Centro Coreografico Nazionale / Aterballetto

NOTTE MORRICONE
2026-01-29 19:30 - 21:00 (Europe/Rome) | Theater Gütersloh, Barkeystraße 15, Gütersloh, 33330, Germania
Il 28 e 29 gennaio 2026, Aterballetto danza Notte Morricone di Marcos Morau al Theater Gütersloh in Germania.
“Io, Ennio Morricone, sono morto”, scrisse il compositore prima di congedarsi. La sua musica, invece, non può farlo. Ed è così che i creatori e gli artisti sempre ci lasciano senza lasciarci, ed è in questo modo che la memoria si preoccupa di tenerli vivi, di tenerli al sicuro. Notte Morricone è il mio regalo, un devoto tributo alla bellezza che ha donato al mondo.
Notte Morricone si svolge nel crepuscolo di una notte ordinaria nella vita di un creativo, che solo e stordito davanti ai suoi fogli, prende appunti e visualizza melodie per film che non esistono ancora, riportando in vita storie nell’aria rarefatta della sua stanza.
Marcos Morau – Regista e coreografo

Impossibile descrivere Notte Morricone, pezzo magistrale che arriva a flutti allo spettatore, lo abbraccia con onde emotive, lo cattura nella memoria di melodie intramontabili sopravvissute di gran lunga alle immagini che le hanno generate. Incantevole pure la coreografia cesellata e sempre poetica, composta con maniacale attenzione al dettaglio: gambe e collo sembrano privi di giunture, si flettono e scattano ritmicamente come metronomi.
Maria Luisa Buzzi – Danza&Danza
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Durata 90′

Rhapsody in blue / Solo Echo / Glory Hall
2026-02-06 19:30 - 21:00 | Royal Theatre, 805 Broughton Street, Victoria, Canada
Aterballetto performs in Canada as part of the Dance at the Royal Series by Dance Victoria on February 6 and 7, 2026.
On stage: Rhapsody in Blue by Iratxe Ansa and Igor Bacovich, a lively and playful choreography echoing Gershwin’s famous score. This is followed by Crystal Pite’s Solo Echo, which, through Brahms’ sonatas for piano and cello, invokes winter to express something essential about acceptance and loss. The final piece, Glory Hall, is a new creation by Diego Tortelli, offering the company and the audience a fresco of sensuality and overwhelming vitality.

Impromptus. Arias, dances, and improvisations
2026-02-06 21:00 - 22:00 | Artificerie Almagià, via dell’Almagià, 50, Ravenna, Italy
IMPROMPTUS
Arias, dances, and improvisations

The Centro Coreografico Nazionale / Aterballetto and Fondazione Ravenna Manifestazioni collaborate once again to bring to life a project where dance and music meet, intertwine, and transform into original performances. The aim is to create a creative space in which choreographers and musicians work side by side, shaping works that arise from improvisation and mutual inspiration.
The project’s goal is to explore new ways of interaction between movement and sound, fostering a fluid and spontaneous relationship between the two disciplines. Through artistic experimentation, dancers and musicians push beyond the traditional boundaries of composition, creating short performances (15–20 minutes) that express the intensity of this encounter.
Friday, February 6, 9:00 PMArtificerie Almagià, Ravenna
Simone Zanchini – accordionMatilde Di Ciolo and Matteo Capetola – dancers

Rhapsody in blue / Solo Echo / Glory Hall
2026-02-07 19:30 - 21:00 | Royal Theatre, 805 Broughton Street, Victoria, Canada
Aterballetto danza in Canada all’interno del Dance at the Royal Series di Dance Victoria il 6 e 7 febbraio 2026.
In scena Rhapsody in blue di Iratxe Ansa e Igor Bacovich, coreografia divertente, vivace, come l’omonimo brano di Gershwin. A seguire Solo Echo di Crystal Pite che, attraverso le sonate per pianoforte e violoncello di Brahms, invoca l’inverno per esprimere qualcosa di essenziale sull’accettazione e la perdita. L’ultima coreografia Glory Hall è la nuova produzione firmata da Diego Tortelli, che regala alla compagnia e al pubblico un affresco di sensualità e travolgente vitalità.

Impromptus. Arias, dances, and improvisations
2026-02-07 20:30 - 21:30 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
IMPROMPTUS
Arias, dances, and improvisations

The Centro Coreografico Nazionale / Aterballetto and Fondazione Ravenna Manifestazioni once again collaborate to bring to life a project in which dance and music meet, intertwine, and transform into original performances. The aim is to create a creative space where choreographers and musicians work side by side, shaping works born from improvisation and mutual inspiration.
The project seeks to explore new ways of interaction between movement and sound, fostering a fluid and spontaneous relationship between the two disciplines. Through artistic experimentation, dancers and musicians push beyond the traditional boundaries of composition, creating short performances (15–20 minutes) that express the intensity of this encounter.
Saturday, February 7 – 8:30 PMFonderia, Reggio Emilia
Simone Zanchini – accordionMatilde Di Ciolo and Matteo Capetola – dancers
From 7:30 PM, aperitif curated by Mercato del Tricolore / Campagna Amica

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJX-lPCGkvY&list=RDeJX-lPCGkvY&start_radio=1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9imfew2wUh4
Info & Tickets
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€10

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ONLINE: https://www.biglietteriafonderia39.it/home.aspxFonderia box office: the box office opens one hour before the start of the performance(Via della Costituzione 39, Reggio Emilia).

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Rhapsody in blue / Solo Echo / Glory Hall
2026-02-11 19:30 - 21:00 | Memorial Auditorium, 551 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA, 94305, United States
Aterballetto performs at Stanford, California, on February 11 and 12, 2026.
On stage: Rhapsody in Blue by Iratxe Ansa and Igor Bacovich, a playful, vibrant choreography echoing Gershwin’s iconic score. This is followed by Crystal Pite’s Solo Echo, which, through Brahms’ sonatas for piano and cello, summons winter to express something essential about acceptance and loss. The evening concludes with Glory Hall, a new creation by Diego Tortelli, offering both the company and the audience a fresco of sensuality and overwhelming vitality.

BOW
2026-02-12 18:00 - 19:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
BOW – open rehearsal

For the first time, Gaetano Palermo and Michele Petrosino are guests of the Danza in Fonderia programme.
Audiences will have the opportunity to attend the work in progress of BOW, a new choreographic project that investigates the act of bowing as a gesture shaped and traversed by time.
Far from being a form of praise, BOW explores the bow as an ambiguous and layered bodily gesture which, throughout history, has taken on strong social, political, and cultural meanings. Suspended between a turning inward and an opening toward the other, the gesture becomes a site of tension between recognition and submission, intimacy and public representation.
Through the performers’ bodies, BOW reactivates the memory of this gesture in the present, making visible the temporal dynamics that continue to inhabit our bodies today.

CREDITS

a performance by Gaetano Palermo, Michele Petrosinosound design: Luca Galliolighting design: to be defined
production: KLmwith the support of SIAE – Per Chi Creawith the support of SupportER – Rete Anticorpi Emilia-Romagna
Supported by MiC and SIAE, in the framework of the programme “Per Chi Crea”

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Bow is a choreographic project centred on the act of bowing or reverence (in English bow), a gesture typical of theatrical and religious contexts and also widespread—though in different forms and modes—within social practices of greeting, recognition, and consent. Through a form of writing embodied in the performers’ bodies, the project aims to develop an analysis of the tensions and ambiguities inherent in this gesture, retracing its history through a catalogue of its variations in order to grasp its sociopolitical and psychological implications.
At once a folding inward toward the self and an opening toward the other, the practice of bowing or reverence is a sign of acknowledging a presence perceived as possessing vital, worldly, or divine power. This recognition—of which the bow is the bodily manifestation—corresponds to a human disposition of dependence, obligation, service, or prayer, oriented toward transcending a limit or obtaining a gift, a grace. Situated on the threshold between subjective intimacy and public representation, this gesture takes on different meanings depending on the degree of bending, ranging from a simple inclination of the head to kneeling or complete prostration. Abnegation and salvation, servility and power coexist within a physical tension that finds in the bow its fragile yet potent measure.

PALERMO / PETROSINO

Palermo/Petrosino is a duo formed by Gaetano Palermo and Michele Petrosino, working at the intersection of contemporary dance and visual arts. Their research investigates the ontology of movement—from stillness to transformation—with a strong focus on perceptual devices and on the relationship between body, image, and gaze. Their work has been supported and presented by institutions and festivals such as La Biennale di Venezia, Triennale Milano, MAMbo Bologna, Fondazione I Teatri di Reggio Emilia, Teatro Regio di Parma, Santarcangelo Festival, and Kilowatt Festival. In 2025, they won the SIAE – Per Chi Crea grant with BOW.
Gaetano Palermo, whose background spans philosophy, performing arts, and visual arts (University of Bologna, IUAV Venice, Academy of Kassel), has worked with artists including Bruce Nauman, Romeo Castellucci, Chiara Guidi, Claudia Castellucci, and Tamara Cubas. He has presented his work at the Venice Biennale and in national and international festivals and contexts.
Michele Petrosino, an artist and performer with training in theatre, dance, and literary studies (University of Bologna), has collaborated with Kinkaleri, Nico Vascellari, and Bruce Nauman, and was a performer in Bros by Romeo Castellucci (2021–2023). Together with Palermo, he is the author of Still, winner of the CosmoGiani Award 2024.

INFO & TICKETS

TICKETS€3 for everyone / free admission for children under 6
TICKET PURCHASE
Tickets can be purchased online at www.biglietteriafonderia39.it.
The Fonderia box office opens one hour before the start of the performance.
Seats are not numbered.
CONTACTS
Mobile & WhatsApp: +39 334 1023554

Rhapsody in blue / Solo Echo / Glory Hall
2026-02-12 19:30 - 21:00 | Memorial Auditorium, 551 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA, 94305, United States
Aterballetto danza a Stanford in California l’11 e 12 febbraio 2026.
In scena Rhapsody in blue di Iratxe Ansa e Igor Bacovich, coreografia divertente, vivace, come l’omonimo brano di Gershwin. A seguire Solo Echo di Crystal Pite che, attraverso le sonate per pianoforte e violoncello di Brahms, invoca l’inverno per esprimere qualcosa di essenziale sull’accettazione e la perdita. L’ultima coreografia Glory Hall è la nuova produzione firmata da Diego Tortelli, che regala alla compagnia e al pubblico un affresco di sensualità e travolgente vitalità.

Macbeth study
2026-02-23 18:00 - 19:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Macbeth study – open rehearsal
Danza in Fonderia opens its doors to an open rehearsal of Macbeth Study, a new work by Monica Casadei with her company Compagnia Artemis Danza.

An immersion into the creative process that reinterprets William Shakespeare’s masterpiece through the body, rhythm, and the tension of inner time. Ambition, power, and destiny take shape in an intense, visceral choreographic writing, where movement becomes a space of conflict and transformation. A unique opportunity to witness the birth of a creation up close and the living dialogue between dance and dramaturgy.

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

INFO & TICKETS
TICKETS€3 for all / free admission for children under 6

TICKET PURCHASE

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

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

Tickets are unnumbered.

CONTACTS

Mobile & WhatsApp: +39 334 102 3554

Made in Italy 37.0
2026-02-26 20:30 - 21:30 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
The young talents of Agora Coaching Project take the stage at Danza in Fonderia.

The protagonists of the evening are the dancers of Agora Coaching Project, an advanced training programme promoted and supported by MM Contemporary Dance Company and A.S.D. Progetto Danza, under the artistic direction of Michele Merola and Enrico Morelli. Launched in 2010, the programme has gained full recognition within the European dance scene and boasts collaborations with internationally renowned teachers and choreographers.
For this new Made in Italy evening, Agora Coaching Project brings to the stage at Fonderia choreographies by Roberto Tedesco, formerly a dancer with Aterballetto and for several years now one of the most compelling emerging choreographic voices on the Italian scene.

AGORA COACHING PROJECT

Agora Coaching Project is a year-long advanced dance training programme based in Reggio Emilia, aimed at dancers aged between 18 and 22. Founded in 2010, it is directed by Michele Merola and Enrico Morelli, and is promoted and supported by MM Contemporary Dance Company and the Centro Permanente Danza.
The project aims to train artists who are ready to face the diversity of the international dance market with flexibility—artists capable of responding to a wide range of technical and stylistic demands emerging from today’s professional context. Agora offers a broad spectrum of stimuli, encompassing technical training, cultural enrichment, and opportunities for exchange between students and choreographers, each of whom comes from and operates within some of the most dynamic and interesting realities of the international dance scene.
Through encounters with established choreographers of different stylistic orientations, Agora exposes young dancers to a plurality of artistic visions. Over the years, the project has welcomed many distinguished names. Alongside Michele Merola and Enrico Morelli, a number of highly experienced and qualified teachers collaborate in the realisation of the programme, each bringing recognised expertise within the field.

PERFORMERS AGORA COACHING PROJECT

Riccardo Basile, Sara Bianchi, Tommaso Brintazzoli, Alisa Businaro, Anita Campanini, Simone Casella, Giovanni Cennamo, Giulia Chiletti, Margherita Ciardi, Alessandra Fusco, Giulia Giannini, Samuele Iannacchero, Louis Franck Kamta, Marica Lisco, Elena Manfredini, Nicolò Marroccu, Linda Massai, Sofia Oliva, Alessia Romeo, Paula Salinas Alvarez, Alice Scarangelli, Loris Schirinzi, Gabriel Sprovieri, Chiara Tonussi, Claudio Tornesi, Carolina Torrini, Michelle Tuani, Eva Vannini, Camilla Veronesi

INFO AND TICKETS

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

Body Sweats
2026-03-01 18:00 - 19:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Girls just wanna have… PLEASURE
Giorgia Lolli’s open rehearsal kicks off Dance Week, celebrating female creativity.

Can pleasure be a driving force in creation? Giorgia Lolli’s new project is a tribute to Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, a feminist artist and the “mother” of Dadaism.

CREDITS

By Giorgia LolliWith Vittoria Caneva, Elena Grappi, Maria Chiara Vitti, Giorgia LolliCostumes Eva-Liis Lidenburg, Sara Lando (tiger)Sound Sebastian KurténDramaturgy Piero Ramella
Production: Nexus Factorywith the contribution of the Ministero della Cultura, Regione Emilia-Romagna, Comune di Bologna
with the support of supportER – Rete Anticorpi Emilia-Romagna, Nouveau Grand Tour 2024 (Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Parigi and Le Gymnase CNDC), Ira Institute, Operaestate / CSC Centro di Residenza del Veneto – Vene.Re, Piemonte dal Vivo within the Residenze Coreografiche Lavanderie a Vapore project, I Teatri di Reggio Emilia, Dance Gallery Perugia (HOME 2025), City of Espoo Culture Committee, Graner (Barcelona)
within LANDING, a project supported by the Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale and produced by Santarcangelo Festival, in collaboration with and supported by the Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Oslo
artistic residency presented within the R.O.M. – Residencies On the Move network for the Reykjavik Dance Festival, by invitation of Santarcangelo Festival, in partnership with La Balsamine (Belgium), le joli collectif – Théâtre l’Aire Libre (France), Théâtre Prospero and Théâtre Periscope (Canada)
the R.O.M. network is supported by the European Union through the Creative Europe programme, the Conseil des arts de Montréal, and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.

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BODY SWEATS is a tribute to Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874–1927), poet and avant-garde artist, pioneer of the Dada movement. The title is drawn from her collection of poems of the same name—an erotic and proto-punk manifesto.
Dance, lecture performance, poetry reading, workout: sweat becomes a pathway to explore the intertwining of effort and pleasure, the binding force of a heterogeneous collage of danced and textual materials. Love letters between friends and lovers. Waterless gymnastics in tiger-print leotards. A poem for the Baroness. A split dedicated to her. Dada(umpa).

My interest in her writings—bold and long overlooked—stems from their ability to weave subtexts into her poetry, particularly around female eroticism. A proto-punk, neurotic, kleptomaniac, and man-hunter, the Baroness left behind a legacy that paved the way for the eccentric divas of the 21st century (from Courtney Love to Lady Gaga).
Borrowing the title of her only poetry collection, BODY SWEATS, I imagine a choreography that seeps from bodily materiality. From this perspective, sweat becomes both a trace and a stimulus for investigating the interweaving of effort, pleasure, and empowerment. The project explores our relationship with systems of discipline—especially rich in subtext when viewed through the backgrounds of dancers, ranging from ballet to aqua gym and fitness culture. In the studio, the work revisits these familiar movement languages from a feminist “I,” reflecting on how their meaning can be rewritten through practice itself.

Giorgia Lolli

GIORGIA LOLLI

Giorgia Lolli (Reggio Emilia, 1996) earned a Master’s degree in Choreography from University of the Arts Helsinki (Uniarts) in 2025 and, over the past three years, has worked between Italy and Finland. Since 2022, she has been teaching Dance Well – Movement Research for Parkinson’s within the European project coordinated by Operaestate.
Her choreographic work has been presented on several national and international platforms, including Anghiari Dance Hub (2020), Vetrina della Giovane Danza d’Autore (2021), SIAE Per Chi Crea (2023), Nuovo Forno del Pane (2023), and MAMbo – Museo di Arte Moderna di Bologna.
With EAT ME, winner of DNAppunti Coreografici, she made her debut at the Romaeuropa Festival in 2024.

INFO & TICKETS

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

Rhapsody in blue
2026-03-02 20:30 - 21:30 | Teatro Ambra Jovinelli, Via Guglielmo Pepe, 45, Roma, Italy
CCN/Aterballetto performs in Rome as part of the ORBITA | Spellbound Dance Season 2026.

On Monday 2 March 2026, Aterballetto presents Rhapsody in Blue by Iratxe Ansa and Igor Bacovich at the Teatro Ambra Jovinelli.The evening is completed by Holy Shift, choreographed by Mauro Astolfi and performed by Spellbound Contemporary Ballet.

Sabotage
2026-03-03 20:30 - 21:30 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Girls just wanna have… FREEDOM
The Italian premiere of Sabotage by Sara Angius and Johanna Ehlert takes place in Reggio Emilia, as part of Dance Week, celebrating female creativity.
Through an ironic yet profound play of movement, dancers and puppets manipulate one another within a living web of control, freedom, and poetic rebellion.

“Sabotage, as a guest performance in Halle, brings puppets to life and turns people into marionettes. Magnificent.”
— Anja Falgowski, 3 November 2024

https://vimeo.com/1060841213?fl=tl&fe=ec
CREDITS

Concept, choreography, production: Sara AngiusConcept, staging, set design, figures: Johanna EhlertPerformers: Sara Angius, Vittoria Franchina, Joshua Haines, Stefano RovedaLighting design: Tommaso Contu
Co-production and support: Kulturhaus Steinfurth (DE), Eisfabrik Hannover (DE), Blick Théâtre (FR), Puppentheater Halle (DE), MWK Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur (DE), Stiftung Niedersachsen (DE), SBK Stiftung Braunschweigischer Kulturbesitz (DE), Kulturbüro der Landeshauptstadt Hannover (DE), Kulturbüro der Stadt Braunschweig (DE), Die Braunschweigische Stiftung (DE), Lessingtheater Wolfenbüttel (DE), Jahrmarkttheater Bostelwiebek (DE)
With the support of: TANZKOOP Braunschweig (DE), Landesverband Freie Darstellende Künste in Niedersachsen (DE), Theater Fadenschein (DE), Festival Danse Élargie (FR)

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It has always been this way, and it always will be. It traps those who reject it, because it is part of our nature: the desire for freedom and power. There are those who live under the illusion of their own autonomy, without trying to escape the dance. And there are those who keep fighting—naively, selfishly, trustingly, stubbornly, blindly—unable to see through all the veils of our man-made world. Groping in the darkness of our hierarchical existence, at any cost. And what if this were the very meaning of being alive?

SABOTAGE speaks literally about manipulation, about pulling the strings. What is reality?What becomes of our free will in an era in which we have all the means to be the most advanced generation in human history? We take refuge in illusory digital worlds, allow algorithms to guide our actions, let fake news shape our perception of reality, present ourselves through filters in order to better adapt to this unreal world.

SABOTAGE casts a humorous and dramatic gaze on human nature. How much of our free will is real, and how much is just another illusion—another carefully constructed part of the system?Without words, using only virtuosic movement, it builds a metaphor of interdependence, power, and the human struggle with reality and illusion: who is manipulating whom?
An original form of puppet theatre in which reality and appearance merge into a single dance—poetic, sensitive, raw, profound, absurd, shocking, jarring.Human.A work that belongs to no box.

SARA ANGIUS

Sara Angius is an Italian contemporary dancer and choreographer based in Braunschweig, Germany. Her artistic research deeply explores the existential and inner dimensions of the human being, investigating emotional states that lie beneath the surface and the boundaries between reality, imagination, and perception. Her work develops through an interdisciplinary language that blends contemporary dance, puppet theatre, object animation, physical theatre, and illusionism, with the aim of stimulating the audience’s imagination and transcending traditional rules of stage perception.
She received her professional training at the DanceHaus Academy in Milan and also completed a degree in Communication Sciences for the Performing Arts at the University of Milan. Angius began her career as a performer in international companies and projects, including the Staatstheater Braunschweig, and through collaborations with artists such as James Thierrée for Frôlons at the Opéra Garnier in Paris.
As a choreographer, she has gained recognition at international festivals: she was awarded at the Stuttgart International Solo-Tanz-Theater Festival, and her duo The Fish Bowl won first prize at the Certamen Internacional de Coreografía Burgos–New York.
In recent years, she has expanded her practice to include film production, creating INCOGNITUM, her first dance film, which has been presented and awarded at international festivals. She also works as a teacher and guest choreographer in European institutions and dance festivals. Since 2024, she has collaborated with the Institute of Dance Arts at the Anton Bruckner Private University, and since 2022 she has been an active member of the artistic cooperative TANZKOOP, supporting the independent dance scene.

INFO & TICKETS

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

K.I.nd of Human
2026-03-04 20:30 - 21:30 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Girls just wanna have… HUMANITY
With K.I.nd of Human by Roberta Pisu / Arcis_collective, Dance Week celebrating female creativity comes with the sound of the sax!

Can AI create art? Four dancers and four saxophones reclaim art as a profoundly human act, starting from a reflection on the immense potential of artificial intelligence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSmhB06d4so
CREDITS

Artistic direction and choreography: Roberta PisuComposition: Leonhard KuhnMusic: Arcis Saxophon QuartettDancers: Edoardo Cino, Fabio Calvisi, Vittoria Franchina, Sofia CaspriniCostume curation: Bregje van BalenTailoring: Lucia ZettlChoreography assistant: Francesca PoglieFilming: Florian Leuschner, Georg StirnweißVideo editing: Alfonso Fernández SánchezPhotos: Martin Misere, Georg Stirnweiß, Robert Fischer, Luca Di BartoloProduction: arcis_collective

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K.I.nd of Human is a 60-minute performance featuring four dancers and four musicians, exploring the ever-evolving relationship between humanity and artificial intelligence.

Premiered in 2022 in Munich, the work investigates the immense potential of AI while also addressing its inherent limitations—the most evident being its inability to experience mortality. With an original score by Leonhard Kuhn, composed in collaboration with artificial intelligence, the music gradually shifts from electronic to acoustic, reflecting a journey from the artificial to the human.

The performance opens with musicians playing saxophones submerged underwater, their sounds interwoven with electronic compositions—metaphorically evoking the birth of humanoids. As the piece unfolds, both music and movement progressively shed layers of artificiality, culminating in a fully acoustic finale that celebrates the fleeting beauty of human existence.

In an era in which artificial intelligence is increasingly embedded in our lives, K.I.nd of Human raises profound questions: what truly defines us as human beings? The work focuses on three fundamental qualities—physicality, transience, and uniqueness. Human consciousness is inseparable from the body; every experience is singular and finite, shaped by the inevitability of life and death, which give depth and meaning to our existence. AI, while intelligent, lacks this physical and emotional temporality. Rather than merely critiquing technology, the production enters into dialogue with it, challenging widespread fears surrounding the rise of AI and inviting audiences to explore its unknown possibilities.
Can AI create art? Art requires self-awareness, intention, and a unique perspective—traits that artificial intelligence, despite its advances, may never fully possess. During rehearsals, AI acted as a creative partner, suggesting choreographic and musical ideas. However, it was the human artists who shaped and interpreted these inputs, revealing that the essence of art may remain an intrinsically human mystery—one that AI, no matter how advanced, is not yet able to replicate. And yet, as technology continues to evolve, the boundaries between the artificial and the organic remain uncertain, prompting us to question how much of ourselves we are willing to surrender to the machine.

Roberta Pisu / Arcis_collective

Roberta Pisu (Cagliari, 1984) is an Italian dancer and choreographer. After training in France at the Académie de Danse Classique Princesse Grace and completing a Bachelor’s degree in Contemporary Dance at the Accademia Nazionale di Danza, she developed an international career, collaborating with leading choreographers such as William Forsythe, Wayne McGregor, Jacopo Godani, Marco Goecke, Emanuel Gat, and Ismael Ivo. From 2012 to 2023 she was a soloist at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich, where she also launched an intensive choreographic practice, creating numerous works for the theatre.
In 2020, she co-founded arcis_collective in Munich together with the Arcis Saxophon Quartett, serving as its Artistic Director. The collective was created with the aim of merging chamber music and contemporary dance into a unified performative experience, in which musicians and dancers fully share the stage. Inspired by the intimacy and emotional depth of chamber music, arcis_collective addresses social and cultural themes through a contemporary language, fostering a strong interaction between sound, body, and stage presence.
With arcis_collective, Roberta Pisu has created numerous works presented in theatres, festivals, and non-conventional spaces in Germany and Italy, including HEIMAT, 2xGETANZT, K.I.nd of Human, Quirky Night Club Chronicles, Live.Love.Arcis, LUX, and WHITE. Alongside her creative work, since 2024 she has been teaching choreographic composition at the Iwanson International School of Contemporary Dance, continuing her research into the dialogue between music and movement and the redefinition of the boundaries of the performing arts.

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The box office at Fonderia opens one hour before the start of the performance.
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Dreamers
2026-03-04 20:30 - 22:00 | Teatro Sociale, Piazza Giuseppe Garibaldi 14, Rovigo, 45100, Italy
At the Teatro Sociale in Brescia, Aterballetto performs Dreamers, an evening featuring choreographies by Tortelli, Kratz, Preljocaj, and Pite.
A single evening unites the signature of Crystal Pite—the most sought-after choreographer across Europe and North America—with those of Diego Tortelli and Philippe Kratz, two of the most exciting and acclaimed under-40 creators on the international scene. Completing the program is a duet by Angelin Preljocaj, a choreographer long considered among the greats of contemporary dance.
Dreamers opens with Preludio by Diego Tortelli from Brescia, a love letter to the body for five dancers, built around some of the most intense poems and songs by Australian singer-songwriter Nick Cave, whose unmistakable voice envelops the audience.
At the heart of the evening is O by Philippe Kratz, former leading dancer of Aterballetto and now a choreographer in demand by major theatres worldwide. In a state of emotional transcendence, we witness the encounter between human and robot—two entities moving together to the endless rhythm of their unstoppable hearts.
This is followed by Reconciliatio by Angelin Preljocaj, a duet set to Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata that explores reconciliation through a poetic and impressionistic lens, inspired by a devoted yet non-literal reading of the Apocalypse.
The evening closes with the soft snowstorm of Solo Echo by Crystal Pite, inspired by two sonatas for cello and piano by Johannes Brahms and the profound verses of Mark Strand. On stage, one breathes the winter of the soul: time slows down, and the body becomes a vessel for moving and powerful introspection. With delicacy and intensity, Pite reflects on loss, the acceptance of change, and the mystery of resilience.

Dreamers
2026-03-05 20:30 - 22:00, 2026-03-06 20:30 - 22:00 | Teatro Sociale, Piazza Giuseppe Garibaldi 14, Rovigo, 45100, Italy
At Teatro Sociale di Brescia, Aterballetto presents Dreamers, an evening programme featuring choreographies by Diego Tortelli, Philippe Kratz, Angelin Preljocaj, and Crystal Pite.

A single performance that brings together the signature of Crystal Pite—one of the most sought-after choreographers between Europe and North America—with those of Diego Tortelli and Philippe Kratz, two of the most compelling and acclaimed choreographic voices under 40 on the international scene. The programme is completed by a pas de deux by Angelin Preljocaj, a choreographer firmly in the pantheon of dance.
Dreamers opens with Preludio by Brescia-born Diego Tortelli: a love letter to the body for five dancers, built around some of the most intense poems and songs by Australian singer-songwriter Nick Cave, whose unmistakable voice envelops the audience.
At the heart of the evening is “O” by Philippe Kratz, former principal dancer with Aterballetto and now a choreographer commissioned by major theatres. In a state of emotional transcendence, we witness the encounter between a human being and a robot—two entities moving together to the endless rhythm of their unstoppable hearts.
Next comes Reconciliatio by Angelin Preljocaj, a duet set to Ludwig van Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata, exploring reconciliation through a poetic, impressionistic language inspired by a sustained—though not literal—engagement with the Book of Revelation.
The evening closes with the soft snowstorm of Solo Echo by Crystal Pite, inspired by two cello and piano sonatas by Johannes Brahms and the profound verses of Mark Strand. On stage, one breathes in the winter of the soul: time slows down, and the body becomes the vehicle for a tender yet powerful introspection. With delicacy and intensity, Pite reflects on loss, on accepting change, and on the mystery of resilience.

Le Palestriti
2026-03-06 19:00 - 20:00, 2026-03-07 19:00 - 20:00 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Girls just wanna have… A MEDAL
Le Palestriti by Simona Bertozzi: for Dance Week celebrating female creativity, a performance that reflects on the power of women.

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

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

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

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

Simona Bertozzi

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

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

TICKET PURCHASE

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

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

Tickets are unnumbered.

CONTACTS

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

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

CREDITS

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

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

LARA GUIDETTI

Lara Guidetti graduated in 2006 as a dancer and choreographer from the Theatre-Dance Atelier of the Scuola Paolo Grassi in Milan, studying with leading national and international masters. She continued her training in the fields of dance and performing arts, exploring various pedagogical methods and training practices through workshops and productions.
In 2008, she founded the Sanpapié company, where she serves as artistic director, choreographer, director, and performer, presenting works throughout Italy, Europe, China, and Saudi Arabia. In 2017, her performance LEI won the Premio Bonacina.
She collaborates with the JGM company in Lisbon, with Teatro alla Scala as a dancer and acrobat, and creates choreography for opera productions. She has taught at the Scuola Paolo Grassi and DanceHaus in Milan, as well as at the school of the Teatro Stabile di Torino.
Since 2022, she has been an associated artist of the MilanOltre Festival and a collaborator of CCN/Aterballetto as a choreographer and curator of site-specific projects and cultural welfare initiatives.

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

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

CREDITS

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

Approximate duration: 20 minutes

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

MONICA CASADEI

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

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TICKETS€3 for all / free admission for children under 6
TICKET PURCHASE
Tickets can be purchased online at www.biglietteriafonderia39.it.
The box office at Fonderia opens one hour before the start of the performance.
Tickets are unnumbered.
CONTACTS
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EPIPHANĪA - Mi rendo manifesta
2026-03-07 20:30 - 21:30 | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Girls just wanna have…THEIR OWN BODY
EPIPHANĪA – Mi rendo manifesta by Antonella Bertoni and Michele Abbondanza is the heart of Dance Week, celebrating female creativity and the feminine universe.

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

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

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

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

— Antonella Bertoni

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

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

— Michele Abbondanza

Abbondanza / Bertoni

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

Ministero della Cultura – Directorate-General for Live Performing Arts

Comune di Rovereto, Department of Culture

Provincia autonoma di Trento, Cultural Activities Service

Regione autonoma Trentino-Alto Adige

INFO & TICKETS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Emanuela Dall’aglio

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

INFO & TICKETS

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

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

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

CREDITS

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

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

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

Salvo Lombardo

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

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

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

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NOTTE MORRICONE
2026-03-10 21:00 - 22:30 | Teatro Biondo, Via Roma 258, Palermo, 90133, Italia
From March 10 to 15, 2026, Aterballetto performs Notte Morricone by Marcos Morau at the Teatro Biondo in Palermo.
“I, Ennio Morricone, am dead,” wrote the composer before taking his leave. His music, however, cannot die. This is how creators and artists always leave us without ever truly leaving, and how memory takes care to keep them alive, to keep them safe. Notte Morricone is my gift, a devoted tribute to the beauty he gave to the world.Notte Morricone unfolds in the twilight of an ordinary night in the life of a creative spirit who, alone and dazed before his papers, jots down notes and envisions melodies for films that do not yet exist, bringing stories back to life in the rarefied air of his room.Marcos Morau – Director and Choreographer
It is impossible to describe Notte Morricone, a masterful work that washes over the spectator in waves, embraces them with emotional currents, and captivates them with the memory of timeless melodies that have long outlived the images that first inspired them. Equally enchanting is the finely chiselled, ever-poetic choreography, composed with meticulous attention to detail: legs and necks seem jointless, bending and snapping rhythmically like metronomes.Maria Luisa Buzzi – Danza&Danza
Duration: 90 minutesFind out more »
