leitmotif of the three experiments is research into dance as a form of living, in relation to contemporary artistic practices that are rooted in the territory.
The micro/macro relationship established by the confrontation with the urban space is the same that articulates the conceptual space of the choreography and the lived space, as well as the dialectic I/other, activated by the transmission of the choreographies to the dancers in training who become mediators of an unprecedented experience.
The binary gaze that links spectator↔artwork becomes a performer-spectator-urban landscape triangulation.
MicroDances performed at Operaestate festival are: Turn the Tide by Roberto Tedesco, Eppur si muove by Francesca Lattuada, Pensieri di Carta by Hélias Tur-Dorvault, Strôma by Giovanni Insaudo.
MicroDanze reenactment -Strôma di Giovanni Insaudo

Stanze / Rooms
2022-07-24 18:30 - 21:30 | Castello del Buonconsiglio, Via Bernardo Clesio, 5, Trento, 38122, Italia
Stanze Rooms
A site-specific itinerant performance
The original creation by Diego Tortelli, created for the rooms of the Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo in Brescia, comes to life in the halls of the Castello del Buon Consiglio in Trento. Spectators will enter into an exciting close relationship with the dancers, accompanied by Daniela Savoldi‘s cello, and experience the sumptuous residence of the prince-bishops in a special way.
CREDITS
Choreography and concept: Diego Tortelli
Music: Daniela Savoldi
Cello: Daniela Savoldi
Sound design: Federico Bigonzetti
Costumes: Diego Tortelli in collaboration with Nuvia Valestri
Dancers: Fabio Calvisi, Marta Castelletta, Cristian Cucco, Vittoria Franchina, Giovanni Leone, Vanessa Loi
Promoted by Comune di Brescia and Fondazione Brescia Musei
Production: Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto
Production partnership: Fondazione I Teatri Reggio Emilia
In collaboration with Centro Teatrale Bresciano
INFO AND TICKETS
Performance times:
Sunday, 24 July, 6.30 p.m., 8 p.m., 9.30 p.m.
Duration of each performance:
30′
Tickets:
https://www.centrosantachiara.it/spettacoli/spettacoli/stanze-rooms-aterballeto-dicastelincastello

A Poetry Abstraction
2022-07-27 16:00 - 16:30 | Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Via Manzoni 12, Milano, 20121, Italia
A Poetry Abstraction, a performance by Diego Tortelli with four dancers and a cello, is at the Museo Poldi Pezzoli in Milan to celebrate the bicentenary of the birth of its founder, Gian Giacomo Poldi Pezzoli. Organised in collaboration with the Fondazione Ravasi Garzanti, this is the first time the Museum has presented a dance performance.
Admission is free with limited places (max 30). It will only be possible to enter after reservation at the following e-mail address: info@museopoldipezzoli.org

MicroDanze - urban setting
2022-07-29 19:30 - 21:00 | Palazzo Lanfranchi, Piazzetta Pascoli, 1, Matera, 75100, Italia
At Palazzo Lanfranchi in Matera, within Artfest, we present the urban version of MicroDances.
Some MicroDances are at the center of a process of reenactment: a transposition of the original versions for young dancers and public spaces aimed at the creation of an urban version.
The result is a project that creatively wanders among very different contexts – historical centers, industrial areas, residual spaces, symbolic places of the cities – defining unusual stages and creating radically new opportunities to meet the public. The leitmotif of the three experiments is research into dance as a form of living, in relation to contemporary artistic practices that are rooted in the territory.
The micro/macro relationship established by the confrontation with the urban space is the same that articulates the conceptual space of the choreography and the lived space, as well as the dialectic I/other, activated by the transmission of the choreographies to the dancers in training who become mediators of an unprecedented experience.
The binary gaze that links spectator↔artwork becomes a performer-spectator-urban landscape triangulation.
Friday 29 July
h 19.30-20.30-21.30
Palazzo Lanfranchi

MicroDanze urban setting
2022-09-17 11:30 - 20:30 | Palazzo Schifanoia, via Scandiana, 23, Ferrara, 44121, Italia
The Renaissance Palazzo Schifanoia in Ferrara is the venue for the first show of the 2022-23 season of the Centro Coreografico Nazionale.
In the frame of the Contemporary Dance Festival of the Teatro Comunale di Ferrara, in collaboration with Interno Verde, we present MicroDanze – urban setting.
17th September 2022 – 11.30 a.m. / 4 p.m. / 7 p.m.
18th September 2022 – 11.30 a.m. / 4 p.m. / 7 p.m.
MicroDanze - urban setting
MicroDanze is an ambitious project of “danced” performances. Conceived by Gigi Cristoforetti, the project stems from an invitation by the Fondazione Palazzo Magnani in Reggio Emilia to develop and explore different ways of enjoying dance performance.
Choreographers – national and international – have conceived short pieces (six to eight minutes, to be danced in a minuscule space), which can be watched in succession as if one were visiting a museum. A project that eludes the dynamics of the stage, the distance separating the spectator from the performer, creating a continuum between the onlooker and the watched, soliciting an emotional and aesthetic experience as varied as it is original
Some MicroDances have been the focus of a reenactment process: a transposition of the original versions for young dancers and public spaces aimed at creating an urban version.

The result is a project that creatively wanders through very different contexts – historical centres, industrial areas, residual spaces, symbolic places in cities – defining unusual stages and creating radically new opportunities to meet the public. The leitmotif is research on dance as a form of living, in relation to contemporary artistic practices rooted in the territory.
In Ferrara, the MicroDances route, curated by Lara Guidetti, runs through the spaces of Palazzo Schifanoia, including the inner garden. It starts from the side entrance, passing through the garden, and then rejoins the visitors’ route from the upper rooms and the Salone dei Mesi. The itinerary allows for different experiences of the space including more concrete and essential outdoor green areas, and the historical halls whose works sometimes resonate in the choreographies.
MicroDanze reenactment -Strôma di Giovanni Insaudo
Punch 24
PERFORMANCE CANCELLED FOR ORGANISATIONAL REASONS RELATED TO THE FESTIVAL
choreography Roberto Tedesco
music Not Waving
costumes Waxman Brothers
dancers Antonello Amati, Laila Luchetta Lovino
The end is the beginning and the beginning is the end.
A circle, a journey that comes to an end only after returning to its starting point, containing countless roads and suggestions. Punch24 is a circular path where the first and last stages intersect each other but are not coincident phases. It is my research about anything what we can find within a shape, the awareness that every movement, every sound, every glance can be variable and endlessly multipliable. Punch24 is a series of independent scenes, a game of entrances and exits, a back and forth between the two dancers. A set of seemingly disconnected scenes that follow one other, offering the audience the possibility to visualize each time a different performer.
Roberto Tedesco

MicroDanze urban setting | Punch 24
2022-09-18 11:30 - 20:30 | Palazzo Schifanoia, via Scandiana, 23, Ferrara, 44121, Italia
The Renaissance Palazzo Schifanoia in Ferrara is the venue for the first show of the 2022-23 season of the Centro Coreografico Nazionale.
In the frame of the Contemporary Dance Festival of the Teatro Comunale di Ferrara, in collaboration with Interno Verde, we present MicroDanze – urban setting and Punch 24.
17th September 2022 – 11.30 a.m. / 4 p.m. / 7 p.m.
18th September 2022 – 11.30 a.m. / 4 p.m. / 7 p.m.
MicroDanze - urban setting
MicroDanze is an ambitious project of “danced” performances. Conceived by Gigi Cristoforetti, the project stems from an invitation by the Fondazione Palazzo Magnani in Reggio Emilia to develop and explore different ways of enjoying dance performance.
Choreographers – national and international – have conceived short pieces (six to eight minutes, to be danced in a minuscule space), which can be watched in succession as if one were visiting a museum. A project that eludes the dynamics of the stage, the distance separating the spectator from the performer, creating a continuum between the onlooker and the watched, soliciting an emotional and aesthetic experience as varied as it is original
Some MicroDances have been the focus of a reenactment process: a transposition of the original versions for young dancers and public spaces aimed at creating an urban version.

The result is a project that creatively wanders through very different contexts – historical centres, industrial areas, residual spaces, symbolic places in cities – defining unusual stages and creating radically new opportunities to meet the public. The leitmotif is research on dance as a form of living, in relation to contemporary artistic practices rooted in the territory.
In Ferrara, the MicroDances route, curated by Lara Guidetti, runs through the spaces of Palazzo Schifanoia, including the inner garden. It starts from the side entrance, passing through the garden, and then rejoins the visitors’ route from the upper rooms and the Salone dei Mesi. The itinerary allows for different experiences of the space including more concrete and essential outdoor green areas, and the historical halls whose works sometimes resonate in the choreographies.
MicroDanze reenactment -Strôma di Giovanni Insaudo
Punch 24
choreography Roberto Tedesco
music Not Waving
costumes Waxman Brothers
dancers Antonello Amati, Laila Luchetta Lovino
The end is the beginning and the beginning is the end.
A circle, a journey that comes to an end only after returning to its starting point, containing countless roads and suggestions. Punch24 is a circular path where the first and last stages intersect each other but are not coincident phases. It is my research about anything what we can find within a shape, the awareness that every movement, every sound, every glance can be variable and endlessly multipliable. Punch24 is a series of independent scenes, a game of entrances and exits, a back and forth between the two dancers. A set of seemingly disconnected scenes that follow one other, offering the audience the possibility to visualize each time a different performer.
Roberto Tedesco
