Centro Coreografico Nazionale / Aterballetto

Struggle for the soul - Welcome to my funeral - OPEN REHEARSAL
2023-05-12 18:00 - 19:00 (Europe/Rome) | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
OPEN REHEARSAL
The increasingly interesting company Equilibrio Dinamico returns to the Fonderia with two new productions.
Struggle for the Soul is the new creation by company director Roberta Ferrara. The choreography represents on stage the inner dissension present in each of us.
Welcome to my funeral is the production by Brandon Lagaert, an artist who has been collaborating for years with the internationally renowned dance theatre company Peeping Tom. The creation is also supported by the Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto.

Struggle for the Soul
Studio
Choreography: Roberta Ferrara
Dancers: Antonello Amati and Olivia Grassot
The study focuses on the ongoing battle between our ﬁxed body and our eternal spirit. The performers seek peaceful coexistence as if there were two great wolves living inside each of them: one white, the other black.
If they choose to feed them both, they will never fight for each other’s attention and will be able to use each of them as needed. Since there will be no war between the two, one will be able to listen to the deeper voice of one’s own consciousness. Two great forces within us co-exist and if we regard them with equal respect, they will both be victorious and coexist in peace.
A man who achieves inner peace has everything. A man who is torn apart by the war that is fought within him is nothing. I ask myself: how is this battle going for each of you?
Welcome to my funeral
Choreographer: Brandon Lagaert
Artistic assistant: Sara Angelucci
Music: Felix Machtelinckx
Light Designer: Alessandro Caso
Costumes: Franco Colamorea
Dancers: Alessandro Ottaviani, Anabel Barotte Moreno, Olivia Grassot, Tonia Laterza
Organisation and executive production: Vincenzo Losito
Production assistant: Alessia Cofone
Production: Equilibrio Dinamico
Co-production: Fondazione Fabbrica Europa per le arti contemporanee ETS, ResExtensa/Centro di produzione della danza Porta d’Oriente SPA
Production support: Fondazione Nazionale della Danza/Aterballetto
The performance focuses on the increasingly blurred boundaries between the real and virtual worlds.
Dependence on technology has completely changed the way we interact with people and the real world around us. The virtual world is becoming more and more realistic thanks to haptic feedback, artificial intelligence, and algorithms that acquire information from people through their input.
Older generations claim to have grown up in a Jurassic era, although even they would struggle without technology as simple as electricity.
How do you use technology to feed your ego?
How does one use technology to create unique bonds with others or manipulate strangers?
EQUILIBRIO DINAMICO
Equilibrio Dinamico, founded in 2011 by its current artistic director Roberta Ferrara and now based in Bari, has placed itself in the spotlight for being unique on the Italian dance scene.
Right from the start, in fact, Roberta Ferrara aimed to build a contemporary repertoire company with an international scope by calling upon several choreographers to create world premieres. Jiří Pokorný, Igor Kirov, Matthias Kass & Clément Bugnon, Marco Blázquez, Riccardo Buscarini, and Aida Vainieri are just a few of the signatures that have followed to compose the cahier de danse.
In addition to celebrating its tenth anniversary, in 2021 Equilibrio Dinamico Dance Company was recognised by the Ministry of Culture as a Production Body for Under35 Dance, the only organisation in the Region of Puglia, and in May 2022 it will be presented in the context of the NID-New Italian Dance Platform in Salerno, the platform that brings together the best of Italian dance to be exported abroad.
Equilibrio Dinamico is annually programmed in seasons and festivals in Europe, America and Asia. In addition, Equilibrio Dinamico develops collateral projects for the training and promotion of the public by creating a close collaboration with the promotion body Teatro Pubblico Pugliese.
equilibriodinamico.org
INFO&TICKETS
TICKETS
Full price: 3 euro
Free under 6
PURCHASING TICKETS
Tickets can be purchased online at www.biglietteriafonderia39.it.
The ticket office service at the Fonderia is open from 5.30 pm.
Tickets are not numbered.
CONTACTS
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Email biglietteria@aterballetto.it

Struggle for the soul - Welcome to my funeral
2023-05-12 21:00 - 22:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
The increasingly interesting company Equilibrio Dinamico returns to the Fonderia with two new productions.
Struggle for the Soul is the new creation by company director Roberta Ferrara. The choreography represents on stage the inner dissension present in each of us.
Welcome to my funeral is the production by Brandon Lagaert, an artist who has been collaborating for years with the internationally renowned dance theatre company Peeping Tom. The creation is also supported by the Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto.

Struggle for the Soul
Studio
Choreography: Roberta Ferrara
Dancers: Antonello Amati and Olivia Grassot
The study focuses on the ongoing battle between our ﬁxed body and our eternal spirit. The performers seek peaceful coexistence as if there were two great wolves living inside each of them: one white, the other black.
If they choose to feed them both, they will never fight for each other’s attention and will be able to use each of them as needed. Since there will be no war between the two, one will be able to listen to the deeper voice of one’s own consciousness. Two great forces within us co-exist and if we regard them with equal respect, they will both be victorious and coexist in peace.
A man who achieves inner peace has everything. A man who is torn apart by the war that is fought within him is nothing. I ask myself: how is this battle going for each of you?
Welcome to my funeral
Choreographer: Brandon Lagaert
Artistic assistant: Sara Angelucci
Music: Felix Machtelinckx
Light Designer: Alessandro Caso
Costumes: Franco Colamorea
Dancers: Alessandro Ottaviani, Anabel Barotte Moreno, Olivia Grassot, Tonia Laterza
Organisation and executive production: Vincenzo Losito
Production assistant: Alessia Cofone
Production: Equilibrio Dinamico
Co-production: Fondazione Fabbrica Europa per le arti contemporanee ETS, ResExtensa/Centro di produzione della danza Porta d’Oriente SPA
Production support: Fondazione Nazionale della Danza/Aterballetto
The performance focuses on the increasingly blurred boundaries between the real and virtual worlds.
Dependence on technology has completely changed the way we interact with people and the real world around us. The virtual world is becoming more and more realistic thanks to haptic feedback, artificial intelligence, and algorithms that acquire information from people through their input.
Older generations claim to have grown up in a Jurassic era, although even they would struggle without technology as simple as electricity.
How do you use technology to feed your ego?
How does one use technology to create unique bonds with others or manipulate strangers?
EQUILIBRIO DINAMICO
Equilibrio Dinamico, founded in 2011 by its current artistic director Roberta Ferrara and now based in Bari, has placed itself in the spotlight for being unique on the Italian dance scene.
Right from the start, in fact, Roberta Ferrara aimed to build a contemporary repertoire company with an international scope by calling upon several choreographers to create world premieres. Jiří Pokorný, Igor Kirov, Matthias Kass & Clément Bugnon, Marco Blázquez, Riccardo Buscarini, and Aida Vainieri are just a few of the signatures that have followed to compose the cahier de danse.
In addition to celebrating its tenth anniversary, in 2021 Equilibrio Dinamico Dance Company was recognised by the Ministry of Culture as a Production Body for Under35 Dance, the only organisation in the Region of Puglia, and in May 2022 it will be presented in the context of the NID-New Italian Dance Platform in Salerno, the platform that brings together the best of Italian dance to be exported abroad.
Equilibrio Dinamico is annually programmed in seasons and festivals in Europe, America and Asia. In addition, Equilibrio Dinamico develops collateral projects for the training and promotion of the public by creating a close collaboration with the promotion body Teatro Pubblico Pugliese.
equilibriodinamico.org
INFO&TICKETS
TICKETS
Full price: 10 euro
Reduced price under 30, dance schools, Liceo Coreutico Matilde di Canossa, over 65, CRAL members Municipality of Reggio Emilia: 6 euro
Reduced price under 8: 3 euro
PURCHASING TICKETS
Tickets can be purchased online at www.biglietteriafonderia39.it.
The ticket office service at the Fonderia is open from 8.00 pm.
Tickets are not numbered.
CONTACTS
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Email biglietteria@aterballetto.it

Stravaganze in sol minore
2023-05-14 15:00 - 16:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
EVENT WITHIN FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE KIDS

/ New performance for families with a dancer and a singer /
The magical virtuosity of Toti Scialoja (1914-1998), a master not only of images but also of words, is at the heart of this new creation for children, young boys and girls signed by the Fondazione Nazionale della Danza/Aterballetto. The protagonists are dancer Vittoria Franchina and baritone Piersilvio De Santis.
The almost magical vibrations that spring from Scialoja’s poems are like the infinite rings that are created at the surface of the water when a stone is thrown: evocative of unreal or hyperreal images, bearers of a musicality that mixes poetry and nursery rhyme, they make the extraordinary and the frightening go together.
Sotto un cespo di rose scarlatte
Offre il rospo tè caldo con latte
Sotto un cespo di rose paonazze
Tocca al rospo sciacquare le tazze.
(Toti Scialoja, La mela di Amleto, 1984)

CREDITS
Direction and choreography: Francesca Lattuada
Texts: Toti Scialoja (from La mela di Amleto)
Music: The Klezmorin, Gustav Mahler, Dean Martin, Clara Rockmore
Masks and objects: Natali Fortier
Performer: Vittoria Franchina, Piersilvio De Santis
Coproduction: Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto and Centro Teatrale Bresciano
In coproduction with Centro Servizi Culturali Santa Chiara
INFO & TICKETS
TICKETS
Free admission upon availability. Reservation recommended.
CONTACTS
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YELED / SHOOT ME
2023-05-16 20:30 - 22:00 | Teatro Comunale L. Pavarotti, Via del Teatro, 8, Modena, MO, 41121, Italia
YELED and SHOOT ME, by the two young choreographers Eyal Dadon and Diego Tortelli, arrive at Teatro Comunale di Modena.
YELED, a Hebrew word meaning “child,” brings to the stage Israeli choreographer Eyal Dadon’s reflection, together with Aterballetto dancers, on the moment in life when we come to lose the innocence of children.
SHOOT ME, by our resident choreographer Diego Tortelli, on the other hand, is a frontal work that aims to put the dancers on stage and the audience in the stalls in a direct exchange relationship: a game of seduction, of glances, of sweat, an assault on the senses and an ode to the body, to breathing the same air, sweat, tears, fury, pride.

Corpi Violati #DJOperaNoir
2023-05-17 21:00 - 22:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
In CorpiViolati Monica Casadei follows up her investigation on the theme of violence against women, begun several years ago with the transposition into dance of some famous feminicides from Italian and other melodramas.
In CorpiViolati, a community of bodies, both female and male, swarms, locked in the memory of a wound. This wound echoes on stage in an incessant dance nourished by impulses, instincts, anger and pain, in which overwhelming group dances are interspersed with duets and solos.

CREDITS
choreography, direction, set design, lighting and costumes: Monica Casadei
Live Electronic: Fabio Fiandrini
Choreographer’s assistant: Alessandra Pizza
Costume design: Elena Nunziata
Production Compagnia Artemis Danza
Coproduction Festival di Danza Contemporanea – Teatro Comunale di Ferrara
In partnership with Comune di Rimini – Teatro Galli

With the support of Ministero della Cultura, Regione Emilia-Romagna, Comune di Parma

Synopsis
«Giammai Carmen cederà! Libera è nata e libera morirà!». «Sempre libera degg’io».
They are the ode to freedom of Carmen, the protagonist of Prosper Mérimée’s novella and Georges Bizet’s opera, and Violetta Valéry in Giuseppe Verdi’s La Traviata. Women figures who are symbols of independence of thought, of strength and courage and at the same time of fragility in the face of violence and prevarication. Their freedom, as in so many other cases, is punished, violated, with tragic results. Inspired by the many stories of gender violence recounted in literature and melodrama, only a small number compared to the infinite number of stories in the daily news, the project “Corpi violati” (Violated Bodies) by the Compagnia Artemis Danza, founded and directed by Monica Casadei.
The choreographic project was born from the desire to bring attention to the theme of violence against women, and from Artemis Danza’s long-standing collaboration with the Anti-Violence Centres of the D.I.Re Network (Women in the Network against Violence).
COMPAGNIA ARTEMIS DANZA
Born in Ferrara and graduated with honours with a thesis on Plato and dance, Monica Casadei, after a competitive career in rhythmic gymnastics, devoted herself to the study of classical and modern dance, first in Italy, then in London, and finally in Paris, where she met choreographers Pierre Doussaint and Isabelle Doubouloz and master André Cognard Hanshi So shihan, with whom she still practices the martial art of Aikido. He founded the company Artemis Danza in France, with which he moved to Italy in 1997, giving life to an intense production activity that counts, to date, over forty original creations. From 1998 to 2007 the company was in residence at the Fondazione Teatro Due in Parma, while since 2014 it has been in artistic residence at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna. Artemis Danza has been invited to the most important Italian theatres and festivals and to numerous international tours and festivals.
Fundamental to Monica Casadei’s artistic research is the contamination with different artistic, cultural and geographic territories, as well as the exploration of places and urban spaces that become the stage for performative actions.
Alongside its production activity, Artemis supports, produces and promotes young authors and carries out multiple activities to educate the public.
artemisdanza.com
INFO & TICKETS
TICKETS
Full price: 10 euro
Reduced price under 30, dance schools, Liceo Coreutico Matilde di Canossa, over 65, CRAL members Municipality of Reggio Emilia: 6 euro
Reduced price under 8: 3 euro
PURCHASING TICKETS
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The ticket office service at the Foundry is open from 8 pm.
Tickets are not numbered.
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PROVE IN CORSO - 4ª EPISODE
2023-05-23 21:00 - 22:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
What is behind an Aterballetto performance? What happens in the halls of the Fonderia in Reggio Emilia?
You’ll find out with PROVE IN CORSO, our first four-part series curated by Nicolas Ballario: one of the most highly regarded contemporary art journalists whose unique verve and extraordinary expertise bring just about everyone closer to the art world with his broadcasts on Sky Arte and RadioUnoRai.
Together with Ballario you will enter the world of the Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto. Between hilarious encounters, ironic situations with those who live the Fonderia every day and danced moments, in four episodes directed by Fabrizio Spucches, we will discover the curiosities of the company and the behind-the-scenes of the shows, in a way never told before.
Event partner:
Thanks to our collaboration with YOGI TEA, we can give our audience delicious teas and infusions, inspired by the ancient philosophy of Ayurveda, which aims at the well-being of body and mind.
WHAT WILL YOU SEE?
We conclude our series on dance with the last episode scheduled for Tuesday 23 May at 9 pm. The evening will be dedicated to YELED, a creation by Eyal Dadon which we are very fond of and which brings to the stage the reflection that the Israeli choreographer has conducted, together with the dancers of Aterballetto, on the moment in life when one comes to lose the innocence of children.
With his irony Nicolas Ballario will tell what it was like to work on this series, together with the Aterballetto dancers who will show some extracts from the piece.
This was followed by the screening of the fourth episode of PROVE IN CORSO ending with a talk in the company of Ballario and Aterballetto.
INFO & TICKETS
TICKETS
Full: 3 euro
Under 6: free
PURCHASING TICKETS
Tickets can be purchased online at biglietteria@aterballetto.it
The ticket service in Fonderia runs from 7:30 pm.
Tickets are not numbered.
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SOAC
2023-05-26 21:00 - 22:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
WORLD PREMIERE with live music
The outcome of an event depends on several variables, the behaviour of which cannot always be predicted with total precision. There is always a margin for error, a space for chaos. Because sometimes a small difference generates an effect of great proportions.
CREDITS
A performance by Federica Galimberti and Cristiano Buzzi
Musician: Giuseppe Franchellucci
Dancers: Carlos Kamizele, Simone Panzera, Matteo Passero, Filippo Tonini
Production: KC Dance Company
INFO & TICKETS
TICKETS
Full price: 10 euro
Reduced price under 30, dance schools, Liceo Coreutico Matilde di Canossa, over 65, CRAL members Municipality of Reggio Emilia: 6 euro
Reduced price under 8: 3 euro
PURCHASING TICKETS
Tickets can be purchased online at www.biglietteriafonderia39.it.
The ticket office service at the Foundry is open from 8 pm.
Tickets are not numbered.
CONTACTS
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Stravaganze in sol minore
2023-05-27 15:00 - 16:00, 2023-05-27 17:30 - 18:30 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
EVENT WITHIN REGGIONARRA 2023

/ New performance for families with a dancer and a singer /
The magical virtuosity of Toti Scialoja (1914-1998), a master not only of images but also of words, is at the heart of this new creation for children, young boys and girls signed by the Fondazione Nazionale della Danza/Aterballetto. The protagonists are dancer Vittoria Franchina and baritone Piersilvio De Santis.
The almost magical vibrations that spring from Scialoja’s poems are like the infinite rings that are created at the surface of the water when a stone is thrown: evocative of unreal or hyperreal images, bearers of a musicality that mixes poetry and nursery rhyme, they make the extraordinary and the frightening go together.
Sotto un cespo di rose scarlatte
Offre il rospo tè caldo con latte
Sotto un cespo di rose paonazze
Tocca al rospo sciacquare le tazze.
(Toti Scialoja, La mela di Amleto, 1984)
CREDITS
Direction and choreography: Francesca Lattuada
Texts: Toti Scialoja (from La mela di Amleto)
Music: The Klezmorin, Gustav Mahler, Dean Martin, Clara Rockmore
Masks and objects: Natali Fortier
Performer: Vittoria Franchina, Piersilvio De Santis
Coproduction: Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto and Centro Teatrale Bresciano
In coproduction with Centro Servizi Culturali Santa Chiara
INFO & TICKETS
TICKETS
3 euro
CONTACTS
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Made in Italy 29.0
2023-05-30 21:00 - 22:30 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
The protagonists of the evening are the dancers of the Agora Coaching Project, an advanced training project promoted and supported by the MM Contemporary Dance Company and A.S.D Progetto Danza of Reggio Emilia under the artistic direction of Michele Merola and Enrico Morelli. Started in 2010, the course is gaining full recognition in the European dance world and boasts collaborations with internationally renowned teachers and choreographers.
On stage Made in Italy 29.0 with choreographies by Enrico Morelli and Ivan Alboresi.
AGORA COACHING PROJECT
AGORA COACHING PROJECT is a two-year dance training project for dancers between the ages of 16 and 22. Agora aims to train artists ready to flexibly face the variety of the international dance market, artists capable of responding to the different technical/stylistic demands coming from this same market.
The aim is to provide a solid basis for learning the various techniques in use on the international contemporary dance scene and the different repertoires through the alternation of qualified teachers and artists by bringing to the stage the works created by guest choreographers. The course aims to offer a wide range of stimuli, technical, cultural and exchange between students and choreographers, each of whom comes from and works in different realities among the most interesting on the international scene. Agora brings dancers together with established choreographers and directors of prestigious companies, thus giving students the opportunity to obtain work contracts; Agora thus represents an active and effective bridge between training and the world of work, having built a network of collaborations with numerous European companies over the years. Many Agora students are currently working in these prestigious ensembles.
Artistic direction: Michele Merola and Enrico Morelli
Dancers: Camilla Aiazzi, Corrado Azzollini, Beatrice Ballarò, Erica Barusco, Gaia Belli, Marek Brafa, Anna Dal Maso, Laura Dell’Agnese, Sally Demonte, Pietro Di Salvo, Vittoria Facci, Chiara Gionti, Luca Guerrieri, Sofia Lacava, Carlotta Lo Piano, Erika Loprieno, Giulia Lusetti, Gioele Marcante, Carlotta Maucioni, Marta Monaci, Federico Musumeci, Carmine Olivazzi, Martina Pagliari, Martina Procacci, Emily Rondanini,Susanna Russing, Alessia Russo, Alessio Saccheri, Viviana Sanfilippo, Sara Scarponi, Micol Scotto, Diletta Suman, Giorgia Talami, Gennaro Todisco,Diletta Torelli
DIMORA DELL'ANIMA
Choreography Ivan Alboresi
Music Davidson Jaconello, Travis Lake, Joep Beving
Costumes Nuvia Valestri
Ivan Alboresi’s new choreography for Agora Coaching Project is developed on the ‘breathing’ of bodies and on the attention to touching and caring for the other. The study made with the young dancers of the course is understood as an act of connection between the choreographer’s poetics of movement and the outcome of the transmission on the different bodies of the performers.
Through the exchange of energy and mutual support, choreographic actions based on the interplay of mutual support between bodies and souls, proximity and absence, are constructed. In creating the choreographic score, the starting point was memory and the desire to return the gesture of supporting the other, thinking of the body as an infinite, inexhaustible source of memories, fragility and compassion. The performers establish a visible dialogue between their physical strengths and the importance of their gazes and their sensitive touch, changing the perspective of seeking each other out. The audience, freely observing the choreographic action, crosses and crosses musical and choreographic suggestions, developing a perceptive and subjective reading.
THE RITE OF SPRING (2011)
Choreography Enrico Morelli
Music Igor Stravinsky
Costumes Nuvia Valestri
Choreography Assistant Annalisa Perricone
On 29 May 2013, Igor Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du Printemps turned one hundred years old and the entire dance world remembered and celebrated this event. After the scandal it caused at its debut, with the first version of the choreography, created in Paris by Vaslav Nijinsky for Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, the score has become well known, and recognisable at the first beat. Le Sacre is inspired by an ancient Slavic legend, according to which every spring a virgin had to be ritually sacrificed so that the earth could flourish again.
In his interpretation of Le Sacre, Morelli approaches this score with profound respect.
In the resulting staging, a facet of the frantic dynamism of our time is reflected. To combat old and new fears, and to exorcise the evil of living that accompanies the present, every opportunity is good to find a scapegoat.
In Enrico Morelli’s directorial choice, on the bare stage, as the only element, lugubrious slaughterhouse hooks emerge from the darkness and loom from the ceiling. They are as many swords of Damocles, a stern warning inviting us to look back to the past, to the times of terror and death when so many men were sent to the slaughterhouse, considered ‘numbers’ without identity or dignity.
The assumption of the choreography is all here: as long as human beings sacrifice their fellow human beings to the violence of blind cannibalism, and do not choose the path of respect for others, the light of culture and the clarity of reason will not prevail. Then, forever and ever, each individual will only be able to think and want the evil of others, to eliminate anyone who stands in the way of the fulfilment of his desires. Everyone will have in his neighbour an enemy. From this will result war of all against all, with no more right or wrong. Thus the animal man will be condemned to remain Homo homini lupus.
INFO & TICKETS
TICKETS
Full price: 10 euro
Reduced price under 30, dance schools, Liceo Coreutico Matilde di Canossa, over 65, CRAL members Municipality of Reggio Emilia: 6 euro
Reduced price under 8: 3 euro
PURCHASING TICKETS
Tickets can be purchased online at www.biglietteriafonderia39.it.
The ticket office service at the Fonderia is open from 8 pm.
Tickets are not numbered.
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STORIE
2023-06-09 21:30 - 22:30 | Teatro Parco Magnolia, Via A. Volta, 20, Abano Terme, PD, 35031
Aterballetto performs Storie in Abano Terme.
Storie is a small anthology of danced fragments. They constitute only an infinitesimal part of the very rich artistic and human universe of the two choreographers Diego Tortelli and Philippe Kratz.
Tortelli creates two pieces: Preludio, opening the evening, is a love letter to the body for five dancers on the music of Nick Cave, Another story is a duet on the impossible gesture of 2020, the embrace. Between past and future are Kratz’s two creations. The “O” duo offers us two bodies/robots, forcing us to question how the meaning of physical contact might change: will it remain emotional and felt, or will it become serial and alienated?
Alpha Grace, a six-step in the evening’s conclusion, is a reflection on empathy, a form of gentle communication between people who feel on the same plane. It too is challenged by the present times.

Preludio
2023-06-23 19:00 - 19:30 | Giardino Pomario del Castello dell’Acciaiolo, via Pantin 63, Scandicci, FI, 50018, Italia
Preludio by Diego Tortelli is in Scandicci for Nutida festival.
“Preludio” is a creation for five performers, a love letter from the choreographer to the body, a profane prayer built around some of the most intense poems and songs by Australian singer-songwriter Nick Cave.

FND/Aterballetto – Preludio – ph. Claudio Montanari

Défilé - excerpts from Shoot me
2023-07-12 19:30 - 21:15 | Piazza Prampolini, Reggio Emilia, Italia
Aterballetto dances in Piazza Prampolini, in Reggio Emilia, within Restate 2023, the the cultural summer programme by Comune di Reggio Emilia and Fondazione Palazzo Magnani.
In front of the city’s cathedral, the company’s 16 dancers present Défilé, performance created for the occasion from excerpts of Shoot me by Diego Tortelli on music of the British rock band Spiritualized.
Performance times: 19.30 / 20.15 / 21.00
Free admission
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FND/Aterballetto – Shoot me – ph. Claudio Montanari

STORIE
2023-07-21 22:00 - 23:30 | Parco Archeologico Nazionale di Scolacium, Via Scylletion, 1, Borgia, CZ, 88021, Italia
Aterballetto performs Storie at Armonie d’Arte Festival in Borgia, near Catanzaro.

Storie is a small anthology of danced fragments. They constitute only an infinitesimal part of the very rich artistic and human universe of the two choreographers Diego Tortelli and Philippe Kratz.
Tortelli creates two pieces: Preludio, opening the evening, is a love letter to the body for five dancers on the music of Nick Cave, Another story is a duet on the impossible gesture of 2020, the embrace. Between past and future are Kratz’s two creations. The “O” duo offers us two bodies/robots, forcing us to question how the meaning of physical contact might change: will it remain emotional and felt, or will it become serial and alienated?
Alpha Grace, a six-step in the evening’s conclusion, is a reflection on empathy, a form of gentle communication between people who feel on the same plane. It too is challenged by the present times.

DON JUAN
2023-07-27 21:00 - 22:30 | Arena Sferisterio, Piazza Nazario Sauro, 2, Macerata, MC, 62100, Italia
At the Arena Sferisterio in Macerata Aterballetto dances Don Juan, the full evening signed by Johan Inger.
For the Macerata Opera Festival the company will dance with the live music played by FORM-Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana and directed by the baton of Manuel Coves.
The choreography stems from Inger’s desire to confront Don Juan, an ancient and still contemporary paradigmatic myth. The original play by Tirso de Molina, Molière, Bertold Brecht and the play by Suzanne Lilar are just some of the sources of inspiration: Inger and playwright Gregor Acuña-Pohl were able to consult twenty-five different texts inspired by the character.
In the creation we find all the characters in the story, from Donna Elvira to Donna Anna to Zerlina and Masetto. Don Juan can be considered a Kammerspiel, with its ability to emphasize nuances and emotions: and in the case of this creation, dance becomes a magnifying glass for the individual characters, and subtly but clearly reveals the inner worlds of the men and women on stage.
Danza&Danza ‘Best Production’ Award 2020

Yeled - Shoot me
2023-09-08 21:00 - 22:30 | Théâtre de la Gare du Midi, 23 Av. du Maréchal Foch, Biarritz, Francia
Aterballetto starts its 2023/24 season by opening the prestigious festival Le temps d’aimer la danse in Biarritz.
On stage YELED and SHOOT ME, by the two young choreographers Eyal Dadon and Diego Tortelli.
YELED, a Hebrew word meaning “child,” brings to the stage Israeli choreographer Eyal Dadon’s reflection, together with Aterballetto dancers, on the moment in life when we come to lose the innocence of children.
SHOOT ME, by our resident choreographer Diego Tortelli, on the other hand, is a frontal work that aims to put the dancers on stage and the audience in the stalls in a direct exchange relationship: a game of seduction, of glances, of sweat, an assault on the senses and an ode to the body, to breathing the same air, sweat, tears, fury, pride.

Yes, Yes... | SoaC
2023-09-09 11:30 - 19:30, 2023-09-10 11:30 - 19:30 | Palazzo Schifanoia, via Scandiana, 23, Ferrara, 44121, Italia
Once again this season the Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto is a guest of the Festival di Danza Contemporanea | Interno Verde Danza, an event organized by the Teatro Comunale ‘Claudio Abbado’ in Ferrara and the Interno Verde festival.
9 -10 September 2023 | h 12:00 – 17:00 – 18:30 | running time 1 ora
In the Renaissance halls of Palazzo Schifanoia, dancers Edoardo Brovardi and Vittoria Franchina will recreate the atmosphere of Andy Warhol’s legendary ‘Factory’ through Yes, Yes… by Diego Tortelli.

In addition to this performance is SoaC by Federica Galimberti (who also directs) and Cristiano Buzzi (Kris), to music by Bach, Tommaso Ussardi and Giuseppe Franchellucci, who will play them on the cello.
2 extraordinary dancers use the hip hop technique in its countless declinations to create a poetic and powerful performance. The choreography is a co-production with Orchestra Senzaspine.

Storie
2023-09-10 18:00 - 19:30 | Espace Culturel Larreko, Place Xan Ithourria, Saint-Pée-sur-Nivelle, 64310, Francia
After the opening performance on 8 September, Aterballetto dances again within the prestigious Le Temps d’Aimer la Danse festival in Biarritz.
On 10 September, the company will show its talent for ubiquity and dance Storie in two different theatres, near Biarritz, at the same time:
Saint-Pée-sur-Nivelle, Espace Culturel Larreko || Errenteria – Pays Basque Sud, Lekuona Fabrika

Storie is a small anthology of danced fragments. They constitute only an infinitesimal part of the very rich artistic and human universe of the two choreographers Diego Tortelli and Philippe Kratz.
Tortelli creates two pieces: Preludio, opening the evening, is a love letter to the body for five dancers on the music of Nick Cave, Another story is a duet on the impossible gesture of 2020, the embrace. Between past and future are Kratz’s two creations. The “O” duo offers us two bodies/robots, forcing us to question how the meaning of physical contact might change: will it remain emotional and felt, or will it become serial and alienated?
Alpha Grace, a six-step in the evening’s conclusion, is a reflection on empathy, a form of gentle communication between people who feel on the same plane. It too is challenged by the present times.

Storie
2023-09-10 20:00 - 21:30 | Lekuona Fabrika, Ugarritza Etorbidea, 1, Errenteria, 20100, Francia

BLISS / MicroDanze - Open Rehearsal
2023-09-26 18:00 - 19:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Open rehearsals are back in the halls of Fonderia!
To inaugurate the new season and get to know up close the two dancers who have recently joined the company, we present an exceptional program: Aterballetto rehearses BLISS by Johan Inger, along with some excerpts from NEAR LIFE EXPERIENCE by Angelin Preljocaj and A GIG by Diego Tortelli. An opportunity not to be missed!
Open rehearsals are unique moments where you can experience the backstage of a show, interact with the artists, and be amazed by the art of dance: an exclusive experience to enter the daily routine of dancers and choreographers.

TACA TÈ
2023-09-30 16:00 - 20:00, 2023-10-01 16:00 - 20:00 | Teatro Elfo Puccini, Corso Buenos Aires, 33, Milan, 20124, Italia
“Why do we remember the past and not the future? Do we exist in time or does time exist in us? What does it really mean for time to flow? What connects time to our nature as subjects? What do I hear when I hear the passing of time?”
– Carlo Rovelli
Making its national premiere at the MILANoLTRE Festival, the choreography directed by Lara Guidetti, in co-production with Compagnia Sanpapiè, is featured in Over Dance, a project promoted by the Centro Coreografico Nazionale / Aterballetto on the theme of longevity in dance.
Taca Tè, in Emilian dialect “you start”, is a challenge to the right to exist in time, played out between two bodies far apart in age that converge in the present of dance. On stage, Antonio Caporilli and Francesca Lastella confront the grand theme of time and intergenerational encounter through relentless physical debate. Past and future mirror each other in an attempt to build a relationship capable of moving fearlessly along the timeline in both directions.
Three 20-minute performances | at 16:00 – 18:00 – 19:30

Callas, Callas, Callas - open rehearsal
2023-10-04 17:00 - 18:15 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
OPEN REHEARSAL
The Fonderia’s 2023/24 season opens with CALLAS CALLAS CALLAS, the new production by COB Compagnia Opus Ballet.
The evening pays homage to the great singer by bringing together for the first time three of the most interesting names in Italian auteur choreography, Adriano Bolognino, Carlo Massari and Roberto Tedesco (a former dancer of Aterballetto), in a contemporary and innovative interpretation of one of the most iconic personalities of the 20th century.
Each choreographer brings to the stage a different aspect of the life and work of Maria Callas in a true “choreographic triptych”, an unprecedented fresco in which biographical elements, musical inspirations and iconography merge with contemporary dance in the creation of an original language.
The project ideally continues the artistic research path that the company has been pursuing for years and that sees contemporary dance dialoguing with classical stories and music, considered “repertoire” that become fertile ground for the creation of something completely different. The classic becomes a key to the contemporary world, with the aim of deconstructing and enriching the repertoire to speak of a lived reality, tangible, close to us.
The performance is on Wednesday 4 October at 8.30 p.m.
Credits
CALLAS, CALLAS, CALLAS
Choreographies by Adriano Bolognino, Carlo Massari and Roberto Tedesco
A production COB Compagnia Opus Ballet
In co-production with Fondazione Festival La Versiliana
Artistic direction Rosanna Brocanello
Artistic advisor Laura Pulin
Light designer Giacomo Ungari
Repetiteur Giulia Orlando
Management Margherita Fantoni
Diffusion Laura Montagna
Italian premiere 12 July 2023, Teatro “La Versiliana” (Marina di Pietrasanta)
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/DIVINA
Choreography Adriano Bolognino
Performers Giuliana Bonaffini, Aura Calarco, Sofia Galvan, Ginevra Gioli, Gaia Mondini
Choreography Assistant Rosaria Di Maro
Music Vito Pizzo
Costumes by Tns Brand
/STANDPOINTS
Choreography Roberto Tedesco
Performers Matheus Alves De Oliveira, Giuliana Bonaffini, Aura Calarco, Emiliano Candiago, Ginevra Gioli, Gaia Mondini, Riccardo Papa, Frederic Zoungla
Music Giuseppe Villarosa
Costumes by Opificio della Moda e del Costume
/TOUJOURS LA MORT
Original creation Carlo Massari
Performers Matheus Alves De Oliveira, Aura Calarco, Emiliano Candiago, Riccardo Papa, Frederic Zoungla
Musical editing Luca Martone
Supporting the making of costumes Giovanna Ficaccio
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Running time 75′
A 6-minute break is scheduled among the choreographies.
Callas, Callas, Callas
Gifted with ‘three voices’, it was said, for her exceptional vocal range. And again: talented as a ‘dramatic soprano of agility’, a 19th century description for her unique timbre. A charismatic woman and artist, her voice was powerful and theatrical thanks to her technique and ability to fuse singing and acting, capable of ardent and engaging interpretations in embodying seductive and tragic female characters. Her name is engraved in the history of melodrama. And not only. Art and style, triumphs and acclaim, worldliness and private affairs have intertwined in the life of Maria Callas, ‘La Divina’. We also remember her diva outbursts, the mystery of her drastic weight loss, her chronic insomnia, the son she never had, her friendship with Pasolini and, above all, her inauspicious love affair with the shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis, who left his wife for her, only to abandon her and marry Jackie Kennedy. Callas died, suffering and alone, in her Paris flat on 16 September 1977, from causes not yet ascertained. In the centenary year of her birth, amidst already celebrated tributes and others in progress, that of the COB Compagnia Opus Ballet directed by Rosanna Brocanello, has a particular value also for the originality that inspired it: entrusting three young, and already established, choreographers with a contemporary language, with a creation for one evening, reflecting their personal vision of the legendary artist, without, however, wishing to describe her. Three different points of view, therefore, three approaches and restitutions in dance that the beautiful title Callas, Callas, Callas already highlights. A title that is also an invitation, for the spectator, to discover or rediscover through the folds of a movement or the ensemble chorus, through the electronic sounds or the fragments of famous arias disseminated in the choreographic architecture, through a light or a costume that shapes gestures and postures, one’s own Callas. Or perhaps another, unprecedented one that abstract dance can suggest, evoke, imprint in the atmosphere and memory. We will certainly recognise, contaminated or barely revealed, three famous arias: from Tosca, Norma, Carmen.
STANDPOINTS by Roberto Tedesco (ph. Paolo Bonciani)

Roberto Tedesco blends the notes of Vissi d’arte on the electronic musical score composed by Giuseppe Villarosa, within which he also mixes excerpts from interviews and interference of voices. In the words of the famous aria, extrapolated from Tosca, the Calabrian choreographer pinpoints the moment when Callas is on the point of death, and wants to reiterate to everyone that she lived profoundly of art and love, being simply a person, a woman, before being considered a diva. It is above all in the sound structure that the choreographer imprints his vision of Callas’s life, as if to predispose the spectator – quoting George Balanchine – to “see the music and hear the dance”. Tedesco interweaves an imaginary dramaturgy with a musical journey, almost chronological, from the years in New York, where Callas was born, to her Greek origins; from Italy, which, with the Teatro alla Scala, gave her her greatest success, to France, where she retired for good. Vague jazz sounds at first recall America, then those of the Bouzouki to Greece, and a piece of light music from the 1970s to the mood of suffering that accompanied her. Over a rising, almost techno rhythm, a choral dance grafts the bodies – male and female, a single entity -, clad in stylised red corsets and black masks in the shape of abatjours.
An aesthetic that harks back to the theatrical costumes of opera, and to that world of fashion of which Callas, inspiring many designers, was also an icon.
DIVINA by Adriano Bolognino (ph. Paolo Bonciani)
The Neapolitan choreographer Adriano Bolognino – a lover of all that is part of that glamorous universe – emphasises this fashionable divism in his creation, emphasising his ‘Callas imagery’ also in terms of aesthetics, combined with the strength, rigour and whimsy of dance.
Speed and rhythm characterise his language. It is embodied by the five dancers with a combative gesturality that underlies certain references from the soprano’s life: her singing, her Greek roots, her failed motherhood, her tormented love affair. Always on stage, the quintet plays between softness and broken movements, rhythms and pauses, to the introductory music composed by Vito Pizzo, which acts as a prelude to flow and close with Casta diva (from a recording by the Opéra de Paris).
TOUJOURS LA MORT by Carlo Massari (ph. Paolo Bonciani)
Carlo Massari, on the other hand, does not engage with any particular sound contaminations in his creative journey through the Callas universe. With a dramaturgy linked to an even ironic component that impacts with the sound dimension, what envelops the ether is, after listening on a loop, the recognisable voice of the singer in the famous Habanera from Carmen – the simple bolero of the costumes recalls Bizet’s opera – and further on the Aria delle carte, when the playing cards predict to the gypsy woman the approach of death. And it is this vision that allows Massari’s choreography, with Callas who, in her physical perishing, lives knowing the end that awaits her. The applause we hear at the beginning accompanies her as she retraces the thread of her existence, until she leaves us with the memory of her sublime voice, of the immortal artist. “There is no movement if there is no thought and there is no thought if there is no sense” is the assumption that has always animated Massari’s work. In line with his own modality that crosses and combines the different languages of the performing arts – theatre, dance, music -, the Bolognese choreographer stages the protagonist accompanied by ‘black souls’, a sort of coloured spirits – the colours of the voice – that follow and support her in her last breath of life.
Everything contributes, in the three creations, to the spectator’s reading of the scenic event, who is thus urged to find his own Callas, to identify his own myth.
by Giuseppe Distefano
COB COMPAGNIA OPUS BALLET
Directed by Rosanna Brocanello since its foundation, the company is made up of a stable core of professional dancers and to date has produced a vast repertoire of productions. The latest include: Vivaldi’s Le Quattro stagioni (2020) by choreographer Aurelie Mounier and with music performed live by the Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto; RIGHT. La Sagra della Primavera (2021) by Carlo Massari in a co-production with C&C Company and Teatro Stabile del Veneto, Oriente Occidente Dance Festival, Associazione Culturale Mosaico Danza/Interplay Festival (Project winner of the CollaborAction XL 2020 action Network Anticorpi XL coordinated by the Ass. Cantieri Danza supporto per la danza d’autore); Il labirinto. Il mito di Arianna e il Minotauro (2021) by Arianna Benedetti; White Room (2022) by Adriano Bolognino in collaboration with the Centro Nazionale Virgilio Sieni; La diversità che mi fece stupendo. Pasolini, l’irrealtà del quotidiano (2022) by Giovanni Leonarduzzi in co-production with the Compagnia Bellanda; Coding dance (2023) by Leonardo Diana in co-production with Versiliadanza; OTOTEMAN_what if by Sofia Galvan and Stefania Menestrina, Project winner of the 13th edition of the International Prize Prospettiva Danza Teatro and realised in co-production with Festival Danza In Rete-Teatro Comunale Città di Vicenza. From 2021 the company is financed by the Ministry of Culture.
Info & Tickets
TICKETS
Full price: 3 euro
Under 6: free
PURCHASING TICKETS
Tickets can be purchased online on www.biglietteriafonderia39.it.
The ticket office service at the Fonderia is open from 5.30 pm.
Tickets are not numbered.
CONTACTS
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Callas, Callas, Callas
2023-10-04 20:30 - 21:45 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
The 2023/24 season at the Fonderia opens with CALLAS CALLAS CALLAS, the new production by COB Compagnia Opus Ballet.
The evening pays tribute to the great singer by bringing together for the first time three of the most interesting names in Italian contemporary choreography, Adriano Bolognino, Carlo Massari, and Roberto Tedesco (former dancer of Aterballetto), in a contemporary and innovative interpretation of one of the most iconic figures of the twentieth century.
Each choreographer brings to the stage a different aspect of Maria Callas’s life and work in a true “choreographic triptych”, an unprecedented fresco in which biographical elements, musical inspirations, and iconography merge with contemporary dance to create a new language.
The project ideally continues the artistic research path that the company has been pursuing for years, engaging contemporary dance with classical stories and music, considered “repertoire” that becomes fertile ground for the creation of something completely different. The classical becomes a lens for viewing the contemporary world, with the aim of deconstructing and enriching the repertoire to speak about a lived, tangible reality that is close to us.
Credits
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CALLAS CALLAS CALLAS
Coreography by Adriano Bolognino, Carlo Massari, and Roberto Tedesco
A production by COB Compagnia Opus Ballet
In coproduction with Fondazione Festival La Versiliana
Artistic Direction Rosanna Brocanello
Artistic Consultant Laura Pulin
Light Designer Giacomo Ungari
Repetiteur Giulia Orlando
Organization Margherita Fantoni
Distribution Laura Montagna
World Premiere July 12, 2023, Teatro “La Versiliana” (Marina di Pietrasanta)

/DIVINA
Choreography Adriano Bolognino
Performers Giuliana Bonaffini, Aura Calarco, Sofia Galvan, Ginevra Gioli, Gaia Mondini
Choreography Assistant Rosaria Di Maro
Music by Vito Pizzo
Costumes by Tns Brand
/STANDPOINTS
Choreography Roberto Tedesco
Performers Matheus Alves De Oliveira, Giuliana Bonaffini, Aura Calarco, Emiliano Candiago, Ginevra Gioli, Gaia Mondini, Riccardo Papa, Frederic Zoungla
Music by Giuseppe Villarosa
Costumes by Opificio della Moda e del Costume
/TOUJOURS LA MORT
Original Creation by Carlo Massari
Performers Matheus Alves De Oliveira, Aura Calarco, Emiliano Candiago, Riccardo Papa, Frederic Zoungla
Music Editing by Luca Martone
Support for Stage Outfits Giovanna Ficaccio

Total Duration: 75 minutes
A 6-minute intermission is included between the choreographies
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Callas, Callas, Callas
Maria Callas, “The Divine”, was endowed with “three voices,” it was said, due to her exceptional vocal range. Described as having the talent of a “dramatic coloratura soprano,” an 19th-century term for her unique timbre. A charismatic woman and artist, possessing a powerful and theatrical voice, she was skilled in blending singing and acting, capable of fiery and engaging interpretations in embodying both seductive and tragic female characters. Her name is engraved in the history of opera. And beyond. Art and style, triumphs and acclaim, glamour and personal affairs intertwined in the life of Maria Callas, “The Divine”. She is also remembered for her diva tantrums, the mystery of her drastic weight loss, chronic insomnia, the child she never had, her friendship with Pasolini, and, above all, her ill-fated liaison with shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, who left his wife for her, only to abandon her and marry Jackie Kennedy. Callas died, suffering and alone, in her Paris apartment on September 16, 1977, for causes not yet determined. On the centenary of her birth, amidst tributes already celebrated and others underway, that of the COB Compagnia Opus Ballet directed by Rosanna Brocanello, holds a particular significance also for the originality that inspired it: entrusting three young, and already established, contemporary choreographers to create an evening production that reflects their personal vision of the legendary artist, without intending to recount her life story. Three different perspectives, therefore, three approaches and renditions in dance that the beautiful title Callas Callas Callas already highlights. A title that also serves as an invitation, for the audience, to discover or rediscover within the folds of movement or the ensemble’s choreography, among electronic sounds or fragments of famous arias scattered throughout the choreographic architecture, within a light or a costume that shapes gestures and postures, their own Callas. Or perhaps a new, unseen one, suggested, evoked, imprinted in the atmosphere and memory by abstract dance. Surely, three famous arias will be recognized, whether subtly hinted or prominently displayed: from Tosca, Norma, and Carmen.

STANDPOINTS by Roberto Tedesco (ph. Paolo Bonciani)
Roberto Tedesco merges the notes of Vissi d’arte with the electronic musical score composed by Giuseppe Villarosa, incorporating also snippets of interviews and voice interferences. In the famous aria’s lyrics, extracted from Tosca, the Calabrian choreographer identifies the moment when Callas is at death’s door, wanting to reaffirm to everyone that she lived deeply for art and love as simply a person, a woman, before being considered a diva. It is mainly in the sound structure that the choreographer imbues his vision of Callas’s life, almost wanting to prepare the audience – quoting George Balanchine – to “see the music and listen to the dance.” Tedesco weaves an imaginary dramaturgy with an almost chronological musical journey, from the years in New York where Callas was born, to her Greek origins; from Italy, which, with La Scala Theatre, brought her the greatest success, to France where she eventually retired. Vague jazz sounds initially allude to America, then those of the Bouzouki to Greece, and a 1970s pop song to the mood of suffering that accompanied her. On a gradually increasing techno rhythm, a choral dance pulsates within the bodies – male and female, a single entity -, dressed in stylized
COB COMPAGNIA OPUS BALLET
Directed by Rosanna Brocanello since its foundation, the company is made up of a stable core of professional dancers and to date has produced a vast repertoire of productions. The latest include: Vivaldi’s Le Quattro stagioni (2020) by choreographer Aurelie Mounier and with music performed live by the Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto; RIGHT. La Sagra della Primavera (2021) by Carlo Massari in a co-production with C&C Company and Teatro Stabile del Veneto, Oriente Occidente Dance Festival, Associazione Culturale Mosaico Danza/Interplay Festival (Project winner of the CollaborAction XL 2020 action Network Anticorpi XL coordinated by the Ass. Cantieri Danza supporto per la danza d’autore); Il labirinto. Il mito di Arianna e il Minotauro (2021) by Arianna Benedetti; White Room (2022) by Adriano Bolognino in collaboration with the Centro Nazionale Virgilio Sieni; La diversità che mi fece stupendo. Pasolini, l’irrealtà del quotidiano (2022) by Giovanni Leonarduzzi in co-production with the Compagnia Bellanda; Coding dance (2023) by Leonardo Diana in co-production with Versiliadanza; OTOTEMAN_what if by Sofia Galvan and Stefania Menestrina, Project winner of the 13th edition of the International Prize Prospettiva Danza Teatro and realised in co-production with Festival Danza In Rete-Teatro Comunale Città di Vicenza. From 2021 the company is financed by the Ministry of Culture.
Info & Tickets
TICKETS
Full price: 10 euro
Reduced for under 30, dance schools, Liceo Coreutico Matilde di Canossa, over 65, CRAL members Municipality of Reggio Emilia: 6 euro
Reduced price under 8: 3 euro
PURCHASING TICKETS
Tickets can be purchased online on www.biglietteriafonderia39.it.
The ticket office service at the Fonderia is open from 7.30 pm.
Tickets are not numbered.
CONTACTS
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Night Stories
2023-10-11 20:30 - 22:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
MM Contemporary Dance Company – Short Stories – cor. Michele Merola, foto di Creativite
NIGHT STORIES is the new evening by MM Contemporary Dance Company composed of Quarto Canto by Enrico Morelli, Short Stories by Michele Merola and Skirk by Adriano Bolognino.
Production: MM Contemporary Dance Company
Co-production Skirk: Comune di Bassano del Grappa – Operaestate Festival Veneto
WEIRDO_Primo Studio
Choreography: Enrico Morelli
Original Music: Giuseppe Villarosa
Lighting: Gessica Germini
Costumes: Nuvia Valestri
Assistant Choreographer: Paolo Lauri
Performers: Filippo Begnozzi, Emiliana Campo, Lorenzo Fiorito, Mario Genovese, Matilde Gherardi, Fabiana Lonardo, Alice Ruspaggiari, Rossana Samele, Nicola Stasi, Giuseppe Villarosa, Leonardo Zannella
Duration: 25 minutes
The feeling of inadequacy: the only true obstacle to any form of relationship, including the one with oneself. Who, in their life, has never been pervaded by it? Often, this state stems from the desire to meet others’ expectations: feeling the weight of risk, fear of failure, and judgment. Starting from these feelings, Enrico Morelli presents an initial choreographic study, drawing inspiration not only from his personal experience but also from that of the performers, to whom he posed the same question he asks himself: “When do you feel inadequate and out of place, how do you feel?”
SHORT STORIES
Choreography: Michele Merola
Music composed and live performed by Natalia Abbascià
Costumes: Nuvia Valestri
Choreography assistant: Paolo Lauri
Dancers: Emiliana Campo, Lorenzo Fiorito, Mario Genovese, Fabiana Lonardo, Nicola Stasi, Giuseppe Villarosa
Running time: 28′
Short Stories involves the dancing bodies in a continuous design, built on repetitions and differences, moments of solos, duets and choral scores, a succession of short stories, pictures generated by the sound of live music: Natalia Abbascià, who will play live, has created a soundtrack that brings together evocative lyrical parts for violin and solo voice. The dancers will make the audience lose the sense of the boundary separating audience and stage space.
The pieces that make up the work will be articulated as an expressive landscape that will leave to the subjectivity of the audience the intimate reading of the feelings that the dance and music suggest.
SKRIK
Choreography: Adriano Bolognino
Music: Max Richter
Lighting design: Gessica Germini
Costumes: Nuvia Valestri
Choreography assistant: Rosaria Di Maro
Repetiteur: Paolo Lauri
Dancers Emiliana Campo, Lorenzo Fiorito, Mario Genovese, Matilde Gherardi, Fabiana Lonardo, Alice Ruspaggiari, Rossana Samele, Nicola Stasi, Giuseppe Villarosa, Leonardo Zannella
Running time: 25′
Creation in the framework of Prove d’Autore – azione del Network Anticorpi XL.
Adriano Bolognino’s new work for the MM Contemporary Dance Company, entitled Skrik, is inspired by the painting The Scream by Edvard Munch, a work that led the choreographer to investigate the theme of tragedy, anguish and the littleness of man in the immensity of the universe. The choreographer himself explains: “The dull cry of the painting – of which I have decided to keep the Norwegian title “Skrik”, which phonetically recalls an unpleasant sound, a bump, a shock – seems to deform the landscape, giving us instability and fear, while preserving its immense beauty. Clinging to this dualism that I feel close to me, I wanted to create a dancing moment that could be a breathless accumulation of all the discontent of these last few years, but also reach the eyes of the audience as a regenerating waterfall.”
https://vimeo.com/759985888/37ecc35336

MM Contemporary Dance Company
The MM Contemporary Dance Company is a contemporary dance company directed by choreographer Michele Merola, founded in 1999 as a production centre for 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, which is based in Reggio Emilia, is rich and varied, thanks to works by Michele Merola and creations by European and Italian choreographers such as Maguy Marin, Mats Ek, Mauro Bigonzetti, Thomas Noone, Gustavo Ramirez Sansano, Karl Alfred Schreiner, Silvia Gribaudi, Eugenio Scigliano, Emanuele Soavi, Enrico Morelli, Daniele Ninarello, Ginevra Panzetti and Enrico Ticconi, Roberto Tedesco, Camilla Monga, and Adriano Bolognino.
In 2010, the MM Contemporary Dance Company won the prestigious Danza&Danza Award as the 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, Belgium, Spain, Slovenia, Hungary, Czech Republic…).
In 2017, the MM Contemporary Dance Company won the 2017 Europaindanza Prize – Award of Merit for Choreography, for the performance Bolero by Michele Merola. In 2022, MMCDC won the Danza&Danza Award for the best Italian production with the performance Ballade (chor. Mauro Bigonzetti, Enrico Morelli). On 1 January 2021 and 1 January 2022 MMCDC was featured on RAI 1 in Roberto Bolle’s show “Danza con me” performing choreographies by Mauro Bigonzetti and Lorca Massine.
Since 2018, the MM Contemporary Dance Company has been an associated company of the Trentino Alto Adige InDanza Circuit.
MMCDC is supported by the Ministry of Culture, Emilia-Romagna Region, Municipality of Reggio Emilia, Fondazione Nazionale della Danza/Aterballetto, Centro Permanente Danza/Reggio Emilia.
Info & Tickets
TICKETS
Full price: 10 euro
Reduced for under 30, dance schools, Liceo Coreutico Matilde di Canossa, over 65, CRAL members Municipality of Reggio Emilia: 6 euro
Reduced price under 8: 3 euro
PURCHASING TICKETS
Tickets can be purchased online on www.biglietteriafonderia39.it.
The ticket office service at the Fonderia is open from 7.30 pm.
Tickets are not numbered.
CONTACTS
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Stravaganze in sol minore
2023-10-12 19:00 - 20:00, 2023-10-13 19:00 - 20:00 | National Theatre of Opera and Ballet of Albania, Sheshi Skënderbej, Pallati i Kulturës, 1001, Tirana, Albania
FND/Aterballetto-Stravaganze in sol minore
Stravaganze in sol minore by Francesca Lattuada starts its tour atInternational Contemporary Dance Festival in Tirana in partnership with Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Tirana.
The magical virtuosity of Toti Scialoja (1914-1998), a master not only of images but also of words, is at the heart of this new creation for children, young boys and girls signed by the Fondazione Nazionale della Danza/Aterballetto. The protagonists are dancer Vittoria Franchina and baritone Piersilvio De Santis.
The almost magical vibrations that spring from Scialoja’s poems are like the infinite rings that are created at the surface of the water when a stone is thrown: evocative of unreal or hyperreal images, bearers of a musicality that mixes poetry and nursery rhyme, they make the extraordinary and the frightening go together.
Sotto un cespo di rose scarlatte
Offre il rospo tè caldo con latte
Sotto un cespo di rose paonazze
Tocca al rospo sciacquare le tazze.
(Toti Scialoja, La mela di Amleto, 1984)
CREDITS
Direction and choreography: Francesca Lattuada
Texts: Toti Scialoja (from La mela di Amleto)
Music: The Klezmorin, Gustav Mahler, Dean Martin, Clara Rockmore
Masks and objects: Natali Fortier
Performer: Vittoria Franchina, Piersilvio De Santis
Coproduction: Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto and Centro Teatrale Bresciano
In coproduction with Centro Servizi Culturali Santa Chiara

Davidson
2023-10-18 20:30 - 21:30 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Balletto Civile – Davidson – ph. Donato Aquaro
A metà strada tra racconto e sceneggiatura, Il Padre Selvaggio, scritto nel 1962 e pubblicato postumo nell’anno della sua morte, è un abbozzo di film che Pasolini non ha mai realizzato, nonostante fosse quasi tutto pronto e il regista avesse anche fatto un viaggio in Africa con Alberto Moravia e Dacia Maraini per trovare i posti dove girare.
Balletto Civile porta in scena Davidson, un oggetto coreografico con un giovane performer di talento: una messinscena danzata, una vertigine tra opera letteraria e teatro fisico.
Credits
freely adapted from the screenplay Il Padre Selvaggio by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Concept and dramaturgy: Maurizio Camilli
Choreography: Michela Lucenti
With Maurizio Camilli and Confident Frank
Lighting design: Vincenzo De Angelis
Sound design: Andrea Gianessi
Assistant director: Ambra Chiarello
Assistant to choreography: Francesco Collavino
Production Balletto Civile, in collaboration with ERT Emilia Romagna Teatro / Teatro Nazionale / focus CARNE
with the support of ATER (Modena) and ICK (Amsterdam) and the Italian Ministry of Culture MIC
Davidson
– What is poetry, sir?” asks Davidson
– But you know it! – says the professor.
– No I do not know! – protests the boy shaking his curly head.
– Yes you know!
– No I do not know!
– You are an African, you are immersed in poetry!
– No, poetry is a white thing.
– Sing a song from your village!
Davidson begins to sing one of his village songs.
But the singing is in his head closely connected with the dance. And then, singing, he starts dancing.
A long song, a long dance.
– Here, this is poetry!

Balletto Civile – Davidson – ph. Donato Aquaro
Il Padre Selvaggio (The Savage Father) is an outline of a screenplay written in 1963 by Pier Paolo Pasolini and published posthumously in the fateful 1975. The director did not find financers, frightened by his freedom of thought, and the film was never made. It is the story of Davidson, a sensitive and acute black boy from an African tribe and his encounter with a progressive and tormented teacher – a frontier figure, alter ego of Pasolini himself – who tries to give his boys a modern and anti-colonialist education. Above all, this suspended work recounts the conflict between the teacher and Davidson, wary of the new method and culture of the new teacher precisely because he is the smartest. The heart of this contrast is the dilemma of the relationship between blacks and whites, the problem of freedom and democracy, of the tension towards the other than oneself.
A short and intense piece of writing, with a strong political and not just poetic value, a sort of canvas that escapes definitions, conceived above all as a succession of images and indications of actions. A hybrid screenplay that mixes codes and languages and precisely in the absence of its realization offers great expressive potential.
An indefinite form that presents visual qualities that lend themselves to dance staging, in a vertigo between literary work and physical theatre.
Balletto Civile met its Davidson on the outskirts of Modena.
Balletto Civile – Davidson – ph. Donato Aquaro
Balletto Civile
A nomadic group by definition, animated by a strong ethical tension, Balletto Civile was founded in 2003 by Michela Lucenti. The creative approach is a research based on movement that emerges from the deep scenic relationship between the artists. It works on a total language where theatre, dance and original song interact naturally.
Info & Tickets
TICKETS
Full price: 10 euro
Reduced for under 30, dance schools, Liceo Coreutico Matilde di Canossa, over 65, CRAL members Municipality of Reggio Emilia: 6 euro
Reduced price under 8: 3 euro
PURCHASING TICKETS
Tickets can be purchased online on www.biglietteriafonderia39.it.
The ticket office service at the Fonderia is open from 7.30 pm.
Tickets are not numbered.
CONTACTS
Mobile and whatsapp 3341023554
Email biglietteria@aterballetto.it

BODY INTO THE FIGHT - MAKER FAIRE ROME
2023-10-19 17:30 - 20:30 | Gazometro, Ostiense, Via del Commercio, 9/11, Roma, Italia
Maker Faire Rome è il più grande evento europeo per l’innovazione, promosso e organizzato dalla Camera di Commercio di Roma. L’edizione di quest’anno si terrà dal 20 al 22 ottobre alla Fiera di Roma. In occasione dell’evento, il CCN/Aterballettoe Sony CSL presenteranno il progetto Dis.abile | Iper.abile, con la performance Body into the fight, curata dal coreografo Diego Tortelli e nata dalla ricerca insieme a Sony CSL e al ricercatore Ken Endo.
L’anteprima è prevista durante la Opening Conference di Maker Faire Rome il 19 ottobre dalle 17.30.

BODY INTO THE FIGHT
Choreography and Concept: Diego Tortelli
Scientific Consultancy: Ken Endo
Music: Oneohtrix Point Never
Performers: Giuseppe Morello and Karim Randé
Production: Fondazione Nazionale della Danza/Aterballetto
In partnership with: SONY CSL
Thanks to the research we will conduct with Ken Hendo and SONY CSL, we will have the opportunity to delve into the idea of prosthetics as an extension of the body capable of making it hyper-able. An extension of the body that enhances physical performance and is no longer just a solution to resolve a physical trauma or conceal a disability. It is about extending the concept of ability in a poetic key that can come as close as possible to the definition of a “contemporary body”. Or at least to stimulate a reflection capable of entering the theater halls, with a poetry serving the external world that brings the body back to surprise us.
Diego Tortelli

Dis.abile | Iper.abile
Dis.able | Hyper.able arises from the desire of the two partners to support a welfare “focused not on resolving emergencies but on promoting the well-being and capabilities of individuals, as an engine of development and employment and as a factor of social inclusion,” according to the definition by urban planner Carolina Giaimo.
Society is transforming, and healthcare is facing new demands. In this scenario, innovation is a challenge. Assistive devices for disabilities, as well as for daily life, biomedical devices, tech accessories, and digital tools for sports: all this and much more will be presented at Maker Faire Rome 2023.
THE COLLABORATION WITH SONY CSL
Sony CSL aims to contribute to the future of humanity and the planet by promoting the development of sciences and new technologies and their application in various fields. In particular, at the Rome laboratory, led by Vittorio Loreto, one research line aims to participate in the redesign of our societies with a transdisciplinary approach that uses creativity as a starting point to address the challenges of today’s society. Here’s a comment from Vittorio Loreto of Sony CSL:
“It is precisely in this direction that the project Dis.able | Hyper.able is taking its first steps. One of our research lines has this very goal: to observe and experiment with the interaction between humans and new technologies (such as AI) and understand how both can benefit from this virtuous exchange, where humans receive inputs from the machine that help them improve. When we learned about the artistic work of CCN/Aterballetto, we immediately thought of the technology of Ken Endo, which is why we are here today ready to present this new project at the most important innovation event in Europe.”
