Yes, Yes... | SoaC
2023-09-09 11:30 - 19:30, 2023-09-10 11:30 - 19:30 (Europe/Rome) | 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.
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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.
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Night Stories - open rehearsal
2023-10-10 18:00 - 19:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
MM Contemporary Dance Company – Short Stories – cor. Michele Merola, foto di Creativite
OPEN REHEARSAL
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
QUARTO CANTO
Choreography: Enrico Morelli
Music: Ars Nova Copenhagen, Ben Frost, Hildur Guõnadóttir
Performer: MM Contemporary Dance Company (6 dancers)
Running time: 15′
A literary pretext: love. A work by Enrico Morelli, which rejects any easy seductive alibi to let itself be led by the theme of love declined in its most introspective aspects. As in a well-conceived plot, everything seems to happen in a single moment evoked by different places and situations, a metaphor for a love that embraces and consumes life, proposing an interpretation of this feeling played out between sincerity and regret, melancholy and hope. The dance in this piece seems to have the power and ability to transfer from the stage to the audience shreds of a love story in which we can recognise ourselves, to play at bringing to the surface traces of that repressed and silent thought that has accompanied our experience for centuries.

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.”

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: 3 euro
Under 6: 3 free
PURCHASING TICKETS
Tickets can be purchased online on www.biglietteriafonderia39.it.
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Tickets are not numbered.
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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.”

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.
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Reduced price under 8: 3 euro
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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.
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Reduced price under 8: 3 euro
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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.”

BODY INTO THE FIGHT - ROMAEUROPA FESTIVAL
2023-10-19 22:00 - 23:00 | Mattatoio, Piazza Giustiniani, 4, Roma, Italia
Body into the fight is the performance curated by Diego Tortelli and born from the research together with Sony CSL and researcher Ken Endo, at the center of the project Dis.abile | Iper.abile. The show will be presented for the first time during the Opening Conference of Maker Faire Rome on October 19th.
Thanks to the availability of Romaeuropa Festival, on the occasion of the Dancing Days, a selection curated by Francesca Manica as part of the 2023 edition of the Festival, CCN/Aterballetto will have the opportunity to present the performance again. The event will take place on October 19th at the Mattatoio, at 10:00 PM.

BODY INTO THE FIGHT
Choreography and Concept Diego Tortelli Scientific Consulting Ken Endo Music Oneohtrix Point Never Performers Giuseppe Morello and Karim Randé A production by 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 prostheses as extensions of the body capable of making it hyper-able. An extension of the body that enhances physical performance and is no longer just a recourse to solve a physical trauma or to hide a disability. It is about extending the idea 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 poetic serving the external world in a way that makes the body surprise us once again.
Diego Tortelli

Dis.abile | Iper.abile
Dis.abile | Iper.abile arises from the desire of the two partners to support a welfare system “focused not only on emergency resolution but centered on promoting the well-being and abilities of individuals, as an engine of development and employment and a factor of social inclusion,” according to the definition by urbanist Carolina Giaimo.
Society is changing, and healthcare is facing new needs. 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: 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, directed by Vittorio Loreto, one of the research lines 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. The comment of Vittorio Loreto from Sony CSL:
“It is precisely in this direction that the Dis.abile | Iper.abile project takes its first steps. One of our research lines has this very objective: 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.”

Open rehearsal - Rhapsody in Blue
2023-10-23 18:00 - 19:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
The open rehearsals are back in the halls of the Foundry!
On Monday, October 23rd, at 6:00 PM, the audience of the Foundry will be able to attend the creation of our new production: “Rhapsody in Blue.” The choreography is entrusted to Iratxe Ansa and Igor Bacovich, internationally acclaimed choreographers, and is inspired by the music of George Gershwin. For several days, the sixteen dancers have been working on the choreography, and the open rehearsal will be a unique opportunity to witness live the creative process.
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.

REVIVAL RHAPSODY WORKSHOP - OPEN DAY
2023-10-25 18:30 - 19:30 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
“After the success of ‘From Liscio to Rave,’ here comes ‘Revival Rhapsody’: the new edition of the intergenerational dance workshop curated by Lara Guidetti. The workshop is free and open to all ages, and no previous experience in dance or ballet is required to participate.
On Wednesday, October 25th, starting from 6:30 PM, during the open day of the course, it will be possible to participate in a trial workshop.
To participate in the open day, it is necessary to book by contacting lab@aterballetto.it.
‘Revival Rhapsody’ is part of Over Dance, the project by FND/Aterballetto dedicated to longevity.”

TACA TÈ / talk
2023-10-25 20:30 - 21:30 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
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 links time to our nature as subjects? What do I listen to when I listen to time flowing?
Carlo Rovelli
After its debut at the Teatro Elfo Puccini in Milan, as part of the MILANoLtre festival, TACA TÈ lands at the Fonderia. The show is produced by Compagnia Sanpapié with artistic direction by Lara Guidetti, in co-production with the Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto.
Taca Tè, in Emilian dialect meaning “you start,” is a challenge to the right to exist in time, played out between two bodies that are chronologically distant but 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. Thus, the codes of ballroom dancing, which dictate roles, melodies, and spaces, dissolve in an “other” environment that progressively frees itself from structures to open multiple perspectives on the body and the relationship. The choreography develops a unique and ever-evolving flow of movement where the internal rhythms of the dancers diverge and oppose each other before finding common ground that allows for the transcendence of roles in an ironic, at times theatrical and surreal game.
Following the performance, there will be a talk with Elisabetta Donati, a sociologist and Head of the Culture and Research Department for the Ravasi-Garzanti Foundation, the scientific partner of the Over Dance project, which is entirely oriented towards research and policies for aging.
CREDITS
A co-production by Sanpapié, Fondazione Nazionale della Danza/Aterballetto, and MILANoLTRE
Choreography: Lara Guidetti
Performers: Antonio Caporilli, Francesca Lastella
Choreography assistant and costumes: Fabrizio Calanna
Set design: Maria Croce
Original music and arrangements: Marcello Gori, Alberto Sansone
Premiere: September 30, 2023, Teatro Elfo Puccini – MILANoLTRE Festival, Milan (replica October 1)
COMPAGNIA SANPAPIÉ / LARA GUIDETTI
Emiliana, after competitive acrobatics studies and theatrical acting, graduated in 2006 as a dancer and choreographer from the Atelier of Theater-Dance at the Paolo Grassi School in Milan, studying with great national and international masters such as Susanne Linke, Emio Greco, André Minvielle, Franco Brambilla, Luciana Melis, Reinhild Hoffman, Lucinda Childs, Susanna Beltrami; Yong Min Cho, and Sarah Taylor. She continued her training, both in the world of dance and performing arts and in various actor training methods, by attending workshops and productions by international artists such as Rimas Tuminas, Cesar Brie, Paz Rojo, Carolina Bolouda, Joao Garcia Miguel, Virgilio Sieni, and many others.
In 2006, she founded the Sanpapié Company, of which she is artistic director, choreographer, and performer. She has choreographed 40 works and performances for the company, presented throughout Europe and China. In 2017, her show Lei won the Sonia Bonacina Award, dedicated to women in theater. Alongside her work with Sanpapié, she works as a choreographer and performer in theater, dance, and classicalANTONIO CAPORILLI / FRANCESCA LASTELLA
Antonio Caporilli
Antonio is a performer, dancer, teacher, creator of multimedia events, and videomaker. After experiences with Jerome Savary, Robert Wilson, Amy Luckenbach, and others, he has collaborated as a dancer/performer with Teatro alla Scala di Milano, L’Opera National De Paris, Staatsoper Berlin, The Place Theater of London, etc. His interest in the performative act as a social event, shared with other artists and with people of different ages, backgrounds, and cultures, has gradually materialized in various interventions carried out in the territory, involving the people who live there, such as the “Blu del Lago” Festival in Trevignano R., Rome. In recent years, his attention has turned to the everyday life of urban contexts, with surprise blitzes or collective performances aimed at suddenly subverting the rhythms and habits of a place.
Francesca Lastella
Francesca is a dancer and teacher. After attending the Duncan Centre dance conservatory and deepening her training with international masters like the Forsythe Dance Company and Sasha Waltz & Guest, she has worked on numerous projects alongside professionals like Lara Russo and Anna Albertarelli. Since 2019, she has been a teacher at Artemente, a high-level dance training center. She has collaborated with companies such as Déjà Donné, Compagnia Balafori, and Veicolo Danza, while currently dancing for companies like Sanpapié, Lost Movement, and Luna Cenere.
ELISABETTA DONATI
Elisabetta, the Head of the Culture and Research Department at the Ravasi-Garzanti Foundation in Milan, is associated with a philanthropic organization aimed at promoting the well-being of elderly people. She contributed as an expert to drafting a document on the role of the family in promoting gender equality and education equality for the World Family Organization (WFO) at the 2010 Paris Summit. Previously, she served as the Research Manager at Pari e Dispari, a consultant for the Social Research Institute of the Piedmont Region on international studies on aging, and a part-time lecturer in Sociology of the Family at the University of Turin’s Social Service Course. She also held positions as the President of the Equal Opportunities Commission of the Municipality of Brescia and the President of the Family Counseling Center Onlus in Brescia. Additionally, she is a founding member of the Documentation and Information Center on Gender Health in Brescia and has authored several publications.

Hold Your Horses
2023-10-29 18:00 - 19:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
De Dansers – Hold Your Horses – ph. Bart Grietens
Hold Your Horses by De Dansers can be seen as an ode to our versatile, longing arms, as well as a cry for help in an increasingly elusive world – NRC
The Fonderia is one of the few stops on the Italian tour of De Dansers, a Utrecht-based company that must be seen at least once in a lifetime.
Performance for children and adults.
Suggestion to health insurers: include a visit to this cheerful dance and music company in the standard health plan. It will significantly reduce the cost of antidepressants. Daily paper Theaterfestival Boulevard

Credits
Choreography: Josephine van Rheenen
Music (live): Guy Corneille
Made with and performed by Yeli Beurskens, Liam McCall, Youri Peters, Arturo Vargas, Marie Khatib-Shahidi, Noëmi Wagner, Yoko Haveman, Guy Corneille
Stage and lighting design: Timme Afschrift
Dramaturgy: Moniek Merkx
Costume design: Nicky Nina de Jong
A co-production by De Dansers and Theater Strahl Berlin
With the support of Gemeente Utrecht, Fonds Podiumkunsten, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, K.F. Hein Fonds, Fonds 21, Schäxpir Festival
Running time: 1h
Hold Your Horses
Hold Your Horses is an energetic and sensitive dance concert about the desire to hold on. De Dansers tell their story with twelve hands, including the accompanying bodies, and a few guitars. We see hands grasping, mistaking, touching, taking off, falling down and plucking guitar strings. We see passion and distance. We don’t see horses, although we do feel them. We see an unconstrained dance party, where the cry for help slowly creeps in.
De Dansers – Hold Your Horses – ph. Bart Grietens
Hold Your Horses is about the urge to hold on to something or someone, in a world that is becoming increasingly elusive. With a spectacular, acrobatic movement language, six performers trot on with full dedication, without losing human sensitivity. Suddenly we meet a personal dance solo, or we abruptly feel the tension between the group and the individual. As one body, the dancers move in a continuous flow, propelled by Guy Corneille’s live music full of compelling guitar compositions and moving songs.
Hold Your Horses was partly created in Berlin and premiered in Berlin and Utrecht in September/October 2021.
De Dansers
De Dansers is a company of dancers and musicians from Utrecht directed by choreographer/dancer Josephine van Rheenen and composer/musician Guy Corneille. Their performances are ‘dance concer ‘dance concerts’, a meeting of modern dance and live music on the theme of liberation from everything that can make the individual feel stuck, all in an atmosphere of playful anarchy.
Performances that recall the liveliness of children and the almost forgotten desire of adults to indulge in physical contact.
Josephine van Rheenen // Choreographer She studied dance at the Theaterschool in Amsterdam and, in parallel, performed as a dancer with De Dansers. After dancing for five years with De Dansers, Vloeistof and Breekgoed, she replaced Wies Merkx as artistic director of De Dansers together with Guy Corneille in 2014. Since then, she has created performances for children and adults for this company. As a choreographer, she is dedicated to the search for humanity in dance and a language of movement based on instinct. Openness, surrender and interaction are the keywords of her works.
Guy Corneille // Composer and musician He has been the artistic director of De Dansers together with Josephine van Rheenen since 2014. On stage he is a musician and physical performer at the same time. He also participates in the creation of choreographer Josephine van Rheenen’s performances as a composer and musical dramaturg. He studied sociocultural anthropology and has a background in pop with his indie band La Corneille. Her artistic interest is in communicating the physical and emotional experience, the improvisation typical of pop concerts and the accessibility of any music without being superficial
or of low quality. In 2017, Guy Corneille won a VSCD Gouden Krekel for his multi-performance in The Basement (De Dansers / Theater Strahl / Wies Merkx).
THEATER STRAHL BERLIN
Theater Strahl was founded in 1987 in Berlin as an independent theatre group and has been producing contemporary dance performances for young audiences in collaboration with international artists since 2013. With Theatrer Strahl, young people are involved in the selection and development of performances, thus actively coming into contact with the theatrical world.
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Full price: 6 euro
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Tickets are not numbered.
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Docufilm Screening - DANCE FOR AN IDEAL CITY
2023-10-29 18:00 - 19:30 | Drama Teatro, Viale Buon Pastore, 57, 41125 Modena MO, Modena, 41125, Italia
First Screening: Cinedanza Festival / Drama Theater, Modena – 6:00 PM
Dance for An Ideal City is the docufilm that, starting from the MicroDances project, explores the possibility of narrating the contemporary city through dance. Conceived by Gigi Cristoforetti and directed by filmmaker Daniele Costa and art critic Nicolas Ballario, it will be screened for the first time on Sunday, October 29th at 6:00 PM at the Drama Theater in Modena, as part of the international Cinedanza festival.
Cinedanza, now in its fifth edition in 2023, is the first international competition and festival in Emilia Romagna entirely dedicated to videodance. The festival takes place in Modena, between the FMAV School of Advanced Training and the Drama Theater, with a program that includes screenings, meetings, and discussions.
From the museums of Athens to the city parks of Brussels, from Castel Sant’Angelo in Rome to the outskirts of Reggio Emilia, Dance for An Ideal City is a video narrative that passes through the stages of a journey that began in 2021 with An Ideal City, the urban art project co-financed by the Creative Europe program of the European Union, in partnership with Les Halles de Schaerbeek in Brussels and the Greek National Opera Ballet in Athens.
Premiering at the festival, the docufilm showcases different ways of experiencing dance in public spaces and through different languages, featuring interviews with artists and curators including choreographer Angelin Preljocaj, art historian Angela Vettese, visual artist Gianmaria Tosatti, art curators Nadja Argyropolou and Costanza Meli, and FND/Aterballetto director Gigi Cristoforetti.

MicroDanze
2023-11-04 15:30 - 17:30 | Teatro Municipale Valli, Piazza Martiri del 7 luglio, Reggio Emilia, 42121, Italia
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FND Aterballetto – MicroDanze – Near Life Experience – chor Angelin Preljocaj – ph. Celeste Lombardi
Discover the spaces of the Teatro Valli in Reggio Emilia with Aterballetto, through the danced exhibition of 4 MicroDances:

ACTIVE MOTIVATION by Elena Kekkou
EPPUR SI MUOVE by Francesca Lattuada
NEAR LIFE EXPERIENCE by Angelin Preljocaj
A GIG by Diego Tortelli.

The performance is part of the Festival Aperto:

04.11.2023 – 3:30 PM
04.11.2023 – 4:30 PM
04.11.2023 – 5:30 PM
Approximately 20 minutes
Single seat € 5.00

Active Motivation
“Every existence is unique. Human existence is an infinite line that, as it progresses, intersects with other lines creating interaction. It starts alone and ends alone. Essence, however, is found in the intermediate state. Movement contains a code that unlocks the essence of existence and delimits it. The choice of position is what defines the path.”
Elena Kekkou
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Eppur si muove
In Eppur si muove, enveloped in the refined and ethereal costumes by Bruno Fatalot, two dancers move solemnly on a barrel-pedestal, drawn by the mournful and mysterious note of Beethoven’s Allegretto. Their dance captivates and seduces, imposing like a prayer chant.
https://youtu.be/r_fSVDH7GGI
Near life experience
“Near life experience is the exploration of the different possibilities of the body, possibilities that refer to intermediate sensations. We approach this state when we are particularly close to areas that hover on the border of existence, which we access when we faint, or in a trance, in moments of ecstasy or orgasm. The sense of ecstasy and fading, of dazzling sensation, and the attempt to externalize individuality approach this experience. The subject is elsewhere, taken away from oneself, kidnapped. Near life experience evokes all this, it is an attempt to extract oneself from space and time. A sort of eclipse of the self, a search through this amniotic imaginary – a new writing in the space left empty by the body.”
Angelin Preljocaj
https://youtu.be/vYDrRikg6YA
A Gig
A Gig is the new unpublished work by Diego Tortelli
“A GIG is an opening or closing number. Something short that serves to warm up the audience or to say ‘goodnight’ to those who came to see us. In ‘rock slang,’ it is often performed by a group that is the headliner of an event. It’s not a full concert, but a small performance that in a few minutes wants to capture the style, vibes, and intensity of the band

Un jour nouveau | Birthday Party
2023-11-04 20:30 - 21:30 | Teatro Municipale Valli, Piazza Martiri del 7 luglio, Reggio Emilia, 42121, Italia
The artistic heart of the Over Dance project arrives on the stage of the Teatro Municipale Valli in Reggio Emilia.
The two renowned choreographers Rachid Ouramdane and Angelin Preljocaj sign respectively Un Jour nouveau and span style=”color: #d40000;”>Birthday Party and address the theme of the transformation of the body with an evening of senior performers (aged 65 to 79).
The body transforming with the years is a central theme in our society, and in the sensitivity of each of us. Ageing is not a problem for the actor, writer or visual artist: for those who dance, however? What is the real age of the body?

Discover more about the project

The evening is a co-production of Fondazione Nazionale della Danza/Aterballetto with Ballet Preljocaj (Aix-en-Provence), Chaillot – Théâtre national de la Danse (Paris), ERT/Teatro Nazionale (Modena), Fondazione I Teatri (Reggio Emilia), Centro Servizi Culturali Santa Chiara (Trento).
Supporter and scientific partner: Ravasi Garzanti Foundation (Milan)
In partnership with Municipality of Reggio Emilia and Farmacie Comunali Riunite
with the support of Nuovi Mecenati – Fondazione franco-italiana di sostegno alla creazione contemporanea and Institut français

Un jour nouveau | Birthday Party
2023-11-07 21:00 - 22:00 | Teatro Rossini, Piazza Lazzarini, 1, Pesaro, 61121, Italia
After its debut at Teatro Municipale Valli in Reggio Emilia, the artistic heart of the Over Dance project arrives on the stage of Teatro Rossini in Pesaro.
The two renowned choreographers Rachid Ouramdane and Angelin Preljocaj sign respectively Un Jour nouveau and Birthday Party and address the theme of the transformation of the body with an evening of senior performers (aged 65 to 79).
The body transforming with the years is a central theme in our society, and in the sensitivity of each of us. Ageing is not a problem for the actor, writer or visual artist: for those who dance, however? What is the real age of the body?

Learn more about the project–

The evening is a co-production of Fondazione Nazionale della Danza/Aterballetto with Ballet Preljocaj (Aix-en-Provence), Chaillot – Théâtre national de la Danse (Paris), ERT/Teatro Nazionale (Modena), Fondazione I Teatri (Reggio Emilia), Centro Servizi Culturali Santa Chiara (Trento).
Supporter and scientific partner: Ravasi Garzanti Foundation (Milan)
In partnership with Municipality of Reggio Emilia and Farmacie Comunali Riunite
with the support of Nuovi Mecenati – Fondazione franco-italiana di sostegno alla creazione contemporanea and Institut français

Esercizi di fantastica
2023-11-18 18:00 - 18:50 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Sosta Palmizi – Esercizi di Fantastica – ph. Vincenzo Siniscalco
Spettacolo perfetto per ogni età – per la complessità, la raffinatezza delle azioni in un crescendo gioioso – ben si comprende come abbia potuto meritare il Premio della giuria e del pubblico Vimercate Ragazzi Festival 2021. Valeria Ottolenghi, Gazzetta di Parma
Esercizi di Fantastica, produzione Sosta Palmizi, si ispira ai racconti di Gianni Rodari ed è un’occasione imperdibile per portare i bambini e le bambine dai 4 anni in su a teatro.

Credits
From an idea by Giorgio Rossi
A creation by Elisa Canessa, Federico Dimitri, Francesco Manenti, Giorgio Rossi
Performers Elisa Canessa, Federico Dimitri e Francesco Manenti
Scenographies Francesco Givone, Francesco Manenti, Francesca Lombardi
Costumes Beatrice Giannini, Francesca Lombardi
Illustrations Francesco Manenti
Lighting design Elena Tedde
Production Associazione Sosta Palmizi
With the contribution of MiBACT, Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali e del Turismo/Direzione generale per lo spettacolo dal vivo; Regione Toscana/Sistema Regionale dello Spettacolo
With the support of Armunia (Rosignano LI), Wintergarten – Atelier di Teatro Permanente (Livorno), Comune di Castiglion Fiorentino (Ar)
Thanks to Spazio Nunc, Elena Giacomin
Esercizi di fantastica
A grey house. Three grey characters. Bored, dull and clouded by the technological means, they move like prisoners of a predetermined mechanism, their gaze is always turned to the screens. But here comes an unexpected element! A butterfly will move their look elsewhere and the house will become the theatre of new adventures and transformations. A crescendo of emotions and vicissitudes in which the three protagonists will finally rediscover the power of fantasy, in a continuous game to free their bodies and minds.
Sosta Palmizi – Esercizi di fantastica

Esercizi di Fantastica tells, with the language of dance and movement, the power of imagination that transforms things and people into something always unexpected and extraordinary. The authors were inspired by the idea of “Fantastica” by the writer Gianni Rodari, whose 100th anniversary is celebrated in 2020. Close to the surrealism of the 50s and inspired by the work of Alfred Jarry and his pataphysics (the science of imaginary solutions), Rodari affirmed the existence of a Fantastica in total contrast to Logic.
Sosta Palmizi – Esercizi di fantastica
The AuthorsGiorgio Rossi
As E. Satie would probably say, “he is a dancing mammal”. At the age of 4, seeing the Swiss clown Dimitri perform in surreal stage time, he realised that theatre was his life. He owes his artistic fortune to having been able to witness the work of great masters (Kantor, Brook, Bausch, Carlson), with some of whom he learnt the art of the stage’ both as a student and as a performer. In 1984, he co-founded Sosta Palmizi, an acronym under which, in 30 years, over 400 dancers and others have worked, who have found work in the major Italian and European dance theatre companies or founded their own groups: some of these are part of the nucleus of the association as Artisti Associati. With his performances, over 30 productions, he has travelled the world, thanks to the universality of the poetic art of movement. Over the years, he has collaborated with artists from the most diverse fields such as: Andrea Pazienza, Paolo Fresu, Bernardo Bertolucci, Terry Gilliam, Stefano Benni, Paola Turci, Lucia Poli, David Riondino, Paolo Rossi, Banda Osiris, Gabriele Mirabassi, Danilo Rea, Elisabetta Pozzi, Jovanotti and many others, as well as working with people of all ages, students, therapeutic communities and social rehabilitation groups.
Federico Dimitri
He graduated in 2004 from the Accademia Teatro Dimitri, Verscio (CH). In 2005 he won the Pinokkio Prize in Belgium with his performance entitled Perfectly Coupled. In the same year, he co-founded the company I Tre Secondi, and created the performances Zurigo Stazione Centrale (2005), I Doganieri (2010) and Kaspar (2015). In 2006, he moved to Geneva, where he continued to work as an actor. In the same period, a meeting with director Teresa Ludovico led him to collaborate with the Teatro Stabile d’Innovazione Kismet Opera in Bari. He starred in the performance La Regina delle Nevi, directed by Teresa Ludovico. In 2008, he participated in the founding of the research group Progetto Brockenhaus, based in Ticino, with which he created the performances Non facciamone una tragedia and Sagra. In the summers of 2009-2010-2012, he participated in the Origen festival, Riom (CH) under the artistic direction of Giovanni Netzer. Arriving in Livorno in 2010, he continued his artistic collaboration between Italy, Switzerland and Germany. Since 2012, he has collaborated with Theater Werkstatt Gleis 5 in Frauenfeld (CH), with whom he creates Laina Viva. In 2013, together with Elisa Canessa, he founded the Compagnia Dimitri/Canessa. Central point, always, the body, container of the whole, of the gesture as of the word of the concrete and the subtle; fundamental instrument of communication. The company has been working for years both in Italy and abroad, particularly in Switzerland, and has four performances to its credit: Bruno (2013), a performance that won the FIT, International Theatre Festival of Lugano; …di Giulietta e del suo Romeo (2014) and Hallo!I’m Jacket! (2016), Ad esempio questo cielo (2019). He also made the video clips Show me, for French singer Marina P. and Lettera di San Paolo agli operai, Virginiana Miller, Targa Tenco 2014.
For years, he has been actively collaborating with Ticino choreographer Giorgio Rossi, of the Sosta Palmizi company. This collaboration will see him involved from October 2016 in the creation of the children’s performance Col naso all’insù.
Elisa Canessa
Elisa began her training in 1999, dedicating herself to the study of more specifically corporeal languages. In 2001 she graduated from the School of Theatre in Bologna, a training course in Nouvea-Cirque. Since 2002, she has been studying Commedia dell’Arte with the Pantakin company in Venice. In 2003, she received a scholarship from the Ass. Sosta Palmizi. He has attended numerous Contact Improvvisation seminars with masters Dieter Hetikamp (Berlin) and Benno Voorham (Stockholm) and with the latter he collaborated for two years on a project to develop Contemporary Dance in Eastern European countries. Among others, she studied with Maestros Giorgio Rossi, Raffaella Giordano, Michele Modesto Casarin, Gey Pin Ang, Chiara Guidi, Francesca della Monica, Daniel Lepkoff, Since 2001 Elisa has been actively working as a performer for: Compagnia Agar, Sant’Arcangelo dei Teatri; Arcipelago Circo- Teatro, La Biennale di Venezia; Compagnia Pantakin da Venezia, Commedia dell’arte; Benno Voorham for ADDM Fest (Moldavia); Massimiliano Barrachini, Resolution Festival (London); Compagnia Sosta Palmizi, Giorgio Rossi/Raffaella Giordano; Teatro Kismet Opera – Teresa Ludovico; Teatro all’Improvviso, Mantova; Segni Particolari/Amina Amici; Origen Festival (CH). Since 2002, alongside her activity as a performer, she has been conducting her own theatrical research. She is the author of the performances Esercizi and Drunk. In 2008, she co-founded the research group Progetto Brockenhaus in Switzerland, with which she created the performances Non facciamone una tragedia and Sagra. In 2010 she graduated from the Teatro Stabile di Torino in “Scritture per la Danza Contemporanea”, a professional specialisation course held by Raffaella Giordano. She played the lead role in one of Lorenzo Jovanotti’s video clips, Mezzogiorno. In 2013, Federico Dimitri founded the Dimitri/Canessa Company. For years he has been actively collaborating with Ticino choreographer Giorgio Rossi, of the Sosta Palmizi company.
Francesco Manenti
He works in the field of theatre, performance and visual art. He graduated from the Professional Training Course in Noveau Cirque at the Theatre School of Bologna Galante Garrone. He studies and deepens the Contact Improvisation, in particular following the seminars of D.Heitkamp and Benno Voorham. In 2003-2004 he was awarded a scholarship by Raffaella Giordano and Giorgio Rossi, with whom he studied at the theatre-dance seminars held at Sosta Palmizi. Since 2010 he follows the work of Masaki Iwana attending his intensive workshops at the Atelier du Butoh Blanc in Normandy. He graduated from the International Master WTTL (World Theatre Training Library) under the artistic direction of Master Yuri Alschitz which took place at the UNAM University in Mexico City with the aim of developing theatrical pedagogy. For several years he has been studying martial arts (Ki Aikido, Kung Fu, TaiJiQuan), circus arts (in particular aerial acrobatics and dance with flaming sticks); in 2011 he graduated as Teacher of Dao Yin Fa Qi Gong at the Tao Yin Italy School. With Elisa Canessa he gives life to the Agatharandagio Project and together they create the shows “ESERCIZI” and “DRUNK” (co-production TIR-Dance) participating in several festivals including: “Lavori in Pelle”, Iceberg Award 2005, Festival DANAE 2006, Italia Wave 2009, GD’A 2004-2005 and Festival Inequilibrio-Armunia 2009. In 2008 he created together with E. di Terlizzi, E. Canessa, F. Dimitri, E. Rosenberg and P. Gianotti the Swiss movement theatre company Progetto Brockenhaus. He has worked and still works as interpreter for some of the most interesting Italian and foreign companies such as Sosta Palmizi (Giorgio Rossi), Pantakin (Michele Modesto Casarin), Teatro Kismet Opera (Teresa Ludovico), Eccentrici Dadarò. He has also worked with: Riccardo Palmieri-ArterieCIRT, PierrNosari-Acidi Alteri, Maria Carpaneto-Filo di Paglia, Company Mafalda, Dimensioni Parallele Teatro (Stefano Cenci). At the same time he carries on a personal research in the field of visual arts.
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Open Rehearsal - Secus
2023-11-20 18:00 - 19:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Also this month, the Fonderia opens its doors to an open rehearsal with the Aterballetto Company.
On Monday, November 20th, at 6:00 PM, the audience can attend the rehearsal of Secus, a choreography created by Ohad Naharin in 2019: one of those performances that is difficult to forget, capable of uniquely highlighting the technical skills and expressiveness of dancers.
The creation boasts a musical collage ranging from the unusual electronic styles of AGF to the seductive Indian melodies of Kaho Naa Pyar Hai, to the resonant harmonies of the Beach Boys. This adventurously eclectic mix takes shape before our eyes in the form of a human alphabet made of runs, solos, clean and precise gestures, interrupted duets. Joy, vulnerability, fear, innocence, confusion, and anger weave a harmonious and dynamic canvas that oscillates between delicacy and exaggeration.
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: a special opportunity that allows the audience to enter the daily routine of dancers and choreographers.

Dreamers #1
2023-11-23 20:00 - 21:30 | Théâtre Equilibre, Pl. Jean Tinguely 1, Fribourg, 1701, Svizzera
Aterballetto dances at Théâtre Equilibre in Fribourg, Switzerland, the triple bill Dreamers #1 which highlights the eclecticism of the 16 dancers.
The evening opens with Shoot me, a new creation by Diego Tortelli on the music of the rock group Spiritualized, an abstract but tautly energetic choreography. This is followed by “O”, Philippe Kratz’s little masterpiece, an hypnotic duet with an unstoppable rhythm. All 16 dancers of the company close the evening with the iconic BLISS, a creation by choreographer Johan Inger on Keith Jarrett’s Koln Concert.

Dreamers #1
2023-11-26 15:00 - 16:30 | Opéra de Vichy, 1, Rue du Casino, Vichy, 1701, Francia
Aterballetto dances at Opéra de Vichy, France, the triple bill Dreamers #1 which highlights the eclecticism of the 16 dancers.
The evening opens with Shoot me, a new creation by Diego Tortelli on the music of the rock group Spiritualized, an abstract but tautly energetic choreography. This is followed by “O”, Philippe Kratz’s little masterpiece, an hypnotic duet with an unstoppable rhythm. All 16 dancers of the company close the evening with the iconic BLISS, a creation by choreographer Johan Inger on Keith Jarrett’s Koln Concert..

Italia Danza - Prague
2023-11-28 18:30 - 20:30 | Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Praga, Šporkova 335/14, Praga, 118 00, Repubblica Ceca
From November 28 to December 12, 2023, dance meets cultural diplomacy and travels with Italia Danza: the new project by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (Maeci), curated by CCN/Aterballetto.
Realized through the General Directorate for Public and Cultural Diplomacy, the project unfolds in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institutes, with the support of the Emilia-Romagna Region and the City of Reggio Emilia. The objective of Italia Danza is simple: to enhance the Italian Cultural Institutes, places that remarkably represent cultural diplomacy worldwide, by bringing some creations from the only National Choreographic Center in our country: CCN/Aterballetto. It’s a cosmopolitan project entrusted to the universal language of the body, which CCN/Aterballetto interprets with its rich heritage of site-specific creations.

“I am particularly pleased to present the Italia Danza project in Prague, in an environment highly receptive to choreographic arts where dance, in all its forms, is a prominent part of the cultural offerings. Specifically, in the Czech Republic, contemporary dance is annually celebrated through highly acclaimed international showcases and festivals, providing important glimpses into the latest developments in this field. For these reasons, I consider it important to introduce these MicroDanze to the local audience, allowing us to highlight the undeniable talents of our dancers and choreographers beyond the realm of classical ballet and to open a window into contemporary dance in our country.”
Vito De Bellis
Director Italian Cultural Institute in Prague
28 NOVEMBER H 18:00 / H 19:30
Italian Cultural Institute in Prague
Šporkova 335/14, 118 00 Malá Strana, Prague
MICRODANZE
Active Motivation
by Elena Kekkou
Eppur si muove
by Francesca Lattuada
Near Life Experience
by Angelin Preljocaj
A Gig
by Diego Tortelli
Duration: 60′

Italia Danza - Brussels
2023-11-30 19:30 - 20:30 | Halles Saint-Géry, Pl. Saint-Géry 1, Bruxelles, 1000, Belgio
From November 28th to December 12th, 2023, dance meets cultural diplomacy and travels the world with Italia Danza: the new project of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (Maeci) curated by CCN/Aterballetto.
Realized through the General Directorate for Public and Cultural Diplomacy, the project takes place in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institutes, with the support of the Emilia-Romagna Region and the City of Reggio Emilia. The goal of Italia Danza is simple: to enhance the Italian Cultural Institutes, places that represent cultural diplomacy par excellence in the world, by bringing some creations of the only National Choreographic Center of our country: the CCN/Aterballetto. A cosmopolitan project, entrusted to the universal language of the body, which CCN/Aterballetto interprets with its rich heritage of site-specific creations.
The Brussels stage is characterized by collaboration with the European Commission, which helps bring the MicroDances to the ancient St. Gery market, renovated by the Municipality of Brussels to make it a multifunctional space open to the public. The show is included in the program of activities of the 2023 edition of the Forum Cities and Regions for International Partnership, promoted every two years by the European Commission together with the European Committee of the Regions, to show Mayors and Presidents of Regions from the four continents an interesting artistic proposal for the enhancement of recovered urban public spaces.
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“We are particularly delighted to host Italia Danza here; Brussels has a rich and illustrious tradition in the field of dance, and it is wonderful to present CCN/Aterballetto, an Italian institution of great excellence, in a context that loves and understands this art.”
Allegra Iafrate
Acting Head Italian Cultural Institute in Brussels
30 NOVEMBER – H 19:30
Halles Saint-Géry
Pl. Saint-Géry 1, 1000, Brussels
MICRODANZE
Active Motivation
by Elena Kekkou
Eppur si muove
by Francesca Lattuada
Near Life Experience
by Angelin Preljocaj
A Gig
by Diego Tortelli
Duration: 60′
