COL TEMPO - AMBRA SENATORE
2024-03-13 20:30 - 21:30 (Europe/Rome) | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Ambra Senatore loves to surprise and mischievously lead the audience along paths, true or false, with which she plays and makes fun of the spectator. As always in her choreographies, characters take shape, situations and stories develop. Unexpected discrepancies, absurdity, and distraction from reality are the main ingredients of her choreographies. Ambra Senatore wants to create amazement, she sets out to provoke laughter. A keen observer of the human world, she is always attentive, being different is her second nature and she gives precise meaning to her dance. That’s why she often breaks the fourth wall, becoming a confidant of the spectators, playing with them and engaging them. Ten years after her first group choreography entitled Passo, Ambra Senatore dedicates herself to a new creation with the complicity of the performers from that time. She now brings together this group of dancers, now well-seasoned after ten years of working together, to create a generous and open dance towards the other; a pas de quatre on being a group, questioning existence and desiring happiness.

CREDITS
Coreography Ambra Senatore with the participation of the performers
Interpretation Caterina Basso, Claudia Catarzi, Matteo Ceccarelli, Ambra Senatore
Original Music Jonathan SeilmanLighting Fausto BonviniDuration 1hProduction CNN de Nantes
Co-production Théâtre de La Ville (Paris), Torinodanza Festival/Teatro Stabile – Teatro Nazionale Torino
CHOREOGRAPHY
“We started rehearsals at the end of January 2020, and one of the basic reasons was reflection on the creative act in the historical, political, and social context: a reflection also inspired by interesting encounters with scientists and philosophers with different views on the world and the present, realized through the project Conversation, dialogue ouvert avec la danse. Being a small community part of a much larger community, we wondered what our desires were and how to achieve them together. Some of them can be realized on stage. And the others? Not always finding the answers, we meanwhile played with the questions. Shortly after the start of rehearsals, time stopped for everyone. For a long time, compressing. Rehearsal weeks were cut in half. The desires and questions no longer had anything to do with the unexpected experience of the last few months. At the time I write these lines, the show does not yet exist. It will exist thanks to the encounter with the spectators. Creating a show is like traveling: you prepare, you rehearse, but there are always many surprises and unexpected events. We are at the beginning of the journey and I do not know exactly what form it will take. Certainly, the desire to dance and feel good together is present from the beginning, with the hope that it will be possible on a large scale.”Ambra Senatore
AMBRA SENATORE
AMBRA SENATORE

Ambra Senatore, choreographer and performer, director of the Centre Chorégraphique National de Nantes. Ambra Senatore’s dance is close to human beings and loves to go out and meet people and places. The choreographer creates works that speak of collectivity and create bonds between people. Relationships are at the heart of all her research. In her work, everyday life is “observed under a magnifying glass,” shifted and turned upside down. A lover of surprises, cuts, and repetitions reminiscent of cinema, Ambra Senatore recomposes reality like a film director. In Italy, she trained with R. Castello and R. Giordano, with whom she soon collaborated. As a performer, she has worked with J. C. Gallotta, G. Rossi, G. Lavaudant, and A. Tagliarini. In the early 2000s, she created pieces in collaboration while completing a doctorate in contemporary dance. In 2004, she began writing choreographies with solos, which she performed until 2009, and then with group pieces, asserting her hybrid style that combines dance, theater, and profound humanity. As director of the CCN in Nantes since 2016, Ambra Senatore promotes a generous and curious style of dance (site-specific creations in public parks, markets, schools, museums, heritage sites, train stations, etc.), which she considers a means of sharing and knowing oneself and others.
INFO & TICKETS
TICKETSFull price: 10 euros
TICKET PURCHASE
Tickets can be purchased online at www.biglietteriafonderia39.it.
The ticket office service at Fonderia is available from 5:00 PM.
Tickets are not numbered.
CONTACTS
Cell and WhatsApp: 3341023554
Email: biglietteria@aterballetto.it

Un jour nouveau | Birthday Party
2024-03-14 20:30 - 21:30, 2024-03-15 20:30 - 21:30, 2024-03-16 18:00 - 19:00 (Europe/Rome) | Teatro Sociale, Via Felice Cavallotti, 20, Brescia
The artistic heart of the Over Dance project arrives on the stage of the Teatro Sociale di Trento.
The two renowned choreographers Rachid Ouramdane and Angelin Preljocaj sign respectively Un Jour nouveau and span style=”color: #d40000;”>Birthday Party and address the theme of the transformation of the body with an evening of senior performers (aged 65 to 79).
The body transforming with the years is a central theme in our society, and in the sensitivity of each of us. Ageing is not a problem for the actor, writer or visual artist: for those who dance, however? What is the real age of the body?
Four performances:
Thu 14.03 h 20.30
Fri 15.03 h 20.30
Sat 16.03 h 18.00
Sun 17.03 h 16.00
Discover more about the project

The evening 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 Municipality of Reggio Emilia and Farmacie Comunali Riunite
with the support of Nuovi Mecenati – Fondazione franco-italiana di sostegno alla creazione contemporanea and Institut français

Un jour nouveau | Birthday Party
2024-03-17 16:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Rome) | Teatro Sociale, Via Felice Cavallotti, 20, Brescia
The artistic heart of the Over Dance project arrives on the stage of the Teatro Sociale di Trento.
The two renowned choreographers Rachid Ouramdane and Angelin Preljocaj sign respectively Un Jour nouveau and Birthday Party and address the theme of the transformation of the body with an evening of senior performers (aged 65 to 79).
The body transforming with the years is a central theme in our society, and in the sensitivity of each of us. Ageing is not a problem for the actor, writer or visual artist: for those who dance, however? What is the real age of the body?
Four performances:
Thu 14.03 h 20.30
Fri 15.03 h 20.30
Sat 16.03 h 18.00
Sun 17.03 h 16.00
Discover more about the project

The evening 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 Municipality of Reggio Emilia and Farmacie Comunali Riunite
with the support of Nuovi Mecenati – Fondazione franco-italiana di sostegno alla creazione contemporanea and Institut français

Stravaganze in sol minore
2024-03-19 10:00 - 11:00, 2024-03-20 10:00 - 11:00 (Europe/Rome) | Teatro delle Briciole, Parco Ducale 1, Parma, PR, 43125, Italia
FND/Aterballetto-Stravaganze in sol minore
Stravaganze in sol minore by Francesca Lattuada is at Teatro Mina Mezzadri in Brescia.
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, young boys and girls signed by the Fondazione Nazionale della Danza/Aterballetto. The protagonists are dancer Vittoria Franchina and baritone Piersilvio De Santis.
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 together.
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 objects: Natali Fortier
Performer: Vittoria Franchina, Piersilvio De Santis
Coproduction: Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto and Centro Teatrale Bresciano
In coproduction with Centro Servizi Culturali Santa Chiara

ONDE - SIMONA BERTOZZI/NEXUS
2024-03-20 20:30 - 21:30 (Europe/Rome) | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Affidata all’impeto energetico e all’orizzonte visionario di giovani presenze e corporeità, Onde prende forma attraverso una pratica performativa, coreografica e musicale che si apre al presente di corpi protesi e fluttuanti tra estasi, guizzi animali e curvature verso l’evanescenza. Ritmo e sforzo si intrecciano con tentativi di evasione, di attesa e sottrazione. Non c’è tempo per definire i confini delle posture, gli equilibri sono istanti sottili e subito reclinati verso altre congiunzioni e desideri. Il dialogo tra volumi anatomici e sonori moltiplica le prospettive di incontro, confonde le coordinate temporali e, come il propagarsi di onde d’urto, sfuma i contorni delle azioni individuali, tra provenienza e proiezione.
Segnare, battere, balbettare, tendere, risegnare, farsi lievi ma anche irruenti, audaci come la falena che va verso la luce anche se può bruciarla. Di The Waves, il celebre play-poem di Virginia Woolf, Onde incorpora la corrente continua delle immagini e la necessità di rigenerarsi nel ritmo, tra momenti di essere e universalità dei moti percettivi.
Adamantina è la scrittura coreografica traboccante di inventiva; si espande e indietreggia, diviene “vortico e volteggio”, rimanda con fantasia al mondo animale senza mai soffermarsi in posa. E allora quegli anemoni, quelle falene, quei granchi che ci sembra di intravedere sono forse solo vibrazione, identità mutanti come le maree.
Maria Luisa Buzzi, Danza&Danza

CREDITS
Concept and choreography Simona Bertozzi
Performers Arianna Brugiolo, Rafael Candela, Valentina Foschi
Original music performed live Luca Perciballi
Lighting design Rocio Espana Rodriguez
Costumes Vicini D’Istanti
Photo and video Luca Del Pia
Organization Miriana Erario
Press and communication Michele Pascarella
Duration 60’
Production: Nexus, in coproduction with Festival Danza Estate, Operaestate Festival Veneto/CSC. With the support of MiC, Regione Emilia Romagna, Comune di Bologna. In collaboration with Dialoghi – Residenze delle Arti Performative a Villa Manin 2021. Creative residencies at: CSC Centro per la scena contemporanea, ALMASTUDIOS Bologna, Artists in ResidenSì Bologna 2023.
SIMONA BERTOZZI
Choreographer, dancer, and performer, Simona Bertozzi holds a degree from the Department of Arts, Music, and Performing Arts at the University of Bologna. One of the pioneers of the revolutions in twentieth-century choreographic art, Loïe Fuller, was the subject of her thesis. At a young age, she trained in artistic gymnastics and classical dance, then delved into the study of contemporary dance in Italy and various countries including France, Spain, Belgium, and England. She has collaborated extensively as a performer, including with choreographers Tomas Aragay (Societat Doctor Alonso-Spain) and, from 2005 to 2010, with Virgilio Sieni. She began her choreographic activity in 2005, embarking on a research and production path working with professional dancers and performers, as well as with children, teenagers, amateurs, asylum seekers, and second-generation young immigrants. Simona Bertozzi practices a dance in which choreography constitutes a territory of events, a complex system inhabited by the body, resulting from practices, thoughts, and disciplines that make creation a layered entity, in dialogue with the present. In 2007, she won the GD’A choreographic competition (Young Dance Authors of Emilia Romagna) and in 2008 she founded the Compagnia Simona Bertozzi | Associazione Culturale Nexus. Over the years, her projects have received support and hospitality from important regional, Italian, and European circuits, through co-productions and choreographic residencies with national and international circulation. In 2008, she was the Italian choreographer selected for the Aerowaves festival, The Place Theatre (London), and in the same year, with the solo Terrestre, she took part in the international Choreoroam project, supported by the British Council/The Place, Dansateliers/Rotterdam, and Bassano Opera Festival. With the collective Gemelli Kessler (Simona Bertozzi, Marcello Briguglio, Celeste Taliani), she won the 2009 Electronic Choreographer award for best independent production with the video dance work: Terrestre-movement in still life. In 2012, the collective was involved in the creation of I was wondering, a video dance piece created for the centenary of the birth of Michelangelo Antonioni. Over the years, important collaborations have been consolidated with artists and scholars including: Francesco Giomi artistic director of Tempo Reale, Enrico Pitozzi and Cristiana Natali professors at the University of Bologna, Egle Sommacal musician and guitarist of Massimo Volume, Angela Baraldi actress and singer, and Tabea Martin choreographer and dancer with whom she co-created This is my last dance, a work that had significant European circulation including the Swiss Dance Days.
INFO & TICKETS
TICKETSFull price: 10 euros
TICKET PURCHASE
Tickets can be purchased online at www.biglietteriafonderia39.it.
The ticket office service at Fonderia is active from 7:30 PM.
Tickets are not numbered.
CONTACTS
Cell and WhatsApp: 3341023554
Email biglietteria@aterballetto.it

Un jour nouveau | Birthday Party
2024-03-21 20:30 - 21:30, 2024-03-22 20:30 - 21:30, 2024-03-23 19:00 - 20:00, 2024-03-24 16:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Rome) | Teatro Comunale, Piazza Giuseppe Verdi, 40, Bolzano, 39100, Italia
The artistic heart of the Over Dance project arrives on the stage of the Teatro Municipale Valli in Reggio Emilia.
The two renowned choreographers Rachid Ouramdane and Angelin Preljocaj sign respectively Un Jour nouveau and span style=”color: #d40000;”>Birthday Party and address the theme of the transformation of the body with an evening of senior performers (aged 65 to 79).
The body transforming with the years is a central theme in our society, and in the sensitivity of each of us. Ageing is not a problem for the actor, writer or visual artist: for those who dance, however? What is the real age of the body?
Four performances:
Thu 21.03 h 20.30
Fri 22.03 h 19.00
Sat 23.03 h 19.00
Sun 24.03 h 16.00
Discover more about the project

The evening 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 Municipality of Reggio Emilia and Farmacie Comunali Riunite
with the support of Nuovi Mecenati – Fondazione franco-italiana di sostegno alla creazione contemporanea and Institut français

Dreamers #1
2024-03-22 20:30 - 21:30 (Europe/Rome) | Le Carré, 107 route du Plan de la Tour, Sainte-Maxime, 83120, Francia
Aterballetto dances at Le Carré in Sainte-Maxime, France, the triple bill Dreamers #1 which highlights the eclecticism of the 16 dancers.
The evening opens with Shoot me, a new creation by Diego Tortelli on the music of the rock group Spiritualized, an abstract but tautly energetic choreography. This is followed by “O”, Philippe Kratz’s little masterpiece, an hypnotic duet with an unstoppable rhythm. All 16 dancers of the company close the evening with the iconic BLISS, a creation by choreographer Johan Inger on Keith Jarrett’s Koln Concert.

YELED / SECUS
2024-03-26 19:30 - 20:30 (Europe/Rome) | Staatsoper Hannover, Opernpl. 1, 30159 Hannover, Germany, Hannover, 30159, Germania
Tuesday, March 26, Aterballetto is back touring in Germany, dancing at the Staatsoper in Hannover. The entire group of sixteen dancers will present Yeled and Secus, choreographed by Israelis Eyal Dadon and Ohad Naharin.
Yeled by Eyal Dadon

Yeled in Hebrew means child. Can we change ourselves as adults? Can we go back to being children?
“In the process of creation with the dancers, I reflected on the moment in our lives, as adults, when we lost the feeling of being children, the feeling of being naturally pure, and the ability to have clean filters. When was the moment we lost our innocence and why? One of the main keys to the creation is the real things we learned as children and how these things shaped us into the people we are today.” – Eyal Dadon
Secus by Ohad Naharin

Secus boasts a musical collage that ranges from the unusual electronic styles of AGF to the seductive Indian melodies of Kaho Naa Pyaar Hai, to the resonant harmonies of the Beach Boys. This adventurously eclectic mix serves as the suitable backdrop for a bold and extravagant choreography that unfolds before our incredulous eyes in a human alphabet made up of sprints, solos, crisp and clean gestures, interrupted duets. Through precise and sudden kicks, sinuous disarticulation of hips, torsos bending in all directions like molding clay, Secus expresses pure emotions and feelings without becoming sentimental.

Un jour nouveau | Birthday Party
2024-03-27 20:30 - 21:30 (Europe/Rome) | Teatro Bonci, Piazza Mario Guidazzi, 8, Cesena, 47521, Italia
After the debut at the Teatro Municipale Valli in Reggio Emilia, the artistic heart of the Over Dance project takes center stage at the Teatro Bonci in Cesena.
Renowned choreographers Rachid Ouramdane and Angelin Preljocaj sign respectively Un Jour nouveauandBirthday Party, tackling the theme of body transformation in an evening with senior performers (aged 65 to 79).
The aging body is a central theme in our society and in the sensitivity of each of us. Aging is not a problem for the actor, the writer, or the visual artist: What about for those who dance? What is the true age of the body?

Learn more about the project–

The evening 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 Municipality of Reggio Emilia and Farmacie Comunali Riunite
with the support of Nuovi Mecenati – Fondazione franco-italiana di sostegno alla creazione contemporanea and Institut français

DECISIONE CONSAPEVOLE - ROBERTO TEDESCO / Körper
2024-03-28 21:00 - 22:00 (Europe/Rome) | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Una mappa concettuale pensata per guidare le sessioni di improvvisazione.
Ecco cosa è stata finora Decisione Consapevole.
Ma se usassimo la mappa come se fosse un vero e proprio schema da seguire per creare un lavoro coreografico che vedrà quattro danzatori alle prese con le loro decisioni? Uno spazio vuoto a disposizione da riempire e svuotare attraverso la consapevolezza di ogni singolo interprete. Il rispetto del gusto gioca un ruolo fondamentale per far sì che il tutto risulti omogeneo e che le diverse personalità siano vestite da un unico abito.
L’abito veste gli interpreti di specifiche qualità e atteggiamenti, ritmi e modi minuziosamente studiati. L’abito pone limiti che comprendono però infinite libertà. L’abito è tutto ciò che esorta alla decisione. Forse allora è l’abito la stessa consapevolezza?
Isolamento, intimità, comunicazione, comunità sono le quattro parole chiave. Sebbene queste vadano a restringere il cerchio e a rendere la decisione dell’interprete meno variegata e più rispettosa, infinite sono ancora le possibilità che ogni singola parola suggerisce.
Le decisioni totalmente consapevoli dei danzatori sulla parola chiave da scegliere per proporre la propria azione nello spazio costituirà la costruzione della scena, decisioni che possono sì esistere singolarmente ma anche e soprattutto convivere con tutte le altre.

CREDITS
Choreography: Roberto Tedesco
Performers: Mattias Amadori, Eleonora Dominici, Laila Luchetta Lovino, Francesco Misceo
Music: Eskmo, Brendan Angelides / Rival Consoles / The Gentleman Losers / Pan-American /
J.S. Bach / Raime / Senking
Sound designer: Giuseppe Villarosa
Lighting design: Giacomo Ungari
Costumes: Francesca Messori
Duration: 50′
Production: Körper | National Dance Production Center
Co-production: National Choreographic Center Aterballetto
in collaboration with ArtistiAssociati / ARTEFICI.ResidenzeCreativeFVG
The project was realized with the contribution of ResiDance XL – residency places and projects for choreographic creations, part of the Anticorpi XL Network – Young Author’s Dance Network coordinated by L’arboreto – Teatro Dimora di Mondaino

Finalist project of DNA choreographic notes 2022
Project selected for the Open Studios of NID 2023
THE CHOREOGRAPHER
ROBERTO TEDESCO

Roberto Tedesco, born in 1992, began studying dance at the age of eleven.
In 2009, he joined the Balletto di Toscana School, immediately dancing for the junior company Junior Bdt. In 2011, he joined Aterballetto where he remained for ten years, working with great choreographers of the national and international scene, including: Ohad Naharin, Jiri Kylian, Hofesh Shechter, William Forsythe, Johan Inger, etc. Still as a dancer with Aterballetto, he began choreographing and participated twice in the International Choreographic Competition in Hannover, winning the critics’ award. He creates Cemento for the In/Finito project and Turn the tide for the MicroDanze project. In July 2021, he began a career as a freelance choreographer.
He is selected for the Vetrina Giovane Danza D’Autore with the duet Punch 24. The same duet is restaged for six dancers of the MMcontemporarydancecompany under the name Round Trip.
In Germany, he stages the duet Line-up at the National Theater Mannheim, creates By the throat for the Ballett Vorpormmern, and is selected for the Think Big project at the Staatsoper Hannover where he creates Superorganism. He accesses ResiDance XL – an action of the Anticorpi Network, through which he begins working on the project Decisione consapevole. With the latter, he is among the finalists of DNA appunti coreografici 2022 and in 2023 accesses the Open Studios of the NID in Cagliari.

INFO & TICKETS
TICKETS
Full price 10 euros
TICKET PURCHASE
Tickets can be purchased online at www.biglietteriafonderia39.it
The ticket office service at Fonderia is active one hour before the start of the show
Tickets are not numbered
CONTACTS
Cell and WhatsApp: 3341023554
Email biglietteria@aterballetto.it

Book presentation "Se danzare non mi basta" by Cristina Bozzolini.
2024-04-05 19:00 - 20:30 (Europe/Rome) | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
VENERDÌ 5 APRILE, ALLE ORE 19.00, IN FONDERIA, IN COLLABORAZIONE CON NARDINI EDITORE, PRESENTIAMO IL LIBRO SE DANZARE NON MI BASTA DI CRISTINA BOZZOLINI. CON L’EVENTO RICORDIAMO SILVIA POLETTI, GIORNALISTA, CRITICA, CONSULENTE ARTISTICA INTERNAZIONALE PER LA DANZA, CURATRICE DELL’OPERA.

If Dancing Is Not Enough traces the career and life of Cristina Bozzolini, offering a glimpse into the international dance world, the political and social climate of her beloved Florence, and the artistic experiments with Aterballetto. A book written and curated by women, tireless professionals and leading figures in the field, addressing struggles for culture and the affirmation of women and artists in society.
Among its pages flow the memories of a major protagonist in Italian dance and the artistic expressions that are part of it: from the 1960s when she was Prima Ballerina of the Ballet Company of the Florence May Music Festival, to the memorable performances alongside artists such as Nureyev, Fracci, Baryshnikov, to the founding of the Center for Dance Studies, to the establishment of the Balletto di Toscana, to the direction of Aterballetto, a national excellence. The common thread of her professional and life experience is the struggle for the affirmation of civil rights and for a just society, in which cultural education must be the engine for development.
The meeting is hosted by Maria Luisa Buzzi, editor-in-chief of the magazine Danza&Danza, and includes interventions by choreographers and dancers who had Cristina as their director and mentor, such as the award-winning Philippe Kratz.
At the end of the presentation, the dancers of Compagnia Aterballetto will offer the audience a dance surprise.
Free admission with reservation (whatsapp 3341023554 | info@aterballetto.it) until seats are filled.
Bar service available from 18:00.
During the meeting, it will be possible to purchase the book, and Cristina Bozzolini will be available to sign copies.
If Dancing Is Not Enough can be purchased here.

STORIE
2024-04-07 16:00 - 17:15 (Europe/Rome) | Teatro Municipale, via Giuseppe Verdi, 41, Piacenza, 29121, Italia
La Compagnia Aterballetto è in scena sul palcoscenico del Teatro Municipale di Piacenza con un inedito trittico di coreografie: Alpha Grace di Philippe Kratz, “O” di Philippe Kratz e Bliss di Johan Inger.
Alpha Grace, di Philippe Kratz (Premio Danza&Danza 2019 ‘Miglior Coreografo’), ha debuttato nel 2021 a Operaestate Festival di Bassano del Grappa e ha come oggetto l’empatia intesa come percezione di noi stessi in relazione a chi ci sta accanto. Il duo “O” ci propone due corpi / automi, che ci obbligano a interrogarci su come potrebbe mutare il senso del contatto fisico: resterà emotivo e sentito, o diventerà seriale e alienato? BLISS è uno dei cavalli di battaglia della compagnia, firmato dal pluripremiato coreografo svedese Johan Inger. La coreografia, accompagnata dalle note del celebre e iconico Köln Concert di Keith Jarrett, è un vero e proprio inno alla gioia di danzare. L’euforia degli interpreti è un piacere alla vista, così contagiosa e potente che dal 2016 continua ammaliare ad ammaliare i teatri di tutto il mondo.

MELTING POT 0116 - ROBERTO ZAPPALÀ / PREMIERE
2024-04-12 21:00 (Europe/Rome) | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Melting Pot 0116 is a work that, as the title suggests, brings together in an original composition fragments of various creations realized over time by Roberto Zappalà. In particular, sequences from 74bpm from I am beautiful (2016), 24 préludes (2007), and Mediterraneo (2001) – all productions for his company – are included, along with I’m a good cook. Spaghetti anybody?, a creation made in 2004 for the Swedish company Norrdans, and sud-virus, commissioned by the Goteborg Ballet in 2011. Within this interweaving of choreographies that have marked his creative journey, the choreographer will create a new section, specifically conceived for this production.
The main idea is to emancipate the work, constantly questioning it through new choreographic interventions designed for the dancers of the moment: an ever-evolving melting pot.
“In addition to developing new parts, some scenes from old works have been recovered and reworked, bringing a new and fresh gesturality, the result of renewed physical confrontation. Visionary images, interrupted spaces, poetic gestures to traverse a path made of gestural measure but also of its opposite. A summary born a few years ago but which with each reprisal is drained of the past and flooded with the future” – Roberto Zappalà

CREDITS
Direction and Choreography: Roberto Zappalà
Music: Johann Sebastian Bach, Puccio Castrogiovanni, Frédéric Chopin, Lautari, Gustav Mahler, Salvo Farruggio, Giovanni Sollima
Artistic Coordination: Silvia Oteri and Fernando Roldan Ferrer
Performers: Benedetta Agostinis, Giulia Berretta, Siria Cacco, Melania Caggegi, Andrea Rachele Bruno, Laura Finocchiaro, William Mazzei, Paola Tosto, Alessandra Verona
Set, Lighting, and Costumes: Roberto Zappalà
Costume Production: Majoca
Technical Direction: Sammy Torrisi
Tour Management: Federica Cincotti
General Management: Maria Inguscio
A co-production by Scenario Pubblico|Compagnia Zappalà Danza-Centro di Rilevante Interesse per la Danza and Menhir/Le danzatrici en plein air –
In collaboration with Asti Teatro Festival and Centro Coreografico Nazionale/Aterballetto – with the support of MiC Ministry of Culture and Sicilian Region Department of Tourism, Sports and Entertainment
WORLD PREMIERE April 12, 2024 Centro Coreografico Nazionale/Aterballetto
BIOS
COMPAGNIAZAPPALÀDANZA2
The compagniazappalàdanza2 is composed of dancers selected from the MoDem PRO program, a valuable pool from which the company itself has drawn over the years for its members.
From 2023, a new chapter begins for CZD2. The main goal will be to focus on preserving the repertoire of Compagnia Zappalà Danza.
The reflection that Roberto Zappalà has been carrying forward for some time will find concreteness in the learning, development, and finally in the staging of the great, medium, and small historical productions of the choreographer’s repertoire.
The importance of repertoire in the context of dance at a national and international level is a theme that Zappalà has been dedicated to for many years. This dedication concerns not only the preservation of his own works but is aimed at all contemporary choreography, which over time has proven to be a tool for research and authentic representation of the thought of each choreographer.
In recent years, CZD2 has demonstrated remarkable maturity and has been constantly enriched by the presence of dancers from the new generations, possessing excellent technical qualities as well as creative sensitivity, with a strong predisposition to the MoDem language, which represents the essence of Roberto Zappalà’s poetics. It is precisely these qualities that now lead CZD2 to take on the important task of preserving and keeping alive the choreographer’s repertoire.
Roberto Zappalà
Roberto Zappalà is the artistic director and choreographer of Compagnia Zappalà Danza, which he founded in 1990 in Catania. He has created over 80 productions exclusively for his company, mostly full-length works. His creations “A.semu tutti devoti tutti?” (2009, reprised in 2019) and “La Nona-dal caos, il corpo” (2015) received the Danza&Danza Italian Production of the Year Award.
Articulated projects have accompanied the creative journey of the Catania-born choreographer, from ‘re-mapping-sicily,’ an unpublished reinterpretation of Sicily through his personal language, to ‘Transiti Humanitatis,’ with which he continues to narrate humanity through gestures and the body, their history, their transformation over time and space, or conversely their immutable permanence.
He has collaborated with various companies, including Balletto di Toscana, the Ballet School of Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Norrdans (S), ArtEZ Arnhem (NL), Fondazione Theaterwerkplaats Generale Oost (NL), Goteborg Ballet/Opera di Goteborg (S). In 2011, he created the choreography for the opening ceremony of the Fencing World Championships. In 2016, he curated the project Insieme – Parata Urbana for Torinodanza and the Défilée of the Lyon Biennale.
He has collaborated with opera directors such as Federico Tiezzi, Daniele Abbado, and Giorgio Barberio Corsetti, and with international artists including Giovanni Sollima, Paolo Fresu, Fabio Vacchi, Puccio Castrogiovanni, Vincenzo Pirrotta, Luca Ballerini, Alfio Antico, Gianluigi Trovesi, Nello Toscano, and others.
With Christian Graupner (Humatic, Berlin), he created the interactive installation “MindBox,” which won second prize at the Guthman Musical Instrument Competition (Atlanta/USA 2011). La Malcor D’ published his book Omnia Corpora on the methodology of his work.
Roberto Zappalà is responsible for the recovery and conception of Scenario Pubblico in Catania, inaugurated in 2002, the headquarters of Compagnia Zappalà Danza and a rare example in Italy of a choreographic center. In 2015, Scenario Pubblico|Compagnia Zappalà Danza was recognized as a National Dance Production Center by MiC and in 2022 received an upgrade to C.R.I.D. (Center of Relevant Interest for Dance).
His choreographic style, after years of movement research with his dancers, has become a language with its own well-defined and unique identity called MoDem Democratic Movement. Every year, Roberto Zappalà selects a group of dancers from the MoDem Pro program who merge into CZD2 compagniazappalàdanza2.
Roberto Zappalà is an associated artist of the MilanOltre festival for the 2022-2024 triennium. Among the numerous awards received, he received the National Association of Theater Critics Award (2013) and the Hystrio Award ‘corpo a corpo’ (2022).
INFO & TICKETS
TICKETS
Full price: 10 euros
TICKET PURCHASE
Tickets can be purchased online at www.biglietteriafonderia39.it
The ticket service at Fonderia is active one hour before the start of the show
Tickets are not numbered
CONTACTS
Phone and WhatsApp: 3341023554
Email: biglietteria@aterballetto.it

RHAPSODY IN BLUE
2024-04-13 16:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Rome) | Terme di Caracalla, Viale delle Terme di Caracalla n.52, Roma, Roma, Roma, 00153, Italia
Terme di Caracalla
Saturday, April 13, 2024, at 4:00 PM and 5:30 PM
Access to the performance is included with the purchase of the entrance ticket to the site
After over a thousand years, water, the foundational and vital element of all thermal facilities, returns to the Terme di Caracalla with the Water Mirror: a contemporary architectural intervention promoted by the Soprintendenza Speciale di Roma, directed by Daniela Porro.
The project, born from the collaboration of Mirella Serlorenzi, site director, with architect Hannes Peer, evokes the suggestions of the thermal environments with mist, jets, and light effects that will evoke the ancient Baths. Added to this is the element of the reflection of the archaeological architecture in the Water Mirror, which invites contemplation in parallel with the immersive experience.
On Saturday, April 13, at 4:00 PM, the Aterballetto Company will perform at Caracalla for the inauguration of the Water Mirror. On this occasion, the Roman premiere of Rhapsody in Blue, choreographed by Iratxe Ansa and Igor Bacovich for the centenary of George Gershwin’s composition, will be presented.
The show, realized in collaboration with Electa and scheduled at the Terme di Caracalla thanks to an initial idea by Cristiano Leone, artistic consultant for cultural activities at the site, will be presented in a double performance, at 4:00 PM and at 5:30 PM. Access to the performance is included with the entrance ticket to the site.

Rhapsody in Blue / Another Story / Bliss
2024-04-16 20:30 - 21:30 (Europe/Rome) | Teatro Comunale Modena, Via del Teatro, 8, Modena, 41121, Italia
The Aterballetto Company is on stage at the Modena Municipal Theater with a new triptych of choreographies: Rhapsody in Blue by Iratxe Ansa and Igor Bacovich, Another Story by Diego Tortelli, and Bliss by Johan Inger.
Rhapsody in Blue is a brand-new creation by Iratxe Ansa and Igor Bacovich set to the music of George Gershwin’s eponymous composition. Another Story by Diego Tortelli, premiered in 2021 in Rovereto, tells the story of the most feared and desired gesture of 2020, a year marked by a global epidemic: the hug, set to the music of the English rock band Spiritualized. BLISS is one of the company’s flagship works, created by the award-winning Swedish choreographer Johan Inger. Accompanied by the notes of Keith Jarrett’s famous and iconic Köln Concert, the choreography is a true celebration of the joy of dancing. The euphoria of the performers is a pleasure to behold, so contagious and powerful that since 2016 it continues to captivate theaters around the world.

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Made in Italy 31.0
2024-04-18 21:00 - 22:00 (Europe/Rome) | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
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Double Repertoire:
Thursday, April 18th – 9:00 PM
Friday, April 19th – 9:00 PM
The protagonists of the evening are the dancers of Agora Coaching Project, a high-level training project promoted and supported by MM Contemporary Dance Company and A.S.D Progetto Danza of Reggio Emilia under the artistic direction of Michele Merola and Enrico Morelli. Initiated in 2010, the course is gaining full recognition in the European dance world and boasts collaborations with internationally renowned teachers and choreographers.
ALLEGRO by Maša Kolar

Allegro is a choreography focused on the character of Leonard Bernstein, presented through the environment in which he excelled best, namely music in all its forms. Hence, one of his most significant interpretations has been chosen, namely the orchestral direction of Beethoven’s nine symphonies. In addition to the music, the choreography focuses on Bernstein’s live performance and observes his conducting gesture: since the specificity of this gesture is individual and authentic for each conductor, Bernstein’s cheerful and joyful character takes center stage, marked in music by the term Allegro.
These two key concepts, ‘allegro’ tempo and the conductor’s gesture, have become the backbone of this work: it has led to five separate units but united by these concepts. The conductor’s gestures range from very abstract ones transferred to the entire body to very concrete gestures, such as using the conductor’s baton with which the dancers communicate and/or manipulate other people.
The very form of the stage through the set design (white chairs) and costumes (black uniforms) suggests an orchestra. It is this form that has allowed structuring five different scenes while maintaining a sense of unity and integrity. Through their dance, gestures, mutual manipulations, and the play of chairs, the dancers dissolve and reconstruct each scene, establishing a constantly changing idea of the orchestra’s hierarchy.
The working experience that young dancers gather within the Agora Coaching Project, in encountering the various choreographic languages of authors who have built these same or similar choreographies with professionals, is very intense, exciting, and also very precious. This is the moment when these young dance talents, still under the protection of the Agora project, appear before their future audience, dancing choreographies with an ever-new aesthetic of an unknown choreographer. The dynamics created in facing the artistic uncertainty of this project are an important educational tool. For me, it has been a great pleasure to be part of this significant moment of transformation for young dancers. – Maša Kolar

LAST MOVEMENT OF HOPE – I CHAPTER by Adriano Bolognino
“In this historical moment that unites us all, marked by fear, instability, and the unknown, it seems to us that our lives cannot follow the paths we had imagined. Every brick of our constructions seems to crumble with each new shock. Wars, environmental phenomena, our world is collapsing on us, and we are increasingly defenseless, waiting, because often we do not have the opportunity to have power, or positions that allow us to react or decide. We are all in the same condition, but isn’t it true that we all have the same possibilities of action, whether of thought or physical? We do not act or escape.
Escaping from all this evil, even if it costs us so much, would seem the most serene path; and we struggle tremendously to continue searching for that glimmer of hope that can make us still believe in this life. Hoping for a new place perhaps, made of security and love. We are an army of nothing, finding ourselves fighting against unbeatable monsters, crushed by forces we cannot confront, destroyed by our own wars. And like fearless knights, driven by great dreams, we encounter this tortuous path, unaware, or perhaps forced to fight for ideals that are not our own. Like a mother carrying her precious creature in her womb, adding and not destroying those bricks that each of us is slowly placing in our own path.
I would like to create a dance that could be a soundtrack of what we are experiencing through intersecting relationships with ourselves and others; experienced all in the same space, a place of the past, present, and a different future. The same fears, the same difficulties, the same last movement of hope. An adventure, a journey into weakness, perhaps futility, of the human being, which, however, always carries with it the great strength of those who rise when everything seems to give nothing more than demolition. A moment of reflection also regarding our relationship with the planet that hosts us, and that perhaps we are no longer able to care for and manage. A dialogue with nature, not only enlightening of how small we are compared to it but also of how un
grateful we have been and still are in killing life in its entirety. Almost as if to overturn the famous Dialogue between Nature and an Islander by Giacomo Leopardi. Bringing it back to our reality, where we ourselves harm, striking all nature, to which we foolishly still assign blame. A last movement, that is one of renewed energy and awareness. Running together towards a less shadowy future.” – Adriano Bolognino
I want, I will — if not here,
in another place that I do not yet know.
I have lost nothing. I will be everything.
Fernando Pessoa
DANCERS
April 18th
Giulia Lusetti, Corrado Azzollini, Federico Musumeci, Filippo Penco, Gennaro Todisco, Laura Dell’Agnese, Lucrezia Maggiore, Martina Procacci, Maya Maselli, Nicole Forni, Susanna Russing, Elisa Bocconi, Gabriele Scarcia, Gaia Zorilla, Giada Piccinini, Jasmine Begici, Sara Ferrentino, Giorgia Raffetto, Carlotta Maucioni
April 19th
Aurora Lattanzi, Jacopo Bellani, Alessia Russo, Anna Dal Maso, Chiara Barrile, Diletta Suman, Giovanni Karol Borriello, Gioele Marcante, Giulia Boccarossa , Laura Miotti, Lucrezia Capuzzelli, Luna Lefebvre, Martina Pagliari, Salvatore Bruno, Vittoria Facci
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AGORA COACHING PROJECT
Agora Coaching Project is an annual dance refinement project aimed at dancers aged 18 to 22, based in Reggio Emilia. Established in 2010, it is directed by Michele Merola and Enrico Morelli, and is promoted and supported by MM Contemporary Dance Company and Centro Permanente Danza of Reggio Emilia. Its aim is to train artists ready to face the variety of the international dance market in a flexible manner, capable of responding to requests of different nature, technical/stylistic, originating from this same market. The project aims to offer a wide range of stimuli, of a technical, cultural, and exchange nature between students and choreographers, each of whom comes from different and interesting realities of the international scene. Agora allows young dancers to meet established choreographers of different stylistic orientations and over the years has seen the presence of many illustrious names: Michele Merola and Enrico Morelli collaborate with various teachers, each with proven and qualified experience in the field, to realize the project.
MAŠA KOLAR
MAŠA KOLAR
She was born in Zagreb. Her dance training began in Croatia and continued in Belgium. She earned a BA in Contemporary Dance from the University of the Arts in Zurich and a Master’s degree in Cultural Studies. Her career as a professional dancer began in 1986 at the Comedy Theatre in Zagreb, and continued in 1992 at the Semperoper Ballet Dresden, where in 1995 she attained the status of soloist. In 1998, she joined the Thoss TanzKompanie in Kiel and later in Hannover, concluding with Aterballetto in Reggio Emilia. Subsequently, she began choreographing for the Ballet of the National Theatre in Belgrade, the Bitef Dance Company, the National Youth Ballet of Hamburg, for all three Croatian national ballet companies (Zagreb, Split, and Rijeka). In the 2017/18 season, she was appointed artistic director of the Ballet Company of Rijeka, and currently works as a choreographer and producer in her seventh season.
ADRIANO BOLOGNINO
ADRIANO BOLOGNINO
Born in Naples in 1995. He won the Danza&Danza 2022 award as Emerging Choreographer. For the 2023/24 season, he has been commissioned new works for the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma Company and for the Maltese national company ZfinMalta. He created the choreography “Come Neve” selected for Danza Urbana XL 2023; he choreographed for the étoiles Eleonora Abbagnato and Jacopo Tissi during the MFW23. In 2022, he created “White Room” for the Opus Ballet Company. He was selected for “Prove d’autore – Anticorpi XL and created “SKRIK” for the MM Contemporary Dance Company. The work “Rua da Saudade”, selected for the NID Platform 2021 and CallforCreation/Orsolina28, debuted at the TorinoDanza Festival. He was selected by ADH19, where he created “Gli Amanti”, a piece selected for Aerowaves 21. In 2020, the Venice Biennale commissioned a new work for the festival. He won the Prospettiva Danza Padova Award in 2019. His creations are staged in national and international contexts including Cross Festival, Kilowatt Festival, Interplay Festival, BMotion Opera Estate, Fabbrica Europa, Gender Bender Festival, DAP Festival, Danza Estate Bergamo, Festival Exister, Moving Colors Festival, Ammutinamenti Festival, Artissima Festival, Festival Aperto, etc.

INFO AND TICKETS
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TICKETS
Full price: 10 euros
Reduced price for under 30, dance schools, Liceo Coreutico Matilde di Canossa, over 65, CRAL Comune di Reggio Emilia members: 6 euros
Reduced price for under 8: 3 euros
TICKET PURCHASE
Tickets can be purchased online at www.biglietteriafonderia39.it
The ticket office opens one hour before the start of the show
Tickets are not numbered
CONTACTS
Cell and WhatsApp: 3341023554
Email: biglietteria@aterballetto.it
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Made in Italy 31.0
2024-04-19 21:00 - 22:00 (Europe/Rome) | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Double Repertoire:
Thursday, April 18th – 9:00 PM
Friday, April 19th – 9:00 PM
The protagonists of the evening are the dancers of Agora Coaching Project, a high-level training project promoted and supported by MM Contemporary Dance Company and A.S.D Progetto Danza of Reggio Emilia under the artistic direction of Michele Merola and Enrico Morelli. Initiated in 2010, the course is gaining full recognition in the European dance world and boasts collaborations with internationally renowned teachers and choreographers.
ALLEGRO by Maša Kolar

Allegro is a choreography focused on the character of Leonard Bernstein, presented through the environment in which he excelled best, namely music in all its forms. Hence, one of his most significant interpretations has been chosen, namely the orchestral direction of Beethoven’s nine symphonies. In addition to the music, the choreography focuses on Bernstein’s live performance and observes his conducting gesture: since the specificity of this gesture is individual and authentic for each conductor, Bernstein’s cheerful and joyful character takes center stage, marked in music by the term Allegro.
These two key concepts, ‘allegro’ tempo and the conductor’s gesture, have become the backbone of this work: it has led to five separate units but united by these concepts. The conductor’s gestures range from very abstract ones transferred to the entire body to very concrete gestures, such as using the conductor’s baton with which the dancers communicate and/or manipulate other people.
The very form of the stage through the set design (white chairs) and costumes (black uniforms) suggests an orchestra. It is this form that has allowed structuring five different scenes while maintaining a sense of unity and integrity. Through their dance, gestures, mutual manipulations, and the play of chairs, the dancers dissolve and reconstruct each scene, establishing a constantly changing idea of the orchestra’s hierarchy.
The working experience that young dancers gather within the Agora Coaching Project, in encountering the various choreographic languages of authors who have built these same or similar choreographies with professionals, is very intense, exciting, and also very precious. This is the moment when these young dance talents, still under the protection of the Agora project, appear before their future audience, dancing choreographies with an ever-new aesthetic of an unknown choreographer. The dynamics created in facing the artistic uncertainty of this project are an important educational tool. For me, it has been a great pleasure to be part of this significant moment of transformation for young dancers. – Maša Kolar

LAST MOVEMENT OF HOPE – I CHAPTER by Adriano Bolognino
“In this historical moment that unites us all, marked by fear, instability, and the unknown, it seems to us that our lives cannot follow the paths we had imagined. Every brick of our constructions seems to crumble with each new shock. Wars, environmental phenomena, our world is collapsing on us, and we are increasingly defenseless, waiting, because often we do not have the opportunity to have power, or positions that allow us to react or decide. We are all in the same condition, but isn’t it true that we all have the same possibilities of action, whether of thought or physical? We do not act or escape.
Escaping from all this evil, even if it costs us so much, would seem the most serene path; and we struggle tremendously to continue searching for that glimmer of hope that can make us still believe in this life. Hoping for a new place perhaps, made of security and love. We are an army of nothing, finding ourselves fighting against unbeatable monsters, crushed by forces we cannot confront, destroyed by our own wars. And like fearless knights, driven by great dreams, we encounter this tortuous path, unaware, or perhaps forced to fight for ideals that are not our own. Like a mother carrying her precious creature in her womb, adding and not destroying those bricks that each of us is slowly placing in our own path.
I would like to create a dance that could be a soundtrack of what we are experiencing through intersecting relationships with ourselves and others; experienced all in the same space, a place of the past, present, and a different future. The same fears, the same difficulties, the same last movement of hope. An adventure, a journey into weakness, perhaps futility, of the human being, which, however, always carries with it the great strength of those who rise when everything seems to give nothing more than demolition. A moment of reflection also regarding our relationship with the planet that hosts us, and that perhaps we are no longer able to care for and manage. A dialogue with nature, not only enlightening of how small we are compared to it but also of how ungrateful we have been and still are in killing life in its entirety. Almost as if to overturn the famous Dialogue between Nature and an Islander by Giacomo Leopardi. Bringing it back to our reality, where we ourselves harm, striking all nature, to which we foolishly still assign blame. A last movement, that is one of renewed energy and awareness. Running together towards a less shadowy future.” – Adriano Bolognino
I want, I will — if not here,
in another place that I do not yet know.
I have lost nothing. I will be everything.
Fernando Pessoa
DANCERS
April 18th
Giulia Lusetti, Corrado Azzollini, Federico Musumeci, Filippo Penco, Gennaro Todisco, Laura Dell’Agnese, Lucrezia Maggiore, Martina Procacci, Maya Maselli, Nicole Forni, Susanna Russing, Elisa Bocconi, Gabriele Scarcia, Gaia Zorilla, Giada Piccinini, Jasmine Begici, Sara Ferrentino, Giorgia Raffetto, Carlotta Maucioni
April 19th
Aurora Lattanzi, Jacopo Bellani, Alessia Russo, Anna Dal Maso, Chiara Barrile, Diletta Suman, Giovanni Karol Borriello, Gioele Marcante, Giulia Boccarossa , Laura Miotti, Lucrezia Capuzzelli, Luna Lefebvre, Martina Pagliari, Salvatore Bruno, Vittoria Facci
AGORA COACHING PROJECT
Agora Coaching Project is an annual dance refinement project aimed at dancers aged 18 to 22, based in Reggio Emilia. Established in 2010, it is directed by Michele Merola and Enrico Morelli, and is promoted and supported by MM Contemporary Dance Company and Centro Permanente Danza of Reggio Emilia. Its aim is to train artists ready to face the variety of the international dance market in a flexible manner, capable of responding to requests of different nature, technical/stylistic, originating from this same market. The project aims to offer a wide range of stimuli, of a technical, cultural, and exchange nature between students and choreographers, each of whom comes from different and interesting realities of the international scene. Agora allows young dancers to meet established choreographers of different stylistic orientations and over the years has seen the presence of many illustrious names: Michele Merola and Enrico Morelli collaborate with various teachers, each with proven and qualified experience in the field, to realize the project.
MAŠA KOLAR
MAŠA KOLAR
She was born in Zagreb. Her dance training began in Croatia and continued in Belgium. She earned a BA in Contemporary Dance from the University of the Arts in Zurich and a Master’s degree in Cultural Studies. Her career as a professional dancer began in 1986 at the Comedy Theatre in Zagreb, and continued in 1992 at the Semperoper Ballet Dresden, where in 1995 she attained the status of soloist. In 1998, she joined the Thoss TanzKompanie in Kiel and later in Hannover, concluding with Aterballetto in Reggio Emilia. Subsequently, she began choreographing for the Ballet of the National Theatre in Belgrade, the Bitef Dance Company, the National Youth Ballet of Hamburg, for all three Croatian national ballet companies (Zagreb, Split, and Rijeka). In the 2017/18 season, she was appointed artistic director of the Ballet Company of Rijeka, and currently works as a choreographer and producer in her seventh season.
ADRIANO BOLOGNINO
ADRIANO BOLOGNINO
Born in Naples in 1995. He won the Danza&Danza 2022 award as Emerging Choreographer. For the 2023/24 season, he has been commissioned new works for the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma Company and for the Maltese national company ZfinMalta. He created the choreography “Come Neve” selected for Danza Urbana XL 2023; he choreographed for the étoiles Eleonora Abbagnato and Jacopo Tissi during the MFW23. In 2022, he created “White Room” for the Opus Ballet Company. He was selected for “Prove d’autore – Anticorpi XL and created “SKRIK” for the MM Contemporary Dance Company. The work “Rua da Saudade”, selected for the NID Platform 2021 and CallforCreation/Orsolina28, debuted at the TorinoDanza Festival. He was selected by ADH19, where he created “Gli Amanti”, a piece selected for Aerowaves 21. In 2020, the Venice Biennale commissioned a new work for the festival. He won the Prospettiva Danza Padova Award in 2019. His creations are staged in national and international contexts including Cross Festival, Kilowatt Festival, Interplay Festival, BMotion Opera Estate, Fabbrica Europa, Gender Bender Festival, DAP Festival, Danza Estate Bergamo, Festival Exister, Moving Colors Festival, Ammutinamenti Festival, Artissima Festival, Festival Aperto, etc.

INFO AND TICKETS
TICKETS
Full price: 10 euros
Reduced price for under 30, dance schools, Liceo Coreutico Matilde di Canossa, over 65, CRAL Comune di Reggio Emilia members: 6 euros
Reduced price for under 8: 3 euros
TICKET PURCHASE
Tickets can be purchased online at www.biglietteriafonderia39.it
The ticket office opens one hour before the start of the show
Tickets are not numbered
CONTACTS
Cell and WhatsApp: 3341023554
Email: biglietteria@aterballetto.it

HO CUORE
2024-04-24 20:00 - 22:30 (Europe/Rome) | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Two showings: 8:00 PM and 9:30 PM

The word Courage derives from the Latin cor habeo, which means to have heart.
A fragment of life.
A fragment of life together.
A fragment before going out and facing with courage together what will be theirs and between them living that important moment made of insecurities, separations, approaches, and breaths in unison, retracing a small part of their journey that led them to have courage for that choice decided and elaborated together.
The audience will be immersed in the lived fragment.
Only a few at a time will be able to live and breathe together with the performers their fragment.
CREDITS

By Laura Matano

Danced by Melissa Bortolotti, Danilo Smedile

Music by A.V.

Lighting Design by Gessica Germini

Co-Produced by Compagnia Simona Bucci

Duration: 40 minutes

XL COMPANY

XL Company is a contemporary dance company based in Reggio Emilia, under the artistic direction of Laura Matano and Emanuela Baratin. It aims to create projects where movement, the body, and gesture become material and surface for individual and collective expression, tools for choreographic experimentation; collaborate with different choreographers and international realities. Some recent works include: Frau – Taulant Shehu (Germany); Light – Natalia Iwaniec (Poland/UK); Hurricane – Damian Munoz (Spain); Now – Laura Matano; Before Tomorrow – Laura Matano; If – Simona Bucci. The company participates in numerous cultural events, also proposing dance and visual art projects, video-dance, and site-specific performances, focusing on the importance of relationships and nonconformity.

INFO AND TICKETS

TICKETS

Full price: 10 euros

Reduced price for under 30, dance schools, Liceo Coreutico Matilde di Canossa, over 65, CRAL members of the Municipality of Reggio Emilia: 6 euros

Reduced price for under 8: 3 euros

TICKET PURCHASE

Tickets can be purchased online at www.biglietteriafonderia39.it

The ticket office opens one hour before the start of the show

Tickets are not numbered

CONTACTS

Phone and WhatsApp: 3341023554

Email: biglietteria@aterballetto.it

Italia Danza - Sofia
2024-04-27 16:30 - 19:45 (Europe/Sofia) | Largo di Sofia, Sofia Center, 1000 Sofia, Bulgaria, Sofia, 1000, Bulgaria
From Sofia to Madrid, passing through Oslo and Cologne: this is the second phase of Italia Danza, on stage from April 27 to May 24, 2024.
A cosmopolitan project, entrusted to the universal language of the body, desired by the General Directorate for Public and Cultural Diplomacy of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Farnesina), and performed by CCN/Aterballetto thanks to its rich heritage of site-specific creations. A contemporary repertoire that includes MicroDanze (short creations for confined spaces, created by Italian and international choreographers), but also stage shows reimagined for the occasion, so they can be presented anywhere.
Under the dome of Largo di Sofia, on April 27, 2024 at 4:30 PM, 5:45 PM, and 7:00 PM.
Organized by: Embassy of Italy in Sofia, Italian Cultural Institute of Sofia
In collaboration with: Municipality of Sofia, Regional Museum of the City of Sofia

“Presenting Aterballetto’s MicroDances in Sofia is an opportunity to bring to the attention of the capital’s audience an absolute excellence of Italian contemporary dance and Made in Italy. Bulgaria, on the other hand, is known worldwide for the very high level of its artists in the musical field and for its traditional dances. Therefore, a fertile ground will welcome the talented dancers of Aterballetto in Sofia, for whom the Municipality itself has made available a place symbolizing the history and culture of the country, the Largo. I am confident that the Italian artists will give the local audience an unforgettable artistic moment, further proof of the strong cultural ties that unite Italy and Bulgaria.
Maria Mazza
Director of the Italian Cultural Institute in Sofia

27 APRIL – H 16.30 / 17.45 / 19.00 Largo di Sofia
MICRODANZE
An echo, a wave
by Philippe Kratz
Near Life Experience
by Angelin Preljocaj
Eppur si muove
by Francesca Lattuada
A Gig
by Diego Tortelli
Duration 45′

Intersezioni & Next Generation
2024-04-27 18:00 - 19:30 (Europe/Rome) | Palazzo Marchi, Str. della Repubblica, 57, 43121 Parma PR, Parma, 43121, Italia
From April 27th to May 29th, in Parma, the fifth edition of Intersections & Next Generation, a dance showcase curated by Artemis Danza, directed by Monica Casadei and supported by the Municipality of Parma, will take place. There will be five events spread across unconventional and evocative spaces: Palazzo Marchi, Teatro al Parco, Workout Pasubio, Galleria San Ludovico, Spazio 360-ex Ferramola. Each evening will feature short choreographies by both emerging and established authors from all over Italy, artists very different from each other in sensitivity, aesthetics, and style, enriched by encounters with visual arts and live electronics, which will continually nourish the scene with new suggestions. A full immersion into the world of dance where moments of spectacle and site-specific performances will alternate.
For the opening day, Saturday, April 27th, the CCN / Aterballetto participates with a double performance in the enchanting setting of Palazzo Marchi, in collaboration with Interno Verde Parma. At 6:00 PM and 7:00 PM, the dancers of Aterballetto perform A Gig, MicroDanza choreographed by Diego Tortelli. Following that, SoaC, a hip hop performance by Federica Galimberti and Cristiano Buzzi. The performance concludes with the dancers of Artemis Danza presenting Artemis Experience, an exciting “garden-specific” dance performance with choreography by Monica Casadei.

Italia Danza - Cologne
2024-04-29 18:30 - 20:30 (Europe/Sofia) | Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Colonia, Politische Wissenschaften, Universitätsstraße 81, 50931 Köln, Germany, Colonia, 50931, Germania
From Sofia to Madrid, passing through Oslo and Cologne: this is the second phase of Italia Danza, on stage from April 27 to May 24, 2024.
A cosmopolitan project, entrusted to the universal language of the body, desired by the General Directorate for Public and Cultural Diplomacy of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Farnesina), and performed by CCN/Aterballetto thanks to its rich heritage of site-specific creations. A contemporary repertoire that includes MicroDanze (short creations for confined spaces, created by Italian and international choreographers), but also stage shows reimagined for the occasion, so they can be presented anywhere.
Italian Cultural Institute of Cologne, on April 29, 2024 at 6:30 PM and 7:30 PM
as part of the International Dance Day.

“We are pleased to present in Cologne a project that, while celebrating the direct experience of performance by the audience, also offers the public a new perspective on the use of the Institute’s spaces, animating them with a presence that is not only aesthetic but also of strong emotional impact.”
Jolanda Lamberti
Director of the Italian Cultural Institute in Cologne
29 APRIL – H 18.30 e 19.30/ Italian Cultural Institute in Cologne
MICRODANZE
Eppur si muove
by Francesca Lattuada
Near Life Experience
by Angelin Preljocaj
An echo, a wave
by Philippe Kratz
A Gig
by Diego Tortelli
Duration 45′

Italia Danza - Oslo
2024-05-03 11:00 - 15:30, 2024-05-04 11:00 - 15:30 (Europe/Sofia) | Oscarshall, Oscarshallveien 15, Oslo, 0287, Norvegia
From Sofia to Madrid, passing through Oslo and Cologne: this is the second phase of Italy Dance, on stage from April 27th to May 24th, 2024.
A cosmopolitan project, entrusted to the universal language of the body, desired by the General Directorate for Public and Cultural Diplomacy of the Farnesina, and interpreted by CCN/Aterballetto thanks to its rich heritage of site-specific creations. A contemporary repertoire that includes MicroDances (short creations for confined spaces, signed by Italian and international choreographers), but also stage performances revisited for the occasion, so that they can be presented anywhere.
Italian Cultural Institute of Oslo, May 3-4, 2024
On the occasion of the exhibition Every Return is Awaited featuring bronze sculptures by artist Davide Rivalta in the park of the Royal Palace of Oscarshall, open from May 3rd to September 15th, 2024, the IIC of Oslo presents, in collaboration with the Norwegian Royal Palace and the Italian Embassy, three MicroDances at the Royal Palace of Oscarshall. All three MicroDances will be performed on the occasion of the official opening of the exhibition on May 3rd, and on May 4th during the three guided tours at 11:00 AM, 1:00 PM, and 3:00 PM.

“This year in Oslo, we intended to combine two fields of Italian contemporary art, the sculptures by Davide Rivalta from Bologna, which will be exhibited all summer in the royal residence of Oscarshall, and the choreographies of Aterballetto, which will be performed during the inauguration of the exhibition in the fairy-tale garden of the palace, desired in the 1800s by Queen Joséphine, Princess of Bologna.
We hope that this mix creates a unique opportunity to present to Queen Sonja of Norway and the Norwegian public a glimpse of contemporary Italian creativity and savoir faire.”
Stefano Nicoletti
Ambassador of Italy to Oslo

“Aterballetto’s performances in Oslo shape up as a precious artistic moment within the inaugural days of Davide Rivalta’s exhibition. An initiative of high institutional profile and a splendid setting to celebrate the cultural relations between Italy and Norway, following President Mattarella’s State visit in 2023. The MicroDances selected for this occasion will accompany the public in discovering the spaces of the Oscarshall Residence and Rivalta’s works, in an unprecedented event in the sign of contemporary Italian creativity.”
Raffaella Giampaola
Director Italian Cultural Institute of Oslo

MAY 4th – 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM/ Royal Palace of Oscarshall
MICRODANCES
And yet it moves
by Francesca Lattuada
Near Life Experience
by Angelin Preljocaj
A Gig
by Diego Tortelli
Duration 30′
[YouTube link](https://youtu.be/2lxSYnoyvEA)

STORIE
2024-05-09 21:00 - 22:00 (Europe/Rome) | Teatro Civico, Via Monte di Pietà, 15, Vercelli, 13100, Italia
Aterballetto performs Stories at the Civic Theater in Vercelli as part of the We Speak Dance festival.

Stories is a small anthology of danced fragments. They represent only an infinitesimal part of the rich artistic and human universe of the two choreographers Diego Tortelli and Philippe Kratz.
Tortelli creates two pieces: Prelude, opening the evening, is a love letter to the body for five dancers set to the music of Nick Cave, Another Story is a duet on the impossible gesture of 2020, the hug. Between past and future are the two creations of Kratz. The duo “O” presents two bodies/automatons, forcing us to question how the sense of physical contact might change: will it remain emotional and heartfelt, or become serial and alienated? Alpha Grace, a sextet at the conclusion of the evening, is a reflection on empathy, a gentle form of communication between people who feel on the same level. It too is challenged by the present times.
