Centro Coreografico Nazionale / Aterballetto

Over Dance
2023-02-23 19:30 - 20:30 (Europe/Rome) | 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

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

STRAVAGANZE IN SOL MINORE
2023-02-25 18:00 - 19:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
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: 6 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

Golden Days
2023-02-25 20:00 - 21:15 | La Maison, 2 Bd Pierre de Coubertin, Nevers, 58000, Francia
Aterballetto performs in Nevers, in Burgundy.
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

PROVE IN CORSO - 3ª EPISODE
2023-03-01 20:30 - 22:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
La nuova serie di FND/Aterballetto a cura di Nicolas Ballario.
Cosa c’è dietro a uno spettacolo di Aterballetto? Cosa succede nelle sale della Fonderia di Reggio Emilia?
Lo scoprirai con PROVE IN CORSO, nostra prima serie di quattro puntate a cura di Nicolas Ballario: uno dei più apprezzati giornalisti di arte contemporanea che grazie alla sua verve unica e alla sua straordinaria competenza avvicina proprio tutti al mondo dell’arte con le sue trasmissioni su Sky Arte e di RadioUnoRai.
Insieme a Ballario entrerai nel mondo della Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto. Tra incontri esilaranti, situazioni ironiche con chi vive ogni giorno la Fonderia e momenti danzati, in quattro puntate con la regia di Fabrizio Spucches, scopriremo le curiosità della compagnia e il dietro le quinte degli spettacoli, in un modo mai raccontato prima.
Partner dell’evento:

Grazie alla collaborazione con YOGI TEA, possiamo omaggiare il nostro pubblico di deliziosi tè e infusi, ispirati all’antica filosofia dell’Ayurveda, che mira al benessere di corpo e mente.
WHAT WILL YOU SEE?
In the third episode, scheduled for March 1, 8:30 p.m., come discover the magic of our MicroDanze, an ambitious project of “danced” performances created by twelve internationally renowned choreographers with the goal of establishing a dialogue between the viewer and the watched, soliciting an entirely original emotional experience.
The evening will be hosted by Nicolas Ballario who with Aterballetto dancers will talk about the meeting between dance and public space.
This will be followed by a screening of the third installment of PROVE IN CORSO and then finish with a talk with 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 the Fonderia runs from 7:30 pm.
Tickets are not numbered.
CONTACTS
Cell and whatsapp 3341023554
Email biglietteria@aterballetto.it

Over Dance
2023-03-02 20:00 - 21:00, 2023-03-03 20:00 - 21:00, 2023-03-04 19:00 - 20:00 | Pavillon Noir, 530 Avenue Mozart, Aix-en-Provence, Francia
Over Dance arrives in Aix-en-Provence, to the Pavillon Noir, home of Ballet Preljocaj.
The body transforming with the years is a central theme in our society, and in the sensibility 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 premiered on Feb. 15, 2023 in Paris.
Performances at Pavillon Noir (Aix-en-Provence):

Thursday 02.03 – 20h00
Friday 03.03 – 20h00
Saturday 04.03 – 19h00

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

MicroDanze / Brescia
2023-03-03 17:00 - 21:30, 2023-03-04 17:00 - 21:30, 2023-03-05 17:00 - 21:30 | BRESCIA, Brescia, BS, Italia
After Athens (Acropolis Museum, EMST Museum, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, Greek National Opera), Brussels (Les Halles de Schaerbeek) and Rome (Castel Sant’Angelo), the site-specific performance MicroDanze signed Fondazione Nazionale della Danza/Aterballetto arrives in Brescia, thanks to the project of Fondazione Brescia Musei and FND/Aterballetto, for a great event conceived for Brescia and declined in its civic museums, in the year of the Italian Capital of Culture 2023.
MicroDanze Capitale Italiana della Cultura 2023 Brescia/Performance di danza in percorsi urbani is an ambitious project of “danced” performances.
Styles and expressive worlds confront and mix in a single project addressing both art and performing arts audiences. It is a project that aims to explore the potential of dance as public art, grafted into an urban landscape; dance that creatively wanders between very different choreographers, creating radically new opportunities for encounters with the public and for comparison between significant European urban contexts.

WHERE AND WHEN
The performance will be showcased from 3 to 5 March.
You can choose between:
-Turn A: (17.00 – 18.30 – 20.00)
lasting h.1′ 15″
-Turn B: (17.30 – 19.00 – 20.30)
of a duration of h. 1′ 30″
Departure from Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo, Piazza Moretto 4 – Brescia
Tickets and reservations

Ticket: 15 euro
Purchasable online

Tel. 0302928609

Cell. 3760450269
biglietteria@centroteatralebresciano.it

EROIDE CONTEMPORANEA / EUFEMIA - OPEN REHEARSAL
2023-03-06 18:00 - 19:30 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Massimo Monticelli – Eroide Contemporanea
Giorgia Lolli – Eufemia, ph. Andrea Couceiro
OPEN REHEARSAL
Two young choreographers from Emilia-Romagna confront on stage a deromanticized present and a past with a nostalgic flavor.
Massimo Monticelli, an internationally known dancer and choreographer, drawing inspiration from Ovid’s collections of love epistles, rewrites one of them: his Eroide Contemporanea. The letter becomes an opportunity to pose a reflection on love, art and loneliness.
Giorgia Lolli, through collaboration with Sophie Claire Annen and Vittoria Caneva, creates Eufemia. On stage, a non-romantic vision of romance and a nostalgia for eras never lived meet.
With the patronage of

EROIDE CONTEMPORANEA
Choreography, text, dance: Massimo Monticelli
Music: C. Debussy, B. Bàrtok
Production: TIR dance
With the support of: ImPulsTanz, Vienna (AT), Santarcangelo Festival, Rete h(abita)t Bologna.
In his Heroides, Ovid imagines a collection of letters written by some of the most famous women of myth for their respective men who, for one reason or another, abandoned them. Massimo Monticelli wants here to compose a new eroid. Going through a fragment of life, a letter becomes an opportunity to pose a reflection on love, art and loneliness.
Acknowledgements:
Project selected for the ATLAS – create your dance trails program of the ImPulsTanz festival in Vienna, with dramaturgy support by Guy Cools and Angelique Wilkie.
Project selected for KRAAK, residency path of Santarcangelo Festival.

MASSIMO MONTICELLI
Massimo Monticelli is a dancer, choreographer and teacher from Bologna, and since 2023 he has been an associate artist of TIR Danza.
In recent years, Massimo has danced in works by international choreographers in several European countries, and since 2022 he has started a collaboration as performer with Italian choreographer Nicola Galli.
In the last two years Massimo has been able to present his work in contexts such as Gender Bender International Festival, Romaeuropa festival, in ImPulsTanz’s ATLAS artist review in Vienna (AT), Corte Ospitale, Thuner Tanzfest (CH).
Between 2021 and 2023 Massimo has been selected for the following opportunities: national call ERetici promoted by Arboreto and Corte Ospitale, Nuove Traiettorie XL promoted by Rete Anticorpi XL, ATLAS – create your dance trails, program within ImPulsTanz festival in Vienna, DNAppunti Coreografici 2022 as a finalist, and among the four winning artists of SupportER, support action promoted by Rete Anticorpi Emilia-Romagna.
In 2020 Massimo was a founding member of the Swiss company EREM dance, with which he worked as dramaturg and choreographic consultant.
He graduated with honors from Trinity Laban in London, received a Master’s degree in Performance from NSCD in Leeds, spent a period of study at the National Conservatory of Paris, while in parallel he earned a Bachelor of Arts and a Master’s degree in Theatre Disciplines from the University of Bologna.
EUFEMIA
By Giorgia Lolli
With Sophie Claire Annen, Vittoria Caneva, Giorgia Lolli
Production: Anghiari Dance Hub 2020
Winner project of the Abitante Call for Proposals – National Center for Dance Production Virgilio Sieni and Fondazione CR Firenze. With the support of SdFactory Laboratorio Creativo (Reggio Emilia) and blueFACTORY (Fribourg, CH).
Selected for the Young Author’s Dance Showcase – action of the Network Antibodies XL 2021.
–
Eufemia, from the Greek, she who speaks well, or she who is spoken of well, is a creation for three young women and a typewriter. On stage, a non-romantic vision of romance and a nostalgia for eras never lived meet. The performers, furnishing the rooms of a utopian world, construct between the abstract and the concrete a dimension in which everything becomes both subject and frame. They cultivate an “imperfectionism” devoid of approximations, which opens to new possible views and oversights.
Eufemia: celestial, moody, eloquent, intimate, sophisticated, light.
It is everything you decide it is.

Eufemia, Giorgia Lolli – ph. Andrea Couceiro
GIORGIA LOLLI
Giorgia Lolli (Reggio Emilia, 1996) graduated in Contemporary Dance from Zürich University of the Arts and moved to Israel, completing training with Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company. She has an active collaboration as a dancer in Finland for How the land lies by Bianca Hisse & Laura Cemin, selected for Aerowaves 2023. Giorgia is teaching Dance Well, movement research for Parkinson’s at Triennale Milano.
Her practice interweaves dramaturgical-choreographic research and community processes. Since 2020 she has been collaborating with Sophie Claire Annen and Vittoria Caneva: with Eufemia they are finalists in Direction Under 30 (Teatro Sociale di Gualtieri), selected by Network Anticorpi XL for the Young Author’s Dance Showcase 2021, and guests of Festivals in Switzerland, Portugal, Germany.
INFO & TICKETS
TICKETS
Full: 3 euro
Under 6: free
PURCHASING TICKETS
Tickets can be purchased online at www.biglietteriafonderia39.it.
Ticket service in the Fonderia is active from 5 pm.
Tickets are not numbered.
CONTACTS
Cell and whatsapp 3341023554
Email biglietteria@aterballetto.it

EROIDE CONTEMPORANEA / EUFEMIA
2023-03-08 20:30 - 22:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Massimo Monticelli – Eroide Contemporanea
Giorgia Lolli – Eufemia, ph. Andrea Couceiro
Two young choreographers from Emilia-Romagna confront on stage a deromanticized present and a past with a nostalgic flavor.
Massimo Monticelli, an internationally known dancer and choreographer, drawing inspiration from Ovid’s collections of love epistles, rewrites one of them: his Eroide Contemporanea. The letter becomes an opportunity to pose a reflection on love, art and loneliness.
Giorgia Lolli, through collaboration with Sophie Claire Annen and Vittoria Caneva, creates Eufemia. On stage, a non-romantic vision of romance and a nostalgia for eras never lived meet.
With the patronage of

EROIDE CONTEMPORANEA Choreography, text, dance: Massimo Monticelli
Music: C. Debussy, B. Bàrtok
Production: TIR dance
With the support of: ImPulsTanz, Vienna (AT), Santarcangelo Festival, Rete h(abita)t Bologna.
In his Heroides, Ovid imagines a collection of letters written by some of the most famous women of myth for their respective men who, for one reason or another, abandoned them. Massimo Monticelli wants here to compose a new eroid. Going through a fragment of life, a letter becomes an opportunity to pose a reflection on love, art and loneliness.
Acknowledgements:
Project selected for the ATLAS – create your dance trails program of the ImPulsTanz festival in Vienna, with dramaturgy support by Guy Cools and Angelique Wilkie.
Project selected for KRAAK, residency path of Santarcangelo Festival.

MASSIMO MONTICELLIMassimo Monticelli is a dancer, choreographer and teacher from Bologna, and since 2023 he has been an associate artist of TIR Danza.
In recent years, Massimo has danced in works by international choreographers in several European countries, and since 2022 he has started a collaboration as performer with Italian choreographer Nicola Galli.
In the last two years Massimo has been able to present his work in contexts such as Gender Bender International Festival, Romaeuropa festival, in ImPulsTanz’s ATLAS artist review in Vienna (AT), Corte Ospitale, Thuner Tanzfest (CH).
Between 2021 and 2023 Massimo has been selected for the following opportunities: national call ERetici promoted by Arboreto and Corte Ospitale, Nuove Traiettorie XL promoted by Rete Anticorpi XL, ATLAS – create your dance trails, program within ImPulsTanz festival in Vienna, DNAppunti Coreografici 2022 as a finalist, and among the four winning artists of SupportER, support action promoted by Rete Anticorpi Emilia-Romagna.
In 2020 Massimo was a founding member of the Swiss company EREM dance, with which he worked as dramaturg and choreographic consultant.
He graduated with honors from Trinity Laban in London, received a Master’s degree in Performance from NSCD in Leeds, spent a period of study at the National Conservatory of Paris, while in parallel he earned a Bachelor of Arts and a Master’s degree in Theatre Disciplines from the University of Bologna.EUFEMIABy Giorgia Lolli
With Sophie Claire Annen, Vittoria Caneva, Giorgia Lolli
Production: Anghiari Dance Hub 2020
Winner project of the Abitante Call for Proposals – National Center for Dance Production Virgilio Sieni and Fondazione CR Firenze. With the support of SdFactory Laboratorio Creativo (Reggio Emilia) and blueFACTORY (Fribourg, CH).
Selected for the Young Author’s Dance Showcase – action of the Network Antibodies XL 2021.
–
Eufemia, from the Greek, she who speaks well, or she who is spoken of well, is a creation for three young women and a typewriter. On stage, a non-romantic vision of romance and a nostalgia for eras never lived meet. The performers, furnishing the rooms of a utopian world, construct between the abstract and the concrete a dimension in which everything becomes both subject and frame. They cultivate an “imperfectionism” devoid of approximations, which opens to new possible views and oversights.
Euphemia: celestial, moody, eloquent, intimate, sophisticated, light.
It is everything you decide it is.

Eufemia, Giorgia Lolli – ph. Andrea Couceiro

GIORGIA LOLLI Giorgia Lolli (Reggio Emilia, 1996) graduated in Contemporary Dance from Zürich University of the Arts and moved to Israel, completing training with Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company. She has an active collaboration as a dancer in Finland for How the land lies by Bianca Hisse & Laura Cemin, selected for Aerowaves 2023. Giorgia is teaching Dance Well, movement research for Parkinson’s at Triennale Milano.
Her practice interweaves dramaturgical-choreographic research and community processes. Since 2020 she has been collaborating with Sophie Claire Annen and Vittoria Caneva: with Euphemia they are finalists in Direction Under 30 (Teatro Sociale di Gualtieri), selected by Network Anticorpi XL for the Young Author’s Dance Showcase 2021, and guests of Festivals in Switzerland, Portugal, Germany.INFO & TICKETSTICKETS
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

Over Dance
2023-03-12 16:00 - 17:00 | Arena del Sole, Via dell'Indipendenza, 44, Bologna, 40121, Italia
Over Dance is in Bologna, at Arena del Sole.
The body transforming with the years is a central theme in our society, and in the sensibility 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 premiered Feb. 15, 2023 in Paris.

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

Double Side
2023-03-14 20:00 - 21:30 | Theater Casino, Artherstrasse 4, Zug, 6300, Svizzera
In March Double Side starts its tour in Switzerland and Germany. first stop is Zug, in the central Switzerland
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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STORIE
2023-03-14 20:45 - 22:00 | Teatro Comunale, Via Cavour, 10, Russi, RA, 48026, Italia
Aterballetto dances Storie in Russi, near Ravenna.

Storie is a small anthology of danced fragments. They are only an infinitesimal part of the very rich artistic and human universe of the two choreographers Diego Tortelli and Philippe Kratz.
Tortelli creates two pieces: Preludio, opening the bill, is a love letter to the body for five dancers on Nick Cave music, Another story is a duo about the impossible gesture of 2020, the hug.
Between past and future the two creations by Kratz. The duo “O” offers us two human bodies / robots that force us to question ourselves on how the sense of physical contact might change: will it remain emotional and heartfelt, or will it become serial and alienated?
Alpha Grace, a creation for six dancers at the end of the bill, is a reflection on empathy, a form of gentle communication among people who feel on the same level. It too is severely stretched by the present times.

Double Side
2023-03-16 19:30 - 21:00 | Stadttheater Schaffhausen, Herrenacker 23, Schaffhausen, 8200, Svizzera
Schaffhausen is the second Swiss city to host 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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Storie
2023-03-16 21:00 - 22:30 | Teatro Magnani, Piazza Giuseppe Verdi, 1, Fidenza, PR, 43036, Italia
Aterballetto dances Storie in Fidenza, near Parma.

Storie is a small anthology of danced fragments. They are only an infinitesimal part of the very rich artistic and human universe of the two choreographers Diego Tortelli and Philippe Kratz.
Tortelli creates two pieces: Preludio, opening the bill, is a love letter to the body for five dancers on Nick Cave music, Another story is a duo about the impossible gesture of 2020, the hug.
Between past and future the two creations by Kratz. The duo “O” offers us two human bodies / robots that force us to question ourselves on how the sense of physical contact might change: will it remain emotional and heartfelt, or will it become serial and alienated?
Alpha Grace, a creation for six dancers at the end of the bill, is a reflection on empathy, a form of gentle communication among people who feel on the same level. It too is severely stretched by the present times.

Storie
2023-03-18 21:00 - 22:30 | Cinema Teatro Comunale, via Giuseppe Verdi 8/a, Bomporto, MO, 41030, Italia
Aterballetto dances Storie in Bomporto, near Modena.

Storie is a small anthology of danced fragments. They are only an infinitesimal part of the very rich artistic and human universe of the two choreographers Diego Tortelli and Philippe Kratz.
Tortelli creates two pieces: Preludio, opening the bill, is a love letter to the body for five dancers on Nick Cave music, Another story is a duo about the impossible gesture of 2020, the hug.
Between past and future the two creations by Kratz. The duo “O” offers us two human bodies / robots that force us to question ourselves on how the sense of physical contact might change: will it remain emotional and heartfelt, or will it become serial and alienated?
Alpha Grace, a creation for six dancers at the end of the bill, is a reflection on empathy, a form of gentle communication among people who feel on the same level. It too is severely stretched by the present times.

Double Side
2023-03-19 17:00 - 18:10 | Escher Theater, 122, rue de l’Alzette, Esch-sur-Alzette, L-4010, Lussemburgo
The Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto flies to Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg, and dances Double Side.
Baroque music and contemporary dance are combined in the new programme of the Italian Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto, which features two choreographers from Canada and Cuba who are little known in Italy, Danièle Desnoyers and Norge Cedeño Raffo. In close collaboration with the Fondazione Arturo Toscanini from Parma, its orchestral counterpart from Emilia-Romagna Region, the renowned company brings along a musical ensemble of singers and string players, dancing to a baroque suite and a “Stabat Mater” by Arvo Pärt.

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

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

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

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

Dancers Aterballetto Company
Quartetto Motus for La Toscanini: Giulia Soli, Agnese Rava violin, Dario Carrera viola, Margherita Curti cello
Soprano: Theodora Io Koutsothodoru
Countertenor: 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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Stravaganze in sol minore
2023-03-19 18:00 - 19:00, 2023-03-20 10:00 - 11:00 | TEATRO SPERIMENTALE, Via Redipuglia, 59, Ancona, AN, 60122, Italia
PREMIERE

/ 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 the basis of this new creation for boys and girls, boys and girls signed 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
Texts: 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
Production: Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto
In co-production with Centro Teatrale Bresciano, Centro Servizi Culturali Santa Chiara

Double Side
2023-03-22 19:30 - 20:40 | Stadttheater Aschaffenburg, Schloßgasse 8, Aschaffenburg, 63739, Germania
The Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto dances Double Side in Aschaffenburg, in Bavaria.
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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STORIE
2023-03-22 21:00 - 22:30, 2023-03-23 21:00 - 22:30 | Teatro Lauro Rossi, Piazza della Libertà, Macerata, 62100, Italia
Aterballetto performs Storie in Macerata.
Storie is a small anthology of danced fragments. They constitute only an infinitesimal part of the very rich artistic and human universe of the two choreographers Diego Tortelli and Philippe Kratz.
Tortelli creates two pieces: Preludio, opening the evening, is a love letter to the body for five dancers on the music of Nick Cave, Another story is a duet on the impossible gesture of 2020, the embrace. Between past and future are Kratz’s two creations. The “O” duo offers us two bodies/robots, forcing us to question how the meaning of physical contact might change: will it remain emotional and felt, or will it become serial and alienated?
Alpha Grace, a six-step in the evening’s conclusion, is a reflection on empathy, a form of gentle communication between people who feel on the same level. It too is challenged by the present times.

Double Side
2023-03-25 19:30 - 20:40 | Kurtheater, Parkstrasse 20, Baden, 5401, Svizzera
The Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto dances Double Side in Baden, Switzerland.
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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Storie
2023-03-28 21:00 - 22:15 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Aterballetto dances Storie at its own Fonderia.

Storie is a small anthology of danced fragments. They are only an infinitesimal part of the very rich artistic and human universe of the two choreographers Diego Tortelli and Philippe Kratz.
Tortelli creates two pieces: Preludio, opening the bill, is a love letter to the body for five dancers on Nick Cave music, Another story is a duo about the impossible gesture of 2020, the hug.
Between past and future the two creations by Kratz. The duo “O” offers us two human bodies / robots that force us to question ourselves on how the sense of physical contact might change: will it remain emotional and heartfelt, or will it become serial and alienated?
Alpha Grace, a creation for six dancers at the end of the bill, is a reflection on empathy, a form of gentle communication among people who feel on the same level. It too is severely stretched by the present times.

Double Side
2023-03-29 19:30 - 20:40 | Theater Gütersloh, Barkeystraße 15, Gütersloh, 33330, Germania
The Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto dances its new production Double Side in Gütersloh, Germany, on 29 and 30 March.
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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Double Side
2023-03-30 19:30 - 20:40 | Theater Gütersloh, Barkeystraße 15, Gütersloh, 33330, Germania
The Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto dances Double Side in Gütersloh, Germany, on 29th and 30th March.
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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