Centro Coreografico Nazionale / Aterballetto

VISIONI DEL CORPO: LE DONNE DELLA FOTOGRAFIA CONTEMPORANEA (WOMEN IN CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY)
2025-10-08 20:30 - 21:30 (Europe/Rome) | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Women’s photography is the focus of the new Visioni del corpo event — discovering contemporary art through signature dance.
Thanks to the curatorial collaboration of Nicolas Ballario (listed among the 100 most influential figures in the art world by Il Giornale dell’Arte), the “dancing encyclopedia” continues to take shape — a project that tells the story of the world through dance, placing the body at the center of the human experience.
For the festival Anthologies. New Readings of the Body, Nicolas Ballario has chosen to present the photographic works of Tina Modotti, Diane Arbus, Cindy Sherman, Nan Goldin, and Lisetta Carmi, accompanied by original choreographies created for the occasion by Sofia Nappi, one of the most acclaimed Italian choreographers on the contemporary scene.

APERITIF AT THE FONDERIA
From 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., enjoy a tasting of local wines and products, in collaboration with Coldiretti Reggio Emilia.

Sofia Nappi

Sofia Nappi is a choreographer and the artistic director of KOMOCO, a contemporary dance company based in Italy and active internationally, which she co-founded together with her first muses, Adriano Popolo Rubbio and Paolo Piancastelli. From the outset, Sofia’s early creations with KOMOCO earned major recognition, including the Partner Introdans Award (Rotterdam International Duet Choreography Competition 2021) and the First Prize, Critics’ Award, and Production Award at the 35th International Choreography Competition Hannover, presented by the Tanja Liedtke Foundation and Marco Goecke (2021).
Today, KOMOCO’s works choreographed by Sofia are performed throughout Italy and internationally across Europe, as well as in Mexico, Canada, and Serbia, featured in renowned institutions and festivals. As an independent choreographer, Sofia also creates original works for internationally acclaimed dance companies and theatres such as Nederlands Dans Theater 2, Leipzig Ballet, Gauthier Dance // Dance Company Theaterhaus Stuttgart, Ballet BC, Göteborg Opera, National Theatre Mannheim, Staatsoper Hannover, and Scottish Dance Theatre.
Alongside her creative work, Sofia Nappi is deeply engaged in research and professional training on an international level, in close collaboration with the dancers of KOMOCO. Since 2022, she has organized the Komoco Intensive workshop twice a year in Florence, welcoming professional dancers from around the world. A graduate of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in New York, Sofia’s artistic development has been profoundly shaped by her close connection with the Hofesh Shechter Dance Company and her study of Gaga, the movement language developed by the renowned choreographer Ohad Naharin.

Nicolas Ballario
Born in 1984, Nicolas Ballario works at the intersection of contemporary art and media. After completing his studies at the Academy of Photography, he joined Oliviero Toscani’s creative factory La Sterpaia, where he later became Cultural Director. Over the years, he has collaborated with major artistic institutions and numerous publications, and in 2016 he became the youngest recipient ever of the Premio Bassani, one of Italy’s most prestigious awards for journalists distinguished in the fields of culture and the environment.
He is currently the author and host of contemporary art programs on Radio Uno Rai and a contributor to L’Espresso (where he writes a weekly column), Living / Corriere della Sera, Il Post, and Il Giornale dell’Arte. In 2019, he hosted Camera Oscura, a photography series on LA7, and since 2020 he has been presenting Io ti vedo, tu mi senti?, Italia Contemporanea, and The Square on Sky Arte.
Nicolas is also the director of the new exhibition production company Piuma, and founder and president of Cucù, a communication studio dedicated to culture. He curates exhibitions and catalogues, and has been featured twice in Artribune’s “Best of” list of leading art professionals — in 2019 for radio and in 2020 for television projects.

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FONDERIA ATERBALLETTO
via della Costituzione 39, Reggio Emilia

Viaggio nel repertorio del balletto (Journey into Ballet Repertoire). Teatro San Carlo di Napoli
2025-10-11 18:00 - 19:15 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Viaggio nel repertorio del balletto (Journey into Ballet Repertoire), curated and presented by dance journalist and critic Francesca Pedroni, featuring the étoiles of Teatro San Carlo, Naples.

Giselle: Romanticism, Pointe Shoes, and the Ballet Blanc
Curated by Francesca Pedroni
With Étoiles Anna Chiara Amirante and Alessandro Staiano, Ballet Company of Teatro San Carlo, Naples
An iconic title of Romanticism, Giselle premiered in Paris in 1841 with choreography by Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot and music by Charles Adam. It remains an essential work in the repertoire of every major classical ballet company. A love story unfolding between the radiant, pastoral realism of the first act and the nocturnal forest realm of the Wilis — spirits of young women who died of heartbreak after being abandoned before their weddings. Diaphanous in their white tutus and pointe shoes, they rise from midnight to dawn, forcing any man who enters their haunted circle to dance to his death.
The Ballet Company of Teatro San Carlo, directed by Clotilde Vayer, will stage Giselle in Naples this November in Patricia Ruanne’s choreographic version. Around this title, the Journey into Ballet Repertoire series curated by Francesca Pedroni for the National Choreographic Centre / Aterballetto resumes. This performance-conversation blends readings, stories, and video excerpts, featuring the invaluable participation of Étoiles Anna Chiara Amirante and Alessandro Staiano of the Teatro San Carlo Ballet, who will perform live some of the ballet’s most emblematic scenes in dialogue with the curator.

ANNA CHIARA AMIRANTE

Born in Naples, she trained at the Ballet School of the Teatro San Carlo.In 2006, she joined the ballet company of the Teatro San Carlo in Naples under the direction of Elisabetta Terabust. That same year, Alberto Testa awarded her the “Premio Positano” as an emerging young talent. In December 2006, she joined the ballet company of Teatro alla Scala in Milan, directed by Frédéric Olivieri.
In 2007, she became a member of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma company, directed by Carla Fracci, where she immediately performed soloist and principal roles — among them the Russian Princess, the two Big Swans and the Pas de trois in Swan Lake, the Jewels in The Sleeping Beauty, and the Three Odalisques in Scheherazade. For A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Paul Chalmer created the role of Venus especially for her, and she was later chosen to dance the Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker.
In October 2011, La Bayadère premiered at the Teatro dell’Opera, with Anna Chiara cast in the leading role of Nikia. In October 2012, she danced the principal role of the Street Dancer and one of Kitri’s friends in Messerer’s Don Quixote.

Also in 2014, she performed various principal and soloist roles at her home theatre, the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, including Giselle by Lyudmila Semenyaka.In 2016, she was chosen by Mikhail Lavrovsky to dance the role of one of the “Young Troubadours” in Romeo and Juliet.More recently, she has performed as the Sugar Plum Fairy in Charles Jude’s The Nutcracker.
She has also danced other leading roles, including:

Queen of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland (chor. Gianluca Schiavoni)
Echos Pas de Deux in Pink Floyd Ballet (chor. Roland Petit)
Gymnopédies Pas de Deux (chor. Roland Petit)
Marina in Zorba the Greek (chor. Lorca Massine)
Cinderella (chor. Giuseppe Picone)
Marguerite in The Lady of the Camellias (chor. Derek Deane)
Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (chor. Paul Chalmer)
Queen of the Dryads in Don Quixote (chor. Aleksej Fadeechev)
Odette/Odile in Swan Lake (chor. Patrice Bart)
Theme and Variations (chor. George Balanchine)
Juliet in Romeo & Juliet (chor. Kenneth MacMillan)

In December 2022, following her performance as Odette/Odile, she was named Étoile of the Teatro San Carlo by Artistic Director Clotilde Vayer.
In January 2023, she took part as the leading performer in Francesco Ventriglia’s A Thousand Tales at the Dubai Opera, also dancing the role of Raymonda in Raymonda and Serenade by George Balanchine.
In September 2023, she was once again awarded the “Premio Positano”, this time as Best Performer.
She has since appeared in productions such as Suite en Blanc by Serge Lifar, In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated by William Forsythe, and Onegin by John Cranko.
She also performs in numerous national and international galas, interpreting both classical and contemporary repertoire.

ALESSANDRO STAIANO

He graduated in 2011 from the Ballet School of the Teatro di San Carlo. In 2012, he joined the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma for the production of Romeo and Juliet by Patrice Bart. With the Ballet Company of the Teatro di San Carlo, he has performed as a soloist and principal dancer in productions such as The Nutcracker, Romeo and Juliet, Carmen, Swan Lake, Without Words, The Bat (Czarda soloist), Cantata, Don Quixote, Carmina Burana, Mozart Requiem, and Le Corsaire (as Conrad).
In 2015, he danced as principal in The Nutcracker and Giselle, and took part in the 9th Festival Internacional de Ballet in Cali, Colombia. In 2016, he performed the role of Frantz in Roland Petit’s Coppélia, and was selected by Mikhail Lavrovsky to interpret one of the leading roles in Romeo and Juliet. He also appeared in “Bolle and Friends”, performing alongside the international star in the Pas de deux from Proust ou les Intermittences du Cœur (Roland Petit) in the role of Saint Loup.
He was invited as a guest principal dancer by the Opéra National de Bordeaux, performing the role of Frantz in Charles Jude’s Coppélia. In 2017, he danced the role of the Prince, partnering Maria Eichwald, in Cinderella, and in the same year performed as the Knave in Alice in Wonderland (chor. Gianluca Schiavoni) alongside Alicia Amatrain.

In 2022, under the direction of Clotilde Vayer, he was named Étoile of the Teatro San Carlo, following his performance as Romeo in Romeo and Juliet (chor. Kenneth MacMillan).
As an Étoile, he has performed:La Rose Malade (chor. Roland Petit), leading roles in Pink Floyd Ballet (chor. Roland Petit), Zorba the Greek (chor. Leonide Massine), The Lady of the Camellias (chor. Derek Deane), Don Quixote (chor. Aleksej Fadeechev), Swan Lake (R. Nureyev / P. Bart / R. Nuñez), Theme and Variations (chor. George Balanchine), In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated (chor. William Forsythe), Serenade (chor. George Balanchine), A Thousand Tales (chor. Francesco Ventriglia), Don Quixote (R. Nureyev), Suite en Blanc (chor. Serge Lifar), Le Jeune Homme et la Mort (chor. Roland Petit), and Onegin (chor. John Cranko).
He has participated in numerous national and international galas, performing pas de deux such as Diana and Acteon, Swan Lake, Pas d’Esclave, Le Corsaire, Raymonda, The Talisman, Don Quixote, Scheherazade, and Thaïs.
Throughout his career, he has danced alongside internationally renowned étoiles including Maria Eichwald, Alicia Amatriain, Maia Makhateli, Ludmila Konovalova, Maria Yakovleva, and many others.

FRANCESCA PEDRONI

Dance critic for the daily newspaper Il Manifesto and for the magazine Danza&Danza. For Classica HD (formerly Sky Classica, channel 124), she has worked as author and director of the series Danza in Scena — over 70 documentaries dedicated to artists such as William Forsythe, Pina Bausch, and Alessandra Ferri.
For cinema, she wrote and directed the docufilm Roberto Bolle. L’arte della danza, produced by Classica and Artedanza srl. She also curated the DVD collection I capolavori della danza, published by Classica HD and Corriere della Sera.
Since 2000, she has been teaching Dance History at the Accademia Teatro alla Scala, where she also leads ballet talks for the theatre’s Under 30/35 subscribers.

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NOTTE MORRICONE
2025-10-15 20:00 - 21:30 | National Theater of Opera and Ballet, Pallati i Kulturës, Sheshi Skënderbej, Tirana, Albania
Aterballetto performs Notte Morricone by Marcos Morau at the International Dance Festival of Tirana, directed by Angelin Preljocaj.
“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 takes place in the twilight of an ordinary night in the life of a creative mind, who, alone and dazed before his sheets of paper, takes 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 piece that arrives in waves to the spectator, envelops them with emotional currents, and captures them through the memory of timeless melodies that have long outlived the images that first generated them. Equally enchanting is the finely crafted, 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
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Stuporosa
2025-10-16 20:30 - 21:30 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Francesco Marilungo’s Stuporosa is a whirling dance in which tarantism, “possession,” and funeral lament hypnotize the audience.

The Ubu Award for Best Dance Performance 2024 comes to Fonderia. Francesco Marilungo draws inspiration from popular funeral rituals, tarantism, and the dance of Saint Vitus to create Stuporosa, an extraordinary collective work for five performers exploring the universality of grief and its healing.

Credits
Direction and Choreography: Francesco MarilungoWith: Vera Di Lecce, Martina Di Prato, Barbara Novati, Roberta Racis, Francesca Linnea Ugolini, Music and Vocal Coaching: Vera Di LecceSet and Lighting Design: Gianni StaropoliCostumes: Lessico FamiliarePhotography and Video: Luca Del Pia

Production: Körper | National Dance Production CentreCo-production: Fabbrica EuropaWith the support of IntercettAzioni – Centro di Residenza Artistica della LombardiaWith the support of Short Theatre Festival, Fuori Programma Festival, Teatro Akropolis & Dracma Teatro – Progetto CURA, Did Studio, Base Milano, Qenhun
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Thus, apparently without reason, the five performers of Stuporosa weep, giving life to a cry that takes on many shades: at times restrained, at times stifled, at times becoming music, then flowing into hope, then transforming into song, echoing the sounds of an ancient Salentinian funeral lament.

Their bodies fragment in search of archaic, distant forms that vanish and dissolve instantly. These forms are figures of pathos, archetypal images of human suffering handed down over centuries and civilizations—images drawn from ancient funeral rites but universal in meaning, for since the dawn of humanity, suffering has always been endured in the same way. The five performers attempt to reclaim a sense of collectivity, of rituality, to create new forms of mutual support—whispering ancient magical formulas, evoking traditional dances, singing a Salentinian lullaby.

In Stuporosa, as in ritual weeping, one witnesses a stylization of pathos, a de-hystericization of grief; and the performance itself seeks to be an invitation to reflect on mourning, on the human need for a shared cultural institution, a communal rite, to overcome moments of individual crisis.

Francesco Marilungo
After studying Engineering and conducting research at the Von Karman Institute in Brussels, Francesco Marilungo attended the Theatre-Dance Atelier at Paolo Grassi in Milan. Since 2010, he has collaborated with internationally renowned choreographers such as Julie Anne Stanzak, Masaki Iwana, Yasmine Hugonnet, Jan Fabre, and Romeo Castellucci. Over the years, he has performed for Enzo Cosimi, Antonio Marras, and Alessandro Sciarroni. He then began his own creative journey, seeking a personal language between performance, dance, and visual arts.

Paradise, winner of the NEXT 2015/2016 call in Lombardy, was selected by Anticorpi XL for the 2016 Vetrina della Giovane Danza d’Autore. Love Souvenir (2018) won the Inteatro Festival call and the NEXT 2017/2018 call in Lombardy. With Party Girl, he received the Prospettiva Danza Award 2020 and the Cross Award 2020, and was selected for the Nid Platform 2021. Stuporosa premiered at Short Theatre Rome in September 2023 and began an international tour. In 2024, Stuporosa was presented at the Nid Platform in the programming section and won the 2024 UBU Award for Best Dance Performance.

His new project, Cani Lunari, winner of the Premio CollaborAction – Anticorpi XL Network, will premiere in September 2025.
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Ti vedo. La leggenda del Basilisco
2025-10-18 18:00 - 18:50 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
What if a fairy tale were told by an enormous dress of fabric?

Ti vedo. La leggenda del Basilisco

by Teatro del Buratto is an immersive and poetic performance designed for children, weaving together theatre, myth, and magic. Among witches, spells, and the dreaded King of Serpents, children will be carried on an exciting journey where fear and courage meet. A little hero and a fearsome basilisk teach us that sometimes it is enough to look beyond appearances to discover that every creature holds the possibility of change.

Recommended age: from 4 years

CREDITS
A project by: Emanuela Dall’AglioWith: Emanuela Dall’Aglio, Riccardo PaltenghiDirection: Emanuela Dall’AglioSoundscapes and Lighting: Mirto BalianiConstructions: Emanuela Dall’Aglio, Michele Columna, Riccardo Paltenghi, Caterina BertaAssistant Director: Beatrice Masala

A co-production by: Teatro del Buratto, CSS Teatro Stabile di Innovazione del Friuli Venezia Giulia

Recommended age: from 4 yearsDuration: 50 minutes
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“I see you, all the creatures that men call monsters.
Monstrous creatures? Monstrous?… Who are they, really? They are those who cannot be saved, who are of a form unsuited to this world. But what if, for once, they were the heroes—clumsy, reckless, involuntary saviors of themselves?”
N. Haynes

A dress-story that tells a myth.A great skirt that contains within itself all the elements of this tale. A mountain of red fabric in which a narrator recounts the story of a witch and her basilisk.

Humankind has always needed to create and to fight monsters that embody evil and the flaws of the world, and this performance begins with the act of creation—the magical rite that gives birth to a basilisk.

But now we must face the King of Serpents, a creature unsuited to life among men, with supernatural powers, sowing terror, and with a single gaze turning living beings into stone. Through the centuries, countless legends have cast him as a terrible and deadly figure. Drawing on some of these, our story begins with the arrival of the Basilisk in a peaceful village. His power breeds fear and dismay; the villagers, not knowing how to banish him and powerless against his magic, lock themselves in their homes in fear.

But is this creature truly a monster, or is it simply unable to change its nature?Perhaps, unaware of how to handle its power, it is imprisoned by it.Only through the encounter and clash with a small, unsuspecting hero—through his reckless courage and his gentleness—will the Basilisk be offered a way out: in this case, a magical antidote, a trick to ensure that no one dies—neither the monster nor the village.

Through knowledge, courage, encounter, and even a touch of magic, we find a new solution to an old legend.
Teatro del Buratto
Founded in 1975 in Milan, Teatro del Buratto is a theatre production center that combines actor’s theatre, puppet and animation theatre, and black theatre, with a strong focus on visual, musical, and scenographic research. Its productions, aimed at children, adolescents, and adults, range from reimagined classics to new dramaturgies, often addressing contemporary social issues.

Active both nationally and internationally, Buratto is recognized by the Italian Ministry of Culture as a Theatre Production Centre and manages the Teatro Bruno Munari and Teatro Verdi in Milan. Beyond production, it promotes residencies, training, workshops, and festivals such as IF Festival and Segnali, standing as a key reference point for visual and innovative theatre.
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18 – 4:30 pmFAMILY CONTACT

Workshop led by choreographer Laura Matano

Family Contact is a moment of sharing between children and parents, exploring new worlds together. Through the body, movement, and physical contact, participants create and build a new sense of harmonious connection. For children accompanied by one parent.

(Includes ticket for the 6:00 pm performance)

TICKETSSingle ticket: €6

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ONLINE: https://www.biglietteriafonderia39.it/home.aspxFonderia Box Office: opens one hour before the performance (via della Costituzione 39, Reggio Emilia).

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Solo Echo / Reconciliatio / Glory Hall
2025-10-22 20:30 - 22:00 | Teatro Municipale Valli, Piazza Martiri del 7 luglio, Reggio Emilia, 42121, Italia
CCN/Aterballetto performs at Teatro Valli in Reggio Emilia for Festival Aperto.

The dancers of CCN/Aterballetto take center stage in a production by multi-award-winning Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite, now considered among the greats of contemporary dance. Solo Echo is inspired by two sonatas for cello and piano by Johannes Brahms and by Mark Strand’s poem Lines for Winter. As in Strand’s poem, Solo Echo invokes winter, music, and the moving body to express something essential about acceptance and loss.

Reconciliatio is a delicate female duet inspired by the reading of the Apocalypse, created by one of today’s most important international choreographers, Angelin Preljocaj.

The final piece, Glory Hall, is a new creation by Diego Tortelli, offering the company and the audience a fresco of sensuality and overwhelming vitality.

CREDITS
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

Reconciliatio

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

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

Sogni (di una notte di mezza estate)
2025-10-29 20:30 - 21:30 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
The Natiscalzi DT Company debuts at Danza in Fonderia with its contemporary reinterpretation of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Amid metamorphic bodies, desire, magic, and fate, dance becomes a language to explore Shakespeare’s timeless themes, supported by Giuseppe Cordaro’s soundscape that weaves together electronic textures and fragments of Mendelssohn. A poetic and visionary journey that renews the dialogue with the classics, revealing the ever-living power of their enchantment.

CREDITS

by Natiscalzi DTchoreography by Tommaso Monza and Claudia Rossi Valliwith Marco Bissoli, Julia Canard, Chiara Esposito, Elena Grappi, Federico Russo, Maxime Schiavonoriginal music by Giuseppe Cordaro / Mendelssohntexts by Claudia Rossi Valli / William Shakespeare
produced by cinqueminuti APSwith the support of MIC – Italian Ministry of Culture and Regione Emilia-Romagna – Performing Arts Departmentspecial thanks to Vignale in Danza, Festival Teatro nel Bicchiere, and Teatro Sociale di Gualtieri

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In a forest that belongs to no time, suspended in a limbo between dream and reality, six dancers move in search of answers, like pawns in a cosmic game seemingly governed by chance.

The performance is a contemporary reinterpretation of Shakespeare’s classic A Midsummer Night’s Dream, where body and dance become the means to explore universal themes such as love and desire, as well as magic and transformation — alongside the play of misunderstandings and the unpredictable hand of fate.

The six performers are fluid, multifaceted, and metamorphic figures who move between the roles of lovers, woodland creatures, and dreamlike alter egos, challenging the conventions of identity and reality. The figure of Puck — guide of the dream world and symbol of chance — emerges through choral compositions that reclaim unpredictability as a space of possibility and transformation, and the dream as both escape and refuge, an ephemeral tool of assertion and rebellion.

The visionary power of the dream is supported — as a well-established stylistic hallmark of the company — by the scenographic design and the soundscape specially created by composer Giuseppe Cordaro, who combines electronic sonorities with fragments of Mendelssohn’s work. This interplay between classical and contemporary elements permeates the entire performance, echoing the intricate web of Shakespearean relationships.
Once again, Natiscalzi DT takes on the challenge of reinterpreting the classics, as previously seen in The Nutcracker and Annotations for a Faust. This time, the company breathes new life into Shakespeare’s timeless poetry, guided by the deep conviction that the great works must be revisited with fresh eyes, generation after generation — to connect authors, performers, and audiences in a journey of rediscovery of art itself, reminding us that magic (in theatre and beyond) has not vanished: it is merely hidden, waiting to be awakened.

COMPAGNIA NATISCALZI DT

Natiscalzi DT was founded through the collaboration between Tommaso Monza and Claudia Rossi Valli — dancers and choreographers united by a shared language that intertwines poetry, irony, and a keen gaze on life. Established in 2016, the company represents a creative laboratory in constant evolution: blending dance, theatre, and performance art, Natiscalzi DT explores universal themes through a poetic vision that is both profound and, at times, dreamlike.
A prominent presence in the national dance-theatre and contemporary dance scene, Natiscalzi DT has created works such as Mary’s Bath (Critics’ Award – Palio Poetico ErmoColle 2015, Special Mention – Premio Sonia Bonacina 2016, Finalist – Direction Under 30, 7th edition 2020, Honorable Mention – Teatro Festival Valtellina 2021); The Nutcracker (Winner – Lavanderia a Vapore Choreographic Residencies Call 2016 | Fondazione Piemonte dal Vivo, selected by CID Cantieri OrienteOccidente 2017); DIVINO (Winner – Toscana Terra Accogliente 2022); Dreaming Costa Rica (supported in distribution by MIC / SIAE “Per Chi Crea” 2024); and COSA HAI IN TESTA? (Winner – Premio Scenario Infanzia 2024).

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TICKETS
Full price: €10Reduced price (under 30, dance schools, Liceo Coreutico Matilde di Canossa, over 65, CRAL Comune di Reggio Emilia members): €6

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ONLINE: https://www.biglietteriafonderia39.it/home.aspx
Fonderia Box Office: opens one hour before the start of the performance (via della Costituzione 39, Reggio Emilia).

Seats are unassigned.

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NOTTE MORRICONE
2025-11-01 20:30 - 22:00 | Teatro Comunale, Corso Martiri della Libertà, 5, Ferrara, 44121, Italia
On November 1 and 2, 2025, Aterballetto performs Notte Morricone by Marcos Morau at the Teatro Comunale di Ferrara for the Contemporary Dance Festival.
“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
2025-11-02 16:00 - 17:30 | Teatro Comunale, Corso Martiri della Libertà, 5, Ferrara, 44121, Italia
Il 1 e 2 novembre 2025 Aterballetto danza Notte Morricone di Marcos Morau al Teatro Comunale di Ferrara per il Festival di Danza Contemporanea.
“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′

ITALIA DANZA - VISIONI DEL CORPO. MAURIZIO CATTELAN
2025-11-04 18:30 - 19:30 | Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Parigi, 50, rue de Varenne, Parigi, France
Maurizio Cattelan Bidibidobidiboo 1996 photo Zeno Zotti copia (Palazzo Grassi, Venezia)
On Tuesday, November 4, the CCN/Aterballetto will be at the Italian Cultural Institute in Paris with Visioni del corpo — discovering contemporary art through signature dance.

Nicolas Ballario, listed among the 100 most influential figures in the art world by Il Giornale dell’Arte, guides the audience through the story and poetics of Maurizio Cattelan, one of Italy’s most renowned and controversial contemporary artists on the international stage.
At the heart of the evening are three of Cattelan’s works — irreverent, provocative pieces that challenge both art and society through biting irony and powerful visual impact.
Choreographer Lara Guidetti, together with CCN/Aterballetto dancers Alessia Giacomelli and Kiran Gezels, gives body and movement to Cattelan’s visions, transforming the irony, paradox, and silences of his art into physical gesture.

Visioni del corpo. Maurizio Cattelan for the Italian Cultural Institute in Paris is part of Italia Danza, a co-designed initiative by the Direzione Generale per la Diplomazia Pubblica e Culturale (MAECI) and the CCN/Aterballetto.

Maurizio Cattelan, Him, 2001, ph Tom Lindboe (Blenheim) A

Lara Guidetti

In 2006, Lara Guidetti graduated as a dancer and choreographer from the Dance-Theatre Atelier of the Paolo Grassi School in Milan, where she trained with major national and international masters. She continued her education in dance and performing arts, studying various pedagogical and training methods through workshops and productions.
In 2008, she founded the Sanpapié Company, where she serves as artistic director, choreographer, director, and performer, presenting works throughout Italy, Europe, China, and Saudi Arabia. In 2017, her production LEI won the Premio Bonacina.
She collaborates with the JGM Company in Lisbon, with La Scala in Milan as a dancer and acrobat, and creates choreography for opera productions. She has taught at the Paolo Grassi School and DanceHaus in Milan, as well as at the Teatro Stabile di Torino school.
Since 2022, she has been an associate artist of the MilanOltre Festival and a collaborator of the CCN/Aterballetto, working as a choreographer and curator of site-specific and cultural welfare projects.

Nicolas Ballario

Born in 1984, Nicolas Ballario works in the field of contemporary art applied to media. After completing his studies at the Academy of Photography, he joined Oliviero Toscani’s creative factory La Sterpaia, where he later became Cultural Director. He has collaborated with major artistic institutions and numerous publications, and in 2016 became the youngest recipient ever of the Premio Bassani, one of Italy’s most prestigious awards for journalists distinguished in cultural and environmental reporting.
He is currently the author and host of contemporary art programmes on Radio Uno Rai and a contributor to L’Espresso (where he writes a weekly column), Living / Corriere della Sera, Il Post, and Il Giornale dell’Arte. In 2019, he hosted Camera Oscura, a photography series on LA7, and since 2020 has been presenting Io ti vedo, tu mi senti?, Italia Contemporanea, and The Square on Sky Arte.
He is also the director of the new exhibition production company Piuma, and founder and president of Cucù, a communication studio dedicated to culture. Ballario curates exhibitions and catalogues, and was included twice in Artribune’s “Best of” list of leading figures in the art world — in 2019 for radio and in 2020 for television projects.

Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda
2025-11-06 11:00 - 12:00, 2025-11-06 19:30 - 20:30 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda opens the Dance Week of the CCN/Aterballetto.
Fonderia – Thursday, November 6 at 11:00 a.m. and 7:30 p.m.

The theme of love overwhelmed by war and death — inspired by the story of Tancredi and Clorinda from Torquato Tasso’s Gerusalemme Liberata (whose first draft celebrates its 450th anniversary in 2025) and set to music by Claudio Monteverdi (1624) — retains a striking contemporary relevance. The CCN/Aterballetto reinterprets this legacy through dance, its privileged language for conveying the intensity and drama of the work, in a performance conceived by Fabio Cherstich and Philippe Kratz, featuring dancers Alessia Giacomelli and Kiran Gezels, tenor Raffaele Giordani, and harpsichordist Francesco Luigi Trivisano.
The performance is preceded and followed by contributions from Antonio Audino, theatre critic and journalist for RadioRai3, who, with his signature clarity, will cast a contemporary light on these “sacred texts” of Italian cultural heritage.

The 11:00 a.m. performance is dedicated to upper secondary school students.
APERITIF AT LA FONDERIA
From 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., enjoy a tasting of local wines and products, in collaboration with the Mercato Campagna Amica del Tricolore.

https://youtu.be/mjZQdcn1fgc
CREDITS
Direction and visual: Fabio CherstichChoreography and stage movement: Philippe KratzMusic: Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda by Claudio MonteverdiDancers: Alessia Giacomelli, Kiran GezelsSinger: Raffaele GiordaniHarpsichord: Francesco Luigi Trivisano
Co-production: Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto, Teatro Regio di Parma / Festival Verdi, Torinodanza Festival – Teatro Stabile di Torino – Teatro Nazionale, Ghislierimusica – Centro di Musica Antica

Born in September 2024, Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda is a project aimed at enhancing live performing arts within museums and cultural sites, promoted by the Direzione Generale Musei and co-funded by the Direzione Generale Spettacolo.

For its realization, the Musei Nazionali di Perugia – Direzione Regionale Musei Nazionali Umbria — and in particular the Museo Archeologico Nazionale e Teatro Romano di Spoleto — established, with the support of the Direzione Generale Musei, a partnership shared with five other major cultural venues: Villa Pisani in Stra, Castello e Parco di Racconigi, Castello Svevo in Bari, Certosa di San Martino in Naples, and the Parco Archeologico di Venosa. Later, Castel Sant’Angelo in Rome joined the initiative, hosting it as part of the 2024 summer festival Sotto l’angelo di Castello.

The project is part of Italia Danza, a co-designed initiative by the Direzione Generale per la Diplomazia Pubblica e Culturale del MAECI and the CCN/Aterballetto, aimed at promoting Italy’s artistic heritage abroad.
BODIES AS MIRRORS

In my vision of Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, I imagine a confined, circular space where proximity and the resemblance of bodies play a fundamental role. Together with choreographer Philippe Kratz, we explore the idea of bodies as mirrors, telling the story of a humanity at war with itself. Eros and Thanatos emerge as equally powerful forces, creating a paradoxical atmosphere within this perfectly balanced struggle between human beings. In our interpretation, Tancredi and Clorinda are contemporary warriors, bound to one another inextricably, compelled to fight and to relive a story already written.
A single voice gives life to three characters — the text itself, Tancredi, and Clorinda — merging within the body and sound of one singer. This estranged voice, bound to a circular path, evokes a sense of constant repetition, underscoring the endless cycle of this story of love and death — a story destined, tragically, to repeat itself through the centuries and reach us still, carrying all its force as an emanation of Tasso’s poetic power and Monteverdi’s sublime music.
Fabio Cherstich, Director

INNER STRUGGLE

In Tasso’s tale, set to music by Claudio Monteverdi, the most obvious themes are the struggle between woman and man and religious conversion — yet these are also the aspects I find least compelling. Transposed into dance, they would risk becoming a mere narrative of circumstances.
A more philosophical or psychoanalytic reading of this struggle — from which both protagonists emerge defeated, deceived, and alone — feels far more engaging to me. Within the opposition of the two roles lies an entire world: the seeking, confronting, and wounding of one another. The dynamic is that of a ritual, a warlike confrontation between two entities drawing closer. The absurdity of the act is revealed when one of them loses their life, and we realize that the other has not won either… a powerful, shared wound that remains imprinted on both bodies. So, are these two people fighting each other — or a single person fighting against themselves?
Philippe Kratz, Choreographer

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Preludio / An Echo, A Wave / Solo Echo
2025-11-07 20:30 - 21:45, 2025-11-08 20:30 - 21:45, 2025-11-09 20:30 - 21:45 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
https://youtu.be/0WgBEKxzPxY
For the Dance Week, Aterballetto performs from November 7 to 9 at its home venue, La Fonderia.

While half of the company is on tour in South Africa, the remaining eight dancers of Aterballetto offer the Reggio Emilia audience three evenings of performance, dancing on the stage of La Fonderia (via della Costituzione 39) with the following programme:
Preludio by Diego Tortelli, built around some of the most intense poems and songs by Australian singer-songwriter Nick Cave, explores love, faith, dependence, obsession, loss, and the intricate ways these themes intertwine.
An Echo, A Wave by Philippe Kratz, officially premiering during Dance Week, translates the sense of wonder and eternity evoked by the sight of the sea: the dancers’ flowing movements recall the natural, unending motion of the waves, while also reflecting the passage through shifting emotional states.
Finally, Solo Echo by Crystal Pite is inspired by two sonatas for cello and piano by Johannes Brahms and by the poem Lines for Winter by Mark Strand, invoking winter, music, and the moving body to express something essential about acceptance and loss.
The evening opens with a new MicroDanza piece created by Antonella Bertoni especially for the CCN/Aterballetto.

APERITIF IN FONDERIA
From 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., enjoy a tasting of local wines and products, in collaboration with the Mercato Campagna Amica del Tricolore.

FND/Aterballetto – Preludio – ph. Celeste Lombardi
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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

ONLINE: https://www.biglietteriafonderia39.it/home.aspx
Fonderia Box Office: opens one hour before the start of the performance (via della Costituzione 39, Reggio Emilia).

Seats are unassigned.

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Preludio / "O" / Alpha Grace
2025-11-08 18:30 - 19:40 | UJ Arts & Culture, University Road, Johannesburg, GP 2092, South Africa
From November 8 to 12, 2025, Aterballetto embarks on its first tour in South Africa.

Thanks to the collaboration of the Embassy of Italy in Pretoria and the Italian Cultural Institute of Pretoria, Aterballetto performs the triptych Dreamers in three South African cities.

TOUR

Saturday, November 8 – 6:30 p.m. – Johannesburg, UJ Arts & Culture
Monday, November 10 – 6:00 p.m. – Stellenbosch, The Adam Small Theatre
Wednesday, November 12 – 6:30 p.m. – Pretoria, The Fairtree Atterbury Theatre

The triptych opens with Preludio by Italian choreographer Diego Tortelli, who has been collaborating with the company since 2018: a love letter to the body for five dancers, built around some of the most intense poems and songs by Australian singer-songwriter Nick Cave, whose unmistakable voice envelops the audience.
At the heart of the evening is the duet O by German choreographer Philippe Kratz, former principal dancer with Aterballetto and now a sought-after creator for major international theatres. A small masterpiece of unstoppable rhythm, it hypnotically draws the viewer in.
The evening concludes with the sextet Alpha Grace, also by Philippe Kratz — a reflection on empathy, “a gentle form of communication,” as the choreographer says, “between people who feel they stand on the same level.”

VISIONI DEL CORPO: MAURIZIO CATTELAN
2025-11-09 18:00 - 19:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Maurizio Cattelan Bidibidobidiboo 1996 photo Zeno Zotti copia (Palazzo Grassi, Venezia)
For Dance Week, three works by Maurizio Cattelan are the focus of the new edition of Visioni del corpo — discovering contemporary art through signature dance.

Nicolas Ballario, listed among the 100 most influential figures in the art world by Il Giornale dell’Arte, guides the audience through the story and poetics of Maurizio Cattelan, one of the most renowned and controversial Italian contemporary artists on the international scene.
At the heart of the evening are three of Cattelan’s works — irreverent and provocative pieces that challenge both art and society through sharp irony and powerful visual impact.
Choreographer Lara Guidetti, together with CCN/Aterballetto dancers Alessia Giacomelli and Kiran Gezels, gives body and movement to Cattelan’s visions, transforming the irony, paradox, and unspoken essence of his works into physical gesture.
On the occasion of Dance Week, Visioni del Corpo: Maurizio Cattelan will have three performances at La Fonderia, via della Costituzione 39:

Sunday, November 9 at 6:00 p.m.
Monday, November 10 at 11:00 a.m. – for upper secondary schools
Monday, November 10 at 8:30 p.m.

HAPPY HOUR AT LA FONDERIA

From 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., enjoy a tasting of local wines and products, in collaboration with the Mercato Campagna Amica del Tricolore.

Maurizio Cattelan, Him, 2001, ph Tom Lindboe (Blenheim) A

Lara Guidetti

In 2006, Lara Guidetti graduated as a dancer and choreographer from the Dance-Theatre Atelier of the Paolo Grassi School in Milan, where she trained with major national and international masters. She continued her education in dance and performing arts, studying various pedagogical and training methods through workshops and productions.
In 2008, she founded the Sanpapié Company, where she serves as artistic director, choreographer, director, and performer, presenting works throughout Italy, Europe, China, and Saudi Arabia. In 2017, her production LEI won the Premio Bonacina.
She collaborates with the JGM Company in Lisbon, with La Scala in Milan as a dancer and acrobat, and creates choreography for opera productions. She has taught at the Paolo Grassi School and DanceHaus in Milan, as well as at the Teatro Stabile di Torino school.
Since 2022, she has been an associate artist of the MilanOltre Festival and a collaborator of the CCN/Aterballetto, working as a choreographer and curator of site-specific and cultural welfare projects.

Nicolas Ballario

Born in 1984, Nicolas Ballario works in the field of contemporary art applied to media. After completing his studies at the Academy of Photography, he joined Oliviero Toscani’s creative factory La Sterpaia, where he later became Cultural Director. He has collaborated with major artistic institutions and numerous publications, and in 2016 became the youngest recipient ever of the Premio Bassani, one of Italy’s most prestigious awards for journalists distinguished in cultural and environmental reporting.
He is currently the author and host of contemporary art programmes on Radio Uno Rai and a contributor to L’Espresso (where he writes a weekly column), Living / Corriere della Sera, Il Post, and Il Giornale dell’Arte. In 2019, he hosted Camera Oscura, a photography series on LA7, and since 2020 has been presenting Io ti vedo, tu mi senti?, Italia Contemporanea, and The Square on Sky Arte.
He is also the director of the new exhibition production company Piuma, and founder and president of Cucù, a communication studio dedicated to culture. Ballario curates exhibitions and catalogues, and was included twice in Artribune’s “Best of” list of leading figures in the art world — in 2019 for radio and in 2020 for television projects.

Info & Tickets
TICKETS

Single ticket: €3

TICKET PURCHASE
Tickets can be purchased online at www.biglietteriafonderia39.it.The box office at La Fonderia opens at 7:30 p.m.Seats are unassigned.
CONTACTSMobile e whatsapp +39 3341023554Email biglietteria@aterballetto.it
FONDERIA ATERBALLETTOvia della Costituzione 39, Reggio Emilia

VISIONI DEL CORPO: MAURIZIO CATTELAN
2025-11-10 11:00 - 12:00, 2025-11-10 20:30 - 21:30 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Maurizio Cattelan Bidibidobidiboo 1996 photo Zeno Zotti copia (Palazzo Grassi, Venezia)
For Dance Week, three works by Maurizio Cattelan are the focus of the new edition of Visioni del corpo — discovering contemporary art through signature dance.

Nicolas Ballario, listed among the 100 most influential figures in the art world by Il Giornale dell’Arte, guides the audience through the story and poetics of Maurizio Cattelan, one of the most renowned and controversial Italian contemporary artists on the international scene.
At the heart of the evening are three of Cattelan’s works — irreverent and provocative pieces that challenge both art and society through sharp irony and powerful visual impact.
Choreographer Lara Guidetti, together with CCN/Aterballetto dancers Alessia Giacomelli and Kiran Gezels, gives body and movement to Cattelan’s visions, transforming the irony, paradox, and unspoken essence of his works into physical gesture.
On the occasion of Dance Week, Visioni del Corpo: Maurizio Cattelan will have three performances at La Fonderia, via della Costituzione 39:

Sunday, November 9 at 6:00 p.m.
Monday, November 10 at 11:00 a.m. – for upper secondary schools
Monday, November 10 at 8:30 p.m.

APERITIF AT LA FONDERIA

From 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., enjoy a tasting of local wines and products, in collaboration with the Mercato Campagna Amica del Tricolore.

Maurizio Cattelan, Him, 2001, ph Tom Lindboe (Blenheim) A

Lara Guidetti

In 2006, Lara Guidetti graduated as a dancer and choreographer from the Dance-Theatre Atelier of the Paolo Grassi School in Milan, where she trained with major national and international masters. She continued her education in dance and performing arts, studying various pedagogical and training methods through workshops and productions.
In 2008, she founded the Sanpapié Company, where she serves as artistic director, choreographer, director, and performer, presenting works throughout Italy, Europe, China, and Saudi Arabia. In 2017, her production LEI won the Premio Bonacina.
She collaborates with the JGM Company in Lisbon, with La Scala in Milan as a dancer and acrobat, and creates choreography for opera productions. She has taught at the Paolo Grassi School and DanceHaus in Milan, as well as at the Teatro Stabile di Torino school.
Since 2022, she has been an associate artist of the MilanOltre Festival and a collaborator of the CCN/Aterballetto, working as a choreographer and curator of site-specific and cultural welfare projects.

Nicolas Ballario

Born in 1984, Nicolas Ballario works in the field of contemporary art applied to media. After completing his studies at the Academy of Photography, he joined Oliviero Toscani’s creative factory La Sterpaia, where he later became Cultural Director. He has collaborated with major artistic institutions and numerous publications, and in 2016 became the youngest recipient ever of the Premio Bassani, one of Italy’s most prestigious awards for journalists distinguished in cultural and environmental reporting.
He is currently the author and host of contemporary art programmes on Radio Uno Rai and a contributor to L’Espresso (where he writes a weekly column), Living / Corriere della Sera, Il Post, and Il Giornale dell’Arte. In 2019, he hosted Camera Oscura, a photography series on LA7, and since 2020 has been presenting Io ti vedo, tu mi senti?, Italia Contemporanea, and The Square on Sky Arte.
He is also the director of the new exhibition production company Piuma, and founder and president of Cucù, a communication studio dedicated to culture. Ballario curates exhibitions and catalogues, and was included twice in Artribune’s “Best of” list of leading figures in the art world — in 2019 for radio and in 2020 for television projects.

Info & Biglietti
TICKETS
Single ticket: €3
TICKET PURCHASE
Tickets can be purchased online at www.biglietteriafonderia39.it.The box office at La Fonderia opens at 7:30 p.m.
Seats are unassigned.
CONTACTSMobile e whatsapp +39 3341023554Email biglietteria@aterballetto.it
FONDERIA ATERBALLETTOvia della Costituzione 39, Reggio Emilia

Preludio / "O" / Alpha Grace
2025-11-10 18:00 - 19:10 | The Adam Small Theatre, 15 Victoria Street, Stellenbosch, WC 7602, South Africa

Stravaganze in sol minore
2025-11-11 10:30 - 11:30, 2025-11-11 14:30 - 15:30 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Dance Week is for the children of Reggio Emilia too!

On Monday, November 10 at 10:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m., the doors of La Fonderia open to nursery and primary schools of Reggio Emilia.
The magical virtuosity of Toti Scialoja (1914–1998) — a master not only of images but also of words — is at the heart of Stravaganze in sol minore by Francesca Lattuada, a creation for children presented by the CCN/Aterballetto.
The almost magical vibrations that flow from Scialoja’s poems are like the endless ripples formed on the surface of water when a stone is thrown: evoking unreal or hyperreal images, imbued with a musicality that blends poetry and nursery rhyme, where the extraordinary and the frightening meet and hold hands.

Beneath a bush of scarlet rosesThe toad serves hot tea with milk.Beneath a bush of purple rosesIt’s the toad’s turn to wash the cups.(Toti Scialoja, La mela di Amleto, 1984)
CREDITS

Direction and choreography: Francesca LattuadaTexts: Toti Scialoja (from La mela di Amleto)Music: The Klezmorin, Gustav Mahler, Dean Martin, Clara RockmoreMasks and objects: Natali FortierPerformers: Vittoria Franchina, Rocco Ancarola
Co-production: Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto and Centro Teatrale BrescianoIn co-production with Centro Servizi Culturali Santa Chiara

Info & Tickets
TICKETS
3 euro
TICKET PURCHASE

ONLINE: https://www.biglietteriafonderia39.it/home.aspx
Fonderia Box Office: opens one hour before the start of the performance (via della Costituzione 39, Reggio Emilia).

Seats are unassigned.

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Email biglietteria@aterballetto.it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wouh0x0D4HQ

Preludio / "O" / Alpha Grace
2025-11-12 18:30 - 19:40 | The Fairtree Atterbury Theatre, 4 Daventry St, Lynnwood Manor, Pretoria, South Africa

Duo d'Eden | Grosse Fugue
2025-11-13 20:30 - 21:30 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Maguy Marin’s dance arrives at Fonderia through the interpretation of the MM Contemporary Dance Company.

Directed by Michela Merola, the company presents for Danza in Fonderia two masterpieces by the multi-award-winning French choreographer Maguy Marin: Duo d’Eden, a duet of rare, almost mythical beauty, and the all-female quartet Grosse Fugue, Marin’s personal interpretation of Ludwig van Beethoven’s work, considered a milestone in the relationship between classical music and contemporary dance. After the performance, a short talk with a dance critic is scheduled.

The MM Contemporary Dance Company won the 2024 Danza&Danza Award for Repertoire Enhancement with Maguy Marin’s Grosse Fugue.
https://vimeo.com/480791125/2e8682f7fb

Duo d'Eden

Choreography and Soundtrack: Maguy MarinRestaged by: Cathy Polo and Ennio SammarcoCostumes: Montserrat CasanovaLighting: Alexandre BéneteaudRehearsal Director: Enrico MorelliPerformers: Mario Genovese, Fabiana Lonardo
Duration: 18 minutes
Production: MM Contemporary Dance CompanyCo-production: Fondazione I Teatri di Reggio Emilia
World Premiere – Compagnie Maguy Marin: December 12, 1986 – AngersFirst Performance with MM Contemporary Dance Company: October 21, 2020 – Teatro Sociale di Trento

“Two bodies, as if naked, advance on stage, entwining with one another and never letting go. A man and a woman, their bodies drawn together and clinging, joined until they become inseparable. She, a vine that wraps and coils. He, who holds her, restrains her, supports her. There is something mythical in their dance, in this total fusion of two beings who become one, never to part again.

Eden is original love, love of the time of innocence. There is also something raw and primitive in this duet. The soundscape of waterfalls and storms accompanies the dance.

Eden is a dance full of strength and beauty, perhaps because of the natural force that emanates from the purity of movement and the precision of gesture, from the almost sculptural forms, from the power of the bodies. That is where the emotion arises—from this simplicity that reveals the essential. If love is a dance, it is surely Eden.”

Yasmine Tigoe

In Duo d’Eden, two dancers of MMCDC perform with mastery and style a work of rare beauty—original, complex, and demanding—created in 1986 by Maguy Marin for her company. Simply a man and a woman: flesh-colored unitards highlighting their nudity, a long wig for her, entwined with each other throughout the piece as she continuously evolves across his body. An Adam and Eve immersed in a journey of sensuality, eros, defense, and attack, within a world that is anything but calm, safe, and idyllic. A poetic and intense work.
Grosse Fugue
Choreography: Maguy MarinRestaged by: Dorothée DelabieMusic: Ludwig van Beethoven, Die Grosse Fuge, Op. 133Costumes: Chantal CloupetLighting: François RenardRehearsal Director: Enrico MorelliPerformers: Fabiana Lonardo, Giorgia Raffetto, Alice Ruspaggiari, Diletta Savini

Duration: 20 minutes

Production: MM Contemporary Dance CompanyCo-production: Reggio Parma Festival, Festival Bolzano Danza / Fondazione Haydn di Bolzano e Trento, MilanOltre Festival

World Premiere – Compagnie Maguy Marin: 2001 – Espace Jean Poperen, MeyzieuNational Preview with MM Contemporary Dance Company: December 16, 2023 – Reggio Parma Festival – Teatro Ariosto, Reggio EmiliaNational Premiere with MM Contemporary Dance Company: July 16, 2024 – Festival Bolzano Danza

Four women and an extraordinary musical work such as Die Grosse Fuge: Maguy Marin’s personal reading of Ludwig van Beethoven’s masterpiece—considered a milestone in the relationship between classical music and contemporary dance—is built on a constant, intimate dialogue between dance and music, on a profound connection between the two arts.

Created in 2001 for the C.ie Maguy Marin, it is revived here in the interpretation of four dancers from the MM Contemporary Dance Company. From the encounter between these four women and the music emerges a complexity between the growing vital force of the feminine and the state of exhilaration and despair of this score.

The dance becomes an euphoric explosion of energy, where the four performers, dressed in red, in an almost frenetic alternation, leap, run, collapse, and rise again in a whirlwind of life and frenzy. A metaphor of life that turns into a vortex, an exhilarating race against death, where the very vertigo of the end drives us to run breathlessly, to live every moment as if it were the last. A powerful, moving work, a moment of pure emotion.

MM Contemporary Dance Company
The MM Contemporary Dance Company is a contemporary dance ensemble directed by choreographer Michele Merola. Founded in 1999, it was conceived both as a production center for events and performances and as a promoter of festivals and workshops, with the aim of fostering exchanges and collaborations between Italian and international artists as witnesses and spokespeople of contemporary culture.

Based in Reggio Emilia, the company’s repertoire is rich and diverse, thanks to the works of Michele Merola and creations by leading European and Italian choreographers such as Maguy Marin, Mats Ek, Mauro Bigonzetti, Thomas Noone, Gustavo Ramírez 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, MM Contemporary Dance Company won the prestigious Danza&Danza Award as Best Emerging Company and has since become a recognized excellence of Italian dance, with an established presence across the national stage. In recent years, it has also gained international acclaim, performing in both European and non-European countries (Korea, Colombia, Canada, Germany, Russia, Morocco, Belgium, Spain, Slovenia, Hungary, Czech Republic, Sweden, France, Finland, Serbia, Norway, Croatia).

In 2017, the company won the Europaindanza Award for Choreographic Merit with Michele Merola’s Bolero. In 2022, MMCDC received the Danza&Danza Award for Best Italian Production with Ballade (choreography by Mauro Bigonzetti and Enrico Morelli). In 2024, it was awarded the Danza&Danza Prize for Repertoire Enhancement for Maguy Marin’s Grosse Fugue.

In 2021, 2022, and 2024, MMCDC appeared on RAI 1 in Roberto Bolle’s TV programs Danza con me and Viva la danza, performing works by Mauro Bigonzetti and Lorca Massine. For the 2018–2020 and 2022–2024 triennia, as well as in 2021, the company was an associate ensemble of the InDanza Circuit of Trentino-Alto Adige.

MM Contemporary Dance Company is supported by the Italian Ministry of Culture, the Emilia-Romagna Region, the Municipality of Reggio Emilia, and the Centro Permanente Danza Danza / Reggio Emilia.
Maguy Marin
Maguy Marin was born in Toulouse in 1951. After her dance studies, in 1972 she joined Mudra, the school and choreographic residence created by Maurice Béjart in Brussels, where she took part in the formation of the group Chandra, which gathered the school’s talents under the direction of Micha van Hoecke. From 1974 to 1977 she was a full member of Les Ballets du XXe Siècle, directed by Béjart, where she not only performed repertoire works and new creations, but also choreographed Yu-Ku-Ri (1976).

In 1984, she founded the Compagnie Maguy Marin. After residencies at the Centre Chorégraphique National de Créteil, the Centre Chorégraphique National de Rillieux-la-Pape (Lyon), and later in Toulouse, in 2015 the company settled in Ramdam, in the Lyon region, a space dedicated to artistic creation, to develop an ambitious project: Ramdam, a center for the arts.

Maguy Marin is one of the leading figures of the “new French dance” and has created many works that have become renowned, including Babel Babel (1976), Cendrillon (1985), Coups d’État (1988), Made in France (1992), Aujourd’hui peut-être (1996), Quoi qu’il en soit (1999), Pièces détachées (2002), Umwelt (2004), Turba (2007), Salves (2010). Yet it is May B (1981), inspired by the literary world of Samuel Beckett, that remains a true masterpiece, still performed today in France and worldwide.

In addition to creating all the works for her own company, she has also choreographed for major companies such as Dutch National Ballet, Nederlands Dans Theater 3, Paris Opera, and Lyon Opera Ballet.

Alongside numerous honors received in her home country—including being named Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters in 1998—she is among the few non-Americans to have been awarded the American Dance Festival Award (2003) and, in 2008, the Bessie Award in New York for Umwelt. In 2016, she received the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Biennale Danza.

Overall, Maguy Marin’s creative production could be gathered under the title “the human condition”: from May B to her most recent works, she has brought to life characters that reveal the grotesque soul, intrinsically tied to the essence of humanity. The result is powerful, ironic, and at times fierce.
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Dreamers
2025-11-13 20:30 - 21:45 | Teatro Sociale, Via Paolo Oss-Mazzurana, 19, Trento, 38122, Italia
At the Teatro Sociale in Trento, on November 13 and 14, 2025, Aterballetto performs Dreamers, a triptych featuring choreographies by Tortelli, Kratz, and Pite.
Dreamers is a choreographic journey through three visions, three distinct poetics, which together form a single reflection on desire, memory, loss, and the strength of the body as an emotional and spiritual space. Three creations by some of the most significant choreographers on the contemporary scene — Philippe Kratz, Crystal Pite, and Diego Tortelli — unfold like chapters of a single dream.
In An echo, a wave, Philippe Kratz draws inspiration from the sea as a metaphor for eternity, for encounter and separation. The waves, like the dancers’ bodies, carry with them stories, emotions, and continuous movement, in a flow that recalls the endless departures and returns of our existence. The Mediterranean thus becomes a mirror of our ephemeral nature, yet also of our capacity for beauty and connection.
© Festival de Granada | Fermín Rodríguez
With Preludio, Diego Tortelli creates a love letter to the body—its fragility and its strength, its constant state of transformation. Through the poetic and musical universe of Nick Cave, the work explores personal “creed,” the human need to give meaning and shape to emotions. On stage, the dancers are not individuals but emotional pulsations, inhabiting space with urgency and lyricism.
FND/Aterballetto – Preludio – ph. Claudio Montanari
Solo Echo by Crystal Pite is inspired by two sonatas for cello and piano by Johannes Brahms and by the profound verses of Mark Strand. On stage, one breathes the winter of the soul: time slows down, and the body becomes a vessel for a moving and powerful introspection. With delicacy and intensity, Pite reflects on the themes of loss, the acceptance of change, and the mystery of resilience.

Dreamers is an encounter between three ways of sensing and narrating the world—an invitation to let oneself be carried by dance as a lucid dream, a mirror of our most intimate tensions, a memory of our deepest desires.

Dreamers
2025-11-14 20:30 - 21:45 | Teatro Sociale, Via Paolo Oss-Mazzurana, 19, Trento, 38122, Italia
Al Teatro Sociale di Trento, il 13 e 14 novembre 2025, Aterballetto danza Dreamers, trittico composto dalle coreografie firmate da Tortelli, Kratz e Pite.
Dreamers è un viaggio coreografico in tre visioni, tre poetiche differenti, che insieme compongono un’unica riflessione sul desiderio, la memoria, la perdita e la forza del corpo come spazio emotivo e spirituale. Tre creazioni firmate da coreografi tra i più significativi della scena contemporanea — Philippe Kratz, Crystal Pite e Diego Tortelli — si susseguono come capitoli di un unico sogno.
In An echo, a wave Philippe Kratz parte dalla suggestione del mare come metafora dell’eternità, dell’incontro e della separazione. Le onde, come i corpi dei danzatori, portano con sé storie, emozioni e movimenti continui, in un flusso che richiama le infinite partenze e ritorni della nostra esistenza. Il Mediterraneo diventa così specchio del nostro essere effimeri, ma anche capaci di bellezza e connessione.
© Festival de Granada | Fermín Rodríguez
Con Preludio Diego Tortelli firma una dichiarazione d’amore al corpo, alla sua fragilità e potenza, al suo continuo trasformarsi. Attraverso l’universo poetico e musicale di Nick Cave, la creazione si interroga sul “credo” personale, sul bisogno umano di trovare senso e forma alle emozioni. In scena, i danzatori non sono individui, ma pulsazioni emotive che abitano lo spazio con urgenza e lirismo.
FND/Aterballetto – Preludio – ph. Claudio Montanari
Solo Echo di Crystal Pite si ispira a due sonate per violoncello e pianoforte di Johannes Brahms e ai versi profondi di Mark Strand. In scena si respira l’inverno dell’anima: il tempo rallenta, il corpo si fa veicolo di un’introspezione commossa e potente. Con delicatezza e intensità, Pite riflette sul tema della perdita, sull’accettazione del cambiamento e sul mistero della resilienza.

Dreamers è un incontro tra tre modi di sentire e raccontare il mondo, un invito a lasciarsi attraversare dalla danza come sogno lucido, specchio delle nostre tensioni più intime, memoria dei nostri desideri più profondi.

VISIONI DEL CORPO: MAURIZIO CATTELAN
2025-11-14 21:00 - 22:00 | PARC, Piazzale delle Cascine 4/5/7, Firenze, 50144
Maurizio Cattelan Bidibidobidiboo 1996 photo Zeno Zotti copia (Palazzo Grassi, Venezia)
At PARC in Florence, three works by Maurizio Cattelan are the focus of the new edition of Visioni del corpo — discovering contemporary art through the lens of choreographic creation.

Nicolas Ballario, listed among the 100 most influential figures in the art world by Il Giornale dell’Arte, guides the audience through the history and poetics of Maurizio Cattelan, one of the most renowned and controversial contemporary Italian artists on the international scene.
At the heart of the evening are three of Cattelan’s works — irreverent and provocative pieces that challenge art and society with sharp irony and striking visual power.
Choreographer Lara Guidetti, together with CCN/Aterballetto dancers Alessia Giacomelli and Kiran Gezels, gives body and movement to Cattelan’s visions, transforming the irony, paradox, and silence of his works into physical gesture.
The three choreographic pieces created for this evening stem from works that are vastly different from one another, compelling the dancers to inhabit ever-changing physical grammars: from physical theatre to abstract form, from extreme restraint to the poetic power of the mask. The challenge is not to create a stylistic continuum, but to generate radical metamorphoses that free the performers from the traces of the author and lead them into unforeseen territories.
On stage, images intertwine, oscillating between beauty and rawness: a Milan that resembles a factory farm of unconscious bodies, a child on the verge of becoming a monster, an ordinary man facing a gun. It is dance that recomposes these fragmented visions, restoring unity to what is dissonant — turning each artwork into a physical experience and each vision into a living presence.

Maurizio Cattelan, Him, 2001, ph Tom Lindboe (Blenheim) A

Lara Guidetti

In 2006, Lara Guidetti graduated as a dancer and choreographer from the Theatre-Dance Atelier of the Paolo Grassi School in Milan, studying with leading national and international masters. She continued her education in dance and performing arts by exploring various pedagogical and training methods through workshops and productions.
In 2008, she founded the Sanpapié Company, where she serves as artistic director, choreographer, director, and performer, presenting works across Italy, Europe, China, and Saudi Arabia. In 2017, her performance LEI won the Bonacina Prize.
She collaborates with the JGM Company in Lisbon and with La Scala Theatre in Milan as a dancer and acrobat, and she has created choreography for several opera productions. She has also taught at the Paolo Grassi School, DanceHaus Milano, and the Teatro Stabile di Torino School.
Since 2022, she has been an associated artist at the MilanOltre Festival and a collaborator with CCN/Aterballetto as a choreographer and curator of site-specific and cultural welfare projects.

Nicolas Ballario

Born in Saluzzo in 1984, Nicolas Ballario works in the field of contemporary art applied to the media. His professional career began in Oliviero Toscani’s creative factory, “La Sterpaia,” where he went on to become cultural director.
He has collaborated with major artistic institutions and numerous publications. He is currently the author and host of contemporary art programs on Radio Uno Rai, and a contributor to L’Espresso and Il Giornale dell’Arte.
In 2019, he hosted the photography series “Camera Oscura” on LA7, and since 2020 he has led several Sky Arte programs, including “Io ti vedo, tu mi senti?”, “The Square,” and “Italia Contemporanea.”
He is also the founder of Studio Cucù and curated the dossier that led to Alba being named Italian Capital of Contemporary Art 2027.

Dreamers
2025-11-16 20:30 - 21:45 | Teatro Cristallo, via Dalmazia, 30, Bolzano, 39100, Italia
At the Teatro Cristallo in Bolzano, Aterballetto performs Dreamers, a triptych featuring choreographies by Tortelli, Kratz, and Pite.
Dreamers is a choreographic journey through three visions, three distinct poetics, which together form a single reflection on desire, memory, loss, and the strength of the body as an emotional and spiritual space. Three creations by some of the most significant choreographers on the contemporary scene — Philippe Kratz, Crystal Pite, and Diego Tortelli — unfold like chapters of a single dream.
In An echo, a wave, Philippe Kratz draws inspiration from the sea as a metaphor for eternity, for encounter and separation. The waves, like the dancers’ bodies, carry with them stories, emotions, and continuous movement, in a flow that recalls the endless departures and returns of our existence. The Mediterranean thus becomes a mirror of our ephemeral nature, yet also of our capacity for beauty and connection.
© Festival de Granada | Fermín Rodríguez
With Preludio, Diego Tortelli creates a love letter to the body—its fragility and its strength, its constant state of transformation. Through the poetic and musical universe of Nick Cave, the work explores personal “creed,” the human need to give meaning and shape to emotions. On stage, the dancers are not individuals but emotional pulsations, inhabiting space with urgency and lyricism.
FND/Aterballetto – Preludio – ph. Claudio Montanari
Solo Echo by Crystal Pite is inspired by two sonatas for cello and piano by Johannes Brahms and by the profound verses of Mark Strand. On stage, one breathes the winter of the soul: time slows down, and the body becomes a vessel for a moving and powerful introspection. With delicacy and intensity, Pite reflects on the themes of loss, the acceptance of change, and the mystery of resilience.

Dreamers is an encounter between three ways of sensing and narrating the world—an invitation to let oneself be carried by dance as a lucid dream, a mirror of our most intimate tensions, a memory of our deepest desires.

Dreamers
2025-11-18 20:30 - 22:00 | Teatro Asioli, Corso Cavour, 9, Correggio, Italy
Aterballetto performs Dreamers at the Teatro Asioli in Correggio on Tuesday, November 18.

On stage, four creations unfold:
Preludio by Diego Tortelli, built around some of the most intense poems and songs by Australian singer-songwriter Nick Cave, explores love, faith, dependence, obsession, loss, and the intricate ways these themes intertwine.
The second piece, An echo, a wave by Philippe Kratz, translates the sense of wonder and eternity evoked by the view of the sea: the dancers’ flowing movements recall the natural, unending motion of the waves, while also reflecting the passage through shifting emotional states.
Reconciliatio, by the extraordinary Angelin Preljocaj, delves into the theme of reconciliation — a poetic, impressionistic tableau inspired by the imagery of Saint John’s Apocalypse.
Finally, Solo Echo by Crystal Pite draws inspiration from two cello and piano sonatas by Johannes Brahms and the poem Lines for Winter by Mark Strand, invoking winter, music, and the moving body to express something essential about acceptance and loss.

Author’s Evening
2025-11-21 20:30 - 21:30 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Opus Ballet Company presents the world premiere of its new “Choreographers’ Evening,” featuring works by Roberto Tedesco, Adriano Bolognino, and Giovanni Insaudo.

The evening is born from the encounter of three choreographers — Adriano Bolognino, Giovanni Insaudo, and Roberto Tedesco — all winners of the Danza&Danza Award. The idea is to bring their creations together in a single program, offering the audience a mosaic of visions that, though distinct in style, engage in a dialogue of intensity and coherence.
Piano-Forte by Roberto Tedesco, set to Chopin’s Nocturnes, explores the tension of opposites — presence and absence, strength and fragility, fall and elevation — revealing how every polarity exists through its counterpart, until it is recomposed into a profound unity.
Behind You by Adriano Bolognino is an intense, dramatic work that evokes winter as an existential condition: a journey through hardship and fear that reshapes our inner boundaries, leading us toward poetic resistance and the possibility of renewal.
The evening concludes with Vespri by Giovanni Insaudo, where Sicilian folklore becomes a field of reflection on the tension between tradition and modernity — a bridge between past and present that transforms collective ritual into contemporary gesture.
Three choreographers, three visions, three languages intertwining roots and modernity, light and shadow, fragility and strength. A journey that turns movement into a mirror of life, offering the audience the energy of a dance that unites the individual and collective poetic experience.

Credits
PIANO-FORTE

Choreography: Roberto TedescoLighting and Space Design: Davide CavandoliCostumes: Santi RinciariTechnical Direction: Laura De BernardisPerformers: Matheus Alves De Oliveira, Ginevra GioliBallet Master: Giusi Santagati
BEHIND YOU (excerpt from White Room)

Choreography: Adriano BologninoAssistant Choreographer: Rosaria Di MaroWith the support of Rosa CoppolaLighting Design: Laura De BernardisCostumes: Santi RinciariPerformers: Gaia Mondini, Frederic ZounglaBallet Master: Giusi Santagati

With the support of the Centro Nazionale di Produzione della Danza Virgilio Sieni and the Fondazione CR Firenze (Bando Abitante)
VESPRI

Concept and Choreography: Giovanni InsaudoAssistant Choreographer: Sandra SaliettiLighting Design: Giovanni InsaudoTechnical Direction: Laura De BernardisSet Elements: Margherita CitranCostume Production: Lisa PerinPerformers: Matheus Alves De Oliveira, Ginevra Gioli, Gaia Mondini, Frederic Zoungla, Rebeca ZucchegniBallet Master: Giusi Santagati
COB | Compagnia Opus Ballet

Directed by Rosanna Brocanello since its founding, the company is composed of a stable ensemble of professional dancers and has developed an extensive repertoire of productions over the years.
Among its most recent works:

Le Quattro Stagioni (2020) by Vivaldi, choreographed by Aurélie Mounier, with live music performed by the Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto;

RIGHT. La Sagra della Primavera (2021) by Carlo Massari, co-produced with C&C Company, Teatro Stabile del Veneto, Oriente Occidente Dance Festival, and Associazione Culturale Mosaico Danza / Interplay Festival (Winner of the CollaborAction XL 2020 Award, part of the Anticorpi XL Network, coordinated by Ass. Cantieri Danza, in support of independent choreography);

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, co-produced with Compagnia Bellanda;

Coding Dance (2023) by Leonardo Diana, co-produced with Versiliadanza;

OTOTEMAN_what if by Sofia Galvan and Stefania Menestrina, winner of the 13th edition of the International Prospettiva Danza Teatro Award, co-produced with Festival Danza In Rete – Teatro Comunale Città di Vicenza.

Since 2021, the company has been supported by the Italian Ministry of Culture.

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ONLINE: https://www.biglietteriafonderia39.it/home.aspx
Fonderia Box Office: The box office opens one hour before the performance at Via della Costituzione 39, Reggio Emilia.

Seats are unreserved.

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