Enough
2026-03-07 15:00 - 16:00, 2026-03-07 17:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Rome) | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Girls just wanna have… ANOTHER POINT OF VIEW
For Dance Week, celebrating female creativity, Lara Guidetti presents an open rehearsal of her new duet Enough.

Lara Guidetti draws inspiration from Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse for this new male duet—a work in progress exploring affinity and attraction as forces that generate continuous tension.

CREDITS

A co-production by SPACCA / Sanpapié and Drama TeatroWith the support of NEXT – laboratorio delle idee
Choreography and direction: Lara GuidettiDramaturgical consultancy: Saverio BariChoreography assistant and creative consultancy: Fabrizio CalannaSet and costumes: Maria Barbara De MarcoOriginal music and sound design: Marcello GoriLighting design: Alessandro BarbieriPerformers: Michele Ho, Gabriel Interlando
Special thanks to Helga and Angelo

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Enough is a male duet in development, conceived as an installative choreographic work—an observational device that investigates the nature of the double not as a binary opposition, but as the impossible cohabitation of two inner forces. The work draws inspiration from Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse, understood as a symbolic rather than narrative field: a relationship founded on affinity, attraction, and the impossibility of fusion. The other is neither complement nor solution, but what is missing, what wounds, what triggers movement. Dance unfolds within this unstable threshold, where the desire for unity generates a tension that is never resolved, and where separation is not a negation, but a necessary condition for the very existence of the bond.

LARA GUIDETTI

Lara Guidetti graduated in 2006 as a dancer and choreographer from the Theatre-Dance Atelier of the Scuola Paolo Grassi in Milan, studying with leading national and international masters. She continued her training in the fields of dance and performing arts, exploring various pedagogical methods and training practices 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 performance LEI won the Premio Bonacina.
She collaborates with the JGM company in Lisbon, with Teatro alla Scala as a dancer and acrobat, and creates choreography for opera productions. She has taught at the Scuola Paolo Grassi and DanceHaus in Milan, as well as at the school of the Teatro Stabile di Torino.
Since 2022, she has been an associated artist of the MilanOltre Festival and a collaborator of CCN/Aterballetto as a choreographer and curator of site-specific projects and cultural welfare initiatives.

INFO & TICKETS

TICKETS€3 for all / free admission for children under 6
TICKET PURCHASE
Tickets can be purchased online at www.biglietteriafonderia39.it.
The box office at Fonderia opens one hour before the start of the performance.
Tickets are unnumbered.
CONTACTS
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Pina!
2026-03-07 15:00 - 16:00, 2026-03-07 17:00 - 18:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Girls just wanna have… AN IDOL
Pina! by Monica Casadei is presented as an open rehearsal for Dance Week, celebrating female creativity.

Monica Casadei creates a personal tribute to Pina Bausch, a dialogue in which her own choreographic signature meets the poetic vision of the mother of Tanztheater.

CREDITS

Choreography: Monica CasadeiVideo content from Un Secolo di Danza, written and created by Sonia SchoonejansProduction assistant: Mattia MoliniDancers: Alfonso Donnarumma, Sofia Gentiluomo, Minami Michiwaki, Mattia Molini, Christian Pellino, Carlotta Quercetani
Production: Compagnia Artemis DanzaWith the contribution of the Ministero della Cultura, Regione Emilia-Romagna – Department of Culture, Comune di Parma

Approximate duration: 20 minutes

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An intense and personal tribute to Pina Bausch by Monica Casadei.Inspired by the documentary Un secolo di danza by Sonia Schoonejans, the performance weaves video imagery and original choreography into a dialogue between historical memory and contemporary language. Moving through the physical, dynamic vocabulary that has long defined the style of Compagnia Artemis Danza, the work unfolds as a continuous play of echoes, evocations, and counterpoints, delving into Pina’s choreographic poetics and returning to the audience her visionary force and enduring ability to speak to us today.

MONICA CASADEI

Originally from Ferrara and graduating summa cum laude with a thesis on Plato and dance, Monica Casadei, after a competitive career in rhythmic gymnastics, devoted herself to the study of classical and modern dance—first in Italy, then in London, and finally in Paris. There she met choreographers Pierre Doussaint and Isabelle Doubouloz, as well as master André Cognard Hanshi So Shihan, with whom she still practices the martial art of Aikido.She founded Compagnia Artemis Danza in France and moved with the company to Italy in 1997, launching an intense production activity that to date includes over forty original creations. From 1998 to 2007, the company was artist-in-residence at the Fondazione Teatro Due, while since 2014 it has held an artistic residency at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna. Artemis Danza has been invited to perform in major Italian theatres and festivals, as well as on numerous international tours and festival circuits.
Central to Monica Casadei’s artistic research are cross-pollination with different artistic, cultural, and geographical contexts, alongside the exploration of sites and urban spaces that become stages for performative actions.
Alongside its production activity, Artemis Danza supports, produces, and promotes emerging artists and carries out a wide range of audience development and educational initiatives.

INFO & TICKETS

TICKETS€3 for all / free admission for children under 6
TICKET PURCHASE
Tickets can be purchased online at www.biglietteriafonderia39.it.
The box office at Fonderia opens one hour before the start of the performance.
Tickets are unnumbered.
CONTACTS
Mobile & WhatsApp: +39 334 102 3554

Le Palestriti
2026-03-07 19:00 - 20:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Girls just wanna have… A MEDAL
Le Palestriti by Simona Bertozzi: for Dance Week celebrating female creativity, a performance that reflects on the power of women.

Four female performers transform gymnastic training into a collective celebration, creating a language of gestures, sounds, and bodies that honours strength, grace, and shared power.

Quattro performer donne trasformano l’allenamento ginnico in festa collettiva, creando un linguaggio di gesti, suoni e corpi che celebra forza, grazia e potenza condivisa.
Double performance
Friday 6 and Saturday 7 March, 7:00 pm
https://vimeo.com/1117882946?fl=pl&fe=sh
CREDITS

Project and choreography: Simona Bertozzi
Vocal coaching: Meike Clarelli
Created with and performed by: Arianna Brugiolo, Federica D’Aversa, Paola Drera, Valentina Foschi
Original music: Meike Clarelli, Davide Fasulo
Lighting design and technical assistance: Rocio Espana Rodriguez
Organisation: Miriana Erario
Press office: Michele Pascarella
Photo and video: Luca Del Pia
Production: Nexus 2024–2025
With the support of the Ministero della Cultura, Regione Emilia-Romagna, Comune di BolognaWith the support of Festival Danza EstateIn collaboration with ALMASTUDIOS Bologna

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Le Palestriti takes shape within the ATHLETES project, opening up new possibilities for research and composition at the intersection of dance, sport, and vocality—foundational elements of the entire project.
The work is inspired by the mosaic of the Palestriti at the Villa del Casale, a rare ancient depiction of female athletic competition.
Here, the athletes, equipped with gymnastic tools, not only exalt the beauty and power of individual gestures, but also celebrate together, honouring the winner and transforming athleticism into an act of collective affirmation.
Within the choreographic frame of Le Palestriti, gathering and converging toward a shared, vertiginous bodily experience emerges as an essential necessity—both to train the anatomies and to let them erupt.
The performers disseminate a grammar of gestures, sounds, and vocal expressions in which the emergence of each individual presence becomes an opportunity to expand personal perception and transfigure it into an act of reciprocity and expansion of the collective body.
Le Palestriti develops a raw yet fluid physicality, with feral waves that transform the space—from a gym into a porous, hybrid territory, a crossroads of relationships, ritualities, and gestural alphabets suspended between strength and grace.
Within this dynamic, the stage becomes a playground of trajectories, where bodies move through a relentless practice of listening, elevating training and the care of gesture into practices of resistance and transformation.

Simona Bertozzi

Choreographer, dancer, and performer, Simona Bertozzi holds a degree from the Department of Arts, Music and Performing Arts at the University of Bologna. One of the pioneers of twentieth-century choreographic revolutions, Loïe Fuller, was the subject of her graduation thesis.
From a young age, she trained in artistic gymnastics and classical dance, later deepening her study of contemporary dance in Italy and in several other countries, including France, Spain, Belgium, and England. She has collaborated extensively as a performer, among others with choreographer Tomas Aragay (cia Societat Doctor Alonso – Spain) and, from 2005 to 2010, with Virgilio Sieni. She began her activity as a choreographer in 2005, developing a path of research and production working with professional dancers and performers, as well as with children, adolescents, amateurs, asylum seekers, and second-generation young immigrants.
Simona Bertozzi practices a form of dance in which choreography becomes a territory of events—a complex system inhabited by the body—resulting from practices, thoughts, and disciplines that make creation a layered entity in dialogue with the present. In 2007 she won the GD’A (Giovani Danzautori dell’Emilia-Romagna) choreographic competition, and in 2008 she founded Compagnia Simona Bertozzi | Associazione Culturale Nexus.
Over the years, her projects have received support and hosting from major regional, Italian, and European networks through co-productions and choreographic residencies, with national and international touring. In 2008, she was the Italian choreographer selected for the Aerowaves festival at The Place Theatre (London), and in the same year, with the solo Terrestre, she took part in the international project Choreoroam, supported by the British Council / The Place, Dansateliers (Rotterdam), and Bassano Opera Festival.
With the collective Gemelli Kessler (Simona Bertozzi, Marcello Briguglio, Celeste Taliani), she won Il Coreografo Elettronico 2009 for Best Independent Production with the video-dance work Terrestre – movement in still life. In 2012, the collective created I was wondering, a video-dance work produced for the centenary of the birth of Michelangelo Antonioni.
Over the years, significant collaborations have developed with artists and scholars including Francesco Giomi, Artistic Director of Tempo Reale; Enrico Pitozzi and Cristiana Natali, professors at the University of Bologna; Egle Sommacal, musician and guitarist of Massimo Volume; Angela Baraldi, actress and singer; and Tabea Martin, with whom she co-created This Is My Last Dance, a work that toured extensively across Europe, including the Swiss Dance Days.

INFO & TICKETS
TICKETSFull price: €10Reduced price (under 30, dance schools, Liceo Coreutico Matilde di Canossa, over 65, CRAL Comune di Reggio Emilia members): €6Reduced price (under 8): €3

TICKET PURCHASE

Tickets can be purchased online at www.biglietteriafonderia39.it.

The box office at Fonderia opens one hour before the start of the performance.

Tickets are unnumbered.

CONTACTS

Mobile & WhatsApp: +39 334 102 3554

EPIPHANĪA - Mi rendo manifesta
2026-03-07 20:30 - 21:30 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Girls just wanna have…THEIR OWN BODY
EPIPHANĪA – Mi rendo manifesta by Antonella Bertoni and Michele Abbondanza is the heart of Dance Week, celebrating female creativity and the feminine universe.

Three dancers from the Compagnia Abbondanza/Bertoni lose themselves in a labyrinth of visual rooms, engaging in a meticulous exploration of the female body—between gender stereotypes and individual emancipation.A true feminine manifesto.

https://vimeo.com/1088409387/b52b7d861d?fl=pl&fe=ti
CREDITS

By Michele Abbondanza and Antonella BertoniConcept, set, and costumes: Antonella BertoniWith Sara Cavalieri, Valentina Dal Mas, Ludovica Messina PoerioOriginal music: Sergio BeercockLighting design: Alessio GuerraTechnical direction: Claudio ModugnoCreation assistant: Eleonora ChiocchiniTailoring: Manuela GoberOrganisation, strategy, and development: Dalia MaciiAdministration and executive production: Francesca LeonelliCommunication: Erika ParisePress office: Marilù Ursi
Production: Compagnia Abbondanza/BertoniSpecial thanks to Danio ManfrediniAdditional thanks to Andrea Palamidese

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“Like shadows of life, on a battlefield, the three dancers—suspended souls, poised in lucid sleepwalking—reveal themselves through visible and hidden layers in a symphony of actions that unfoldslike a forest of signs and meanings.They are portraits suspended between identity display and visual exuberance. A carnal femininity, yet detached from the absolute protagonism of human matter, leaving room for the immaterial.The subject becomes object, and only then is its sovereign status recognised.Along the thread of detail and particularity, we brush traces, clots, and transparencies, disarticulating the sense that details embody within life.Gesture points and suggests without stating—an expression of an almost pictorial thought, unsettling and charged with emotional intensity.The dramaturgy concentrates on micro-moments; within an apparent chaos, it unfolds in chapters of an exploded book.Appearances and disappearances, as if within a spatial trap, in a black that is the colour in which everything is generated—the colour from which we come into the world and to which we will return.A non-place that is a room, a labyrinth of rooms dissolving into one another, an entire house, the world; hyper-frames that function through images and feed on pauses.”

— Antonella Bertoni

“Three women deep in my heart came to me.A room of one’s own—the women’s corner. Scalene: needless to say. A testing box of total negation of secure grounding in space, where the female body manifests itself in an unconditional, shameless surrender to perspectival dystopia.Women in pieces and pieces of women, inside a box of arts that—like a single organism—breathes, reproduces, and collapses: the disarmed creativity of bodies returned, in the end, becomes its sign.From the trinity to the one, and from the one to a thousand feminine forms—far from flat, rich instead with folds and pleats that, like a pin-cushion, pierce the scene. Blade-bodies, glimmers, and coquetries compose a texture of appearance in which the warp becomes an act of seeing and fixing a first point—a cross-stitch, naturally—of beginning and stumbling, held together by a single thread of glory.Now that women discover that man is no longer God, we hallucinate here an ideal recomposition of their scattered pieces.”

“Three women deep in my heart came to me: thanks to the generosity and unconditional trust of Valentina, Ludovica, and Sara.”

— Michele Abbondanza

Abbondanza / Bertoni

Michele Abbondanza and Antonella Bertoni. From their New York experience at Alwin Nikolais’s school to their studies in France with Dominique Dupuy, passing through the “poetic” improvisations of Carolyn Carlson and the study and practice of Zen, Michele Abbondanza (co-founder of Sosta Palmizi and lecturer at the Scuola di Teatro del Piccolo di Milano) and Antonella Bertoni founded Compagnia Abbondanza/Bertoni. The company is recognised as one of the most prolific artistic realities on the Italian scene, for its creations, its educational and pedagogical activity, and its contribution to the dissemination of contemporary dance theatre.
Compagnia Abbondanza/Bertoni is in residence at Teatro alla Cartiera di Rovereto (Trento, Italy) and is supported by:

Ministero della Cultura – Directorate-General for Live Performing Arts

Comune di Rovereto, Department of Culture

Provincia autonoma di Trento, Cultural Activities Service

Regione autonoma Trentino-Alto Adige

INFO & TICKETS

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

Preludio / An Echo, a Wave / Alpha Grace
2026-03-07 21:00 - 22:00 | Scenario Pubblico, via Teatro Massimo, 16, Catania, 95131, Italia
Aterballetto performs at Scenario Pubblico / Compagnia Zappalà Danza in Catania on March 7 and 8.
CCN/Aterballetto presents an evening that journeys through body, soul, and memory, composed of three creations reflecting on intimacy, human fragility, and the power of shared feeling. Preludio by Diego Tortelli is a profane prayer inspired by the writing of Nick Cave: five dancers become emotional impulses, embodying obsessions, addictions, and desires in a hymn to the body and its constant transformation.
An Echo, A Wave by Philippe Kratz draws inspiration from the hypnotic motion of the sea, a symbol of eternity and a place of encounters, departures, and returns: a poetic duet, as fluid as a wave crossing through time.
Finally, Alpha Grace, also by Kratz, is a meditation on empathy, on that ancient and sacred ability to recognize oneself in others. Solitudes and individualities gradually transform into togetherness—into a harmony built on listening and sharing.
© Festival de Granada | Fermín Rodríguez

INnaturale. Alla ricerca di strane creature
2026-03-08 15:00 - 16:00, 2026-03-08 17:00 - 18:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Girls just wanna have… MAGIC
INnaturale. Alla ricerca di strane creature (INnatural. In Search of Strange Creatures) by Emanuela Dall’Aglio is the family show selected for Dance Week, celebrating female creativity.

A thought-hunter will guide children through the spaces of La Fonderia, which will magically transform into an enchanted forest inhabited by mysterious animals. Who will dare to enter the den of the Black Wolf?

Ages 4 and up
Double performance: Sunday 8 March at 3:00 pm and 5:00 pm (duration: 50’)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCyEvo-MW-8
CREDITS

A project by Emanuela Dall’AglioDirection: Emanuela Dall’AglioSet design: Emanuela Dall’Aglio
With (alternating cast): Benedetta Brambilla, Stefano Pirovano, Sebastiano Sicurezza, Emanuela Dall’Aglio, Noemi Bresciani, Riccardo Paltenghi, Arianna Losi
Voices: Emanuela Dall’Aglio, Laura Cleri, Isabella Brogi, Sofia BologniniSounds: Fabiano FiorenzaniSound design: Andrea Salvadori, Stefano PirovanoArtistic collaboration: Michele LosiPhotos: Alvise Alessandro CrovatoProduction: Lorenza BrambillaPress office: Giulia CastelnovoDistribution: Francesca Lateana
A production by Campsirago ResidenzaWith the contribution of Fondazione Cariplo

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An unconventional scientist leads the audience on a quest to discover strange creatures and uncover their thoughts. Thus begins a mysterious journey that reveals the presence of imaginary animals: the brooder with her many eggs, the old mouse who weaves whiskers of catfish, dozens of “snail-hedgehogs,” and—for the bravest—the lair of the Black Wolf.
INnaturale is a roaming, site-specific performance—an adventure in search of fantastical beings, around which Emanuela Dall’Aglio has imagined new biographies. A poetic walk for all ages.

Emanuela Dall’aglio

Costume and set designer Emanuela Dall’Aglio works across theatre productions, festivals, installations, and live events. Winner of the Ubu Award 2021 for the costumes of Naturae, she is also an author and director of animation theatre, creating itinerant performances, interactive installations, and a series of works inspired by classic fairy tales. From concept to realisation, Emanuela Dall’Aglio designs costumes and sets as well as masks, puppets, and sculptures.

INFO & TICKETS

TICKETS€6
TICKET PURCHASE
Tickets can be purchased online at www.biglietteriafonderia39.it.
The box office at Fonderia opens one hour before the start of the performance.
Tickets are unnumbered.
CONTACTS
Mobile & WhatsApp: +39 334 102 3554

Breathing Room
2026-03-08 20:30 - 21:30 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Girls just wanna have…AIR
Breathing Room by Salvo Lombardo feat. Luna Cenere closes Dance Week, celebrating female creativity.

A performance that transforms breath into a poetic act: an expanded space in which to lose control, listen to the voice, and inhabit an environment in constant construction—between body, sound, and meditation.

CREDITS

Concept, texts, voice, and environment: Salvo LombardoDramaturgy inspired by Il silenzio è cosa viva by Chandra Livia CandianiWords offered as a gift by Fabio Acca, Michele Di Stefano, Carlo Lei, Cristina Kristal Rizzo, Alessandro Sciarroni, Alessandro TollariFeaturing (in alphabetical order): Philippe Barbut, Marta Ciappina, Marco D’Agostin, Nicola Galli, Silvia Gribaudi, Matteo Marchesi, Francesca Pennini, Cristina Kristal Rizzo, Irene RussolilloSound design: Fabrizio AlvitiMusical quotations from Ira by Iosonouncane
Production: ChiasmaWith the support of Lavanderia a Vapore (Collegno)With the contribution of MIC – Ministry of Culture
Year: 2022Duration: 45 minutes

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What moves breath between things: that through-breathing, that narrow opening between taking and giving, between stealing fragments of the world and releasing breath back into a world in pieces?

With Breathing Room, Salvo Lombardo leans into breath, approaching it as a poetic act. The work primarily consists in the invention of an ideal, expanded space in which to “catch one’s breath” and to practice the loss of the artist’s control over the artistic act itself.
The dramaturgy—drawing inspiration from Il silenzio è cosa viva by Chandra Livia Candiani—is shaped by a series of prompts and suggestions that Salvo Lombardo has received over time as gifts from different people, colleagues, and friends. These contributions help train breath as a substance of meaning and as an open field of signification.
Conceived as an environment in constant construction, Breathing Room is a performance grounded in voice as well as in the body: a room, an ideal perimeter of relationship, informed by a voice that projects speech and evokes action—somewhere between oral meditation, guided practice, environmental sound installation, and performative podcast.
Each activation of this “breathing apparatus” constitutes a unique, non-reproducible event. It is based on an invitation to an artist from the field of dance and performance to inhabit this relational perimeter together with the audience, through the activation of a performance determined in real time—without rehearsals, previews, or future repetitions—made possible by the combination of suggestions from the ambient voice and those the performer receives through headphones, deciding how and whether to act upon them.
In this way, the invitation becomes an act of complicity as well as a radical expression of being-now, and an opportunity to question—through breathing—the principles of authority and individual power that underpin the art production system. An invitation to be carried along, an attitude of listening, an exercise in vulnerability and relationality that can suggest an act of mutual care.
Breathing Room is part of an ongoing reflection on “care” developed together with Lavanderia a Vapore in Collegno, where Salvo Lombardo is an associated artist.

Salvo Lombardo

Salvo Lombardo is a performer, choreographer, multimodal artist, and curator of performative projects. Over the years, he has developed a research practice spanning dance, theatre, and visual arts, with particular attention to video languages and relational art. Since 2016, he has been Artistic Director of Compagnia Chiasma. He is currently an associated artist of the MilanOltre Festival and Lavanderia a Vapore.
His works and research projects have involved collaborations with numerous festivals, theatres, museums, and independent spaces in Italy and abroad, including the Théâtre National de Chaillot (FR), Attakkalari Dance Company (IN), Triennale Milano, Aura Dance Theatre (LT), Romaeuropa Festival, Teatro di Roma, Museo Ara Pacis, GAM Roma, MAXXI L’Aquila, Pirelli Hangar Bicocca, Museo del Novecento Milano, Museo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnologia, BE Festival (UK), Fondazione H401 (NL), La Briqueterie CDCN (FR), Dans Brabant (NL), Tanec Praha Festival (CZ), the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris (FR), Teatro Nazionale della Toscana, Aterballetto, Scenario Pubblico, ORBITA, MART, Short Theatre Festival, Polo del ‘900, Anghiari Dance Hub, Attraversamenti Multipli Festival, Kilowatt Festival, and Teatri di Vetro.
From 2012 to 2015, he was co-director and director of Clinica Mammut. He collaborated extensively with Fabbrica Europa until 2020. In 2017–2018, he was an associated artist of the Oriente Occidente Festival. From 2019 to 2021, he co-curated Resurface Festival, focused on decolonial practices and the relationship between colonial imaginaries and contemporary representations.
In 2020, he was among the founding members of Ostudio, an independent space for artistic cohabitation and multimedia research. Since 2021, he has been Artistic Director of Interazioni Festival. In 2021–2022, he was selected for the European project MMDD – Micro and Macro Dramaturgies in Dance. In 2021, he was selected by the European network BeSpectActive!, for which he conceived Punctum, a community-based and interactive work investigating large-scale spectatorship dynamics across 12 European countries. In 2022, he was among the artists involved in the May Town project at Schaubühne Lindenfels (DE), focusing on the postcolonial re-mediation of the 1897 Leipzig Industrial Exhibition. In 2023, he was invited by the Department of Humanities of the University of Turin to develop a research project around his works Excelsior – Amor – Sport.

INFO & TICKETS

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

Preludio / An Echo, a Wave / Alpha Grace
2026-03-08 21:00 - 22:00 | Scenario Pubblico, via Teatro Massimo, 16, Catania, 95131, Italia
Aterballetto performs at Scenario Pubblico / Compagnia Zappalà Danza in Catania on 7 and 8 March.

CCN/Aterballetto presents an evening that moves through body, soul, and memory, featuring three works that reflect on intimacy, human fragility, and the power of shared feeling. Preludio by Diego Tortelli is a profane prayer inspired by the writing of Nick Cave: five dancers become emotional triggers, embodying obsessions, addictions, and desires in a hymn to the body and its continuous transformation.
An Echo, A Wave by Philippe Kratz draws on the sea’s hypnotic motion—symbol of eternity and a place of encounters, departures, and returns: a poetic duet, fluid as a wave moving through time.
Finally, Alpha Grace, also by Kratz, is a reflection on empathy—on that ancient, sacred ability to recognise ourselves in others. Solitudes and individualities gradually transform into a chorus, into a harmony built on listening and sharing.

© Festival de Granada | Fermín Rodríguez

NOTTE MORRICONE
2026-03-10 21:00 - 22:30 | Teatro Biondo, Via Roma 258, Palermo, 90133, Italia
From March 10 to 15, 2026, Aterballetto performs Notte Morricone by Marcos Morau at the Teatro Biondo in Palermo.
“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
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NOTTE MORRICONE
2026-03-11 17:00 - 18:30, 2026-03-12 17:00 - 18:30, 2026-03-13 21:00 - 22:30, 2026-03-14 19:00 - 20:30, 2026-03-15 17:00 - 18:30 | Teatro Biondo, Via Roma 258, Palermo, 90133, Italia
Dal 10 al 15 marzo 2026 Aterballetto danza Notte Morricone di Marcos Morau al Teatro Biondo di Palermo.
“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′

Rhapsody in blue / Solo Echo / Glory Hall
2026-03-18 20:30 - 22:00 | Théâtre des Salins, 19 Quai Paul Doumer, Martigues, BP 60075 – 13692, France
Aterballetto performs near Saint-Tropez a triptych by Iratxe Ansa & Igor Bacovich, Crystal Pite, and Diego Tortelli.
On stage: Rhapsody in Blue by Iratxe Ansa and Igor Bacovich, a playful and vibrant choreography echoing Gershwin’s famous score. This is followed by Solo Echo by Crystal Pite, which, through Brahms’ sonatas for piano and cello, summons winter to express something essential about acceptance and loss. The evening concludes with Glory Hall, a new creation by Diego Tortelli, offering the company and the audience a fresco of sensuality and overwhelming vitality.

Rhapsody in blue / Solo Echo / Glory Hall
2026-03-20 20:00 - 21:30 | Théâtre Le Liberté, Grand Hôtel, Pl. de la Liberté, Toulon, 83000, France
Aterballetto performs in Toulon, in the south of France, a triptych by Iratxe Ansa & Igor Bacovich, Crystal Pite, and Diego Tortelli.
On stage: Rhapsody in Blue by Iratxe Ansa and Igor Bacovich, a lively and playful choreography echoing Gershwin’s iconic score. This is followed by Solo Echo by Crystal Pite, which, through Brahms’ sonatas for piano and cello, invokes winter to express something essential about acceptance and loss. The evening concludes with Glory Hall, a new creation by Diego Tortelli, offering the company and the audience a fresco of sensuality and overwhelming vitality.

Rhapsody in blue / Solo Echo / Glory Hall
2026-03-21 18:00 - 19:30 | Théâtre Le Liberté, Grand Hôtel, Pl. de la Liberté, Toulon, 83000, France
Aterballetto performs in Toulon, in the south of France, the triple bill featuring works by Iratxe Ansa & Igor Bacovich, Crystal Pite, and Diego Tortelli.

On stage is Rhapsody in Blue by Iratxe Ansa and Igor Bacovich—a playful, vibrant choreography, like Gershwin’s famous score. Next comes Solo Echo by Crystal Pite, which, through Brahms’s sonatas for piano and cello, invokes winter to express something essential about acceptance and loss. The evening closes with Glory Hall, the new production by Diego Tortelli, offering the company and the audience a tableau of sensuality and overwhelming vitality.

VISIONI DEL CORPO. MAURIZIO CATTELAN
2026-03-23 20:30 - 21:30 | Fondazione Ferrero, Strada di mezzo, 44, Alba (CN), 12051, Italy
Maurizio Cattelan Bidibidobidiboo 1996 photo Zeno Zotti copia (Palazzo Grassi, Venezia)
On Monday 23 March, Aterballetto comes to Fondazione Ferrero with Visions of the Body. Maurizio Cattelan: Seeing Contemporary Art through Auteur Dance.

On Monday 23 March 2026 at 8:30 pm, Fondazione Ferrero and the Municipality of Alba present Visions of the Body, an original dialogue between dance and contemporary art in which the body becomes a tool for amplifying the provocative and visionary meaning of Maurizio Cattelan’s work. This is the first in a series of events offered to the local community as stages in a shared journey towards 2027, the year in which Alba will be the Italian Capital of Contemporary Art.
Conceived by Centro Coreografico Nazionale / Aterballetto, Visions of the Body fosters dialogue between dance and visual art. The evening will feature Nicolas Ballario, journalist and cultural communicator, choreographer Lara Guidetti, and CCN/Aterballetto dancers Alessia Giacomelli and Kiran Gezels, in a work paying tribute to Maurizio Cattelan.

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

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At the heart of the artistic research are Cattelan’s works—irreverent and provocative pieces capable of questioning art and society through biting irony and powerful visual impact. His installations and sculptures become the starting point for an original artistic journey in which dance serves as a tool to amplify their meaning and translate their tensions and contradictions. The performance gives body and movement to Cattelan’s visions, transforming the irony, paradox, and unspoken elements of his works into physical gesture.
At the same time, Nicolas Ballario—journalist, cultural communicator, and curator of the dossier that led to Alba being named Italian Capital of Contemporary Art 2027—guides the audience in discovering the story and poetics of Maurizio Cattelan, tracing a narrative path that intertwines contemporary art and performance, vision and reflection, focusing on three works that form the backbone of the evening: HIM (2001), Rebel. The Only Prison Is Your Mind (2024), and Bidibidobidibù (1996). Each work is introduced by Ballario, who repeatedly reminds the audience that in Cattelan’s art, “nothing is ever as it seems.”
Maurizio Cattelan, moreover, will serve as the special curator of the افتتاحural exhibition of the Alba Capitale dell’Arte Contemporanea 2027 programme, dedicated to Pinot Gallizio, the painter-pharmacist from Alba who became one of the leading figures of twentieth-century art.

“With Visioni del corpo, staged at the auditorium of Fondazione Ferrero, the journey towards 2027 begins,” says Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, president of the association Le Fabbriche del Vento per Alba Capitale Italiana dell’Arte Contemporanea 2027. “With this special event, we open a dialogue with the public, engaging them in a direct and vibrant experience of contemporary art through voice, dance, and the storytelling of artworks and artists’ research. Visioni del corpo is the first chapter of Alba Capitale’s Public Program, which we have imagined as a long conversation with the city and its citizens, in partnership with its public institutions and private institutions such as Fondazione Ferrero, long a key player in and supporter of Alba’s cultural life.”

“Events such as Visioni del corpo,” say Alberto Gatto, Mayor of Alba, and Caterina Pasini, Councillor for Culture, “clearly show the cultural path that Alba is building towards 2027. The dialogue between different artistic languages, such as dance and contemporary art, and the collaboration with high-quality institutions such as Fondazione Ferrero, represent valuable opportunities to engage new audiences and continue to expand the city’s cultural offering. Initiatives of this kind help create an atmosphere of attention, curiosity, and participation around contemporary art, preparing the ground for the programme of Alba Capitale dell’Arte Contemporanea 2027.”

Laura Guidetti

Lara Guidetti graduated in 2006 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 training in the fields of dance and performing arts, exploring various pedagogical methods and training practices 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 performance LEI won the Premio Bonacina.
She collaborates with the JGM company in Lisbon and with La Scala in Milan as a dancer and acrobat, and creates choreography for opera productions. She has taught at the Paolo Grassi School, DanceHaus in Milan, and at the school of the Teatro Stabile di Torino.
Since 2022, she has been an associated artist of the MilanOltre Festival and a collaborator of CCN/Aterballetto as a choreographer and curator of site-specific and cultural welfare projects.

Maurizio Cattelan

Maurizio Cattelan (Padua, 1960) is one of the most internationally renowned and controversial Italian contemporary artists. Famous for his provocative and ironic language, he has built a career by challenging the conventions of art through works that question themes such as death, power, religion, and identity. Among his most iconic creations are La Nona Ora (Pope John Paul II struck by a meteorite), Him (a kneeling Hitler in prayer), and Comedian (the banana taped to the wall). His works have been exhibited in some of the world’s most important museums and biennials. In 2011, he staged a major retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, and in 2021 he curated Breath Ghosts Blind at Pirelli HangarBicocca in Milan. In 2025, he curates the exhibition Endless Sunday at the Centre Pompidou-Metz. Suspended between provocation and poetry, his work continues to spark debate about art and its role in society.

Nicolas Ballario

Nicolas Ballario, born in 1984, works on contemporary art in relation to the media. After completing his studies at the Academy of Photography, he joined Oliviero Toscani’s factory La Sterpaia, later becoming its cultural manager. He has collaborated with major art institutions and numerous publications, and in 2016 he became the youngest-ever recipient of the Bassani Prize, one of the most prestigious awards for journalists distinguished in the cultural and environmental fields.
He is currently author and host of contemporary art programmes on Rai Radio 1 and collaborates with L’Espresso (where he writes a weekly column), Living del Corriere della Sera, il Post, and Il Giornale dell’Arte. In 2019, he hosted the photography programme Camera Oscura on LA7, while since 2020 he has hosted the programmes Io ti vedo, tu mi senti?, Italia Contemporanea, and The Square on Sky Arte.
He directs the newly founded exhibition production company Piuma and is founder and president of Cucù, a communication studio dedicated to culture. He also curates exhibitions and catalogues. The magazine Artribune included him among its Best of figures in the art world for two consecutive years: in 2019 for radio and in 2020 for television projects.

Habemus Naufragium
2026-03-24 20:30 - 21:30 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Silvia Pezzarossi dances the storms of the present at Fonderia.

In a world that increasingly struggles to imagine its future in the face of climatic, social, and political upheavals, Habemus Naufragium invites us—with momentum—towards a positive resilience. Choreographer Silvia Pezzarossi, in duet with dancer Anna-Maria Bayon, proposes an eccentric shipwreck that carries us through the tempests of our time.
With an imagination without limits—at times grotesque and ironic, at others poetic—their metaphorical dances push solidarity and complicity towards a fluid, perfect metamorphosis of bodies, until they become one: a new being, in full transformation.
Like a remedy for our eco-anxiety, this colourful performance offers a dose of creative hope to be taken with eyes wide open.
Strobe lighting is used.

https://youtu.be/mni3RFxIr5o
CREDITS

Direction and choreography: Silvia PezzarossiCreation and performance: Silvia Pezzarossi, Anna-Maria Besnier BayonArtistic assistance and dramaturgy: Simon GillardDramaturgy and performers’ direction support: Maialen ArranoSound creation: Clément Braive, Raphaël VeninLighting design: Jean-Jacques DeneumoustierTechnical direction: Leo De Neve, Adele EvansCostumes: Marta Lodoli
Co-productions: Théâtre Les Brigittines, Théâtre Delta, Charleroi Danse – Centre Chorégraphique de Wallonie-Bruxelles
Artistic residencies: Théâtre Les Brigittines, Théâtre Delta, Charleroi Danse – Centre Chorégraphique de Wallonie-Bruxelles, Théâtre Marni, Up Circus and Performing Arts, Studio Étangs Noir, Cie 29.27 / SEPT CENT QUATRE VINGT TROIS, La Briqueterie CDCN Val-de-Marne, CC Wolubilis, CC Les Riches Claires, Akropoditi Dance Centre
With the support of: Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles – Dance Department, Wallonie-Bruxelles International, WBTD, Plastique Palace Théâtre, Charleroi Danse – Centre Chorégraphique de Wallonie-Bruxelles

Silvia Pezzarossi

Italian dancer and choreographer Silvia Pezzarossi, based in Brussels since 2012, initially trained in classical dance in Reggio Emilia at the Accademia Cosi-Stafanescu, before continuing her studies in contemporary dance at the Ballet Junior de Genève and at the professional school Modem / Cie Zappalà Danza (Sicily).
In Belgium, she has worked as a dancer and performer with Lies Serdons, the Poetic Punkers collective, Cie Marie Martinez, and the contemporary circus company Les Chaussons Rouges. Internationally, she has collaborated with Keren Rosenberg, Roy Assaf, and Roberto Zappalà.
Since 2013, Silvia has been developing her own choreographic work, creating Mucyclo (2014), Waiting for the Fishes (2016), En attendant que les poissons passent… (2018), and Habemus Naufragium (2024).
A keen observer of society, her research explores human behaviour and its dynamics, with particular attention to energy, expressivity, and bodily metamorphosis—balancing poetry and spontaneity. Her works are supported by the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles and Charleroi Danse, and have toured in Belgium, France, Greece, Turkey, and Italy.
Habemus Naufragium, her fourth project, was selected by the Théâtre des Doms as part of the Belgian programme at the Festival d’Avignon 2025.
Silvia is currently in the research phase for a new creation scheduled for 2027.

INFO & TICKETS

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

Solo Echo / Reconciliatio / Glory Hall
2026-03-26 20:45 - 22:15 | Teatro Bellini, Via Conte di Ruvo, 14, Naples, 80135, Italia
CCN/Aterballetto performs at the Teatro Bellini in Naples from March 26 to 29, 2026.

The dancers of CCN/Aterballetto are the protagonists of a production by multi-award-winning Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite, now recognized among the leading figures 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 summons winter, music, and the moving body to express something essential about acceptance and loss.

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

The evening closes with Glory Hall, a new creation by Diego Tortelli, offering both 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

Solo Echo / Reconciliatio / Glory Hall
2026-03-27 20:45 - 22:15, 2026-03-28 19:00 - 20:30, 2026-03-29 18:00 - 19:30 | Teatro Bellini, Via Conte di Ruvo, 14, Naples, 80135, Italia
CCN/Aterballetto performs at Teatro Bellini from 26 to 29 March 2026.

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

CREDITS
Solo Echo

Coreography: 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

T.R.I.P.O.F.O.B.I.A
2026-03-30 18:00 - 19:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Pablo Girolami dances through the voids of fear at Fonderia.

Monday 30 March, 6:00 pm – open rehearsal
Tuesday 31 March, 9:00 pm – performance – premiere

The fear of holes—or rather, of all those small geometric shapes that, when clustered together, create masses of tiny cavities. A play of images based on three-dimensional repetitions and juxtapositions that triggers a sense of disgust and repulsion; the alarm is activated by an intrinsic code, developed over centuries by our ancestors, which protects the phobic subject from the danger of infection by parasitic forms or injury from venomous animals.
Anxiety, anguish, fear: hundreds of names for a single existential condition—the fear of losing control over the world, over our body, over the other.
The medium through which a trypophobic skeleton takes shape is geometry, which, through the imaginative contribution of the human mind, becomes an active gateway to fear, reflecting human insecurities and paranoias.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkMUMq-eNaY
CREDITS

Compagnia IVONAChoreography: Pablo GirolamiDancers: Guilherme Leal, Pablo GirolamiMusic: Jacob Kirkegaard, Philip Jeck, Max Richter, Guilherme Curade and others to be confirmedVideo: xxcxclarissaLighting: Angelo TauroDramaturgy: Karen Stenico
Production: House of IVONA, Nutida Festival – Stazione Utopia, The Rijeka Port of Dance Festival, Skopje Dance Festival, Dance Festival Malta, TACT Festival in Trieste, Quinzena de Dança de Almada – International Dance Festival
With the support of KOMM TANZ Teatro Cartiera, Compagnia Abbondanza/Bertoni in collaboration with the Comune di Rovereto; Festival Fuori Programma & Romaeuropa Festival; ResiDanceXL – AnticorpiXL – Network Giovane Danza d’Autore, coordinated by L’arboreto – Teatro Dimora di Mondaino; Centro di Residenza della Toscana (Armunia – CapoTrave/Kilowatt); TWAIN Centro di Produzione Danza and PERIFERIE ARTISTICHE; DANCEHAUSpiù, Milan; Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia; MIC – Italian Ministry of Culture.

Pablo Girolami

Pablo Girolami is a choreographer of Italian-Spanish origin who trained at the Tanz Akademie Zürich, where he graduated in 2014.He has danced with Hessisches Staatsballett Wiesbaden/Darmstadt and Spellbound Contemporary Ballet, working with choreographers such as Wayne McGregor, Hofesh Shechter, and Marcos Morau.
He is currently the artistic director of IVONA and a freelance choreographer. Since 2024, he has also been the artistic director of the Fagagna Dance Festival.
Pablo has received important awards, including:
First Prize at the Jerusalem International Choreography Competition;Best Choreography at the Certamen Coreográfico del Distrito de Tetuán – Madrid;Best Choreography at the Linkage Choreographic Competition – Sofia;TWAIN Direzioni_Altre Award 2019 and 2022 – Tuscania;Audience Award at RIDCC – Rotterdam;Audience Award at CortoinDanza Festival – Cagliari;Audience Award at the 33rd Certamen Coreográfico de Madrid;Best Dance Film at the ZED International Videodanza Festival – Bologna;Best Dance Film at Interfaccia Digitale – HangarFest – Pesaro;FeelGood Award at BIGFF – Bari.
Alongside his work with IVONA, Pablo has created works for several companies, including Balletto dell’Opera di Graz, Jerusalem Dance Theatre, Club Guy & Roni, EgriBianco Danza, and Nuovo Balletto di Toscana. In 2025, together with Philippe Kratz, he won the Biennale di Venezia call for projects with the new creation Sisifo Felice, which premiered at Biennale Danza 2025.
Girolami has further expanded his presence in the artistic field by taking on roles as movement director and consultant in theatre and multidisciplinary projects, while also working in education at major institutions such as the Bachelor Program in Zurich and Taipei Art University.

INFO & TICKETS

TICKETS
Open rehearsal – Monday 30 March, 6:00 pmFull price: €3Free admission for children under 6
Performance – Tuesday 31 March, 9:00 pmFull price: €10Reduced price (under 30, dance schools, Liceo Coreutico Matilde di Canossa, over 65, CRAL Comune di Reggio Emilia members): €6Reduced price (under 8): €3
TICKET PURCHASE
Tickets can be purchased online at www.biglietteriafonderia39.it.
The box office at Fonderia opens one hour before the start of the performance.
Tickets are unnumbered.
CONTACTS
Mobile & WhatsApp: +39 334 102 3554

Cry Violet
2026-04-08 19:00 - 20:00, 2026-04-08 21:00 - 22:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Panzetti / Ticconi: dance between expiation and greenwashing at Fonderia.

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

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

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

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

Talk with Michele Pascarella

At the end of both performances, there will be a moment of meeting and discussion with performers Ginevra Panzetti and Enrico Ticconi, together with arts and culture communicator Michele Pascarella.
Michele PascarellaArts and culture communicator.A critic and scholar of theatre, dance, and visual arts, with a curiosity for other artistic fields. His research focuses in particular on the revolutions of the twentieth century and the intersections between different artistic practices. He has written for the magazine Gagarin Orbite Culturali (since 2012) and for Hystrio. Quarterly Journal of Theatre and Performance (since 2014).

Aperitif

From 6:00 PM to 8:30 PMA selection of local products and wines in collaboration with the Mercato Campagna Amica del Tricolore

INFO & TICKETS

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

NOTTE MORRICONE
2026-04-08 20:00 - 21:30 | Serbian National Theatre, Pozorisni trg 1, Novi Sad, Serbia
As part of the Belgrade Dance Festival, Aterballetto performs Notte Morricone by Marcos Morau at the Serbian National Theatre in Novi Sad.

“I, Ennio Morricone, am dead,” wrote the composer before taking his leave. His music, however, cannot die. And so it is that creators and artists always leave us without ever truly leaving — this is 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 mind — alone and dazed before his sheets of paper, jotting down notes and imagining melodies for films that do not yet exist, reviving stories in the rarefied air of his room.Marcos Morau – Director and Choreographer
It is impossible to describe Notte Morricone, a masterful work that comes to the spectator in waves — embracing with emotional surges, capturing through the memory of timeless melodies that have long outlived the images that first inspired them. The choreography, too, is exquisite: finely crafted and always poetic, 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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Duration: 90 minutes
