Centro Coreografico Nazionale / Aterballetto

Meeting Aterballetto
2023-01-19 18:00 - 19:00 (Europe/Rome) | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
OPEN REHEARSAL
After three years, Aterballetto reopens its rehearsals to the public.
Since the last open rehearsal in Fonderia – Feb. 12, 2020 – much has changed in the company. New dancers, new choreography and new projects that we look forward to introducing to you at this very open rehearsal.
Open rehearsals are unique moments when you can experience the backstage of a performance, dialogue with the artists and be surprised by the art of dance: an exclusive experience of entering the daily routine of the dancers and choreographers.
INFO & TICKETS
TICKETS
Full: 3 euro
Under 6: free
PURCHASING TICKETS
Tickets can be purchased online at www.biglietteriafonderia39.it.
The ticket service in Fonderia runs from 5:30 pm.
Tickets are not numbered.
CONTACTS
Cell and whatsapp 3341023554
Email biglietteria@aterballetto.it

DANCING BRUNO
2023-01-21 20:30 - 23:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Compagnia Sanpapié – Dancing Bruno – ph. Donato Aquaro
We open the new season at Fonderia, making just about everyone dance in an evening of about two and a half hours, where 12 artists including musicians, dancers, singers and actors, compete for the audience, challenging each other not to leave a single spectator sitting.
Dancing Bruno by the Milan-based company Sanpapié is a ride through popular dance between the early 1900s and the early 1970s, clinging to the saddle of the history of social and political changes that have transformed the way we experience spaces, relationships, roles and steps in common.
In Dancing Bruno, irony opens the door wide to encounter and experimentation. It is a participatory experience where audience and performer merge in the same game, creating a surreal space in which time is suspended.

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

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

INFO & TICKETS
TICKETS
Full price: 10 euro
Reduced under 30, dance schools, Liceo Coreutico Matilde di Canossa, over 65, members CRAL Municipality of Reggio Emilia: 6 euro
Reduced under 8: 3 euro
PURCHASING TICKETS
Tickets can be purchased online at www.biglietteriafonderia39.it.
Ticket service in Fonderia is active from 7:30 pm.
Tickets are not numbered.
CONTACTS
Cell and whatsapp 3341023554
Email biglietteria@aterballetto.it

Compagnia Sanpapié – Dancing Bruno – ph. Donato Aquaro

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

PROVE IN CORSO - I° PUNTATA
2023-01-24 20:30 - 22:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
The new FND/Aterballetto series curated by Nicolas Ballario.
What is behind an Aterballetto performance? What happens in the halls of the Fonderia in Reggio Emilia?
You’ll find out with PROVE IN CORSO, our first four-part series curated by Nicolas Ballario: one of the most highly regarded contemporary art journalists whose unique verve and extraordinary expertise bring just about everyone closer to the art world with his broadcasts on Sky Arte and RadioUnoRai.
Together with Ballario you will enter the world of the Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto. Between hilarious encounters, ironic situations with those who live the Fonderia every day and danced moments, in four episodes directed by Fabrizio Spucches, we will discover the curiosities of the company and the behind-the-scenes of the shows, in a way never told before.
What will you see?
In the first episode, scheduled for Tuesday, January 24, 9 p.m., you cannot help but be seduced by Johan Inger‘s Don Juan , choreography inspired by the Don Juan myth.
The evening will be hosted by Nicolas Ballario who will talk about what it was like to work on this series, along with Aterballetto dancers who will show some sequences from Don Juan.
This will be followed by a screening of the first installment of PROVE IN CORSO and then finish with a talk in the company of Ballario and Aterballetto.
Info & Tickets
TICKETS
Full: 3 euro
Under 6: free
PURCHASING TICKETS
Tickets can be purchased online at www.biglietteriafonderia39.it.
The ticket service in Fonderia runs from 7:30 pm.
Tickets are not numbered.
CONTACTS
Cell and whatsapp 3341023554
Email biglietteria@aterballetto.it

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

Don Juan
2023-01-31 20:30 - 22:00, 2023-02-01 20:30 - 22:00, 2023-02-02 20:30 - 22:00 | Teatro Sociale, Piazza Giuseppe Garibaldi 14, Rovigo, 45100, Italy
From 31st January to 2nd February at Centro Teatrale Bresciano Aterballetto dances Don Juan, the full evening production by Johan Inger.
The choreography comes from Inger’s desire to confront Don Juan, a paradigmatic myth that is both ancient and still contemporary. The original comedy by Tirso de Molina, Molière, Bertold Brecht and the play by Suzanne Lilar are just some of the sources of inspiration: Inger and playwright Gregor Acuña-Pohl consulted twenty-five different texts inspired by the character.
In the creation we find all the characters of the story, from Donna Elvira to Donna Anna to Zerlina and Masetto. Don Juan can be considered a Kammerspiel, with its ability to emphasise nuances and emotions: and in the case of this creation, dance becomes a magnifying glass for the individual characters, subtly but clearly revealing the inner world of the men and women on stage.
Danza&Danza Award ‘Best Production’ 2020

C'è vita su Venere
2023-02-01 19:00 - 20:00, 2023-02-01 21:00 - 22:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
C’è vita su Venere – Abbondanza/Bertoni Company – ph. Tobia Abbondanza
Compagnia Abbondanza/Bertoni, one of the most prolific companies on the Italian scene for its creations and for the diffusion of contemporary dance theater, presents a show that sees the return on stage of Antonella Bertoni.
C’è vita su Venere is a solo that investigates the diversity of the body, particularly the female body and its evolution with age and time. A journey on Venus, where gravity is dense, where in its slow going the body will reveal itself in a final metamorphosis.
Two perfomances: at 7.00 p.m and 9.00 p.m

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

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

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

Don Juan
2023-02-01 20:30 - 22:00, 2023-02-02 20:30 - 22:00 | Teatro Sociale, Piazza Giuseppe Garibaldi 14, Rovigo, 45100, Italy
From 31st January to 2nd February at Centro Teatrale Bresciano Aterballetto performs Don Juan, the full evening production by Johan Inger.
The choreography comes from Inger’s desire to confront Don Juan, a paradigmatic myth that is both ancient and still contemporary. The original comedy by Tirso de Molina, Molière, Bertold Brecht and the play by Suzanne Lilar are just some of the sources of inspiration: Inger and playwright Gregor Acuña-Pohl consulted twenty-five different texts inspired by the character.
In the creation we find all the characters of the story, from Donna Elvira to Donna Anna to Zerlina and Masetto. Don Juan can be considered a Kammerspiel, with its ability to emphasise nuances and emotions: and in the case of this creation, dance becomes a magnifying glass for the individual characters, subtly but clearly revealing the inner world of the men and women on stage.
Danza&Danza Award ‘Best Production’ 2020

Don Juan
2023-02-05 18:00 - 19:30 | Palais des Festivals et des Congrès, La Croisette CS 30051, Cannes, 06414, Francia
Aterballetto is in the wonderful Cannes and dances Don Juan, the full evening production by Johan Inger.
The choreography comes from Inger’s desire to confront Don Juan, a paradigmatic myth that is both ancient and still contemporary. The original comedy by Tirso de Molina, Molière, Bertold Brecht and the play by Suzanne Lilar are just some of the sources of inspiration: Inger and playwright Gregor Acuña-Pohl consulted twenty-five different texts inspired by the character.
In the creation we find all the characters of the story, from Donna Elvira to Donna Anna to Zerlina and Masetto. Don Juan can be considered a Kammerspiel, with its ability to emphasise nuances and emotions: and in the case of this creation, dance becomes a magnifying glass for the individual characters, subtly but clearly revealing the inner world of the men and women on stage.
Danza&Danza Award ‘Best Production’ 2020

MEMENTO - OPEN REHEARSAL
2023-02-07 18:00 - 19:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Memento – Cornelia Dance Company – ph. Sabrina Cirillo
OPEN REHEARSAL
Memento is a dance piece that is based on the non-event. Just as in the Beckettian masterpiece, Waiting for Godot, the tension is created by the succession of hopes that find no concrete outlet, so likewise, in life, every moment is waiting for something definitive that then, when we think we have obtained it, we always discover to be fragmented and subjective.
Within the choreography, the performers experience this waiting and, in their search for a definitive answer, divine or otherwise, to their existential condition, they seek solace from each other, challenge each other, or, like a chorus, all tend toward the same point.
In the end, the very goal of their journey will be realized in the remembrance (memento means, precisely, “remembered”) of these relationships and the sensations they have felt, making it a ritual moment, a sacred, and therefore eternal, act.

CREDITS
Choreography Nyko Piscopo
Music Arvo Pärt
Costume Design Rosario Martone
Dramaturgy Ciro Ciancio
Set Design Paola Castrignanò
Lights Camilla Piccioni
Dancers Nicolas Grimaldi Capitello, Eleonora Greco, Leopoldo Guadagno, Francesco Russo
Technical Manager Giuseppe Ferrigno
Management Vittorio Stasi
Video Andrea De Simone
Photos Sabrina Cirillo
Production Cornelia
Support Caleidoscopio, Teatro Eduardo de Filippo
In collaboration with: AMAT MARCHE, Compagnia Zappalà Danza – SCENARIO PUBBLICO.
CONCEPT
Innovative, out-of-the-box and label-free, “Memento” is a celebration of the self in all its forms and rests its foundation on gender equality. Performers are asked to renounce the inherent characteristics associated with their gender or stereotypes about it. The gaze becomes fixed, facial expressions limited, however, they are also given the opportunity to express, in a fluid manner and according to stage sensibility, the emotionality perceived at that particular moment. Nothing has to start from an idea, but from an internal impulse: in this way the body does not drag behind a stereotyped gesturality, and the choreographic dynamics are built free of all patterns, so that the man can be lifted up by the woman, if the inner need of the couple on stage requires it, reversing (or following) the canons without preconceived barriers.

The succession of tension and apparent calm involves every aspect of the staging. The lights rest on the performers like spots that suddenly appear and, just as suddenly, vanish, conveying the anxiety and agony felt by the play’s protagonists. The atmosphere of unease tends to be amplified by an eternal return to choreographic stillness, stillness that is, however, constantly challenged, not only by the progression of light and darkness, but also by the scenographic dynamics that, by evoking those places that seem suspended between the earthly and the otherworldly like the monolithic complex of Stonehenge, increases the sense of uncertainty and inner disequilibrium. The musical score also contributes to this effect of constant suspension and restart. While, through moments of lightness and irony, the anguish seems to be successfully concealed, Arvo Pärt’s music reinforces the emotionality, denying both dancers and spectators to remain indifferent to the feelings that transpire from the work.
CORNELIA
Cornelia is a dance company founded in 2019 in Naples by Nyko Piscopo, Nicolas Grimaldi Capitello, Eleonora Greco, Leopoldo Guadagno and Francesco Russo.
Key word of Cornelia‘s artistic manifesto is INNOVATION, which manifests itself both by carrying out projects where different languages coexist and through the reinterpretation in a modern key of some classics of dance and literature. Consequently, the themes addressed by the company are those of contemporaneity. They include, in fact, the “instances” of the new generations, such as the battles for self-determination of one’s body and for the affirmation of one’s sexuality, but also investigating the new possibilities of connection given by the social revolution.
In addition to the founders, Cornelia relies on numerous external collaborators who share the same philosophy as the group. The ‘company’s activity is widespread both in Italy and abroad: artistic productions are presented in various Italian theaters (Teatro delle Muse in Ancona, Teatro Bellini in Naples, Teatro Comunale in Vicenza, Teatro Carignano in Turin) and participate in the most important dance and video dance festivals, both national (Venice Biennale 2020, Campania Teatro Festival 2021 and many others) and international (Filmpride in Brighton, Choreoscope in Barcelona), as well as projects streamed in New York, London, Belgrade, Sweden, Iran.
Active not only in dance at the production level, the company is also involved in collaborating in the organization of national events such as MOVI|MENTALE and Cilentart Fest and in training with free initiatives for local dancers such as Wake Up! Training.
It has achieved an important recognition from the Ministry of Culture, being included in the list of dance companies funded by the FUS.
https://www.corneliaperformingarts.com/
INFO & TICKETS
TICKETS
Full: 3 euro
Under 6: free
PURCHASING TICKETS
Tickets can be purchased online at www.biglietteriafonderia39.it.
The ticket service in Fonderia runs from 5:30 pm.
Tickets are not numbered.
CONTACTS
Cell and whatsapp 3341023554
Email biglietteria@aterballetto.it

MEMENTO
2023-02-07 20:30 - 21:30 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Memento – Cornelia Dance Company – ph. Sabrina Cirillo
Memento is a dance piece that is based on the non-event. Just as in the Beckettian masterpiece, Waiting for Godot, the tension is created by the succession of hopes that find no concrete outlet, so likewise, in life, every moment is waiting for something definitive that then, when we think we have obtained it, we always discover to be fragmented and subjective.
Within the choreography, the performers experience this waiting and, in their search for a definitive answer, divine or otherwise, to their existential condition, they seek solace from each other, challenge each other, or, like a chorus, all tend toward the same point.
In the end, the very goal of their journey will be realized in the remembrance (memento means, precisely, “remembered”) of these relationships and the sensations they have felt, making it a ritual moment, a sacred, and therefore eternal, act.

CREDITS
Choreography Nyko Piscopo
Music Arvo Pärt
Costumes Rosario Martone
Dramaturgy Ciro Ciancio
Set Design Paola Castrignanò
Lights Camilla Piccioni
Dancers Nicolas Grimaldi Capitello, Eleonora Greco, Leopoldo Guadagno, Francesco Russo
Technical Manager Giuseppe Ferrigno
Management Vittorio Stasi
Video Andrea De Simone
Photos Sabrina Cirillo
Production Cornelia
Support Caleidoscopio, Teatro Eduardo de Filippo
In collaboration with: AMAT MARCHE, Compagnia Zappalà Danza – SCENARIO PUBBLICO.
CONCEPT
Innovative, out-of-the-box and label-free, “Memento” is a celebration of the self in all its forms and rests its foundation on gender equality. Performers are asked to renounce the inherent characteristics associated with their gender or stereotypes about it. The gaze becomes fixed, facial expressions limited, however, they are also given the opportunity to express, in a fluid manner and according to stage sensibility, the emotionality perceived at that particular moment. Nothing has to start from an idea, but from an internal impulse: in this way the body does not drag behind a stereotyped gesturality, and the choreographic dynamics are built free of all patterns, so that the man can be lifted up by the woman, if the inner need of the couple on stage requires it, reversing (or following) the canons without preconceived barriers.

The succession of tension and apparent calm involves every aspect of the staging. The lights rest on the performers like spots that suddenly appear and, just as suddenly, vanish, conveying the anxiety and agony felt by the play’s protagonists. The atmosphere of unease tends to be amplified by an eternal return to choreographic stillness, stillness that is, however, constantly challenged, not only by the progression of light and darkness, but also by the scenographic dynamics that, by evoking those places that seem suspended between the earthly and the otherworldly like the monolithic complex of Stonehenge, increases the sense of uncertainty and inner disequilibrium. The musical score also contributes to this effect of constant suspension and restart. While, through moments of lightness and irony, the anguish seems to be successfully concealed, Arvo Pärt’s music reinforces the emotionality, denying both dancers and spectators to remain indifferent to the feelings that transpire from the work.
CORNELIA
Cornelia is a dance company founded in 2019 in Naples by Nyko Piscopo, Nicolas Grimaldi Capitello, Eleonora Greco, Leopoldo Guadagno and Francesco Russo.
Key word of Cornelia‘s artistic manifesto is INNOVATION, which manifests itself both by carrying out projects where different languages coexist and through the reinterpretation in a modern key of some classics of dance and literature. Consequently, the themes addressed by the company are those of contemporaneity. They include, in fact, the “instances” of the new generations, such as the battles for self-determination of one’s body and for the affirmation of one’s sexuality, but also investigating the new possibilities of connection given by the social revolution.
In addition to the founders, Cornelia relies on numerous external collaborators who share the same philosophy as the group. The ‘company’s activity is widespread both in Italy and abroad: artistic productions are presented in various Italian theaters (Teatro delle Muse in Ancona, Teatro Bellini in Naples, Teatro Comunale in Vicenza, Teatro Carignano in Turin) and participate in the most important dance and video dance festivals, both national (Venice Biennale 2020, Campania Teatro Festival 2021 and many others) and international (Filmpride in Brighton, Choreoscope in Barcelona), as well as projects streamed in New York, London, Belgrade, Sweden, Iran.
Active not only in dance at the production level, the company is also involved in collaborating in the organization of national events such as MOVI|MENTALE and Cilentart Fest and in training with free initiatives for local dancers such as Wake Up! Training.
It has achieved an important recognition from the Ministry of Culture, being included in the list of dance companies funded by the FUS.
https://www.corneliaperformingarts.com/
INFO & TICKETS
TICKETS
Full price: 10 euro
Reduced under 30, dance schools, Liceo Coreutico Matilde di Canossa, over 65, members CRAL Municipality of Reggio Emilia: 6 euro
Reduced under 8: 3 euro
PURCHASING TICKETS
Tickets can be purchased online at www.biglietteriafonderia39.it.
Ticket service in Fonderia is active from 7:30 pm.
Tickets are not numbered.
CONTACTS
Cell and whatsapp 3341023554
Email biglietteria@aterballetto.it

ALI
2023-02-11 17:30 - 18:30, 2023-02-12 17:30 - 18:30 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Ali – La Ribalta – ph. Andreas Marini
Ali, from texts by Antonio Viganò, Remo Rostagno and Gian Luigi Gherzi, is a creation that stages the encounter between a young man and an angel to tell of confronting identities, mutually unveiled dimensions, impossible challenge between the human and the celestial. The two young performers of the La Ribalta – Kunst der Vielfalt company, Jason De Majo and Michael Untertrifaller, bring to the stage a spectrum of brutal and at the same time tender sensations, capable of creating an infinite range of expressive coloring.
Two perfomances:
Saturday, February 11, 5:30 p.m.
Sunday, February 12, 5:30 p.m.

CREDITS
Text by Gianluigi Gherzi, Remo Rostagno, Antonio Viganò
Directed by Antonio Viganò
Choreography by Julie Anne Stanzak (Tanztheater Wuppertal)
Production direction Paola Guerra
With Michael Untertrifaller and Jason De Majo
Inspired by the 1993 show ALI, a co-production Le Grand Bleu and Teatro La Ribalta
(PremioETIstregagatto 1995).
A production Teatro La Ribalta-Kunst der Vielfalt – Lebenshilfe Südtirol
A tribute to Joseph Scicluna
CONCEPT
Ali is the story of an encounter between an ordinary young man, somewhat disillusioned and pessimistic, and an individual with two red wounds on his shoulders, a fallen angel who is willing to suffer and love as all human beings do. The creature, descended from heaven through a light pole, asks, questions, wants to understand the why of everything. It is as curious and naive as a child.
A web of mutual questioning, curiosity, and conflict is established between the two, causing the angel to discover feelings and sensations he has never experienced before.
The angel and the man meet, clash, struggle, recognize each other, grapple and brush against each other in a dance of life until death. Uncovering memories buried under piles of stones, the angel lays bare man’s life, his sorrows and joys.
Why do you touch where it hurts? Man asks.

The struggle between the two becomes as hard as a game. A cruel and poetic game in which man discovers his uniqueness, his being a unique and unrepeatable “story,” while the angel will have to choose between being everything and nothing or a precise, earthly identity by giving up his divine dimension.
I have no stories
It is not possible. Everyone has one! Everybody!
No, I don’t have stories…no, no. I have one. Just one. This one. (Opens a suitcase of feathers).
And this is your story?
It is my story: sky, air, flying….
I would like to be like you: one suitcase, light. I would like to be like you.
We have illustrious masters to guide us: Rilke with his “Elegie Duinesi”, Peter Handke and Wim Wenders with “Heaven Above Berlin”, Wallace Stevens’ “The Necessary Angel”, James Stephens’ “Semidei”, and Walter Benjamin’s “Angelus Novus”.

TEATRO LA RIBALTA
Teatro La Ribalta – Kunst der Vielfalt is a community of dancers and actors-versus-actors who want to develop their own legitimate strangeness. Live performance workers who are extraordinary solely and uniquely in their way of being on stage and for the professionalism they have chosen to practice.
Daily, doggedly, they work to seek and unveil ” beauty ” and try to give it back, to those who meet them, through poetry and the art of theater. Men and women who like the idea that the boundary between reality and fiction is penetrable, that fantasies and desires can become material, that work subjects and practices become opportunities to live and dream, that a person in difficulty can become the protagonist of his or her own life, when he or she crosses boundaries, changes the everyday, navigates unexplored waters, reconstructs identities. They bring to the theater a mystery, a personal poetics, the shadows and wounds that nourish art and life. They are aware that only through quality artistic practice and a deep work ethic can they defeat prejudices, change paradigms, make people think and move. That is why their theater is a political act.
The company, founded in Bolzano in 2011, has a repertoire of shows (The Sound of Falling, Characters, Nobody Knows About Us, The Dance, H+G, Wings, Superable, Othello Circus, A Peep Show for Cinderella, Paradise Lost) that are touring Italy and Europe and contributing a new look and artistic depth to social art theater.
Winner of the 2015 and 2018 Eolo Award for the shows “H+G” and “Superabile” as the best new productions of the year in the childhood and youth theater sector; the 2015 Critic’s Award promoted by the National Association of Theater Critics as well as the 2018 UBU Special Award “for the quality of artistic, creative and political research in often marginal areas and with capillary attention to diversity ” and Hystrio Award – Other Muses 2021 “for making theater practice an instrument of social inclusion at 360 degrees.”
INFO & TICKETS
TICKETS
Full price: 10 euro
Reduced under 30, dance schools, Liceo Coreutico Matilde di Canossa, over 65, members CRAL Municipality of Reggio Emilia: 6 euro
Reduced under 8: 3 euro
PURCHASING TICKETS
Tickets can be purchased online at www.biglietteriafonderia39.it.
Ticket service in Fonderia is active from 4:30 pm.
Tickets are not numbered.
CONTACTS
Cell and whatsapp 3341023554
Email biglietteria@aterballetto.it

Double Side
2023-02-11 18:00 - 19:30, 2023-02-12 17:00 - 18:30 | Teatro Morlacchi, Piazza Francesco Morlacchi, 13, Perugia, 06123, Italia
Double Side is at Teatro Morlacchi in Perugia, on 11th and 12th February.
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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Double Side
2023-02-12 17:00 - 18:30 | Teatro Morlacchi, Piazza Francesco Morlacchi, 13, Perugia, 06123, Italia
Double Side is at Teatro Morlacchi in Perugia, on 11th and 12th February.
Baroque music and contemporary dance are combined in the new programme of the Italian Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto, which features two choreographers from Canada and Cuba who are little known in Italy, Danièle Desnoyers and Norge Cedeño Raffo. In close collaboration with the Fondazione Arturo Toscanini from Parma, its orchestral counterpart from Emilia-Romagna Region, the renowned company brings along a musical ensemble of singers and string players, dancing to a baroque suite and a “Stabat Mater” by Arvo Pärt.

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

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

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

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

Dancers Aterballetto Company
Quartetto Motus for La Toscanini: Giulia Soli, Agnese Rava violin, Dario Carrera viola, Margherita Curti cello
Soprano: Theodora Io Koutsothodoru
Countertenor: Niccolò Balducci
Tenor: Kim Bowoo
Musical coaching: Antonio De Lorenzi
Docufilm Stabat Mater - Danzare oltre i confini
Norge Cedeño Raffo’s creation Stabat Mater inspired Rai5 to make the docufilm Stabat Mater – Danzare oltre i confini (Dancing Beyond Borders).
The docufilm closely reports the artistic and human experience of the young talented choreographer, for the first time in Italy, and shows his creative process, in the setting of the Teatro Asioli in Correggio, a small Italian-style theatre immersed in the Po Valley, one of the most fascinating and evocative.
The filming of the docufilm (directed by Alessandro D’Onghia) began on 29 January 2021 (the choreographer’s first day of work with the three dancers) and ended on 6 March 2021 (the day of the closed-door preview at the Teatro Asioli in Correggio, with musicians and singers from the Istituto Superiore di Studi Musicali Achille Peri in Reggio Emilia). The airing of the docufilm on Rai5 was on 29 April 2021, on the occasion of the International Day of Dance.
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Over Dance
2023-02-15 20:30 - 21:30, 2023-02-16 19:30 - 20:30, 2023-02-17 20:30 - 21:30, 2023-02-18 17:00 - 18:00, 2023-02-21 20:30 - 21:30, 2023-02-22 20:30 - 21:30, 2023-02-23 19:30 - 20:30 | Théâtre de Chaillot, 1 Place du Trocadéro et du 11 Novembre, Paris, 75016, Francia
PREMIERE
The body changing with the years is a central theme in our society, and in the sensibilities of each of us. Aging is not a problem for the actor, writer or visual artist: For those who dance, however? What is the true age of the body?
In a new creation for the Fondazione Nazionale della Danza/Aterballetto, the two renowned choreographers Angelin Preljocaj and Rachid Ouramdane address the theme of the transformation of the body with an evening with senior performers (ages 65 to 79) that premieres on Feb. 15, 2023 in Paris.
Performances at Chaillot – Théâtre national de la Danse (Paris):

Wednesday 15.02 – 20h30
Thursday 16.02 – 19h30
Friday 17.02 – 20h30
Saturday 18.02 – 17h00
Tuesday 21.02 – 20h30
Wednesday 22.02 – 20h30
Thursday 23.02 – 19h30

Learn more about the project

OVER DANCE (working title) is a co-production of Fondazione Nazionale della Danza/Aterballetto with Ballet Preljocaj (Aix-en-Provence), Chaillot – Théâtre national de la Danse (Paris), ERT/Teatro Nazionale (Modena), Fondazione I Teatri (Reggio Emilia), Centro Servizi Culturali Santa Chiara (Trento).
Supporter and scientific partner: Ravasi Garzanti Foundation (Milan)
In partnership with Comune di Reggio Emilia and Farmacie Comunali Riunite

PROVE IN CORSO – 2ª EPISODE
2023-02-16 20:30 - 22:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
The new FND/Aterballetto series curated by Nicolas Ballario.
What is behind an Aterballetto performance? What happens in the halls of the Fonderia in Reggio Emilia?
You’ll find out with PROVE IN CORSO, our first four-part series curated by Nicolas Ballario: one of the most highly regarded contemporary art journalists whose unique verve and extraordinary expertise bring just about everyone closer to the art world with his broadcasts on Sky Arte and RadioUnoRai.
Together with Ballario you will enter the world of the National Dance Foundation / Aterballetto. Between hilarious encounters, ironic situations with those who live the Fonderia every day and danced moments, in four episodes directed by Fabrizio Spucches, we will discover the curiosities of the company and the behind-the-scenes of the shows, in a way never told before.
Event partner:

Thanks to our collaboration with YOGI TEA, we can treat our audience to delicious teas and infusions, inspired by the ancient philosophy of Ayurveda, which aims at the well-being of body and mind.
WHAT WILL YOU SEE?
In the second episode, scheduled for Thursday, Feb. 16, 8:30 p.m., we present Storie, a small anthology of danced fragments, part of the immense artistic and human universe of choreographers Diego Tortelli and Philippe Kratz.
Together with the dancers of Aterballetto we will discover the curiosities of the four choreographies that make up the evening.
This will be followed by a screening of the second installment of PROVE IN CORSO.
INFO & TICKETS
TICKETS
Full: 3 euro
Under 6: free
PURCHASING TICKETS
Tickets can be purchased online at www.biglietteriafonderia39.it.
The ticket service in the Foundry runs from 7:30 pm.
Tickets are not numbered.
CONTACTS
Cell and whatsapp 3341023554
Email biglietteria@aterballetto.it

ALPHA GRACE – OPEN REHEARSAL
2023-02-20 18:00 - 19:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
OPEN REHEARSAL
Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto gives the opportunity to enter the daily routine of dancers and choreographers. Open rehearsals are unique moments when you can experience the backstage of a performance, dialogue with the artists and surprise yourself with the art of dance.
For the second open rehearsal of this season, Aterballetto presents Philippe Kratz’s Alpha Grace to the audience.
INFO & TICKETS
TICKETS
Full: 3 euro
Under 6: free
PURCHASING TICKETS
Tickets can be purchased online at www.biglietteriafonderia39.it.
Ticket service in Fonderia is active from 5 pm.
Tickets are not numbered.
CONTACTS
Cell and whatsapp 3341023554
Email biglietteria@aterballetto.it

Stravaganze in sol minore - Open rehearsal
2023-02-24 18:00 - 19:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
OPEN REHEARSAL
PREVIEW

/ New performance for families with a dancer and a singer /
The magical virtuosity of Toti Scialoja (1914-1998), a master not only of images but also of words, is at the heart of this new creation for children, boys and girls by the Fondazione Nazionale della Danza/Aterballetto.
The almost magical vibrations that spring from Scialoja’s poems are like the infinite rings that are created at the surface of the water when a stone is thrown: evocative of unreal or hyperreal images, bearers of a musicality that mixes poetry and nursery rhyme, they make the extraordinary and the frightening go hand in hand.
Sotto un cespo di rose scarlatte
Offre il rospo tè caldo con latte.
Sotto un cespo di rose paonazze
Tocca al rospo sciacquare le tazze.
(Toti Scialoja, La mela di Amleto, 1984)
CREDITS
Direction and choreography: Francesca Lattuada
Lyrics: Toti Scialoja (from La mela di Amleto)
Music: The Klezmorin, Gustav Mahler, Dean Martin, Clara Rockmore
Masks and props: Natali Fortier
Performers: Vittoria Franchina, Piersilvio De Santis
Co-production: Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto e Centro Teatrale Bresciano
In co-production with Centro Servizi Culturali Santa Chiara
INFO & TICKETS
TICKETS
Full: 3 euro
PURCHASING TICKETS
You can buy tickets online on www.biglietteriafonderia39.it.
The box office is open from 16.30.
The tickets are not numbered.
CONTACTS
Cell and whatsapp 3341023554
Email biglietteria@aterballetto.it
