LOVE POEMS - OPEN REHEARSAL
2022-10-18 18:00 - 19:00 (Europe/Rome) | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
OPEN REHEARSAL

Open rehearsals are unique moments in which one can experience the backstage of a performance, dialogue with the artists and be surprised by the art of dance.
Under the title LOVE POEMS, the MM Contemporary Dance Company presents an evening composed of three new choreographies all under the sign of contemporary:
– DUETTO INOFFENSIVO (excerpt from ‘Rossini Cards’) by MAURO BIGONZETTI restaged for MMCDC
– BRUTAL LOVE POEMS by THOMAS NOONE
– VIVALDI UMANE PASSIONI by MICHELE MEROLA.
The three works are performed by eight dancers from MMCDC, a reality of excellence in Italian dance, with a consolidated activity of performances throughout the country.
The choreographies of the programme, linked by the common denominator of a distinctive musicality, are characterised by a strong implication as much interpretative as technical, which will highlight the stylistic versatility and extraordinary skill of the company’s dancers. From one piece to the next, the dance will become one with the music, marrying its compositional richness thanks to choreographies that emphasise movement, plasticity, but also the importance of the single gesture.

DUETTO INOFFENSIVO
Excerpt from ‘Rossini Cards
Choreography: Mauro Bigonzetti
Music: Gioachino Rossini
Assistant to choreography: Roberto Zamorano
Lighting design: Carlo Cerri
Costumes: Helena De Medeiros
With 2 dancers
A passionate and intense duet by Mauro Bigonzetti: in the two women on stage there is sharing, understanding, but also disagreement, and we find condensed the characters and stories of several female characters. Their encounter, in a continuous repetition and alternation of complicity and conflict, gives rise to an exchange of energies, feelings and emotions linked to the disappointments of love.

BRUTAL LOVE POEMS
Choreography: Thomas Noone
Music: Jim Pinchen
With 4 dancers
“I love you so much that I am in pain. I hope you suffer as much as I do …”
Raw and dynamic, Brutal Love Poems explores the ‘wild’ side that we hide within us and that only reveals itself in our most intimate moments. Somehow this revelation, of our most primordial, terrible and brutal being, is perhaps only ever manifested in front of those closest to us, the person we love.
An abstract, non-narrative work, in which the resonance of movements echoes and combines to form a whole, seeking to entertain, provoke and seduce.

VIVALDI UMANE PASSIONI
Choreography: Michele Merola
Music: Antonio Vivaldi
Lighting design: Cristina Spelti
Costumes: Carlotta Montanari
With 7 dancers
Co-production Teatro Ristori di Verona
National Premiere: 1 February 2019 – Teatro Ristori, Verona
With each creation, Michele Merola aims higher, convinced that it is possible to express, in dance, joys, tenderness, anger, expectations, impulses, torments. For the choreographer, returning the fire of passions to bodies contaminated by life has always been a conditio sine qua non for representing the meaning of existence on Earth. And it is in the pages of the great composers that Merola loves to search for perspectives, symmetries, assonances between human feeling and music. His encounter with Antonio Vivaldi springs from this desire, for a new production where ‘the relationship between music and movement plays the lion’s share’, says Merola.
Starting with Vivaldi’s best pieces and suggestions from the paintings of Marc Chagall, Michele Merola has created Vivaldi Umane passioni: “With Vivaldi and baroque music, I rediscover a love for pure choreographic design, while the inspiration I find in Marc Chagall’s paintings – works such as The Birthday (1915), On the City (1918), Love on the Scene (1920), Introduction to Jewish Theatre (1920) – , has guided my work towards human passions, the evasion from the everyday to detach oneself from the ground, listening to inner emotions. In both artists, I sense a great desire for life, beauty, elegance in living’.
Some of the composer’s best-known scores are mirrored in Merola’s journeys: the violin concertos La Follia, L’Inquietudine, L’Estro Armonico, and Il Favorito best express the sentiments that punctuate one’s life. Faced with this supreme grace, the vortex of sonorous intensity and richness of timbre, Merola pushes the accelerator of movement dynamics to develop new reflections. As an ‘athlete of the heart’, and of its most secret recesses, the choreographer visualises those themes with intimate involvement and a strongly contemporary slant, sculpting them in dance and in the air with the same passion and fury dictated by the notes. Fuelled by the two arts, the dialogue that is created, intense, balanced in terms of the balance of forces, enriches and nourishes the spectator’s imagination with complexity and compositional richness. It is a chess game in which music and bodies chase each other, confront each other, overlap, in a representational dynamic that the union makes even more intense.
Ermanno Romanelli

MM Contemporary Dance Company
La MM Contemporary Dance Company è una compagnia di danza contemporanea diretta dal coreografo Michele Merola, nata nel 1999 come centro di produzione di eventi e spettacoli e come promotrice di rassegne e workshop con l’obiettivo di favorire scambi e alleanze fra artisti italiani e internazionali, testimoni e portavoce della cultura contemporanea.
Il repertorio della compagnia, che ha sede a Reggio Emilia, è ricco e variegato, grazie ai lavori di Michele Merola e alle creazioni firmate da coreografi europei e italiani come Maguy Marin, Mats Ek, Mauro Bigonzetti, Thomas Noone, Gustavo Ramirez Sansano, Karl Alfred Schreiner, Eugenio Scigliano, Emanuele Soavi, Enrico Morelli, Daniele Ninarello, Ginevra Panzetti ed Enrico Ticconi, Roberto Tedesco, Camilla Monga.
Nel 2010 la MM Contemporary Dance Company ha vinto il prestigioso Premio Danza&Danza come migliore compagnia emergente e oggi, è, a tutti gli effetti, una realtà di eccellenza della danza italiana, con una consolidata attività di spettacoli su tutto il territorio nazionale. Da alcuni anni ha conquistato un mercato internazionale con spettacoli in paesi europei ed extraeuropei (Corea, Colombia, Canada, Germania, Russia, Marocco, Belgio, Spagna, Slovenia…).
Nel 2017 la MM Contemporary Dance Company ha vinto il Premio Europaindanza 2017 – Premio al Merito alla coreografia, per lo spettacolo Bolero di Michele Merola.
Il 1° gennaio 2021 e il 1° gennaio 2022 la MMCDC è stata presente su RAI 1 nella trasmissione “Danza con me” di Roberto Bolle interpretando coreografie di Mauro Bigonzetti e Lorca Massine.
Per il triennio 2018-20, per il 2021 e per il triennio 2022-24 la MM Contemporary Dance Company è compagnia associata del Circuito InDanza del Trentino Alto Adige.
La MMCDC è sostenuta dal Ministero della Cultura, Regione Emilia-Romagna, Fondazione Nazionale della Danza/Aterballetto, Centro Permanente Danza Danza/Reggio Emilia.
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INFO & TICKETS
TICKETS
Full price: 3 euro
Under 6: free
PURCHASING TICKETS
Tickets can be purchased online at www.biglietteriafonderia39.it.
The ticket office service in the Foundry is open from 5.30 pm.
Tickets are not numbered.
CONTACTS
Tel +39 0522273016
Mobile and whatsapp +39 3341023554

LOVE POEMS
2022-10-18 20:30 - 22:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Under the title LOVE POEMS, the MM Contemporary Dance Company presents an evening composed of three new choreographies all under the sign of contemporary:
– DUETTO INOFFENSIVO (excerpt from ‘Rossini Cards’) by MAURO BIGONZETTI restaged for MMCDC
– BRUTAL LOVE POEMS by THOMAS NOONE
– VIVALDI UMANE PASSIONI by MICHELE MEROLA.
The three works are performed by eight dancers from MMCDC, a reality of excellence in Italian dance, with a consolidated activity of performances throughout the country.
The choreographies of the programme, linked by the common denominator of a distinctive musicality, are characterised by a strong implication as much interpretative as technical, which will highlight the stylistic versatility and extraordinary skill of the company’s dancers. From one piece to the next, the dance will become one with the music, marrying its compositional richness thanks to choreographies that emphasise movement, plasticity, but also the importance of the single gesture.

DUETTO INOFFENSIVO
Excerpt from ‘Rossini Cards
Choreography: Mauro Bigonzetti
Music: Gioachino Rossini
Assistant to choreography: Roberto Zamorano
Lighting design: Carlo Cerri
Costumes: Helena De Medeiros
With 2 dancers
A passionate and intense duet by Mauro Bigonzetti: in the two women on stage there is sharing, understanding, but also disagreement, and we find condensed the characters and stories of several female characters. Their encounter, in a continuous repetition and alternation of complicity and conflict, gives rise to an exchange of energies, feelings and emotions linked to the disappointments of love.

BRUTAL LOVE POEMS
Choreography: Thomas Noone
Music: Jim Pinchen
With 4 dancers
“I love you so much that I am in pain. I hope you suffer as much as I do …”
Raw and dynamic, Brutal Love Poems explores the ‘wild’ side that we hide within us and that only reveals itself in our most intimate moments. Somehow this revelation, of our most primordial, terrible and brutal being, is perhaps only ever manifested in front of those closest to us, the person we love.
An abstract, non-narrative work, in which the resonance of movements echoes and combines to form a whole, seeking to entertain, provoke and seduce.

VIVALDI UMANE PASSIONI
Choreography: Michele Merola
Music: Antonio Vivaldi
Lighting design: Cristina Spelti
Costumes: Carlotta Montanari
With 7 dancers
Co-production Teatro Ristori di Verona
National Premiere: 1 February 2019 – Teatro Ristori, Verona
With each creation, Michele Merola aims higher, convinced that it is possible to express, in dance, joys, tenderness, anger, expectations, impulses, torments. For the choreographer, returning the fire of passions to bodies contaminated by life has always been a conditio sine qua non for representing the meaning of existence on Earth. And it is in the pages of the great composers that Merola loves to search for perspectives, symmetries, assonances between human feeling and music. His encounter with Antonio Vivaldi springs from this desire, for a new production where ‘the relationship between music and movement plays the lion’s share’, says Merola.
Starting with Vivaldi’s best pieces and suggestions from the paintings of Marc Chagall, Michele Merola has created Vivaldi Umane passioni: “With Vivaldi and baroque music, I rediscover a love for pure choreographic design, while the inspiration I find in Marc Chagall’s paintings – works such as The Birthday (1915), On the City (1918), Love on the Scene (1920), Introduction to Jewish Theatre (1920) – , has guided my work towards human passions, the evasion from the everyday to detach oneself from the ground, listening to inner emotions. In both artists, I sense a great desire for life, beauty, elegance in living’.
Some of the composer’s best-known scores are mirrored in Merola’s journeys: the violin concertos La Follia, L’Inquietudine, L’Estro Armonico, and Il Favorito best express the sentiments that punctuate one’s life. Faced with this supreme grace, the vortex of sonorous intensity and richness of timbre, Merola pushes the accelerator of movement dynamics to develop new reflections. As an ‘athlete of the heart’, and of its most secret recesses, the choreographer visualises those themes with intimate involvement and a strongly contemporary slant, sculpting them in dance and in the air with the same passion and fury dictated by the notes. Fuelled by the two arts, the dialogue that is created, intense, balanced in terms of the balance of forces, enriches and nourishes the spectator’s imagination with complexity and compositional richness. It is a chess game in which music and bodies chase each other, confront each other, overlap, in a representational dynamic that the union makes even more intense.
Ermanno Romanelli

MM Contemporary Dance Company
The MM Contemporary Dance Company is a contemporary dance company directed by choreographer Michele Merola, founded in 1999 as a production centre for events and performances and as a promoter of festivals and workshops with the aim of fostering exchanges and alliances between Italian and international artists, witnesses and spokesmen of contemporary culture.
The repertoire of the company, which is based in Reggio Emilia, is rich and varied, thanks to works by Michele Merola and creations by European and Italian choreographers such as Maguy Marin, Mats Ek, Mauro Bigonzetti, Thomas Noone, Gustavo Ramirez Sansano, Karl Alfred Schreiner, Eugenio Scigliano, Emanuele Soavi, Enrico Morelli, Daniele Ninarello, Ginevra Panzetti and Enrico Ticconi, Roberto Tedesco, and Camilla Monga.
In 2010, the MM Contemporary Dance Company won the prestigious Danza&Danza Award as the best emerging company and today, it is, to all intents and purposes, a reality of excellence in Italian dance, with a consolidated activity of performances throughout the country. For some years now, it has conquered an international market with performances in European and non-European countries (Korea, Colombia, Canada, Germany, Russia, Morocco, Belgium, Spain, Slovenia…).
In 2017, the MM Contemporary Dance Company won the 2017 Europaindanza Prize – Merit Award for Choreography, for the performance Bolero by Michele Merola.
On 1 January 2021 and 1 January 2022, MMCDC was featured on RAI 1 in Roberto Bolle’s show “Danza con me” interpreting choreographies by Mauro Bigonzetti and Lorca Massine.
For the three-year period 2018-20, for 2021 and for the three-year period 2022-24 the MM Contemporary Dance Company is an associated company of the Trentino Alto Adige InDanza Circuit.
MMCDC is supported by the Ministry of Culture, Emilia-Romagna Region, Fondazione Nazionale della Danza/Aterballetto, Centro Permanente Danza/Reggio Emilia.
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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 Foundry is open from 7.30 pm.
Tickets are not numbered.
CONTACTS
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Mobile and whatsapp 3341023554

Double Side
2022-10-23 18:00 - 19:00 | Teatro Municipale Valli, Piazza Martiri del 7 luglio, Reggio Emilia, 42121, Italia
The Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto premieres its new production Double Side in its hometown Reggio Emilia, in the framework of Festival Aperto.
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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Il piccolo re dei fiori
2022-10-29 17:30 - 18:30, 2022-10-30 17:30 - 18:30 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
SHOW FOR CHILDREN (4-8 years old)
Il piccolo Re dei Fiori (The Little Flower King) is a story about two young people who live opposite each other. So close and yet so far apart that their eyes have never met. One morning, however, she sees him, all melancholy, taking care of a small flower bed in front of their house, with that attention that is only given to the deepest desires. It is thus, observing him secretly, that begins to write for him, on little cards, the fairy tale that will lead them to their happy meeting.

CREDITS
Fairy tale for music, shadows and dance from The Little Flower King by KVĚTA PACOVSKÁ
A creation by VALERIO LONGO and FABRIZIO MONTECCHI
With Marcello Giovani and Isabella Minosi
Dramaturgy: Enrica Carini and Fabrizio Montecchi
Choreography: Valerio Longo
Direction and sets: Fabrizio Montecchi
Music: Paolo Codognola
Shapes: Nicoletta Garioni and Agnese Meroni (based on drawings by Květa Pacovská)
Costumes: Sara Bartesaghi Gallo and Nicoletta Garioni
Voices: Valeria Barreca and Tiziano Ferrari
Lights: Anna Adorno
Dramaturgy collaboration: Valerio Longo and Francesca Magnini
Realisation of sets and scenic objects: Giovanni Mutti, Nicoletta Garioni and Agnese Meroni
Production: Balletto di Roma, Teatro Gioco Vita
Live Streaming Premiere: 14 February 2021, Teatro Filodrammatici, Piacenza
Audience: from 4 to 8 years old
Duration: 50 minutes
INSIGHTS
Il piccolo Re dei Fiori is the text by Květa Pacovská around which two historical theatre and dance organisations have come together: Balletto di Roma, which in 2020 celebrated sixty years since its foundation, and Teatro Gioco Vita, which in 2021 celebrated its fiftieth anniversary and which, at the end of the 1970s, encountered shadow theatre, making an original contribution to the birth of children’s theatre. The project explores a form of contamination between languages such as dance, shadow and music, conceiving it expressly for children.
Il piccolo Re dei Fiori is a fairy tale. From the fairy tale there is the classic “Once upon a time” and also the unfailing “King” who, however, here is small and curious, lives alone, loves his garden and has pockets full of tulip bulbs. In the fairy tale there is also the theme of ‘waiting’, the King’s long wait before the flowers bloom, and also that of ‘lack’. Lack of what? The King does not know, but he does know that his tulips, though beautiful, cannot make him happy. So here is the ‘journey’ in search of what can fill his lack. A journey that is like a dream, on new routes unknown to the King, that lasts only a day and a night but seems to encompass the time of a lifetime.

In the morning light, the king hears a subtle voice coming from a newly opened tulip flower that repeats ‘I am here, I am here…’. In front of a little princess, the king, full of wonder, asks himself wonders: “Is it you whom I have been searching for so long?”.
As in any self-respecting fairy tale, there is no shortage of ‘and they all lived happily ever after’, which makes us think that, yes, it was indeed her that the King had so long desired.
Il piccolo Re dei Fiori is also a story about two young people who live opposite each other. So close and yet so far apart that their eyes have never met. One morning, however, she sees him, all melancholy, taking care of a small flowerbed in front of their house, with that attention that is only given to the deepest desires. It is thus, observing him surreptitiously, that she begins to write for him, on little cards, the fairy tale that will lead them to their happy reunion.

Il piccolo Re dei Fiori is a performance in which the theme of the search for happiness is rendered with lightness and poetry, thanks to a simple and essential plot and exuberant and imaginative imagery. With the counterpoint of a few but important words, the tale takes on stage form thanks to a rich musical fabric that accompanies and supports the spectacular shadow images of Teatro Gioco Vita, taken from the splendid illustrations by Květa Pacovská, and the expressive gestures of the two dancers from Balletto di Roma, the result of original choreography by Valerio Longo.
The power of a fairy tale is contained in its ability to be incredibly distant and at the same time close to our daily lives. What is required of us in order to access a fairy tale is to agree to make ourselves small, very small, to pass through magical and unexpected entrances, to know how to wait and, while waiting, to pay attention to every word, every gesture, every shadow in order to be amazed by the fairy tale itself. Thus it is also for us. In this almost archetypal fairy tale, a king, an enchanted garden, waiting, an unknown desire, a journey, a finding oneself in happiness, come alive in the shadows through music and dance, and allow everyone’s feelings to be revealed in it. Thus, as each fairy tale, word after word, animates the desires of those who hear it, so life, unexpectedly, leads them to fulfil them.

Balletto di Roma / Teatro Gioco Vita
Balletto di Roma, founded in 1960 by Franca Bartolomei and Walter Zappolini, has always promoted the production and dissemination of Italian auteur dance in Europe and throughout the world, with a repertoire that today is attentive to innovation and research while maintaining a strong focus on the history and tradition that have made it famous. Over the years, the Roman theatre has seen a succession of prestigious collaborations and multiple creative souls, and the production activity has grown, both in terms of quantity and quality of the works staged during the seasons, with growing public approval. Starting in 2018, general director Luciano Carratoni brings a significant generational change to the top of the structure by appointing Francesca Magnini, a university lecturer at the Sapienza University in Rome, as artistic director. The new artistic figure strengthens the schemes and broadens the objectives of internationalisation by involving bodies and institutions: among the collaborations is also the one with the Department of History, Anthropology, Religions, Arts and Performing Arts of the Sapienza University of Rome.
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Teatro Gioco Vita (artistic director Diego Maj) was founded in 1971 from the experience of theatrical animation and with its peculiar way of doing and experiencing theatre it made an original contribution to the birth of children’s theatre. It met shadow theatre at the end of the 1970s and developed a unique experience that earned it recognition and prestigious collaborations all over the world. The Shadow Company, with Fabrizio Montecchi and Nicoletta Garioni as artistic directors, is engaged not only in the production of performances but also in workshop activities and professional training. Teatro Gioco Vita combines its activities on the territory (Prose Season of the Municipal Theatre of Piacenza, theatre reviews, festivals and other cultural events, hospitality, workshops, training) with an increasingly international dimension that has led its shadow theatre performances to be performed not only in Europe, but also in the United States, Brazil, Mexico, Canada, Japan, China, Israel, Taiwan, Turkey, Jordan and Senegal.
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INFO & TICKETS
TICKETS
For everybody 6 euro
PURCHASING TICKETS
Tickets can be purchased online at www.biglietteriafonderia39.it.
The ticket office service at the Fonderia is open from 5.30 p.m.
Tickets are not numbered.
CONTACTS
Tel 0522273016
Mobile and whatsapp 3341023554

Double Side
2022-11-01 20:30 - 21:30 | Teatro Comunale, Corso Martiri della Libertà, 5, Ferrara, 44121, Italia
At Teatro Comunale in Ferrara Aterballetto presents the new production 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 - Open Rehearsal
2022-11-03 18:00 - 19:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
CHILDREN’S SHOW (6-11 years)

OPEN REHEARSAL
Open rehearsals are unique moments in which it is possible to experience the backstage of a performance, dialogue with the artists and be surprised by the art of dance.
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.
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Reduced under 6: free

DARWIN-M/ETA/MORFOSI - Open Rehearsal
2022-11-04 16:00 - 17:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
OPEN REHEARSAL
Open rehearsals are unique moments in which it is possible to experience the backstage of a performance, dialogue with the artists and be surprised by the art of dance.

As the caterpillar transforms and becomes a butterfly through a biological cycle called metamorphosis, man also goes through several stages before making an evolution. From single-celled organisms to Homo Sapiens, from newborns to adults, everything evolves in the continuous search for perfection … but something went wrong! The planet is in danger and humanity is certainly not without faults.
Thus an eccentric scientist tries to tell us what, for better or for worse, has happened to humanity and to the Earth from the Big Bang to today. A multifaceted and ever-changing character, who does not communicate with words but with the body and movement, will help him in the enterprise, emboding the different phases of this crazy metamorphosis.
CREDITS
by / with Francesco Marchi e Christian Pellino
production Artemis Danza ed EUROPA TEATRI
Show for children aged 11 to 14

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NOVILUNIO - Open Rehearsal
2022-11-04 18:00 - 19:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
OPEN REHEARSAL
Open rehearsals are unique moments in which it is possible to experience the backstage of a performance, dialogue with the artists and be surprised by the art of dance.

Reflection, empathy, loneliness, sweetness, being always herself while always showing herself different, cyclicality, awareness, beauty… How many things do our wonderful satellite and the human being have in common? How much does this same satellite affect us? Novilunio is the story of an individual’s relationship with the moon but above all with that phase of it in which everything is hidden, in which there is no showing of oneself, being oneself, especially for better or for worse: NEW MOON.
CREDITS
Choreography Salvatore Sciancalepore
Performers Samuele Arisci, Teresa Morisano
Music Ben Frost, Philip Glass & Robert Black, Frederic Chopin
Production Compagnia Artemis Danza
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Don Juan
2022-11-04 20:30 - 22:00 | Teatro Sociale, Via Bellini, 3, Como, 22100, Italia
At Teatro Sociale in Como 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

Cosmogony
2022-11-06 19:30 - 20:30 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
PERFORMANCE CANCELLED
Cosmogony is a live performance featuring three dancers who are motion captured live at Gilles Jobin Company’s studio in Geneva and screened in real time for audience in Reggio Emilia and Bologna.
The performance is in partnership with Compagnia della Quarta / Zed Festival and ERT Emilia Romagna Teatro.

CREDITS
Direction Gilles Jobin
Dancers Susana Panadés Diaz, Rudi van der Merwe, Jozsef Trefeli
Lead Dance Artist Susana Panadés Diaz
Lead 3D Artist Tristan Siodlak
Lead Technologist Camilo de Martino
Lead Technical Artist Pierre-Igor Berthet
Motion Capture Pedro Ribot
Mocap cameras Qualisys
Music Tar Pond
Music Arrangement Marky Edelmann, Tommy Vetterli
Mastering Dan Suter – Echo Chamber
Administration Gonzague Bochud
Production manager
Production Cie Gilles Jobi Lucía Díaz-Tejeiron
With the support of the City and Canton of Geneva and the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia

Premiere Singapore International Festival of Arts, 14–16 May 2021
Duration 32′
SYNOPSIS
Cosmogony is a live performance featuring three dancers who are motion captured live at Gilles Jobin Company’s studio in Geneva and screened in real time for audience. in Reggio Emilia, Bologna and Turin.
The movements of the dancers are captured in Geneva, sliced up into digital ‘bits’ and sent instantaneously through cyberspace to appear as avatars, on screen and in real time for a live audience, thousands of miles away from the company’s studio.
The dancers’ bodies and their avatars are entangled like particles in a quantum state, performing spooky actions at a distance, their movements instantaneously teleported across the world. The dancers act as the puppeteers of their own bodies, animating their avatars in real time and composing the cosmogony of a world in suspension. In a cosmic space or in the heart of a virtual city, the moving bodies of the dancers break free from the laws of physics to the droning analog sounds of Swiss doom rock band Tar Pond, offering the audience a mesmerizing journey beyond reality.

Cie Gilles Jobin
Since 1995 Cie Gilles Jobin has created more than 20 choreographic projects, which have become references on the world stage. In 2015 Gilles Jobin received the Swiss Grand Award for Dance by the Swiss Office of Culture.
With the 3D film WOMB in 2016, the company started investigating digital possibilities for contemporary dance within the volume of the frame. Discovering the power of motion capture, the company created VR_I, a groundbreaking dance piece in immersive virtual reality that premiered at the 2017 FNC – Festival du Nouveau Cinema in Montreal and won both the Innovation and People’s Choice awards for Most Innovative Work for New Platforms. In 2018 the work featured at the Sundance Film Festival and at the 75th Venice International Film Festival. A world tour followed in more than 50 cities and 20 countries in America, Asia and Europe, making it the most toured VR location-based installation in the world. The company created Dance Trail (AR) at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and in 2020, La Comédie Virtuelle – live show, a multiuser live performance selected in official competition at the 77th Venice International Film Festival which won the Quebec XR industry award Numix 2021.
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Golden Days
2022-11-09 20:00 - 21:30 | Scène Nat. Grand Narbonne, 2 avenue Maître Hubert Mouly, Narbonne, 11100, Francia
Aterballetto starts its France tour from Narbonne, in Occitania.
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

Alcune coreografie - open rehearsal
2022-11-11 18:00 - 19:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
OPEN REHEARSAL

Open rehearsals are unique moments in which it is possible to experience the backstage of a performance, dialogue with the artists and be surprised by the art of dance.
Alcune Coreografie (Some Choreographies) stages a dialogue between the dancer Ramona Caia and a precious video collection of different styles of dance, edited and reworked.

The choreography unfolds as a mimetic process, a multitude of fragments put together in a fast sequence; dug up from the history of dance and performance as told by the cinema and the Internet, in a search for a sensitive kinetic matter.

CREDITS
concept, direction and videochoreography: Jacopo Jenna
collaboration and dance: Ramona Caia
collaboration and video: Roberto Fassone
original sound: Francesco Casciaro
light design: Mattia Bagnoli
costume design: Eva di Franco
organization: Luisa Zuffo
production: KLm – Kinkaleri
co-production: Centrale Fies
with the support of Azienda Speciale Palaexpo – Mattatoio | Progetto PrendersiCura
SELECTED FOR NID PLATFORM 2022
SELECTED FOR AEROWAVES 2022
INSIGHTS
Alcune Coreografie (Some Choreographies) stages a dialogue between the dancer Ramona Caia and a precious video collection of different styles of dance, edited and reworked.

The choreography unfolds as a mimetic process, a multitude of fragments put together in a fast sequence; dug up from the history of dance and performance as told by the cinema and the Internet, in a search for a sensitive kinetic matter.
The dancer embodies, transforms, connects and gives shape to the body portrayed in those images, analyses its dynamics, its freedom and linguistic immediacy from a neutral perspective, uproots it from imagination in the performance of a precise choreography.

In the second part, an original video by the artist Roberto Fassone shows a sequence of visual choreographies, a symbolic landscape with no human traces and yet looking for a relationship with the body on stage, and pondering on the intangible matter that dance is made of.

Jacopo Jenna

Jacopo Jenna is a choreographer, performer and filmmaker creating stage works, video pieces, and installations. His works reframe the body in relationship with movement, through dance and choreography generating a variety of performative contexts. As a graduate of Sociology, he also studied dance in Codarts (Rotterdam Dance Academy).
He creates training and educational programmes for various age groups experimenting with new ways of relating to performance art. In Europe he has worked with dance companies, choreographic research projects and various artists like Jacopo Miliani, Caterina Barbieri, Roberto Fassone, Ramona Caia, Bassam Abou Diab.
His projects are produced and supported by spazioK/Kinkaleri. His work partecipated to festivals and venues including Centrale Fies Dro, Virgilio Sieni, MART Museum Rovereto, Contemporanea Festival Prato, Pépinières européennes pour jeans artistes / Young Video Creation, Palazzo Strozzi Firenze, Pecci Center for Contemporary Art Prato, Fabbrica Europa Firenze, CROSS International performance award, Short Theatre Rome, Danae Festival Milan, Dansem Marseille, Bipod Festival Beirut, Palazzo Grassi Punta della Dogana Venice, Chantiers d’Europe – Théâtre de la Ville Paris, Do Disturb – Palais de Tokyo Paris, Mudam Contemporary Art Museum of Luxembourg, Aerowaves Twenty22.
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Full price: 3 euro
Under 6: free
PURCHASING TICKETS
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Alcune Coreografie
2022-11-11 20:30 - 21:30 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Alcune Coreografie (Some Choreographies) stages a dialogue between the dancer Ramona Caia and a precious video collection of different styles of dance, edited and reworked.

The choreography unfolds as a mimetic process, a multitude of fragments put together in a fast sequence; dug up from the history of dance and performance as told by the cinema and the Internet, in a search for a sensitive kinetic matter.

CREDITS
concept, direction and videochoreography: Jacopo Jenna
collaboration and dance: Ramona Caia
collaboration and video: Roberto Fassone
original sound: Francesco Casciaro
light design: Mattia Bagnoli
costume design: Eva di Franco
organization: Luisa Zuffo
production: KLm – Kinkaleri
co-production: Centrale Fies
with the support of Azienda Speciale Palaexpo – Mattatoio | Progetto PrendersiCura
SELECTED FOR NID PLATFORM 2022
SELECTED FOR AEROWAVES 2022
INSIGHTS
Alcune Coreografie (Some Choreographies) stages a dialogue between the dancer Ramona Caia and a precious video collection of different styles of dance, edited and reworked.

The choreography unfolds as a mimetic process, a multitude of fragments put together in a fast sequence; dug up from the history of dance and performance as told by the cinema and the Internet, in a search for a sensitive kinetic matter.
The dancer embodies, transforms, connects and gives shape to the body portrayed in those images, analyses its dynamics, its freedom and linguistic immediacy from a neutral perspective, uproots it from imagination in the performance of a precise choreography.

In the second part, an original video by the artist Roberto Fassone shows a sequence of visual choreographies, a symbolic landscape with no human traces and yet looking for a relationship with the body on stage, and pondering on the intangible matter that dance is made of.

Jacopo Jenna
Jacopo Jenna is a choreographer, performer and filmmaker creating stage works, video pieces, and installations. His works reframe the body in relationship with movement, through dance and choreography generating a variety of performative contexts. As a graduate of Sociology, he also studied dance in Codarts (Rotterdam Dance Academy).
He creates training and educational programmes for various age groups experimenting with new ways of relating to performance art. In Europe he has worked with dance companies, choreographic research projects and various artists like Jacopo Miliani, Caterina Barbieri, Roberto Fassone, Ramona Caia, Bassam Abou Diab.
His projects are produced and supported by spazioK/Kinkaleri. His work partecipated to festivals and venues including Centrale Fies Dro, Virgilio Sieni, MART Museum Rovereto, Contemporanea Festival Prato, Pépinières européennes pour jeans artistes / Young Video Creation, Palazzo Strozzi Firenze, Pecci Center for Contemporary Art Prato, Fabbrica Europa Firenze, CROSS International performance award, Short Theatre Rome, Danae Festival Milan, Dansem Marseille, Bipod Festival Beirut, Palazzo Grassi Punta della Dogana Venice, Chantiers d’Europe – Théâtre de la Ville Paris, Do Disturb – Palais de Tokyo Paris, Mudam Contemporary Art Museum of Luxembourg, Aerowaves Twenty22.
jacopoj.it
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TICKETS
Full price: 10 euro
Reduced 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 at the Fonderia is open from 5.30 p.m.
Tickets are not numbered.
CONTACTS
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Don Juan
2022-11-12 20:30 - 22:00, 2022-11-13 14:30 - 16:00 | Opéra de Reims, 1 rue de Vesle, Reims, 51100, Francia
The French tour goes on in Reims. For two nights, on 12th and 13th November, at the Opéra de Reims, 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

Don Juan
2022-11-15 20:30 - 22:00 | Espace Jean Legendre, Place Briet Daubigny - rue du Général Koenig, Compiègne, 60200, Francia
Compiègne is the third stop of the French tour. At Espace Jean Legendre 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

Don Juan
2022-11-17 20:30 - 22:00 | Théâtre Dumas, Jardin des Arts, 3 Rue Henri IV, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, 78100, Francia
The France tour goes on in Saint Germani en Laye, near Paris. At Théâtre Alexander Dumas 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

Winter Forest - open rehearsal
2022-11-18 18:00 - 19:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
OPEN REHEARSAL

Open rehearsals are unique moments in which it is possible to experience the backstage of a performance, dialogue with the artists and be surprised by the art of dance.
Winter Forest creates an unclassifiable landscape with a winter, glacial character, like a Nordic forest, obtained with special light effects reflected on a silk backdrop.

CREDITS
Choreography Fabrizio Favale
Dancers Daniele Bianco, Valentina Staltari, Po-Nien Wang
Set, costume and art work First Rose
Sounds recorded in zoos of different countries around the world Fabrizio Favale
Music Massimo Carozzi, Daniela Cattivelli, Christian Fennesz, Jónsi, Alex Somers
Co-produced by Festival Danza in Rete – Fondazione Teatro Comunale di Vicenza, KLm – Kinkaleri / Le Supplici / mk
Supported by MIBAC / Regione Emilia-Romagna
In collaboration with h(abita)t – Rete di Spazi per la Danza / Sementerie Artistiche, Crevalcore
SYNOPSIS
Winter Forest creates an unclassifiable landscape with a winter, glacial character, like a Nordic forest, obtained with special light effects reflected on a silk backdrop. Here three dancers move in a dance made of the intertwining of a very high technical complexity and unknown movements, like creatures from other worlds. Space and costumes of the dancers have similar aesthetic traits, resulting in a camouflage effect. The choreography is built with a cyclical idea whose elements, while varying, return with an apparent randomness, as happens to thunderstorms and storms.

After having attended for a long time outdoor landscapes in their changes within the alternation of the seasons (The Invisible Seasons – Infinite Choreographic Cycle 2018-2021, awarded with the Siae and Mibac Prize For Who Creates and selected by the Big Pulse Alliance as one of the eight best European outdoor projects 2021 in the programme Open Air Commission), with this project Fabrizio Favale now investigates the concept of mimicry. Sometimes useful in nature, sometimes useless, mimicry is seen here first of all as an aesthetic event. A way of disappearing, dissolving into the surrounding, to reappear with the appearance of the surrounding.
Fabrizio Favale
His dance is oriented towards abstraction, typical of the American techniques with which he was trained. The choreographic landscapes that he draws in his works seem to refer from time to time to distant and unknown worlds, in which dance presents itself as a horizon free from interpretation and classification.
Fabrizio studied classical ballet with Denis Carey, Victor Litvinov, Sue Carlton Jones. Contemporary techniques with Andé Peck, Roberta Garrison, Jeff Slayton, Betty Jones, Nina Watt, Irene Hultmann, Louise Burns, Alwin Nicholais.
From a very young age he was awarded numerous scholarships including Full Scholarship at the American Dance Festival, Duke University, USA in 1990.
At 19 he was awarded with the Prize “Nati per la danza” at the Theatre Romolo Valli in Reggio Emilia and at 26 he was nominated “best Italian dancer of the year 1996” by the G. Tani Prize.
From 1991 to 2001 he danced for the Virgilio Sieni Danza Company.
Since 1999 he has created over 30 choreographies, receiving awards in Spain, Germany, Italy and Serbia, performing in numerous festivals and theaters such as Théâtre National de la Danse Chaillot Paris, Biennale de la Danse de Lyon, La Biennale di Venezia, Suzanne Dellal Tel Aviv, SIDance Seoul, Varna International Festival and many more.
His works have been co-produced by Théâtre National de la Danse Chaillot Paris, MUSEION – National Museum of Arts in Bolzano, Tanz Bozen Festival, Festival MILANoLTRE Milan, Fondazione Teatro Comunale di Vicenza.
In 2011, on the occasion of the presentation of the work “Un ricamo fatto sul nulla” at the Grand Theater of the National Academy of Dance in Rome, he received the “Medal of the President of the Republic for Italian choreographic talent”.
He invents a series of experimental programming formats, which will be invited by Italian Festivals and Theaters. The main ones are: “Piattaforma della Danza Balinese” (2014-2015) for the Santarcangelo Festival and “Circo Massimo” (2016-2017) for the Duse Theater in Bologna.
He collaborates with musicians and composers such as Mountains (USA), Teho Teardo (IT), Daniela Cattivelli (IT) and visual artists such as ZimmerFrei (IT), Lele Marcoianni (IT).
His outdoor project Le Stagioni Invisibili – Ciclo Coreografico Infinito 2018-2021, received the “PerChiCrea 2019” Production Award from Siae and Mibac – Italian Ministry of Culture and was shortlisted by the Big Pulse Dance Alliance as one of the best 8 European projects 2021 in its programme Open Air Commissions.
With the duo First Rose (Fabrizio Favale and Andrea Del Bianco), he also designs scenes, costumes and artifacts, which sometimes graft the choreographic works with an enigmatic figuration of strange beings, as hybrids of a kind of organic and inorganic world.
For the three-year period 22-24 Fabrizio Favale is nominated Italian Associate Artist of MILANoLTRE, Teatro Elfo-Puccini Milan.
lesupplici.it
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TICKETS
Full: 3 euro
Under 6: free
PURCHASING TICKETS
Tickets can be purchased online at www.biglietteriafonderia39.it.
The ticket office service at the Fonderia is open from 5.30 pm.
Tickets are not numbered.
CONTACTS
Tel +39 0522 273016
Mobile and whatsapp +39 3341023554

Winter Forest
2022-11-18 20:30 - 21:30 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Winter Forest creates an unclassifiable landscape with a winter, glacial character, like a Nordic forest, obtained with special light effects reflected on a silk backdrop.

CREDITS
Choreography Fabrizio Favale
Dancers Daniele Bianco, Valentina Staltari, Po-Nien Wang
Set, costume and art work First Rose
Sounds recorded in zoos of different countries around the world Fabrizio Favale
Music Massimo Carozzi, Daniela Cattivelli, Christian Fennesz, Jónsi, Alex Somers
Co-produced by Festival Danza in Rete – Fondazione Teatro Comunale di Vicenza, KLm – Kinkaleri / Le Supplici / mk
Supported by MIBAC / Regione Emilia-Romagna
In collaboration with h(abita)t – Rete di Spazi per la Danza / Sementerie Artistiche, Crevalcore
SYNOPSIS
Winter Forest creates an unclassifiable landscape with a winter, glacial character, like a Nordic forest, obtained with special light effects reflected on a silk backdrop. Here three dancers move in a dance made of the intertwining of a very high technical complexity and unknown movements, like creatures from other worlds. Space and costumes of the dancers have similar aesthetic traits, resulting in a camouflage effect. The choreography is built with a cyclical idea whose elements, while varying, return with an apparent randomness, as happens to thunderstorms and storms.

After having attended for a long time outdoor landscapes in their changes within the alternation of the seasons (The Invisible Seasons – Infinite Choreographic Cycle 2018-2021, awarded with the Siae and Mibac Prize For Who Creates and selected by the Big Pulse Alliance as one of the eight best European outdoor projects 2021 in the programme Open Air Commission), with this project Fabrizio Favale now investigates the concept of mimicry. Sometimes useful in nature, sometimes useless, mimicry is seen here first of all as an aesthetic event. A way of disappearing, dissolving into the surrounding, to reappear with the appearance of the surrounding.
Fabrizio Favale
His dance is oriented towards abstraction, typical of the American techniques with which he was trained. The choreographic landscapes that he draws in his works seem to refer from time to time to distant and unknown worlds, in which dance presents itself as a horizon free from interpretation and classification.
Fabrizio studied classical ballet with Denis Carey, Victor Litvinov, Sue Carlton Jones. Contemporary techniques with Andé Peck, Roberta Garrison, Jeff Slayton, Betty Jones, Nina Watt, Irene Hultmann, Louise Burns, Alwin Nicholais.
From a very young age he was awarded numerous scholarships including Full Scholarship at the American Dance Festival, Duke University, USA in 1990.
At 19 he was awarded with the Prize “Nati per la danza” at the Theatre Romolo Valli in Reggio Emilia and at 26 he was nominated “best Italian dancer of the year 1996” by the G. Tani Prize.
From 1991 to 2001 he danced for the Virgilio Sieni Danza Company.
Since 1999 he has created over 30 choreographies, receiving awards in Spain, Germany, Italy and Serbia, performing in numerous festivals and theaters such as Théâtre National de la Danse Chaillot Paris, Biennale de la Danse de Lyon, La Biennale di Venezia, Suzanne Dellal Tel Aviv, SIDance Seoul, Varna International Festival and many more.
His works have been co-produced by Théâtre National de la Danse Chaillot Paris, MUSEION – National Museum of Arts in Bolzano, Tanz Bozen Festival, Festival MILANoLTRE Milan, Fondazione Teatro Comunale di Vicenza.
In 2011, on the occasion of the presentation of the work “Un ricamo fatto sul nulla” at the Grand Theater of the National Academy of Dance in Rome, he received the “Medal of the President of the Republic for Italian choreographic talent”.
He invents a series of experimental programming formats, which will be invited by Italian Festivals and Theaters. The main ones are: “Piattaforma della Danza Balinese” (2014-2015) for the Santarcangelo Festival and “Circo Massimo” (2016-2017) for the Duse Theater in Bologna.
He collaborates with musicians and composers such as Mountains (USA), Teho Teardo (IT), Daniela Cattivelli (IT) and visual artists such as ZimmerFrei (IT), Lele Marcoianni (IT).
His outdoor project Le Stagioni Invisibili – Ciclo Coreografico Infinito 2018-2021, received the “PerChiCrea 2019” Production Award from Siae and Mibac – Italian Ministry of Culture and was shortlisted by the Big Pulse Dance Alliance as one of the best 8 European projects 2021 in its programme Open Air Commissions.
With the duo First Rose (Fabrizio Favale and Andrea Del Bianco), he also designs scenes, costumes and artifacts, which sometimes graft the choreographic works with an enigmatic figuration of strange beings, as hybrids of a kind of organic and inorganic world.
For the three-year period 22-24 Fabrizio Favale is nominated Italian Associate Artist of MILANoLTRE, Teatro Elfo-Puccini Milan.
lesupplici.it
INFO & TICKETS
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 price under 8: 3 euro
PURCHASING TICKETS
Tickets can be purchased online at www.biglietteriafonderia39.it.
The ticket office service at the Fonderia is open from 5.30 pm.
Tickets are not numbered.
CONTACTS
Tel +39 0522 273016
Mobile and whatsapp +39 334 1023554

Don Juan
2022-11-22 20:45 - 22:30 | Théâtre Olympia, 21 Avenue Charles de Gaulle, Arcachon, 33120, Francia
The fifth stop of the French tour is Arcachon, on the Atlantic coast.
At Théâtre Olympia 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

Don Juan
2022-11-25 19:30 - 21:15 | Teatro Principal Antzokia, San Prudencio Kalea, 29, Vitoria-Gasteiz, 01005, Spagna
In the framework of Festival Internacional de Teatro in Vitoria-Gasteiz, in Basque Country, 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

Don Juan
2022-11-27 19:30 - 21:00 | TEATRO BRETÓN, Bretón de los Herreros 11, Logroño, Spagna
Aterballetto is in Logroño, in Spain, with 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

Golden Days
2022-11-30 20:00 - 21:30, 2022-12-01 20:00 - 21:30 | 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

Golden Days
2022-12-01 20:00 - 21:30 | La Rampe, 15, avenue du 8 mai 1945, Échirolles, 38130, Francia
Aterballetto performs 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.
studioxlcontemporary.it
INFO & TICKETS
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.
The ticket office service in Fonderia is open from 5 pm.
Tickets are not numbered.
CONTACTS
Tel 0522273016
Cell and whatsapp 3341023554

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/
