Golden Days
2022-12-01 20:00 - 21:30 (Europe/Rome) | La Rampe, 15, avenue du 8 mai 1945, Échirolles, 38130, Francia
Aterballetto dances on 30th November and 1st December in Échirolles, near Grenoble.
Golden Days is an evening that begins with the smoky atmospheres of Rain Dogs and ends with the light and smiles of BLISS through the ironic female solo of Birdland.
All accompanied by the music of Tom Waits, Patti Smith and Keith Jarrett.
“An andante cantabile, an adagio and a rondo. Essentially a concert. Of dance, however, and yet with a great soundtrack.”
Sergio Trombetta, La Stampa, 10.07.2017

Don Juan
2022-12-03 20:30 - 22:00 | Théâtre Le Forum, 83 boulevard de la Mer, FRÉJUS, 83600, Francia
In occasion of the last stop of the French tour in Fréjus, in Provence, Aterballetto dances Don Juan, the full evening production by Johan Inger.
The choreography comes from Inger’s desire to confront Don Juan, a paradigmatic myth that is both ancient and still contemporary. The original comedy by Tirso de Molina, Molière, Bertold Brecht and the play by Suzanne Lilar are just some of the sources of inspiration: Inger and playwright Gregor Acuña-Pohl consulted twenty-five different texts inspired by the character.
In the creation we find all the characters of the story, from Donna Elvira to Donna Anna to Zerlina and Masetto. Don Juan can be considered a Kammerspiel, with its ability to emphasise nuances and emotions: and in the case of this creation, dance becomes a magnifying glass for the individual characters, subtly but clearly revealing the inner world of the men and women on stage.
Danza&Danza Award ‘Best Production’ 2020

NEXT STOP_ PALCOSCENICO
2022-12-04 18:00 - 19:30 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
NEXT STOP_ PALCOSCENICO
Container of contemporary creations that open the door to the professional performing world.
Choreographers 2022
Roberto Tedesco, Laura Matano, Taulant Shehu

Performers
Giovani danzatori del Corso di perfezionamento StudioXL Reggio Emilia
Compagnia XL

MEMORY LAB
(Ricordare) remember comes from the Latin: re- indietro and cor cuore. Recall in heart.
In ancient times, the heart was thought to be the home of memory, which today we know to be the brain.
In these terms, therefore, remembering does not only mean ‘having memory’ but having past experiences live inside you, making them impact your essence and your life.
Tales and anecdotes, but also desires, goals and dreams. And also assumptions, fears and apprehensions about what we will be, about what is to come.
The end result of a workshop on childhood seen by those who lived it not too long ago and at the same time, in imagining themselves old, by those who today can only assume memories still unknown.
Choreography Roberto Tedesco
Performers Dancers from the formazione StudioXL
Music Hiro Kone, Colleen
Light design Gessica Germini
Oh Peter, hello. Goodbye.
Here was the greeting you had to become.
I awaited it with understanding because in all our things there were sentences and redemptions. In it is included the desire to which I had to return and which I had to keep. A resolute control of aspirations is necessary in order not to become a victim of them.
You are without siege, and I am no longer a smile but winter. Cover yourself too.
You said that every body seeks, calls, must fulfil itself. It is true, here is the ritual to go.
I feel that you want to drag me into your space but I have chosen to return to myself, in symbiosis with my wide gestures and without constraints. Until they are fulfilled we will guard our sleeps but stand in profile to give access to the nightmares.
Then I will open my hands as in a space of my own, without having yours around to take one last close look.
Choreography Laura Matano
Performers Compagnia XL
Music Various Authors
Light design Gessica Germini

Time
The perception of time is highly subjective, each of us has its own past. We are our past. This is shown by our faces with the signs of advancing age, it is shown by our eyes in which a mixture of disappointment and satisfaction shines through.
Without memory of the past, without projection into the future, we cannot make sense of the world and the people in it.
So it is up to us to choose and ask ourselves questions, is time our ally? Can it heal our wounds? Or do we use time only to forget and eventually forgive?
Choreography Taulant Shehu
Performers Dancers from formazione StudioXL
Authors Ezio Bosso
Light design Gessica Germini
StudioXL International Contemporary Dance Education
Artistic Direction Emanuela Baratin, Laura Matano
StudioXL is aimed at dancers aged 18 and over who wish to deepen their study of the contemporary performing arts.
It is an eight-month long advanced training course during which they will alternate study, research and performance throughout Europe.
Internationally renowned professional choreographers also participate in the project in order to give the dancers the best training possible.
The aim of the study course is to refine the technical, scenic and expressive skills of each dancer and to guide them to the discovery and enhancement of their professional identity.
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TICKETS
Full 10 euro
Reduced under 30, dance schools, Liceo Coreutico Matilde di Canossa, over 65, CRAL members Municipality of Reggio Emilia: 6 euro
Reduced under 8: 3 euro
PURCHASING TICKETS
Tickets can be purchased online at www.biglietteriafonderia39.it.
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È pericoloso non sporgersi
2022-12-07 18:00 - 20:00
On Wednesday, Dec. 7, 6 p.m. at Chiostri San Pietro in Reggio Emilia we present È pericoloso non sporgersi, a surprising new production only available with virtual reality visors.
Choreography and direction are by Francesca Lattuada, a visionary artist active in France, who starts from the historical memory of some rooms of the Museo di storia della psichiatria, and leans on the ability of the extraordinary contortionist Lise Pauton to force, almost distort, the perception of reality. Her metamorphoses will be incessant, leading to the blurring of ordinary temporality, the loss of the most concrete notions of spatiality (high-low, big-small, visible-invisible…).
The viewer will thus experience an immersion in a world in which all habitual references have vanished. A bit like what could happen to the guests of the Lombroso Pavilion.
FND-Aterballetto – è pericoloso non sporgersi – ph. Maria Letizia Piantoni (12)

The work is created on the occasion of the billboard Identità inquieta, a great choral work of the city of Reggio Emilia involving institutions and organizations of social, educational and cultural life, with the intention of offering a rich and varied calendar of cultural events to show visions on the infinite nuances of identity.
È pericoloso non sporgersi is within the Virtual Dance for Real People project.
Credits
Direction and choreography: Francesca Lattuada
Music: traditional corean music; “Lascia la spina, cogli la rosa” di Georg Friedrich Händel, performed by Francesca Lattuada
Costumes: Francesca Lattuada
Performer: Lise Pauton
Production: Fondazione Nazionale della Danza /Aterballetto
Coproduction: Fondazione Palazzo Magnani
Technological development and user experience design by Giulia Losi, Annalisa Mombelli (RE:LAB)
Video production & editing by Guido Acampa (Riot Studio)
Premiere: 7 december 2022, Chiostri di San Pietro, Reggio Emilia
Partnership Comune di Reggio Emilia / Musei Civici

Initiative realized at Chiostri di San Pietro as part of the Rete dei Laboratori Aperti of Emilia-Romagna, co-financed by European Funds – Por Fesr 2014-2020

Perfomance inside the program ‘Identità Inquieta’

Imagery
Born X. She lives near Reggio Emilia, presumably in a cave. She feeds on berries and plants.
At 29, accused of stealing chickens, she spent 33 days in the Lombroso Pavilion.
The testimonies of nurses, patients and doctors describe a discreet, sweet and silent woman.
Adalgisa claims to be inhabited by four entities:
— The Winged man, age 35. — The Infant, age 7.
— The Age-less Phantom — An invisible entity that sometimes calls the Beast and sometimes the Light, who heals her and whom she heals.
The transformations raise amazement and fright; Adalgisa’s body, habitually rigid, becomes disconcertingly flexible.
When and where to see the work

Prima presentazione

December 7, 2022 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Chiostri di San Pietro, via Emilia a San Pietro 44/c, Reggio Emilia
Free entry

After Dec. 7, the installation can be enjoyed within the guided tour of Chiostri di San Pietro in the manner and on the days and times indicated on the website: https://www.chiostrisanpietro.it/visita/servizi/

Double Side
2022-12-09 19:30 - 20:30, 2022-12-10 19:30 - 20:30 | Theater im Pfalzbau, Berliner Straße 30, Ludwigshafen, D – 67059, Germania
Ludwigshafen is the German premiere for Double Side.
Baroque music and contemporary dance are combined in the new programme of the Italian Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto, which features two choreographers from Canada and Cuba who are little known in Italy, Danièle Desnoyers and Norge Cedeño Raffo. In close collaboration with the Fondazione Arturo Toscanini from Parma, its orchestral counterpart from Emilia-Romagna Region, the renowned company brings along a musical ensemble of singers and string players, dancing to a baroque suite and a “Stabat Mater” by Arvo Pärt.

Synopsis
The Cuban Norge Cedeño Raffo creates to religious music, of all things. The young, up-and-coming choreographer was a soloist with Danza Contemporánea de Cuba, the most important contemporary company in Cuba. Arvo Pärt’s “Stabat Mater” becomes a painful farewell work for him. The Estonian composer set the medieval text about the pain of the Mother of God to music in his characteristic, reduced style. The moving effect of this music also characterises the expressive, free and, in the most beautiful sense, pure dance: how can one find hope again in a destroyed world and after such a great loss, how can one go on living, Norge Cedeño Raffo asks himself in his work.

Choreographer Danièle Desnoyers comes from Montréal, the metropolis of modern Canadian dance, where her light, fluid style and her own company make her a permanent fixture on the contemporary scene. In addition to a theatrical element, her pieces always have a strong relationship to music. Her creation for Aterballetto is based on a suite by the Italian composer Federico Gon; the specialist for baroque music was inspired by Henry Purcell.

Credits
STABAT MATER
(Creation for 3 dancers, 3 musicians, 3 singers)
Choreography Norge Cedeño Raffo
Set and lighting design Fabiana Piccioli
Music Stabat Mater by Arvo Pärt
Costume design Norge Cedeño Raffo and Fabiana Piccioli
Assistant to the choreographer Thais Suàrez Fernàndez
WITH DROOPING WINGS
(Creation for 8 dancers, 4 strings)
Choreography Danièle Desnoyers
Music An English Suite by Federico Gon after Henry Purcell
Set and lighting design Fabiana Piccioli
Costume design Danièle Desnoyers
With the support of Délégation du Québec à Rome and Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec

Co-design and co-production Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto and Fondazione Arturo Toscanini
Co-production Festspiele Ludwigshafen, Fondazione I Teatri di Reggio Emilia
World-premiere 23 October 2022, Reggio Emilia, Festival Aperto, Teatro Municipale Romolo Valli (I)
German premiere 9-10 December 2022, Ludwigshafen, Theater Im Pfalzbau (D)

Dancers Aterballetto Company
Quartetto Motus for La Toscanini: Giulia Soli, Agnese Rava violin, Dario Carrera viola, Margherita Curti cello
Soprano: Theodora Io Koutsothodoru
Countertenor: Nicolò Balducci
Tenor: Kim Bowoo
Musical coaching: Antonio De Lorenzi
Docufilm Stabat Mater - Danzare oltre i confini
Norge Cedeño Raffo’s creation Stabat Mater inspired Rai5 to make the docufilm Stabat Mater – Danzare oltre i confini (Dancing Beyond Borders).
The docufilm closely reports the artistic and human experience of the young talented choreographer, for the first time in Italy, and shows his creative process, in the setting of the Teatro Asioli in Correggio, a small Italian-style theatre immersed in the Po Valley, one of the most fascinating and evocative.
The filming of the docufilm (directed by Alessandro D’Onghia) began on 29 January 2021 (the choreographer’s first day of work with the three dancers) and ended on 6 March 2021 (the day of the closed-door preview at the Teatro Asioli in Correggio, with musicians and singers from the Istituto Superiore di Studi Musicali Achille Peri in Reggio Emilia). The airing of the docufilm on Rai5 was on 29 April 2021, on the occasion of the International Day of Dance.
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Pollicino Show
2022-12-10 17:30 - 18:30 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
CHILDREN’S SHOW (6-11 years)

Pollicino is small but, in some ways, already big. He has six siblings and two parents who chop wood for a living. With the arrival of a severe famine, food is no longer enough to feed everyone.
The father then has an idea: abandon his children in the forest to avoid starvation. This is where the adventure of Pollicino and his siblings begins.

CREDITS
Direction Cinzia Pietribiasi
Choreography and interpretation Davide Tagliavini
Illustrations Giovanni Copelli
Production Artemis Danza
in collaboration with Compagnia Pietribiasi/Tedeschi
GRUPPO IBRIDO
GRUPPO IBRIDO (Reggio Emilia, 2021) was created by the will of the dancer Davide Tagliavini, the digital artist Cinzia Pietribiasi and the painter Giovanni Copelli. The Group creates multidisciplinary works for children that intersect dance, voice, video projection, art, sculpture and new technologies. Pollicino is the first work, produced by the Artemis Danza Company.
Davide Tagliavini (1990) works with Luna Cenere, Artemis Danza, Marina Abramović, Gruppo Nanou, Anna Albertarelli, Lara Russo and others. For years he has been conducting dance workshops for children, teenagers and inclusive groups. Since 2020 he has assisted Luna Cenere in running the Genealogy Laboratory.
Cinzia Pietribiasi (1979) is Junior Scientist at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome and teacher of Computer Art. As a member of Jan Voxel she wins the Digital Residences 2021 competition. She plays the role of Mowgli with la Baracca, Teatro Testoni Ragazzi in Bologna and with Ambaradan Teatro. With the Pietribiasi / Tedeschi Company you work on Tanztheater projects for children.
Giovanni Copelli (1989) is a visual artist. He graduated in 2015 from Goldsmiths University in London and in 2013 from the Academy of Bologna. He realizes several solo and group exhibitions throughout Europe.
INFO & TICKETS
TICKETS
For everyone 6 euro
PURCHASING TICKETS
Tickets can be purchased online at www.biglietteriafonderia39.it.
The ticket office service in the Foundry is open from 16.30.
Tickets are not numbered.
CONTACTS
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Mobile and whatsapp +39 3341023554

Double Side
2022-12-10 19:30 - 20:30 | Theater im Pfalzbau, Berliner Straße 30, Ludwigshafen, D – 67059, Germania
Ludwigshafen is the German premiere for Double Side.
Baroque music and contemporary dance are combined in the new programme of the Italian Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto, which features two choreographers from Canada and Cuba who are little known in Italy, Danièle Desnoyers and Norge Cedeño Raffo. In close collaboration with the Fondazione Arturo Toscanini from Parma, its orchestral counterpart from Emilia-Romagna Region, the renowned company brings along a musical ensemble of singers and string players, dancing to a baroque suite and a “Stabat Mater” by Arvo Pärt.

Synopsis
The Cuban Norge Cedeño Raffo creates to religious music, of all things. The young, up-and-coming choreographer was a soloist with Danza Contemporánea de Cuba, the most important contemporary company in Cuba. Arvo Pärt’s “Stabat Mater” becomes a painful farewell work for him. The Estonian composer set the medieval text about the pain of the Mother of God to music in his characteristic, reduced style. The moving effect of this music also characterises the expressive, free and, in the most beautiful sense, pure dance: how can one find hope again in a destroyed world and after such a great loss, how can one go on living, Norge Cedeño Raffo asks himself in his work.

Choreographer Danièle Desnoyers comes from Montréal, the metropolis of modern Canadian dance, where her light, fluid style and her own company make her a permanent fixture on the contemporary scene. In addition to a theatrical element, her pieces always have a strong relationship to music. Her creation for Aterballetto is based on a suite by the Italian composer Federico Gon; the specialist for baroque music was inspired by Henry Purcell.

Credits
STABAT MATER
(Creation for 3 dancers, 3 musicians, 3 singers)
Choreography Norge Cedeño Raffo
Set and lighting design Fabiana Piccioli
Music Stabat Mater by Arvo Pärt
Costume design Norge Cedeño Raffo and Fabiana Piccioli
Assistant to the choreographer Thais Suàrez Fernàndez
WITH DROPPING WINGS
(Creation for 8 dancers, 4 strings)
Choreography Danièle Desnoyers
Music An English Suite by Federico Gon after Henry Purcell
Set and lighting design Fabiana Piccioli
Costume design Danièle Desnoyers
With the support of Délégation du Québec à Rome and Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec

Co-design and co-production Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto and Fondazione Arturo Toscanini
Co-production Festspiele Ludwigshafen, Fondazione I Teatri di Reggio Emilia
World-premiere 23 October 2022, Reggio Emilia, Festival Aperto, Teatro Municipale Romolo Valli (I)
German premiere 9-10 December 2022, Ludwigshafen, Theater Im Pfalzbau (D)

Dancers Aterballetto Company
Quartetto Motus for La Toscanini: Giulia Soli, Agnese Rava violin, Dario Carrera viola, Margherita Curti cello
Soprano: Theodora Io Koutsothodoru
Countertenor: Niccolò Balducci
Tenor: Kim Bowoo
Musical coaching: Antonio De Lorenzi
Docufilm Stabat Mater - Danzare oltre i confini
Norge Cedeño Raffo’s creation Stabat Mater inspired Rai5 to make the docufilm Stabat Mater – Danzare oltre i confini (Dancing Beyond Borders).
The docufilm closely reports the artistic and human experience of the young talented choreographer, for the first time in Italy, and shows his creative process, in the setting of the Teatro Asioli in Correggio, a small Italian-style theatre immersed in the Po Valley, one of the most fascinating and evocative.
The filming of the docufilm (directed by Alessandro D’Onghia) began on 29 January 2021 (the choreographer’s first day of work with the three dancers) and ended on 6 March 2021 (the day of the closed-door preview at the Teatro Asioli in Correggio, with musicians and singers from the Istituto Superiore di Studi Musicali Achille Peri in Reggio Emilia). The airing of the docufilm on Rai5 was on 29 April 2021, on the occasion of the International Day of Dance.
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Esercizi per un manifesto poetico
2022-12-13 20:30 - 21:30 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
The debut work of the MINE Collective, Esercizi per un manifesto poetico coincides with the founding act of the company.
A choral poetic/choreographic manifesto, a hymn to human and artistic encounter, shared authorship and the poetics of the body through which the collective investigates its relationship with aesthetics, choreography, languages, rules and rebellion.

CREDITS
Choreography, invention and dance Francesco Saverio Cavaliere, Fabio Novembrini, Siro Guglielmi, Roberta Racis, Silvia Sisto
Performers Francesco Saverio Cavaliere, Fabio Novembrini, Siro Guglielmi, Roberta Racis, Silvia Sisto
Original music Samuele Cestola
Lighting design Luca Serafini
Administration, executive production Fabbrica Europa
Promotion Jean-François Mathieu
Support for production FVG/Artisti Associati Gorizia; Centro Nazionale di Produzione Firenze – Compagnia Virgilio Sieni, Operaestate Festival/ CSC Centro per la scena contemporanea del Comune di Bassano del Grappa, L’arboreto – Teatro Dimora | La Corte Ospitale Centro di Residenza Emilia Romagna, Fondazione Romaeuropa, Gender Bender Festival of Bologna and Triennale Milano Teatro, Teatro India- Teatri di Roma, Fondazione Fabbrica Europa, Spazio13Bari
Selected for NID New Italian Dance Platform 2022, Aerowaves Twenty22 Artist
Winner DNA- Appunti Coreografici Giovani Coreografi Italiani 2019, Romaeuropa
SYNOPSIS
The debut work of the MINE Collective, Esercizi per un manifesto poetico coincides with the founding act of the company.
The co-authorial manifesto finds its dance writing in a choreographic practice written by ten hands where individual breath and unison interpenetrate and where the choral and synchronic weaving of space and bodies becomes the inspiration of a collective language and of an evocative poetics.
Repetition, stubborn determination, a single stage action, powerful and structured as an instrument of shared writing, able to generate interactions and ignite correspondences, giving rise to a single body that reflects on the ability to cross together the change and the passage of time.
Esercizi per un manifesto poetico investigates the coexistence of a rigorous choreographic writing and an open and vibrant emotional temperature that plays in the here and now.

COLLETTIVO MINE
MINE is the result of an artistic encounter between Francesco Saverio Cavaliere, Siro Guglielmi, Fabio Novembrini, Roberta Racis and Silvia Sisto. MINE is an experiment of collective, horizontal creation and choreographic writing by ten hands that aims to carry on a research work focused on the sharing of practices, experimentations and languages.
Esercizi per un manifesto poetico, winner of the 2019 edition of DNA Appunti Coreografici marks the beginning of their artistic collaboration.
In 2020 they debut with the choreographic project Corpi Elettrici, in collaboration with the Gender Bender Festival and the Electronic Music School of the G.B. Martini Conservatory in Bologna. The work was initially conceived as a special project by Gender Bender and the G.B. Martini Conservatory in Bologna, developed during the lockdown to make the 5 dancemakers of the Collective work together with 20 students from the Electronic Music and Applied Music courses. From these meetings, which took the form of videoconference sessions, 20 short video works were produced. From these 20 videos the MINE Collective subsequently developed a creation for the stage.
In 2021 they are choreographers for the project Swans never die(Danzare la memoria 2020-2022) a project of Lavanderia a Vapore – Centro di Residenza per la Danza (Piemonte dal Vivo – Circuito Multidisciplinare dello Spettacolo, Coorpi, Didee Arti e Comunicazioni, Mosaico Danza, Zerogrammi); Operaestate Festival Veneto and Centro per la Scena Contemporanea CSC Bassano del Grappa; Triennale Milano Teatro; Fondazione Teatro Grande di Brescia; Festival Bolzano Danza – Fondazione Haydn; Gender Bender Festival; “Memory in Motion. Re-Membering Dance History (Mnemedance)” – Ca’ Foscari University Venice; DAMS – University of Turin, with the scientific coordination of Susanne Franco.

INFO & TICKETS
TICKETS
Full price: 10 euro
Reduced price under 30, dance schools, Liceo Coreutico Matilde di Canossa, over 65, CRAL members Municipality of Reggio Emilia: 6 euro
Reduced price under 8: 3 euro
PURCHASING TICKETS
Tickets can be purchased online at www.biglietteriafonderia39.it.
The ticket office service in the Fonderia is open from 7.30 pm.
Tickets are not numbered.
CONTACTS
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Shoot me - "O" - Secus
2022-12-13 20:30 - 22:00 | Teatro Comunale, Piazza Giuseppe Verdi, 40, Bozen, 39100, Italy
Aterballetto is in Bolzano with a triptych that highlights the eclecticism of its performers.
The evening opens with Shoot me, a new creation by Diego Tortelli on the music of the rock group Spiritualized, an abstract but tautly energetic choreography. This is followed by “O”, Philippe Kratz’s little masterpiece, an hypnotic pas de deux with an unstoppable rhythm. All 16 dancers of the company close the evening with the visceral Secus, a creation by Israeli choreographer Ohad Naharin with an enthralling soundtrack.

SHOOT ME
SHOOT ME is a new creation for the whole company accompanied by the music of Spiritualized, an English rock band formed in 1990, and some recordings of poems recited by singer Jim Morrison that tell us about freedom.
The work in its construction is inspired by the concept of “concert-ballet” revisited in a contemporary key where music and dance accompany each other in a composition devoid of narrative, but which thanks to the power of music, sometimes aggressive and other times poetic guides us to create open imagery and to feel emotions.
A fundamental part of SHOOT ME is the strength of a group guided by individual voices, the desire of a body that wants to be observed and a body that wants to be heard, that wants to transmit.
The work is inspired by images of demonstrations, pride, catwalks, everything that unites us in a group that at the same time allows us not to lose our voice. The exact opposite of a military parade or a political party. We talk about the beauty of the body serving the community as a means of entertainment, but also of reflection and research.
In fact, the term “SHOOT ME” is used by videomakers at the moment when a camera’s gaze is caught on an action to be immortalized. Instead in pop culture the term “SHOOT ME” in slang is also often referred to as the request to feel emotions after a period of alexithymia “please, shoot me with some feelings…”
A frontal work that aims to put the dancers on stage and the audience in the audience in a direct exchange relationship: a game of seduction, of glances, of sweat, an assault on the senses and an ode to the body, to breathing the same air, sweat, tears, fury, pride.
O
The idea behind “O” is eternity and how to achieve it is the ultimate goal of humanity. As for example in the summer of 2017 in Hong Kong, when for the first time two humanoid robots interacted with each other. It has become clear to all that a future, in which all human knowledge is transmitted by communicating inorganic material, is at hand.
“O” can be seen as two human beings or two robots celebrating this event in a state of transcendence and emotional realization, in which both move together to the infinite rhythm of their unstoppable hearts.
Or, like the spaceship computer Hal in Stanley Kubrick’s film “2001: A Space Odyssey” when he says deceptively, “I know I have made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that my work will return to normal. I still have the utmost enthusiasm and confidence in the mission. And I want to help you.”
SECUS
Secus is a creation by Ohad Naharin that boasts a musical collage stretching from the unusual electronic styles of AGF to the seductive Indian melodies of Kaho Naa Pyar Hai to the resonant harmonies of the Beach Boys. This adventurously eclectic mix serves as a fitting backdrop for the boldly extravagant choreography. A human alphabet of runs, solos, neat and clean gestures, interrupted duets is composed before our incredulous eyes, which, through precise and sudden kicks, sinuous disarticulations of the hips, torsos bending in all directions like molding rubber, expresses pure emotions and feelings without becoming sentimental. Joy, vulnerability, fear, innocence, confusion and anger weave a harmonious and dynamic canvas that oscillates between delicacy and exaggeration.
CREDITS
SHOOT ME
Choreography Diego Tortelli
Music Spiritualized
Costumes Marco De Vincenzo
Lights Roman Fliegel
Duration 30′ – For the 16 dancers of the company
Production Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto
Coproduction Fondazione I Teatri di Reggio Emilia
“O”
Choreography Philippe Kratz
Music Mark Pritchard and The Field
Costumes Francesca Messori
Lights Carlo Cerri
Duration 12′ – For 2 dancers
Production Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto
First prize at the 32nd Hannover Choreographic Competition – June 2018
Philippe Kratz is a stARTacademy member of Bayer Arts & Culture.
SECUS
Choreography Ohad Naharin
Music Chari Chari, Kid 606 + Rayon (mix: Stefan Ferry), AGF, Chronomad (Wahed), Fennesz, Kaho Naa Pyar Hai, Seefeel, The Beach Boys
Sound design & editing Ohad Fishof
Costumes Rakefet Levy
Lights Avi Yona Bueno (Bambi)
Assistant choreographers Rachael Osborne, Ian Robinson
Creation for Batsheva Dance Company (as part of Three, 2005)
Duration 30′ – For the 16 dancers of the company
Production Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto
Co-production Festival Oriente Occidente (I), Les Halles de Schaerbeek (B), Malraux scène nationale Chambéry Savoie (F)
Philippe Kratz’s cloud|materia is supported by Bayer Culture Engagement (D)

DROP
2022-12-14 18:00 - 19:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
XL Dance Company – “Prima di domani” – ph. Elena Bianchi
The young XL Dance Company, directed by Emanuela Baratin and Laura Matano, previews Drop, the new creation by Laura Matano.
Credits
From an idea by Laura Matano
Choreography: Laura Matano
Musical collaborator: Marco Giacomelli
Concept and lyrics: Mariagrazia Ferro
Set design: Cinzia Macis
Concept
Knowledge is only possible by differentiation, at least in order to share it and be understood, it is mostly necessary to affirm that something is not something else.
Undeniable, even a little frustrating, is the presence of an internal dichotomy within the human being, let us say biological, which makes the double a moment of synthesis but also of contrast.
The double takes on a symbolic value from scientific and objective observation. The double nature can be interpreted in a dissociative key, of splitting or, at the same time, as a defence and synthesis mechanism.
The double is a fetish that embodies how we are made and how far we can think and think about ourselves.
The choreography is designed to be performed by three female and three male dancers.
The entire production consists of three acts that can also be staged independently. ACT I -female-, ACT II -male-, ACT III -mixed.
Act I and Act II will differ only in the execution of the choreography by the two groups of dancers. There will be no change in the choreographic structure, which will remain identical; what will change is the mode of execution, since one act will be performed by female dancers and the other by male dancers.
Act III constitutes the moment of synthesis in which the above-mentioned differences are resolved and renewed and will have its own choreography.
XL DANCE COMPANY
It was born in Reggio Emilia under the artistic direction of Emanuela Baratin and Laura Matano.
The aim of the dance company is to create performances by circulating choreographers and international realities. In XL Dance Company, the movement, the body, the gestures become matter and surface for the individual and collective expression, instruments of choreographic experimentation through methods and techniques supporting a creativity born from intuitions, resonances and perceptions. The productions reflect the DNA of XL Dance Company, which makes contamination between styles its distinctive feature. Open to innovation, the dancers perform in important national and international festivals and theatres.
studioxlcontemporary.it
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Made in Italy 27.0 - OPEN REHEARSAL
2022-12-16 18:00 - 19:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Agora Coaching Project – Made in Italy 27.0 – ph Nicola Stasi
OPEN REHEARSAL
Protagonists are Agora Coaching Project‘s dancers, a project of advanced training in dance promoted and supported by MM Contemporary Dance Company and A.S.D Progetto Danza of Reggio Emilia under the artistic direction of Michele Merola and Enrico Morelli. Created in 2010, the course is now gaining full recognition in the European dance world and boasts collaborations with internationally renowned teachers and choreographers.
On stage Made in Italy 27.0 with choreography by Uri Ivgi and Johan Greben, Emanuele Soavi
Nice to meet you
Choreography Uri Ivgi and Johan Greben
Assistant to choreography Fabrizio Di Franco
Music Tom Parkinson
Dramaturgy Judith Schoneveld
An empty space that slowly fills with different personalities, who meet and investigate together the complex simplicity of human relationships.
Nice to meet you is an open space that aims to break the fourth wall and create an intimate dialogue between dancers and spectators, almost as if sharing a secret.
The movement is earthy but also light and ironic, emphasizing the myriad nuances of human nature and the enormous fragility involved in looking into someone’s eyes and saying “nice to meet you.”
Allegro Beyond Sonatas
Choreography Emanuele Soavi
Assistant choreographers Federico Casadei, Lorenzo Molinaro
Music J. S. Bach, Stefan Bohne
Costumes Nuvia Valestri
This work was born out of the study of deepening the concept of technical exactitude and at the same time freedom of movement research.
A physical response to the counterpoints, rhythms, pointed complexes and speed of J. S. Bach’s music.
On stage, the performers create configurations that are constantly evolving. Short solos, duets and ensemble groupings appear and disappear; they melt in and out of darkness and openings at the back of the stage. Movement is an extended exploration of the shapes and geometries that human bodies can create in a formal context.
There is no possibility of hiding in Allegro Beyond Sonatas. Every part of the body must be extensively explored as each movement articulates through the entire frame – vocabulary of the body; including the fingertips, including the expression of one’s identity.
Agora Coaching Project
AGORA COACHING PROJECT is an annual dance training project for dancers aged 18 to 22, based in Reggio Emilia. Created in 2010, the program is directed by Michele Merola and Enrico Morelli and is promoted and supported by MM Contemporary Dance Company and A.S.D. Progetto Danza and Centro Permanente Danza of Reggio Emilia. Unique in its innovative features in the field of dance education, the project enjoys the collaboration of many distinguished choreographers and aims to train artists ready to deal flexibly with the variety of the international dance market.
Dancers
Camilla Aiazzi, Corrado Azzollini, Beatrice Ballarò, Erica Barusco, Gaia Belli, Silvia Bellot Romanet, Marek Brafa, Anna Dal Maso, Laura Dell’Agnese, Sally Demonte, Pietro Di Salvo, Vittoria Facci, Alessandra Gianfico, Chiara Gionti, Luca Guerrieri, Sofia Lacava, Carlotta Lo Piano, Erika Loprieno, Giulia Lusetti, Giorgia Mantovan, Gioele Marcante, Carlotta Maucioni, Marta Monaci, Federico Musumeci, Carmine Olivazzi, Martina Pagliari, Martina Procacci, Giorgia Raffetto, Susanna Russing, Alessia Russo, Alessio Saccheri, Viviana Sanfilippo, Sara Scarponi, Micol Scotto, Diletta Suman, Giorgia Talami, Gennaro Todisco
INFO & TICKETS
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Under 6: free
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Tickets are not numbered.
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Don Juan
2022-12-16 20:45 - 22:15, 2022-12-17 20:45 - 22:15 | Teatro delle Muse, Piazza della Repubblica, Ancona, 60121, Italia
At Teatro delle Muse in Ancona Aterballetto dances Don Juan, the full evening production by Johan Inger.
The choreography comes from Inger’s desire to confront Don Juan, a paradigmatic myth that is both ancient and still contemporary. The original comedy by Tirso de Molina, Molière, Bertold Brecht and the play by Suzanne Lilar are just some of the sources of inspiration: Inger and playwright Gregor Acuña-Pohl consulted twenty-five different texts inspired by the character.
In the creation we find all the characters of the story, from Donna Elvira to Donna Anna to Zerlina and Masetto. Don Juan can be considered a Kammerspiel, with its ability to emphasise nuances and emotions: and in the case of this creation, dance becomes a magnifying glass for the individual characters, subtly but clearly revealing the inner world of the men and women on stage.
Danza&Danza Award ‘Best Production’ 2020

MADE IN ITALY 27.0
2022-12-17 20:30 - 22:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Agora Coaching Project – Made in Italy 27.0 – ph Nicola Stasi
Protagonists are Agora Coaching Project‘s dancers, a project of advanced training in dance promoted and supported by MM Contemporary Dance Company and A.S.D Progetto Danza of Reggio Emilia under the artistic direction of Michele Merola and Enrico Morelli. Created in 2010, the course is now gaining full recognition in the European dance world and boasts collaborations with internationally renowned teachers and choreographers.
On stage Made in Italy 27.0 with choreography by Uri Ivgi and Johan Greben, Emanuele Soavi
NICE TO MEET YOU
Choreography Uri Ivgi and Johan Greben
Assistant to choreography Fabrizio Di Franco
Music Tom Parkinson
Dramaturgy Judith Schoneveld
An empty space that slowly fills with different personalities, who meet and investigate together the complex simplicity of human relationships.
Nice to meet you is an open space that aims to break the fourth wall and create an intimate dialogue between dancers and spectators, almost as if sharing a secret.
The movement is earthy but also light and ironic, emphasizing the myriad nuances of human nature and the enormous fragility involved in looking into someone’s eyes and saying “nice to meet you.”
ALLEGRO BEYOND SONATAS
Choreography Emanuele Soavi
Assistant choreographers Federico Casadei, Lorenzo Molinaro
Music J. S. Bach, Stefan Bohne
Costumes Nuvia Valestri
This work was born out of the study of deepening the concept of technical exactitude and at the same time freedom of movement research.
A physical response to the counterpoints, rhythms, pointed complexes and speed of J. S. Bach’s music.
On stage, the performers create configurations that are constantly evolving. Short solos, duets and ensemble groupings appear and disappear; they melt in and out of darkness and openings at the back of the stage. Movement is an extended exploration of the shapes and geometries that human bodies can create in a formal context.
There is no possibility of hiding in Allegro Beyond Sonatas. Every part of the body must be extensively explored as each movement articulates through the entire frame – vocabulary of the body; including the fingertips, including the expression of one’s identity.
AGORA COACHING PROJECT
AGORA COACHING PROJECT is an annual dance training project for dancers aged 18 to 22, based in Reggio Emilia. Created in 2010, the program is directed by Michele Merola and Enrico Morelli and is promoted and supported by MM Contemporary Dance Company and A.S.D. Progetto Danza and Centro Permanente Danza of Reggio Emilia. Unique in its innovative features in the field of dance education, the project enjoys the collaboration of many distinguished choreographers and aims to train artists ready to deal flexibly with the variety of the international dance market.
Dancers
Camilla Aiazzi, Corrado Azzollini, Beatrice Ballarò, Erica Barusco, Gaia Belli, Silvia Bellot Romanet, Marek Brafa, Anna Dal Maso, Laura Dell’Agnese, Sally Demonte, Pietro Di Salvo, Vittoria Facci, Alessandra Gianfico, Chiara Gionti, Luca Guerrieri, Sofia Lacava, Carlotta Lo Piano, Erika Loprieno, Giulia Lusetti, Giorgia Mantovan, Gioele Marcante, Carlotta Maucioni, Marta Monaci, Federico Musumeci, Carmine Olivazzi, Martina Pagliari, Martina Procacci, Giorgia Raffetto, Susanna Russing, Alessia Russo, Alessio Saccheri, Viviana Sanfilippo, Sara Scarponi, Micol Scotto, Diletta Suman, Giorgia Talami, Gennaro Todisco
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Golden Days
2023-01-08 20:30 - 22:00 | Opéra Grand, Place de l'Horloge, Avignone, 84000, Francia
Aterballetto’s first performance of 2023 is at Opéra Grand Avignon.
Golden Days is an evening that begins with the smoky atmospheres of Rain Dogs and ends with the light and smiles of BLISS through the ironic female solo of Birdland.
All accompanied by the music of Tom Waits, Patti Smith and Keith Jarrett.
“An andante cantabile, an adagio and a rondo. Essentially a concert. Of dance, however, and yet with a great soundtrack.”
Sergio Trombetta, La Stampa, 10.07.2017

Golden Days
2023-01-10 20:00 - 21:15 | Opéra de Saint-Étienne, Jardin des Plantes, Saint-Étienne, BP 237 42013, Francia
Aterballetto performs at Opéra de Saint Étienne, in Loire region.
Golden Days is an evening that begins with the smoky atmospheres of Rain Dogs and ends with the light and smiles of BLISS through the ironic female solo of Birdland.
All accompanied by the music of Tom Waits, Patti Smith and Keith Jarrett.
“An andante cantabile, an adagio and a rondo. Essentially a concert. Of dance, however, and yet with a great soundtrack.”
Sergio Trombetta, La Stampa, 10.07.2017

Golden Days
2023-01-13 20:00 - 21:15 | Teatre Auditori, Pl. de Victòria dels Àngels, 1, Sant Cugat del Vallès, 08172
Aterballetto dances near Barcelona, in Sant Cugat del Vallès.
Golden Days is an evening that begins with the smoky atmospheres of Rain Dogs and ends with the light and smiles of BLISS through the ironic female solo of Birdland.
All accompanied by the music of Tom Waits, Patti Smith and Keith Jarrett.
“An andante cantabile, an adagio and a rondo. Basically a concert. Of dance though and yet with a great soundtrack.”
Sergio Trombetta, La Stampa, 10.07.2017

SECUS - "O" - SHOOT ME
2023-01-15 20:30 - 22:00 | LaFact Cultural, Rambla d'Ègara, 340, Terrassa, 08221, Spagna
Aterballetto continues its tour and arrives in Terrassa, Catalonia.
The evening opens with Secus, a creation by Israeli choreographer Ohad Naharin with an enthralling soundtrack. This is followed by “O”, Philippe Kratz’s little masterpiece, an hypnotic pas de deux with an unstoppable rhythm. All 16 dancers in the company close the evening with Shoot me, a new creation by Diego Tortelli to the music of the rock band Spiritualized, an abstract but tense and energetic choreography.

SECUS
Secus is a creation by Ohad Naharin that boasts a musical collage extending from the unusual electronic styles of AGF to the seductive Indian melodies of Kaho Naa Pyar Hai to the resonant harmonies of the Beach Boys. This adventurously eclectic mix serves as a fitting background for the boldly extravagant choreography. A human alphabet of runs, solos, neat and clean gestures, interrupted duets is composed before our incredulous eyes, which, through precise and sudden kicks, sinuous disarticulations of the hips, torsos bending in all directions like molding rubber, expresses pure emotions and feelings without becoming sentimental. Joy, vulnerability, fear, innocence, confusion and anger weave an harmonious and dynamic canvas that oscillates between delicacy and exaggeration.
O
The idea behind “O” is eternity and how to achieve it is the ultimate goal of humanity. As for example in the summer of 2017 in Hong Kong, when for the first time two humanoid robots interacted with each other. It has become clear to all that a future, in which all human knowledge is transmitted by communicating inorganic material, is at our fingertips.
“O” can be seen as two human beings or two robots celebrating this event in a state of transcendence and emotional realization, in which both move together to the infinite rhythm of their unstoppable hearts.
Or, like the spaceship’s computer Hal in Stanley Kubrick’s film “2001: A Space Odyssey” when he says deceptively, “I know I’ve made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that my work will return to normal. I still have the utmost enthusiasm and confidence in the mission. And I want to help you.”
SHOOT ME
SHOOT ME is a new creation for the whole company accompanied by the music of Spiritualized, an English rock band formed in 1990, and by some recordings of poems recited by singer Jim Morrison that tell us about freedom.
The work in its construction is inspired by the concept of “concert-ballet”, revisited in a contemporary key where music and dance combine each other in a composition devoid of narrative, but which, thanks to the power of music, sometimes aggressive and other times poetic guides us to create open imageries and to feel emotions.
A fundamental part of SHOOT ME is the strength of a group guided by individual voices, the desire of a body that wants to be observed and a body that wants to be heard, that wants to transmit.
The work is inspired by images of demonstrations, pride, catwalks, everything that unites us in a group that at the same time allows us not to lose our voice. The exact opposite of a military parade or a political party. We talk about the beauty of the body serving the community as an entertainment medium, but also of reflection and research.
In fact, the term “SHOOT ME” is used by videomakers when a camera’s gaze is caught on an action to be immortalized. In pop culture instead, the term “SHOOT ME” in slang is also often referred to as a request to feel emotions after a period of alexithymia “please, shoot me with some feelings…”
A frontal work that aims to put the dancers on stage and the audience in the stall in a direct exchange relationship: a game of seduction, glances, sweat, an assault on the senses and an ode to the body, to breathing the same air, sweat, tears, fury, pride.
CREDITS
SECUS
Choreography Ohad Naharin
Music Chari Chari, Kid 606 + Rayon (mix: Stefan Ferry), AGF, Chronomad (Wahed), Fennesz, Kaho Naa Pyar Hai, Seefeel, The Beach Boys
Sound design & editing Ohad Fishof
Costume Design Rakefet Levy
Lighting Design Avi Yona Bueno (Bambi)
Assistant choreographers Rachael Osborne, Ian Robinson
Creation for Batsheva Dance Company (as part of Three, 2005)
Duration 30′ – For 16 dancers from the company
Production Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto
Co-production Festival Oriente Occidente (I), Les Halles de Schaerbeek (B), Malraux scène nationale Chambéry Savoie (F)
“O”
Choreography Philippe Kratz
Music Mark Pritchard and The Field
Costume Design Francesca Messori
Lighting Design Carlo Cerri
Duration 12′ – For 2 dancers
Production Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto
First prize at the 32nd Hannover Choreographic Competition – June 2018
Philippe Kratz is a stARTacademy member of Bayer Arts & Culture.
SHOOT ME
Choreography Diego Tortelli
Music Spiritualized
Costume Design Marco De Vincenzo
Lighting Design Roman Fliegel
Duration 30′ – For 16 dancers from the company
Production Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto
Coproduction Fondazione I Teatri di Reggio Emilia

Meeting Aterballetto
2023-01-19 18:00 - 19:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
OPEN REHEARSAL
After three years, Aterballetto reopens its rehearsals to the public.
Since the last open rehearsal in Fonderia – Feb. 12, 2020 – much has changed in the company. New dancers, new choreography and new projects that we look forward to introducing to you at this very open rehearsal.
Open rehearsals are unique moments when you can experience the backstage of a performance, dialogue with the artists and be surprised by the art of dance: an exclusive experience of entering the daily routine of the dancers and choreographers.
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TICKETS
Full: 3 euro
Under 6: free
PURCHASING TICKETS
Tickets can be purchased online at www.biglietteriafonderia39.it.
The ticket service in Fonderia runs from 5:30 pm.
Tickets are not numbered.
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DANCING BRUNO
2023-01-21 20:30 - 23:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Compagnia Sanpapié – Dancing Bruno – ph. Donato Aquaro
We open the new season at Fonderia, making just about everyone dance in an evening of about two and a half hours, where 12 artists including musicians, dancers, singers and actors, compete for the audience, challenging each other not to leave a single spectator sitting.
Dancing Bruno by the Milan-based company Sanpapié is a ride through popular dance between the early 1900s and the early 1970s, clinging to the saddle of the history of social and political changes that have transformed the way we experience spaces, relationships, roles and steps in common.
In Dancing Bruno, irony opens the door wide to encounter and experimentation. It is a participatory experience where audience and performer merge in the same game, creating a surreal space in which time is suspended.

CREDITS
Concept Lara Guidetti, Saverio Bari
With contributions from Marco De Meo, Marcello Gori, Susanna Gozzetti, Cecilia Vecchio
Choreography and direction Lara Guidetti
Texts Saverio Bari
Original music and soundtrack Marcello Gori
Live music Andrea Vulpani
Costume Design Daniela De Blasio
With Saverio Bari, Caterina Cescotti, Luis Fernando Colombo, Gioele Cosentino, Marco De Meo, Marcello Gori, Susanna Gozzetti, Lara Guidetti, Francesca La Stella, Matteo Sacco, Cecilia Vecchio
Coproduction Sanpapié and Fondazione Luzzati – Teatro della Tosse
WHAT'S DANCING BRUNO?
What comes naturally to the question is what is a dancing and especially who is Bruno.
To the first question the answer comes seemingly easy: a dancing is a dance hall before it is called a discotheque and after it has lost its definition of balera. Dancing is the middle ground where couple dancing opens up to rhythmic contaminations, cultures, forms and figures from other parts of the world. In common with the balera are the rules and, above all, the powerful voice of popular extraction, while the strain toward disco reveals a world that is broadening and opening itself to encounter and experimentation, looking at the foreigner with a fascinated and curious manner, imitating his movements, and ready to exchange its own.
Compagnia Sanpapié – Dancing Bruno – ph. Donato Aquaro
And Bruno? Who’s Bruno?
Bruno is the secret word,
it is the memory that one carries within oneself forever,
able to renew itself
with each generation.
He, too, is a clandestine idea: that of a theater where there is no barrier between audience and stage, the secret and intimate receptacle of a popular universe in which we sink our roots, the guardian of a world that is never completely lost but is transformed it is the pole that warns us when we are in danger, to give us time to move elsewhere, to be reborn changed, contaminated… it is someone we have all met, on any corner, between any two streets, who reminds us who we are, who we have been, who we could be… it is a question without the rush of the answer and the excitement of discovery…
Compagnia Sanpapié – Dancing Bruno – ph. Donato Aquaro
Sanpapié Company

Sanpapié was founded in 2008 by the will of four young people then fresh out of academy: Lara Guidetti, dancer and choreographer; Sarah Chiarcos, playwright; Marcello Gori, musician; and Fabio Ferretti, organizer, interested in investigating the depths of research without forgetting the Excel sheets.
Like all companies, in 13 years it has gone through very different phases and seasons, lost pieces and then found them again, missed trains and won calls, but it has never betrayed its original spirit: seeking the most special and impervious way to reach the heart of the beholder.
Sanpapié has been and continues to be the home of a group of artists and organizers in perpetual motion, constantly searching for new stimuli and new challenges; an extended family from Emilia-Milan-Romagna-Genoa (with flashes of Campania, Puglia, Sicily and Tuscany) that has not been afraid to grow and transform itself into a virtuous cultural enterprise. From 2015 to 2017, Sanpapié received a grant from MiBACT as a Dance Production enterprise; from 2017 to 2019, it won the Funder35 call from Fondazione Cariplo; and in its history it has performed not only in Italy but also in France, the United Kingdom, Spain, Germany, Portugal, and China.
sanpapie.com

INFO & TICKETS
TICKETS
Full price: 10 euro
Reduced under 30, dance schools, Liceo Coreutico Matilde di Canossa, over 65, members CRAL Municipality of Reggio Emilia: 6 euro
Reduced under 8: 3 euro
PURCHASING TICKETS
Tickets can be purchased online at www.biglietteriafonderia39.it.
Ticket service in Fonderia is active from 7:30 pm.
Tickets are not numbered.
CONTACTS
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Compagnia Sanpapié – Dancing Bruno – ph. Donato Aquaro

MICRODANCES
2023-01-22 11:00 - 19:30
On Sunday 22 January, Bergamo and Brescia will open the doors of all their cultural venues on the occasion of the celebrations for the official start of the year Bergamo Brescia Capital of Culture 2023. Theatres, museums, cinemas, libraries, foundations and many other entities, some of which will be open to the public on an exceptional basis, will host exhibitions, conferences, exhibitions and events. A moment of widespread and pervasive culture that will officially inaugurate the year of the Italian Capital of Culture 2023.
Within this context, thanks to the collaboration with the Fondazione Brescia Musei, four of our MicroDances will animate some of the city’s most iconic cultural venues such as the Capitolium, the Museum of Santa Giulia (Basilica di San Salvatore e Coro delle Monache) and the Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo. These pieces will anticipate the show An Ideal City, with several replicas between 3 and 5 March in the museum spaces of Brescia, soon available for pre-sale to the public.
The MicroDances on stage are:
Eppur si muove by Francesca Lattuada at the Capitolium – 11.00 am, 2.30 pm and 3.30 pm
Platform02 di Ina Lesnakowski at the Museo di Santa Giulia / Coro delle Monache – 12.00 pm, 4.00 pm and 5.30 pm
Near Life Experience by Angelin Preljocaj at the Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo – 12.30 pm, 5.00 pm and 7.00 pm
The fourth MicroDanza is a new creation by Diego Tortelli for two dancers entitled Yes, Yes… and to the music Silver Factory Redux by Dean&Britta. It will be performed at the Museo di Santa Giulia / Basilica di San Salvatore – 11.30 am, 4.00 pm and 5.30 pm

DOUBLE SIDE
2023-01-24 20:30 - 22:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
We are proud to host the new Aterballetto production in Fonderia, Reggio Emilia.

Shadow and light, live music and contemporary dance combine in Double Side, the new co-production of the Fondazione Nazionale della Danza/Aterballetto and Parma’s Fondazione Arturo Toscanini: a research and adventure that the two institutions share, and not for the first time, with the aim of “making choreographic and musical components react” in new and meaningful ways. On stage are two opposite poles represented by Stabat Mater by the Cuban choreographer Norge Cedeño Raffo and With drooping wings by Canadian Danièle Desnoyers, and held together by a vivid aesthetic architecture designed by Fabiana Piccioli.
The dark, gloomy atmosphere associated with Arvo Pärt’s moving, religious music is enhanced by Norge Cedeño Raffo’s expressive, free and pure dance: a hymn to the beauty of movement. The extrovert imprint and light, clear encapsulated in the nine iridescent musics of Henry Purcell recomposed for a string quartet by Federico Gon, flow from the dance of Danièle Desnoyers. There is always a strong relationship, almost a deep friendship, between her and the music: the gesture is not overwhelmed by the famous Baroque scores, but tries to create interesting harmonies and disharmonies with the strings on stage.
STABAT MATER
Cuban Norge Cedeño Raffo creates to religious music. The up-and-coming young choreographer was a soloist with Danza Contemporánea de Cuba, Cuba’s leading contemporary company. Arvo Pärt’s “Stabat Mater” becomes a painful farewell work for him. The Estonian composer set the medieval text about the sorrow of the Mother of God to music in his characteristic reduced style. The moving effect of this music also characterizes the expressive, free and, in the most beautiful sense, pure dance: how can one find hope in a broken world and after such a great loss, how can one go on living, Norge Cedeño Raffo asks himself in his work.

WITH DROOPING WINGS
Choreographer Danièle Desnoyers comes from Montréal, the metropolis of Canadian modern dance, where her light, fluid style and company make her a fixture on the contemporary scene. In addition to the theatrical element, her creations always have a strong relationship with music. His creation for Aterballetto is based on a suite by Italian composer Federico Gon, a specialist in baroque music who was inspired by Henry Purcell.

CREDITS
STABAT MATER (Creation for 3 dancers, 3 musicians, 3 singers)
Choreography Norge Cedeño Raffo
Set and lighting Fabiana Piccioli
Music Stabat Mater by Arvo Pärt
Costumes Norge Cedeño Raffo and Fabiana Piccioli
Assistant to Choreography Thais Suàrez Fernàndez
WITH DROOPING WINGS (Creation for 8 dancers, 4 strings)
Choreography Danièle Desnoyers
Music An English Suite by Federico Gon from Henry Purcell, Interlude by Ben Shemie
Set and lighting Fabiana Piccioli
Costumes Danièle Desnoyers
Assistant to choreography Myriam Arseneault
With the support of Délégation du Québec à Rome and Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec
Co-design and co-production Fondazione Nazionale della Danza/Aterballetto and Arturo Toscanini Foundation
Co-production Festspiele Ludwigshafen, Festival Aperto/ Fondazione I Teatri di Reggio Emilia
Premiere October 23, 2022, Reggio Emilia, Festival Aperto, Municipal Theater R. Valli (I) German premiere December 9-10, 2022, Ludwigshafen, Theater Im Pfalzbau (D)
Dancers Compagnia Aterballetto
Motus Quartet for La Toscanini: Giulia Soli, Agnese Rava violins, Dario Carrera viola, Margherita Curti cello
Soprano: Theodora Io Koutsothodoru
Countertenor: Nicolò Balducci
Tenor: Bowoo Kim
Music Preparer: Antonio De Lorenzi
INFO & TICKETS
TICKETS
Full: 3 euro
Under 6: free
PURCHASING TICKETS
Tickets can be purchased online at www.biglietteriafonderia39.it.
The ticket service in Fonderia runs from 3:30 pm.
Tickets are not numbered.
CONTACTS
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PROVE IN CORSO - I° PUNTATA
2023-01-24 20:30 - 22:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
The new FND/Aterballetto series curated by Nicolas Ballario.
What is behind an Aterballetto performance? What happens in the halls of the Fonderia in Reggio Emilia?
You’ll find out with PROVE IN CORSO, our first four-part series curated by Nicolas Ballario: one of the most highly regarded contemporary art journalists whose unique verve and extraordinary expertise bring just about everyone closer to the art world with his broadcasts on Sky Arte and RadioUnoRai.
Together with Ballario you will enter the world of the Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto. Between hilarious encounters, ironic situations with those who live the Fonderia every day and danced moments, in four episodes directed by Fabrizio Spucches, we will discover the curiosities of the company and the behind-the-scenes of the shows, in a way never told before.
What will you see?
In the first episode, scheduled for Tuesday, January 24, 9 p.m., you cannot help but be seduced by Johan Inger‘s Don Juan , choreography inspired by the Don Juan myth.
The evening will be hosted by Nicolas Ballario who will talk about what it was like to work on this series, along with Aterballetto dancers who will show some sequences from Don Juan.
This will be followed by a screening of the first installment of PROVE IN CORSO and then finish with a talk in the company of Ballario and Aterballetto.
Info & Tickets
TICKETS
Full: 3 euro
Under 6: free
PURCHASING TICKETS
Tickets can be purchased online at www.biglietteriafonderia39.it.
The ticket service in Fonderia runs from 7:30 pm.
Tickets are not numbered.
CONTACTS
Cell and whatsapp 3341023554
Email biglietteria@aterballetto.it

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Don Juan
2023-01-28 20:30 - 22:00 | Teatro Regio, Strada Giuseppe Garibaldi, 16/a, Parma, 43121, Italia
Aterballetto comes back to Teatro Regio in Parma and dances Don Juan, the full evening production by Johan Inger.
The choreography comes from Inger’s desire to confront Don Juan, a paradigmatic myth that is both ancient and still contemporary. The original comedy by Tirso de Molina, Molière, Bertold Brecht and the play by Suzanne Lilar are just some of the sources of inspiration: Inger and playwright Gregor Acuña-Pohl consulted twenty-five different texts inspired by the character.
In the creation we find all the characters of the story, from Donna Elvira to Donna Anna to Zerlina and Masetto. Don Juan can be considered a Kammerspiel, with its ability to emphasise nuances and emotions: and in the case of this creation, dance becomes a magnifying glass for the individual characters, subtly but clearly revealing the inner world of the men and women on stage.
Danza&Danza Award ‘Best Production’ 2020

Don Juan
2023-01-31 20:30 - 22:00, 2023-02-01 20:30 - 22:00 | Teatro Sociale, Via Felice Cavallotti, 20, Brescia
From 31st January to 2nd February at Centro Teatrale Bresciano Aterballetto dances Don Juan, the full evening production by Johan Inger.
The choreography comes from Inger’s desire to confront Don Juan, a paradigmatic myth that is both ancient and still contemporary. The original comedy by Tirso de Molina, Molière, Bertold Brecht and the play by Suzanne Lilar are just some of the sources of inspiration: Inger and playwright Gregor Acuña-Pohl consulted twenty-five different texts inspired by the character.
In the creation we find all the characters of the story, from Donna Elvira to Donna Anna to Zerlina and Masetto. Don Juan can be considered a Kammerspiel, with its ability to emphasise nuances and emotions: and in the case of this creation, dance becomes a magnifying glass for the individual characters, subtly but clearly revealing the inner world of the men and women on stage.
Danza&Danza Award ‘Best Production’ 2020

C'è vita su Venere
2023-02-01 19:00 - 20:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
C’è vita su Venere – Abbondanza/Bertoni Company – ph. Tobia Abbondanza
Compagnia Abbondanza/Bertoni, one of the most prolific companies on the Italian scene for its creations and for the diffusion of contemporary dance theater, presents a show that sees the return on stage of Antonella Bertoni.
C’è vita su Venere is a solo that investigates the diversity of the body, particularly the female body and its evolution with age and time. A journey on Venus, where gravity is dense, where in its slow going the body will reveal itself in a final metamorphosis.
Two perfomances: at 7.00 p.m and 9.00 p.m

CREDITS
C’È VITA SU VENERE
By Michele Abbondanza and Antonella BertoniWith Antonella BertoniLights Andrea GentiliSound elaborations Orlando CainelliTechnical Claudio ModugnoMask and props Nadezhda SimenovaDress Chiara Defant
Organization, strategy and development Dalia MaciiAdministration and coordination Francesca LeonelliPress office Susanna CaldonazziCommunication Francesca VeneziaPhotos Tobia Abbondanza
CONCEPT
I had long been away from the scene, (pandemic outcomes aside) shyly listening to and respecting the transformations that age digs into my body.
Passing years in which I hesitated to take the step of taking steps to make a transition: to show myself.
Then perhaps the very special moment we are living in prompted me, as if instinctively, to re-engage in a practice that I know well and yet feel new. A practice, physical and otherwise, that was immediately sensitive to a vocation I felt in me primary: yearning for the moment of encounter, of the “moving” of making theater.

And in doing so, I could not disregard a strongly personal marker: persona, that is, literally “the mask of a character (actor),” which I have tried, and I still do not know if vainly, to peel off my face. Thus I landed on another planet, finding there an infinity of life and other lives. Of all of them it would have been worth telling and dancing the contours: I went through only and curiously some of them convinced that no woman is “every woman”. I did it with the form that this present time has given me and gives me: silver, oak and Venus.
This me being, this me being is the only way I feel the ephemerality that sops us up fade a little.
I am here in one piece.
Mammal agèe,
slow,
knotted doing,
smelling of interlocking.
Alone and double,
Still as the water of a trembling stream, always.

ABBONDANZA BERTONI COMPANY
From New York experience in the school of Alwin Nikolais to French studies with Dominique Dupuy, through Carolyn Carlson‘s ‘poetic’ improvisations and the study and practice of Zen, Michele Abbondanza (co-founder of the Sosta Palmizi group and teacher at the Piccolo Theatre School in Milan) and Antonella Bertoni founded the Abbondanza/Bertoni Company, recognized as one of the most prolific artistic realities on the Italian scene for their creations, educational and pedagogical activities and for the dissemination of contemporary dance theater.
Theirs is an intimate dance, which is reflected in the otherness of the couple; Belonging to their being together on stage is a quality of movement in two voices in which is tangible the acceptance of the body of one in the other, the habit in the movement to listening, a dialectic of encounter and clash between thoughts and physicality not experienced only in artistic practice.
http://www.abbondanzabertoni.it
INFO & TICKETS
TICKETS
Full price: 10 euro
Reduced under 30, dance schools, Liceo Coreutico Matilde di Canossa, over 65, members CRAL Municipality of Reggio Emilia: 6 euro
Reduced under 8: 3 euro
PURCHASING TICKETS
Tickets can be purchased online at www.biglietteriafonderia39.it.
Ticket service in Fonderia is active from 6 p.m.
Tickets are not numbered.
CONTACTS
Cell and whatsapp 3341023554
Email biglietteria@aterballetto.it

Don Juan
2023-02-01 20:30 - 22:00 | Teatro Sociale, Via Felice Cavallotti, 20, Brescia
From 31st January to 2nd February at Centro Teatrale Bresciano Aterballetto performs Don Juan, the full evening production by Johan Inger.
The choreography comes from Inger’s desire to confront Don Juan, a paradigmatic myth that is both ancient and still contemporary. The original comedy by Tirso de Molina, Molière, Bertold Brecht and the play by Suzanne Lilar are just some of the sources of inspiration: Inger and playwright Gregor Acuña-Pohl consulted twenty-five different texts inspired by the character.
In the creation we find all the characters of the story, from Donna Elvira to Donna Anna to Zerlina and Masetto. Don Juan can be considered a Kammerspiel, with its ability to emphasise nuances and emotions: and in the case of this creation, dance becomes a magnifying glass for the individual characters, subtly but clearly revealing the inner world of the men and women on stage.
Danza&Danza Award ‘Best Production’ 2020
