Centro Coreografico Nazionale / Aterballetto

Cry Violet
2026-04-08 21:00 - 22:00 (Europe/Rome) | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Panzetti / Ticconi: dance between expiation and greenwashing at Fonderia.

CRY VIOLET, named after the extinct flower of the same name, is a choreographic creation by and with Panzetti / Ticconi, set to a sound composition conceived and performed by Teho Teardo.
Using a gestural code that evokes expressions of pain and shame inspired by the iconography of original sin, the work highlights the human tendency to atone for guilt through practices that attempt either to repair environmental damage already done or to conceal it. Widespread phenomena such as greenwashing, in fact, represent deceptive practices that evade real solutions to the damage human action has inflicted on the environment.
Actions such as cleaning merge with crying. In this context, a common object like a cloth or handkerchief transforms its function—from a cleaning tool into an element that holds pain, absorbing tears. Echoing Lady Macbeth’s repeated and futile gesture of trying to wash away the mark of guilt from her hands, the two performers trace the mechanical ritual of cleaning and concealing. It is within this limbo—between genuine attempts and merely superficial efforts to repair the damage—that CRY VIOLET takes shape, in a shifting complicity between the aestheticisation of guilt and the act of resolving or hiding it, until guilt itself becomes an appealing, seductive, almost promotional material.

“(…) the choreographic elegance of Panzetti/Ticconi meets the musical energy of Teho Teardo. The composer, musician and sound designer—winner of the David di Donatello for Best Original Score for the soundtrack of Il Divo by Paolo Sorrentino—has long explored stimuli from other artistic forms. He dedicates himself to concert and recording activities, investigating the relationship between electronic music and traditional instruments, as well as creating sound installations and composing for cinema, television series, and theatre.”
Esplorazioni-Triennale.org

https://youtu.be/nMbfqoJ_y48?si=CDC4NKCwYyU_1Y-E
CREDITS
Choreography, performance, costumes: Ginevra Panzetti, Enrico TicconiSound composition: Teho TeardoGraphic illustration: Ginevra PanzettiOriginally created within: Esplorazioni – a project by Triennale Milano in collaboration with Volvo Car ItaliaWith the support of: Lavanderia a Vapore, Piemonte dal Vivo – Turin (IT); Rampe – Stuttgart (DE)
Panzetti / Ticconi

Ginevra Panzetti and Enrico Ticconi live between Berlin and Turin and have been working as an artistic duo since 2008. Their research unfolds across dance, performance, and visual art. By exploring themes connected to the historic relationship between communication, violence, and power, they draw on ancient imaginaries to construct hybrid images suspended between history and contemporaneity.
Their work has received numerous international recognitions and has been presented at some of the most prestigious European festivals, as well as in Japan, Brazil, Lebanon, Jordan, and the United Arab Emirates. Since 2020, their choreographic practice as a duo—often involving them as performers of their own creations—has expanded to include the creation of works for other major international companies such as Studio Contemporary Dance Company (HR), T.H.E Dance Company (SG), Dance On Ensemble (DE), and MM Contemporary Dance Company (IT).
One of their most recent choreographic works, INSEL, premiered in 2023 at the Tanz im August Festival in Berlin.

INFO & TICKETS

TICKETS
Full price: €10Reduced price (under 30, dance schools, Liceo Coreutico Matilde di Canossa, over 65, CRAL Comune di Reggio Emilia members): €6Reduced price (under 8): €3
TICKET PURCHASE
Tickets can be purchased online at www.biglietteriafonderia39.it.
The box office at Fonderia opens one hour before the start of the performance.
Tickets are unnumbered.
CONTACTS
Mobile & WhatsApp: +39 334 102 3554

NOTTE MORRICONE
2026-04-11 20:30 - 22:00 | Teatro Regio, Strada Giuseppe Garibaldi, 16/a, Parma, 43121, Italia
On April 11, 2026, Aterballetto performs Notte Morricone by Marcos Morau at the Teatro Regio in Parma.
“I, Ennio Morricone, am dead,” wrote the composer before taking his leave. His music, however, cannot die. This is how creators and artists always leave us without ever truly leaving, and how memory takes care to keep them alive, to keep them safe. Notte Morricone is my gift, a devoted tribute to the beauty he gave to the world.Notte Morricone unfolds in the twilight of an ordinary night in the life of a creative spirit who, alone and dazed before his papers, jots down notes and envisions melodies for films that do not yet exist, bringing stories back to life in the rarefied air of his room.Marcos Morau – Director and Choreographer
It is impossible to describe Notte Morricone, a masterful work that washes over the spectator in waves, embraces them with emotional currents, and captivates them with the memory of timeless melodies that have long outlived the images that first inspired them. Equally enchanting is the finely chiselled, ever-poetic choreography, composed with meticulous attention to detail: legs and necks seem jointless, bending and snapping rhythmically like metronomes.Maria Luisa Buzzi – Danza&Danza
Duration: 90 minutesFind out more »

Glory Hall / Reconciliatio / Solo Echo
2026-04-15 21:00 - 22:30 | Teatro Sociale Rovigo, Piazza Giuseppe Garibaldi 14, Rovigo, 45100, Italy
The CCN/Aterballetto performs at Teatro Sociale di Rovigo on 15 April 2026.

The evening opens with Glory Hall, choreographed by Diego Tortelli, offering the company and the audience a tableau of sensuality and overwhelming vitality.
Reconciliatio is a delicate female pas de deux inspired by the Book of Revelation, created by one of the most important choreographers on the international scene, Angelin Preljocaj.
The dancers of CCN/Aterballetto are also the protagonists of a production by the award-winning Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite, now firmly in the pantheon of dance. Solo Echo draws inspiration from two sonatas for cello and piano by Johannes Brahms and the poem Lines for Winter by Mark Strand. As in Strand’s poem, Solo Echo invokes winter, music, and the moving body to express something essential about acceptance and loss.

https://youtu.be/erHGNRRz6sQ
CREDITS
Glory Hall

Choreography: Diego TortelliMusic: Godspeed You! Black EmperorProduction: Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / AterballettoCo-production: Teatro Comunale di Bologna

Reconciliatio

Choreography: Angelin PreljocajMusic: Ludwig van Beethoven, Moonlight SonataProduction: Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto

Solo Echo

Choreography: Crystal PiteMusic: Johannes Brahms (Sonata for Cello and Piano in E Minor, Op. 38: I. Allegro non troppo; Sonata for Cello and Piano in F Major, Op. 99: II. Adagio affettuoso)Production and restaging: Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / AterballettoCo-production: Teatro Comunale di Bologna

NOTTE MORRICONE
2026-04-19 16:00 - 17:30 | Teatro Bonci, Piazza Mario Guidazzi, 8, Cesena, 47521, Italia
Aterballetto performs Notte Morricone by Marcos Morau at Teatro Bonci in Cesena on 19 April 2026.

“I, Ennio Morricone, am dead,” the composer wrote before taking his leave. His music, however, cannot die. And this is how creators and artists always leave us without truly leaving us, and how memory takes care of keeping them alive, of keeping them safe. Notte Morricone is my gift, a devoted tribute to the beauty he gave to the world.Notte Morricone unfolds in the twilight of an ordinary night in the life of a creator, who, alone and dazed before his sheets of paper, jots down notes and imagines melodies for films that do not yet exist, bringing stories back to life in the rarefied air of his room.”— Marcos Morau, Director and Choreographer

“It is impossible to describe Notte Morricone, a masterful piece that reaches the audience in waves, embraces them with emotional surges, and captures them in the memory of timeless melodies that have long outlived the images that first gave rise to them. Equally enchanting is the finely chiselled and ever-poetic choreography, composed with obsessive attention to detail: legs and necks seem jointless, bending and snapping rhythmically like metronomes.”— Maria Luisa Buzzi, Danza&Danza

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Duration: 90 minutes

STELLA
2026-04-19 21:00 - 22:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Luciano Padovani brings the dance of the Years of Lead to Fonderia.

Rome, Saturday 18 March 1978.An orange commercial envelope is found in an underpass at Largo di Torre Argentina, containing a Polaroid photograph: the portrait of a man in shirtsleeves, a flag with a five-pointed star… and communiqué no. 1 of the Red Brigades.The years of desire and lead, in a danced fragment of republican Italy.
The lived experience of choreographer Luciano Padovani becomes, in STELLA, material shaped through the bodies and voices of the two performers: Roberta Piazza and Andrea Rizzo.

With them, we enter a brigatist hideout—that hideout… an interior scene inhabited and stirred by intense emotions and moments of great humanity and poetry. A warm atmosphere made of illusions and projections, masterfully suggested by costume designer Lucia Lapolla.
Elisabetta Calvi

https://youtu.be/2Ju8v8nh5lo?si=50WffQBk6J1O9wwD
CREDITS

Choreography and direction: Luciano PadovaniBy and with Luciano Padovani, Roberta Piazza, Andrea RizzoCritical eye: Mauro ZocchettaLighting: Thomas HeugerCostumes: Lucia Lapolla
A production by Compagnia Naturalis Labor
Co-production: Festival AbanoDanza 2024
With the support of: MIC – Ministry of Culture, Regione Veneto, Arco Danza, Comune di Vicenza

Luciano Padovani

He came to dance relatively late, during his university studies. A decisive encounter was with Carolyn Carlson, who encouraged him to move abroad. He chose Paris, where he spent two intense years in the heart of the nouvelle danse française. He then returned to Italy and moved to Milan, where he worked with Susanna Beltrami’s company and at Teatro alla Scala. Eventually, he returned to Vicenza and founded Compagnia Naturalis Labor. It was then that he realised that being a choreographer was truly his calling. He describes himself as a “craftsman of the body.”
With the company, he has created dozens of works. He has collaborated on numerous opera productions, in theatre, for events, and has created choreographies for various Italian dance companies. He is the artistic director of Festival AbanoDanza and Visioni di Danza. He lives in Vicenza.

INFO & TICKETS

TICKETS
Full price: €10Reduced price (under 30, dance schools, Liceo Coreutico Matilde di Canossa, over 65, CRAL Comune di Reggio Emilia members): €6Reduced price (under 8): €3
TICKET PURCHASE
Tickets can be purchased online at www.biglietteriafonderia39.it.
The box office at Fonderia opens one hour before the start of the performance.
Tickets are unnumbered.
CONTACTS
Mobile & WhatsApp: +39 334 102 3554

NOTTE MORRICONE
2026-04-22 20:45 - 22:15, 2026-04-23 19:30 - 21:00 | Teatro Carignano, Piazza Carignano, 6, Torino, 10123, Italia
From April 23 to 26, 2026, Aterballetto performs Notte Morricone by Marcos Morau at the Teatro Carignano in Turin for Torinodanza Extra.
“I, Ennio Morricone, am dead,” wrote the composer before taking his leave. His music, however, cannot die. This is how creators and artists always leave us without ever truly leaving, and how memory takes care to keep them alive, to keep them safe. Notte Morricone is my gift, a devoted tribute to the beauty he gave to the world.Notte Morricone unfolds in the twilight of an ordinary night in the life of a creative spirit who, alone and dazed before his papers, jots down notes and envisions melodies for films that do not yet exist, bringing stories back to life in the rarefied air of his room.Marcos Morau – Director and Choreographer
It is impossible to describe Notte Morricone, a masterful work that washes over the spectator in waves, embraces them with emotional currents, and captivates them with the memory of timeless melodies that have long outlived the images that first inspired them. Equally enchanting is the finely chiselled, ever-poetic choreography, composed with meticulous attention to detail: legs and necks seem jointless, bending and snapping rhythmically like metronomes.Maria Luisa Buzzi – Danza&Danza
Duration: 90 minutesFind out more »

NOTTE MORRICONE
2026-04-24 20:45 - 22:15, 2026-04-25 19:30 - 21:00, 2026-04-26 16:00 - 17:30 | Teatro Carignano, Piazza Carignano, 6, Torino, 10123, Italia
Dal 22 al 26 aprile 2026 Aterballetto danza Notte Morricone di Marcos Morau al Teatro Carignano di Torino per il Torinodanza Extra.
“Io, Ennio Morricone, sono morto”, scrisse il compositore prima di congedarsi. La sua musica, invece, non può farlo. Ed è così che i creatori e gli artisti sempre ci lasciano senza lasciarci, ed è in questo modo che la memoria si preoccupa di tenerli vivi, di tenerli al sicuro. Notte Morricone è il mio regalo, un devoto tributo alla bellezza che ha donato al mondo.
Notte Morricone si svolge nel crepuscolo di una notte ordinaria nella vita di un creativo, che solo e stordito davanti ai suoi fogli, prende appunti e visualizza melodie per film che non esistono ancora, riportando in vita storie nell’aria rarefatta della sua stanza.
Marcos Morau – Regista e coreografo

Impossibile descrivere Notte Morricone, pezzo magistrale che arriva a flutti allo spettatore, lo abbraccia con onde emotive, lo cattura nella memoria di melodie intramontabili sopravvissute di gran lunga alle immagini che le hanno generate. Incantevole pure la coreografia cesellata e sempre poetica, composta con maniacale attenzione al dettaglio: gambe e collo sembrano privi di giunture, si flettono e scattano ritmicamente come metronomi.
Maria Luisa Buzzi – Danza&Danza
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Durata 90′

Spellbound Evening, choreographies by Mauro Astolfi
2026-04-29 18:00 - 19:00, 2026-04-29 21:00 - 22:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Mauro Astolfi presents three choreographies created for his company as part of Danza in Fonderia.

On the occasion of International Dance Day, Fonderia hosts three works by Mauro Astolfi for Spellbound Contemporary Ballet. On stage: Trust, If you were a man and Holy Shift—three pieces exploring relationships, listening and transformation through the language of dance.

6:00 PM – Open rehearsal9:00 PM – Performance

Trust

Choreography and direction: Mauro AstolfiPerformers: Maria Cossu, Giuliana MeleMusic: Various artists
Trust is a short story about two women who do not really know how to behave toward one another. It is an attempt at a temporary agreement, based on the idea of mutual trust as a tool for getting to know each other a little more quickly. A game woven from different personalities, yet driven by a subtle need to understand what the other is thinking, how she might stay close to you, how you might live beside her.
Trust is an infantile, mature, adolescent yet aware duet—a brief narrative, a suggestion about certain decisions that sometimes must be made quickly and that can change the course of life. The two vibrate together, in unison they hide within one another, they protect each other… and, moving forward, they become friends; in the end, they discover that they can trust one another.

If you were a man

Choreography: Mauro AstolfiPerformers: Filippo Arlenghi, Roberto Pontieri, Alessandro Piergentili, Lorenzo BeneventanoMusic: Various artistsCostumes: Anna Coluccia
A production by Spellbound
With the support of the Ministry of Culture
Co-production: Attraversamenti Multipli and Armonie d’Arte Festival
If you were a man is a study for four men on a profound reprogramming of listening. If the sounds produced by movement and breath could always be decoded in time, certain things might be avoided, might never happen, and one might learn to listen effectively to a body that does not speak.
The wonder of a silent dialogue carries unexpected results with it… even the smallest noises and the body’s strategies may reveal an imminent conflict in advance.
Rejection, suspicion, distrust, love, or fear are not always communicated in time for intervention, in time to receive precious information about others.

Holy Shift

Choreography and direction: Mauro AstolfiPerformers: Maria Cossu, Marco Prete, Martina Staltari, Miriam Raffone, Filippo Arlenghi, Lorenzo Beneventano, Alessandro Piergentili, Anita Bonavida, Giuliana MeleLighting design: Marco PolicastroOriginal music: Davidson JaconelloCostumes: Anna ColucciaChoreography assistant: Elena Furlan
A production by Spellbound
With the support of the Ministry of Culture and Regione Lazio
In collaboration with Festival MilanOltre
Holy Shift is a rupture of the paradigm, the end of a linear dream.A kind of “sacred” disorientation in which it is better to stop looking for answers in familiar models and instead cultivate a new openness to change.
Sometimes we can find the sacred in ruin, in disintegration, where a new version of the “sacred” may be hidden.
Holy Shift is an inner displacement toward a new orientation, not toward power, but toward presence.I do not believe the future will be built like a project…rather, it will reveal itself to those who are able to remain listening to the void,to inhabit uncertainty without fleeing it,to recognise in chaos the hidden grammar of another possibility.
Mauro Astolfi

Mauro Astolfi

Mauro Astolfi is one of the most representative authors on the European contemporary dance scene. Active internationally as both a choreographer and teacher, he has developed a distinctive and ever-evolving movement language, shaped by a personal reinterpretation of different forms of contemporary expression.
After a long period in the United States, he founded Spellbound Contemporary Ballet in 1994 together with Valentina Marini, a production project that is now a leading presence on the international contemporary dance market. Alongside his extensive work for the company, Astolfi has also been active in recent years as a freelance choreographer.
His creations include works for Kitonb Extreme Theatre Company, the Theatre School of Amsterdam (2004), Balletto di Roma (2009 and 2012), Szegedi Kortárs Balett in Hungary (2009)—the same year he also choreographed the musical I Promessi Sposi – Opera moderna directed by Michele Guardì—Leipziger Ballett (2011), and River North Chicago Dance Company (2011). In that same year, he co-created a project with Israeli artist Adi Salant, Associate Director of Batsheva Dance Company, for Danza e/è cultura, a cultural bridge between Italy and Israel promoted by MIUR, Fondazione Flavio Vespasiano, and the Municipality of Rieti.
In 2012, he was invited to create a new work for BalletX in Philadelphia and to develop Humanology – Site specific young project for Festival Oriente Occidente. In 2013, he was one of five choreographers selected for the MINUTEMADE project at Gärtnerplatztheater in Munich. In 2015, he created works in Canada for Arts Umbrella in Vancouver and ProArteDanza in Toronto.
Since October 2009, he has also been the Artistic Director of the modern-contemporary department at the Dance Arts Faculty (D.A.F.) in Rome.

INFO & TICKETS

TICKETS | PERFORMANCE
Full price: €10Reduced (under 30, dance schools, Liceo Coreutico Matilde di Canossa, over 65, CRAL Comune di Reggio Emilia members): €6Reduced (under 8): €3
TICKETS | OPEN REHEARSAL
€3 for all / free for children under 6
PURCHASE
Tickets can be purchased online at www.biglietteriafonderia39.it.
The box office at Fonderia opens one hour before the performance.Seats are unassigned.
CONTACTS
Mobile and WhatsApp: +39 334 1023554

Rhapsody in blue / An Echo, A Wave / Reconciliatio / Solo Echo
2026-04-30 19:30 - 21:00 | Teatro Piccinni, Corso Vittorio Emanuele, 84, Bari, 70122, Italia
Aterballetto performs at the Teatro Piccinni in Bari on 30 April 2026.

CCN/Aterballetto presents a true concert in dance.
Rhapsody in Blue by Iratxe Ansa and Igor Bacovich is a playful, vibrant choreography, much like George Gershwin’s iconic score. In An Echo, A Wave by Philippe Kratz, the flowing movement of the two dancers evokes the motion of the sea. Reconciliatio is a delicate female pas de deux by Angelin Preljocaj, set to Ludwig van Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata.
Finally, Solo Echo by Crystal Pite, through the cello and piano sonatas of Johannes Brahms, invokes winter to express something essential about acceptance and loss.

https://youtu.be/SBq99Tyc-xQ

Dreamers
2026-05-02 20:30 - 22:00 | Teatro Politeama Greco, via XXV Luglio, 30, Lecce, Italy
Aterballetto performs Dreamers at the Teatro Politeama Greco in Lecce on 2 May 2026.

The CCN/Aterballetto performs a true dance concert. Solo Echo by Crystal Pite, set to Brahms’ sonatas for piano and cello, summons winter to express something essential about acceptance and loss. Reconciliatio is a delicate female duet by Angelin Preljocaj, choreographed to Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata. In An echo, a wave by Philippe Kratz, the flowing movements of the two dancers evoke the motion of the sea, while Rhapsody in Blue by Iratxe Ansa and Igor Bacovich is a lively, playful choreography, just like Gershwin’s iconic composition.

NOTTE MORRICONE
2026-05-06 19:30 - 21:00 | Theater Magdeburg / Opernhaus, Universitätsplatz 9, Magdeburg, 39104, Germany
Aterballetto performs Notte Morricone by Marcos Morau in Magdeburg, Germany.
“I, Ennio Morricone, am dead,” wrote the composer before taking his leave. His music, however, cannot die. This is how creators and artists always leave us without ever truly leaving, and how memory takes care to keep them alive, to keep them safe. Notte Morricone is my gift, a devoted tribute to the beauty he gave to the world.Notte Morricone unfolds in the twilight of an ordinary night in the life of a creative spirit who, alone and dazed before his papers, jots down notes and envisions melodies for films that do not yet exist, bringing stories back to life in the rarefied air of his room.Marcos Morau – Director and Choreographer
It is impossible to describe Notte Morricone, a masterful work that washes over the spectator in waves, embraces them with emotional currents, and captivates them with the memory of timeless melodies that have long outlived the images that first inspired them. Equally enchanting is the finely chiselled, ever-poetic choreography, composed with meticulous attention to detail: legs and necks seem jointless, bending and snapping rhythmically like metronomes.Maria Luisa Buzzi – Danza&Danza
Duration: 90 minutesFind out more »

NOTTE MORRICONE
2026-05-14 20:30 - 22:00 | Teatro Comunale Sassari, Viale Trieste 5, Sassari, 07100, Italy
Aterballetto performs Notte Morricone by Marcos Morau at Teatro Comunale in Sassari on 14 may 2026.

“I, Ennio Morricone, am dead,” the composer wrote before taking his leave. His music, however, cannot die. And this is how creators and artists always leave us without truly leaving us, and how memory takes care of keeping them alive, of keeping them safe. Notte Morricone is my gift, a devoted tribute to the beauty he gave to the world.Notte Morricone unfolds in the twilight of an ordinary night in the life of a creator, who, alone and dazed before his sheets of paper, jots down notes and imagines melodies for films that do not yet exist, bringing stories back to life in the rarefied air of his room.”— Marcos Morau, Director and Choreographer

“It is impossible to describe Notte Morricone, a masterful piece that reaches the audience in waves, embraces them with emotional surges, and captures them in the memory of timeless melodies that have long outlived the images that first gave rise to them. Equally enchanting is the finely chiselled and ever-poetic choreography, composed with obsessive attention to detail: legs and necks seem jointless, bending and snapping rhythmically like metronomes.”— Maria Luisa Buzzi, Danza&Danza

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Duration: 90 minutes

NOTTE MORRICONE
2026-05-16 20:30 - 22:00 | Teatro Massimo, Via E. De Magistris, 12, Cagliari, CA, 09123, Italia
Aterballetto performs Notte Morricone by Marcos Morau at the Teatro Massimo in Cagliari on May 16 and 17, 2026.
“I, Ennio Morricone, am dead,” wrote the composer before taking his leave. His music, however, cannot die. This is how creators and artists always leave us without ever truly leaving, and how memory takes care to keep them alive, to keep them safe. Notte Morricone is my gift, a devoted tribute to the beauty he gave to the world.Notte Morricone unfolds in the twilight of an ordinary night in the life of a creative spirit who, alone and dazed before his papers, jots down notes and envisions melodies for films that do not yet exist, bringing stories back to life in the rarefied air of his room.Marcos Morau – Director and Choreographer
It is impossible to describe Notte Morricone, a masterful work that washes over the spectator in waves, embraces them with emotional currents, and captivates them with the memory of timeless melodies that have long outlived the images that first inspired them. Equally enchanting is the finely chiselled, ever-poetic choreography, composed with meticulous attention to detail: legs and necks seem jointless, bending and snapping rhythmically like metronomes.Maria Luisa Buzzi – Danza&Danza
Duration: 90 minutesFind out more »

NOTTE MORRICONE
2026-05-17 19:00 - 20:30 | Teatro Massimo, Via E. De Magistris, 12, Cagliari, CA, 09123, Italia
Aterballetto danza Notte Morricone di Marcos Morau al Teatro Massimo di Cagliari il 16 e 17 maggio 2026.
“Io, Ennio Morricone, sono morto”, scrisse il compositore prima di congedarsi. La sua musica, invece, non può farlo. Ed è così che i creatori e gli artisti sempre ci lasciano senza lasciarci, ed è in questo modo che la memoria si preoccupa di tenerli vivi, di tenerli al sicuro. Notte Morricone è il mio regalo, un devoto tributo alla bellezza che ha donato al mondo.
Notte Morricone si svolge nel crepuscolo di una notte ordinaria nella vita di un creativo, che solo e stordito davanti ai suoi fogli, prende appunti e visualizza melodie per film che non esistono ancora, riportando in vita storie nell’aria rarefatta della sua stanza.
Marcos Morau – Regista e coreografo

Impossibile descrivere Notte Morricone, pezzo magistrale che arriva a flutti allo spettatore, lo abbraccia con onde emotive, lo cattura nella memoria di melodie intramontabili sopravvissute di gran lunga alle immagini che le hanno generate. Incantevole pure la coreografia cesellata e sempre poetica, composta con maniacale attenzione al dettaglio: gambe e collo sembrano privi di giunture, si flettono e scattano ritmicamente come metronomi.
Maria Luisa Buzzi – Danza&Danza
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Durata 90′

Solo Echo / Reconciliatio / Glory Hall
2026-05-22 20:30 - 22:00 | Teatro Comunale L. Pavarotti, Via del Teatro, 8, Modena, MO, 41121, Italia
Aterballetto performs Solo Echo, Reconciliatio, and Glory Hall at the Teatro Comunale Pavarotti in Modena on 22 May 2026.

The dancers of the CCN/Aterballetto take the stage in a production featuring works by acclaimed choreographers, including the multi-award-winning Crystal Pite, one of the most celebrated figures in contemporary dance. Solo Echo is inspired by two cello and piano sonatas by Johannes Brahms and by the poem “Lines for Winter” by Mark Strand. As in Strand’s poem, Solo Echo invokes winter — through music and movement — to express something essential about acceptance and loss.
Reconciliatio is a delicate female duet inspired by the Book of Revelation, created by one of the world’s leading choreographers, Angelin Preljocaj.
The evening concludes with Glory Hall, a new creation by Diego Tortelli, offering both the company and the audience a vivid fresco of sensuality and irresistible vitality.

https://youtu.be/erHGNRRz6sQ
CREDITS
Solo Echo

Coreografia: Crystal PiteMusiche: Johannes Brahms (Sonata for Cello and Piano in E Minor, Op. 38: I. Allegro non troppo; Sonata for Cello and Piano in F Major, Op. 99: II. Adagio Affettuoso)Produzione e riallestimento: Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / AterballettoCoproduzione: Teatro Comunale di Bologna

Reconciliatio

Coreografia: Angelin PreljocajMusica: Ludwig van Beethoven, Sonata al Chiaro di LunaProduzione: Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto

Glory Hall

Coreografia: Diego TortelliMusica: Godspeed You! Black EmperorProduzione: Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / AterballettoCoproduzione: Teatro Comunale di Bologna

Rhapsody in blue / Reconciliatio / Solo Echo
2026-06-12 20:00 - 21:30, 2026-06-13 20:00 - 21:30 | AKM Theatre Hall, Gümüşsuyu, Tak-ı Zafer Cd., Istanbul, 34437, Turkey
Aterballetto performs in Istanbul the triple bill by Iratxe Ansa & Igor Bacovich, Angelin Preljocaj, and Crystal Pite.

The CCN/Aterballetto presents a true concert in dance. Rhapsody in Blue by Iratxe Ansa and Igor Bacovich is a playful, vibrant choreography, much like Gershwin’s iconic score. Reconciliatio is a delicate female pas de deux by Angelin Preljocaj, set to Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata. Solo Echo by Crystal Pite, through Brahms’s sonatas for piano and cello, invokes winter to express something essential about acceptance and loss.

NOTTE MORRICONE
2026-06-16 19:00 - 20:30 | Teatrul National Cluj-Napoca, P-ţa Ştefan cel Mare nr. 20, Cluj-Napoca, 400192, Romania
Cluj opens Aterballetto’s Romanian tour of Notte Morricone.

Aterballetto will be in Romania from 16 to 25 June 2026, with the first stop in Cluj, a city in the heart of Transylvania.

“I, Ennio Morricone, am dead,” the composer wrote before taking his leave. His music, however, cannot die. And this is how creators and artists always leave us without truly leaving us, and how memory takes care of keeping them alive, of keeping them safe. Notte Morricone is my gift, a devoted tribute to the beauty he gave to the world.Notte Morricone unfolds in the twilight of an ordinary night in the life of a creator, who, alone and dazed before his sheets of paper, jots down notes and imagines melodies for films that do not yet exist, bringing stories back to life in the rarefied air of his room.”— Marcos Morau, Director and Choreographer

“It is impossible to describe Notte Morricone, a masterful piece that reaches the audience in waves, embraces them with emotional surges, and captures them in the memory of timeless melodies that have long outlived the images that first gave rise to them. Equally enchanting is the finely chiselled and ever-poetic choreography, composed with obsessive attention to detail: legs and necks seem jointless, bending and snapping rhythmically like metronomes.”— Maria Luisa Buzzi, Danza&Danza

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Duration: 90 minutes

NOTTE MORRICONE
2026-06-19 21:00 - 22:30, 2026-06-20 18:00 - 19:30 | Teatrul Național Sibiu | Faust Hall, Strada Triajului 1-3, Sibiu, 550245, Romania
Sibiu is the second stop on Aterballetto’s Romanian tour of Notte Morricone.

The Romanian tour continues in Sibiu from 19 to 20 June 2026, on the occasion of the Sibiu International Theatre Festival.

“I, Ennio Morricone, am dead,” the composer wrote before taking his leave. His music, however, cannot die. And this is how creators and artists always leave us without truly leaving us, and how memory takes care of keeping them alive, of keeping them safe. Notte Morricone is my gift, a devoted tribute to the beauty he gave to the world.Notte Morricone unfolds in the twilight of an ordinary night in the life of a creator, who, alone and dazed before his sheets of paper, jots down notes and imagines melodies for films that do not yet exist, bringing stories back to life in the rarefied air of his room.”— Marcos Morau, Director and Choreographer

“It is impossible to describe Notte Morricone, a masterful piece that reaches the audience in waves, embraces them with emotional surges, and captures them in the memory of timeless melodies that have long outlived the images that first gave rise to them. Equally enchanting is the finely chiselled and ever-poetic choreography, composed with obsessive attention to detail: legs and necks seem jointless, bending and snapping rhythmically like metronomes.”— Maria Luisa Buzzi, Danza&Danza

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Duration: 90 minutes

NOTTE MORRICONE
2026-06-24 19:30 - 21:00, 2026-06-25 19:30 - 21:00 | National Theatre Bucharest, Bulevardul Nicolae Bălcescu 2, Bucarest, 010051, Romania
Bucharest is the final stop on Aterballetto’s Romanian tour of Notte Morricone.

Aterballetto then arrives in the Romanian capital for the final two performances on 24 and 25 June 2026.

“I, Ennio Morricone, am dead,” the composer wrote before taking his leave. His music, however, cannot die. And this is how creators and artists always leave us without truly leaving us, and how memory takes care of keeping them alive, of keeping them safe. Notte Morricone is my gift, a devoted tribute to the beauty he gave to the world.Notte Morricone unfolds in the twilight of an ordinary night in the life of a creator, who, alone and dazed before his sheets of paper, jots down notes and imagines melodies for films that do not yet exist, bringing stories back to life in the rarefied air of his room.”— Marcos Morau, Director and Choreographer

“It is impossible to describe Notte Morricone, a masterful piece that reaches the audience in waves, embraces them with emotional surges, and captures them in the memory of timeless melodies that have long outlived the images that first gave rise to them. Equally enchanting is the finely chiselled and ever-poetic choreography, composed with obsessive attention to detail: legs and necks seem jointless, bending and snapping rhythmically like metronomes.”— Maria Luisa Buzzi, Danza&Danza

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Duration: 90 minutes

Rhapsody in blue / An Echo, A Wave / Reconciliatio / Solo Echo
2026-07-09 20:00 - 21:30 | Theaterverein Fürstenfeldbruck, Fürstenfeld 12, Fürstenfeldbruck, 82256, Germany
Aterballetto will be in Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany, on 9 July 2026.

The CCN/Aterballetto presents a true concert in dance. Rhapsody in Blue by Iratxe Ansa and Igor Bacovich is a playful, vibrant choreography, much like Gershwin’s iconic score. In An Echo, A Wave by Philippe Kratz, the flowing movement of the two dancers evokes the motion of the sea. Reconciliatio is a delicate female pas de deux by Angelin Preljocaj, set to Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata. Solo Echo by Crystal Pite, through Brahms’s sonatas for piano and cello, invokes winter to express something essential about acceptance and loss.
