Centro Coreografico Nazionale / Aterballetto

NOTTE MORRICONE
2025-04-27 19:00 - 20:30 (Europe/Rome) | Teatro de la Maestranza, Paseo de Cristóbal Colón, 22, Sevilla, Spagna
The National Choreographic Center/Aterballetto pays tribute to Ennio Morricone with a new production by Spanish choreographer Marcos Morau.
The Spanish artist, with his visionary power and ability to transform musical universes, presents a unique creation that intertwines the music of Academy Award winner Ennio Morricone with dance, visual arts, and cinematic inspirations.
Marcos Morau, the youngest choreographer to date to receive the National Dance Award, Spain’s highest honor in dance, constructs imaginary worlds and landscapes where image, text, movement, music, and space form a unique universe constantly nurtured by cinema, photography, and literature. Now, for his first collaboration with the CCN/Aterballetto, he has chosen to draw from iconic compositions of the cinematic landscape of the last seventy years: those of Academy Award winner Ennio Morricone.
The director says: “With classical training and an avant-garde vocation, Morricone has always been beyond the trends of his time. His music spans an entire century and has revived the works of many great masters. For this evening, I aim to build a universe based on his sensitivity, confirming that his legacy is more alive than ever, and, as he himself would say, ‘My music has a life of its own, which can live beyond the films for which it was created.'”
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Duration 90′

The performance in Sevilla is in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute in Madrid and the Directorate-General for Public and Cultural Diplomacy of the MAECI

ITALIA DANZA - London
2025-04-29 11:00 - 13:30 (Europe/Rome) | Victoria and Albert Museum South Kensington, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 2RL, United Kingdom
Italia Danza, thanks to the collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute in London, arrives in the UK capital with the performance Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda.
A cosmopolitan project, entrusted to the universal language of the body, promoted by the General Directorate for Public and Cultural Diplomacy of the Farnesina, and performed by CCN/Aterballetto, thanks to its vast repertoire of site-specific creations, designed to inhabit palaces, monumental or urban spaces, and symbolic cultural sites.

Victoria & Albert Museum South Kensington – London, April 29, 2025, at 11 AM and 1 PM

As part of the Performance Festival at the V&A Museum, CCN/Aterballetto celebrates International Dance Day with Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, a dance and live music performance created in September 2024 to enhance Italian cultural heritage, co-designed with the General Directorate of Museums of the Ministry of Culture.
Within the stunning Raphael Gallery of the V&A Museum, the story of love and death narrated by Torquato Tasso in Gerusalemme Liberata (1575) and set to music by Claudio Monteverdi (1624) will come to life. The performance, directed by Fabio Cherstich and Philippe Kratz, features dancers Gador Lago Benito and Alberto Terribile, tenor Matteo Straffi, and harpsichordist Deniel Perer.

CREDITS
Direction and visuals: FABIO CHERSTICH
Choreography and stage movements: PHILIPPE KRATZ
Music: IL COMBATTIMENTO DI TANCREDI E CLORINDA by CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
Dancers: GADOR LAGO BENITO, ALBERTO TERRIBILE
Singer: MATTEO STRAFFI
Harpsichord: DENIEL PERER

Coproduction: FONDAZIONE NAZIONALE DELLA DANZA / ATERBALLETTO, TEATRO REGIO DI PARMA / FESTIVAL VERDI, TORINODANZA FESTIVAL – TEATRO STABILE DI TORINO – TEATRO NAZIONALE, GHISLIERIMUSICA – CENTRO DI MUSICA ANTICA
Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda is a project aimed at enhancing live performance activities within cultural institutions and heritage sites, promoted by the General Directorate of Museums and co-financed by the General Directorate for Performing Arts.
To implement the project, the National Museums of Perugia – Regional Directorate of National Museums of Umbria—specifically the National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre of Spoleto—have established, with the support of the General Directorate of Museums, a partnership shared with five other significant cultural sites: Villa Pisani in Stra, Castello and Park of Racconigi, Swabian Castle of Bari, Certosa di San Martino in Naples, and the Archaeological Park of Venosa. Additionally, Castel Sant’Angelo in Rome will host the initiative as part of the summer festival Sotto l’angelo di Castello.

The project is part of Italia Danza, a co-designed initiative by the General Directorate for Public and Cultural Diplomacy of the Maeci and CCN/Aterballetto to promote Italian artistic heritage abroad.
BODIES AS MIRRORS
In my vision of Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, I imagine a confined, circular space where the proximity and similarity of the bodies play a fundamental role. Together with choreographer Philippe Kratz, we explore the idea of bodies as mirrors, thus narrating a humanity in conflict with itself. Eros and Thanatos emerge as equally powerful forces, creating a paradoxical atmosphere in this perfectly balanced struggle between human beings. In our vision, Tancredi and Clorinda are contemporary warriors, inextricably bound to one another, forced to fight and enact a story that has already been written.
A single voice will bring three characters to life: the text itself, Tancredi, and Clorinda will merge into the body and sound of a singer. This estranged sound, constrained by a circular path, creates a sense of constant repetition, emphasizing the endless cycle of this tale of love and death, doomed to repeat itself through the centuries and reach us with all its force, as an emanation of the poetic power of Tasso’s words and Monteverdi’s sublime music.
Fabio Cherstich, Director
INNER STRUGGLE
In Torquato Tasso’s tale, set to music by Claudio Monteverdi, the most obvious themes are the battle between man and woman and religious conversion, yet these are the aspects I find least intriguing: adapting them into dance would risk falling into a mere narration of factual circumstances.
A more philosophical or psychoanalytical reading of this struggle, from which both protagonists emerge defeated, deceived, and alone, seems far more compelling to me. Within the opposition of these two roles, an entire world already exists: seeking each other, confronting each other, and wounding each other. The dynamic follows the ritualistic pattern of war and conflict, as two entities draw near. The absurdity of the act is revealed when one of them loses their life, and we realize that the other, in the end, has not won… a deep and shared wound that remains on both bodies. Are they two people fighting each other, or perhaps a single person struggling with themselves?
Philippe Kratz, Choreographer

Solo Echo / Rhapsody in Blue / Glory Hall
2025-04-30 19:30 - 21:00 (Europe/Rome) | Museo Universidad de Navarra, Campus Universitario s/n 31009, Pamplona, Spagna
The CCN/Aterballetto performs in Pamplona as part of the 7th edition of the festival *Museo en Danza* with the triptych consisting of Solo Echo by Crystal Pite, Rhapsody in Blue by Iratxe Ansa and Igor Bacovich, and Glory Hall by Diego Tortelli.
SOLO ECHO – Crystal Pite
Love, loss, and acceptance lie at the heart of Solo Echo by Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite, inspired by two cello and piano sonatas by Johannes Brahms and the poem Lines for Winter by Mark Strand. As in Strand’s poem, Solo Echo evokes winter, music, and the moving body to express something essential about acceptance and loss.

RHAPSODY IN BLUE – Iratxe Ansa & Igor Bacovich
«Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin offers us several attractive points: it is splendid music, well-known but not so frequently heard by the younger generations. Introducing this work to young people is a worthy goal, and this piece can be a way to present a less distant and less “American” vision of Gershwin, moving beyond the cultural context in which the rhapsody was created. Inevitably, the rhapsody will dictate the choreographic work; the cheerful and lively changes it offers are fantastic to play with.» – Iratxe Ansa & Igor Bacovich

GLORY HALL – Diego Tortelli
Glory Hall by Diego Tortelli is a sensorial and rebellious journey into an in-between space, suspended between light and darkness. The music leads in a crescendo of harmony and transgression, creating a boundless ecstasy that blends rock sounds with symphonic melodies.
blockquote>The performance in Pamplona is in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute in Madrid and the Directorate-General for Public and Cultural Diplomacy of the MAECI.

NOTTE MORRICONE
2025-05-06 20:00 - 21:30, 2025-05-07 20:00 - 21:30 (Europe/Rome) | Maison des Arts, Pl. Salvador Allende, Créteil, 94000, Francia
The National Choreographic Center/Aterballetto pays tribute to Ennio Morricone with a new production by Spanish choreographer Marcos Morau.
The Spanish artist, with his visionary power and ability to transform musical universes, presents a unique creation that intertwines the music of Academy Award winner Ennio Morricone with dance, visual arts, and cinematic inspirations.
Marcos Morau, the youngest choreographer to date to receive the National Dance Award, Spain’s highest honor in dance, constructs imaginary worlds and landscapes where image, text, movement, music, and space form a unique universe constantly nurtured by cinema, photography, and literature. Now, for his first collaboration with the CCN/Aterballetto, he has chosen to draw from iconic compositions of the cinematic landscape of the last seventy years: those of Academy Award winner Ennio Morricone.
The director says: “With classical training and an avant-garde vocation, Morricone has always been beyond the trends of his time. His music spans an entire century and has revived the works of many great masters. For this evening, I aim to build a universe based on his sensitivity, confirming that his legacy is more alive than ever, and, as he himself would say, ‘My music has a life of its own, which can live beyond the films for which it was created.'”
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Duration 90′
Durata 90′
The performances at Maison des Arts in Creteil, on 6th and 7th May 2025, are in partnership with Istituto Italiano di Cultura a Parigi and Direzione Generale per la diplomazia pubblica e culturale del MAECI

Solo Echo / Rhapsody in Blue / Glory Hall
2025-05-09 19:30 - 21:00, 2025-05-10 19:30 - 21:00, 2025-05-11 18:00 - 19:30 (Europe/Rome) | Oldenburgisches Staatstheater, Theaterwall 19, 26122 Oldenburg, Germania, Oldenburg, Germany
SOLO ECHO – Crystal Pite
Love, loss, and acceptance lie at the heart of Solo Echo by Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite. Inspired by two cello and piano sonatas by Johannes Brahms and Mark Strand’s poem “Lines for Winter,” Solo Echo evokes winter, music, and the moving body to express something essential about acceptance and loss.
RHAPSODY IN BLUE – Iratxe Ansa & Igor Bacovich
«Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin holds many points of fascination for us. It is a magnificent piece of music—well-known yet not frequently listened to by younger generations. Introducing this work to a new audience is a valuable goal, and this production offers a perspective on Gershwin that feels less distant and less “American,” transcending the cultural context in which the rhapsody was created. Inevitably, the rhapsody itself will shape the choreography, and the lively, sparkling shifts within the music provide a fantastic playground for exploration.» – Iratxe Ansa & Igor Bacovich

GLORY HALL – Diego Tortelli
Glory Hall by Diego Tortelli is a sensory and rebellious journey through a liminal space, suspended between light and darkness. The music leads the way in a crescendo of harmony and transgression, evoking a boundless ecstasy that blends rock influences with symphonic melodies.

Dance your time - open rehearsal
2025-05-10 18:00 - 19:00 (Europe/Rome) | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
As part of the Danza in Fonderia festival, the Centro Coreografico Nazionale/Aterballetto presents a special event featuring Dance Your Time, the advanced training course for young dancers, in collaboration with CNA Fo.Er.
On stage, the final choreographic outcome of the module led by Sasha Riva and Simone Repele, the result of two weeks of intensive work.
The creation, set to the music of Swan Lake by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, offers an opportunity to discover the talent of young performers and the sensitive, visionary language of the two choreographers.
The open rehearsal begins with a talk moderated by Azzurra Di Meco, dance journalist and critic, who will engage in conversation with the choreographers to offer the audience insight into the creative process and the training path undertaken by the participants.
SASHA RIVA & SIMONE REPELE
Sasha Riva, born in 1991, and Simone Repele, born in 1993, both completed their studies in Hamburg at the School of the Hamburg Ballet John Neumeier. After several years dancing with companies such as the Hamburg Ballet and the Geneva Ballet, they founded Riva & Repele in 2020, dedicating themselves to choreographic creation while continuing to perform as dancers.
They have created poetic and sensitive choreographies such as Lili Elbe Show and Dear Son, presented at international festivals and theatres. They have collaborated with international companies including the Stuttgart Ballet, Augsburg Ballet, Rome Opera House, and Teatro Massimo in Palermo, and their upcoming projects will see them creating for the Béjart Ballet. They have been described as the “Poets of Dance” for the expressive power of their choreographic language.
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Under 6: free admission
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Fonderia Box Office: the box office opens half an hour before the performance begins (via della Costituzione 39, Reggio Emilia).

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NOTTE MORRICONE
2025-05-14 19:30 - 21:00 (Europe/Rome) | Hessisches Staatstheater, Christian-Zais-Str. 3, Wiesbaden, 65189, Germania
The Centro Coreografico Nazionale/Aterballetto pays tribute to Ennio Morricone with a new production by Spanish choreographer Marcos Morau.
With his visionary power and ability to transfigure musical universes, the Spanish artist presents a unique creation intertwining the music of Academy Award-winning composer Ennio Morricone with dance, visual arts, and cinematic influences.
Marcos Morau, the youngest choreographer to receive the National Dance Award—Spain’s highest dance honor—builds imaginary worlds and landscapes where image, text, movement, music, and space form a unique universe, constantly nourished by cinema, photography, and literature. Now, in his first collaboration with CCN/Aterballetto, he has chosen to work with the iconic compositions that have shaped the cinematic landscape over the past seventy years: those of Academy Award-winning composer Ennio Morricone.
The director says: «Classically trained yet avant-garde in spirit, Morricone was always beyond the trends of his time. His music belongs to an entire century and has brought many of our great masters back to life. For this evening, I want to build a universe based on his sensitivity to confirm that his legacy is more alive than ever and that, as he himself would say, my music has a life of its own, one that can live beyond the films for which it was created.»
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Duration: 90′
The performance in Wiesbaden is presented in collaboration with the General Directorate for Public and Cultural Diplomacy of MAECI and the Italian Cultural Institute in Köln.

NOTTE MORRICONE
2025-05-17 19:30 - 21:00 (Europe/Rome) | Kurtheater, Parkstrasse 20, Baden, 5401, Svizzera
The National Choreographic Center/Aterballetto pays tribute to Ennio Morricone with a new production by Spanish choreographer Marcos Morau.
The Spanish artist, with his visionary power and ability to transform musical universes, presents a unique creation that intertwines the music of Academy Award winner Ennio Morricone with dance, visual arts, and cinematic inspirations.
Marcos Morau, the youngest choreographer to date to receive the National Dance Award, Spain’s highest honor in dance, constructs imaginary worlds and landscapes where image, text, movement, music, and space form a unique universe constantly nurtured by cinema, photography, and literature. Now, for his first collaboration with the CCN/Aterballetto, he has chosen to draw from iconic compositions of the cinematic landscape of the last seventy years: those of Academy Award winner Ennio Morricone.
The director says: “With classical training and an avant-garde vocation, Morricone has always been beyond the trends of his time. His music spans an entire century and has revived the works of many great masters. For this evening, I aim to build a universe based on his sensitivity, confirming that his legacy is more alive than ever, and, as he himself would say, ‘My music has a life of its own, which can live beyond the films for which it was created.'”
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Duration 90′

NOTTE MORRICONE
2025-05-21 19:30 - 21:00 (Europe/Rome) | Graf-Zeppelin-Haus, Olgastraße 21, Friedrichshafen, 88045, Germany
The Centro Coreografico Nazionale/Aterballetto pays tribute to Ennio Morricone with a new production by Spanish choreographer Marcos Morau.
With his visionary power and ability to transfigure musical universes, the Spanish artist presents a unique creation intertwining the music of Academy Award-winning composer Ennio Morricone with dance, visual arts, and cinematic influences.
Marcos Morau, the youngest choreographer to receive the National Dance Award—Spain’s highest dance honor—builds imaginary worlds and landscapes where image, text, movement, music, and space form a unique universe, constantly nourished by cinema, photography, and literature. Now, in his first collaboration with CCN/Aterballetto, he has chosen to work with the iconic compositions that have shaped the cinematic landscape over the past seventy years: those of Academy Award-winning composer Ennio Morricone.
The director says: «Classically trained yet avant-garde in spirit, Morricone was always beyond the trends of his time. His music belongs to an entire century and has brought many of our great masters back to life. For this evening, I want to build a universe based on his sensitivity to confirm that his legacy is more alive than ever and that, as he himself would say, my music has a life of its own, one that can live beyond the films for which it was created.»
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Duration: 90′

NOTTE MORRICONE
2025-05-24 20:00 - 21:30, 2025-05-25 18:00 - 19:30 (Europe/Rome) | Ruhrfestspielhaus Großes Haus, Otto-Burrmeister-Allee 1, Recklinghausen, 45657, Germany
The Centro Coreografico Nazionale/Aterballetto pays tribute to Ennio Morricone with a new production by Spanish choreographer Marcos Morau.
With his visionary power and ability to transfigure musical universes, the Spanish artist presents a unique creation intertwining the music of Academy Award-winning composer Ennio Morricone with dance, visual arts, and cinematic influences.
Marcos Morau, the youngest choreographer to receive the National Dance Award—Spain’s highest dance honor—builds imaginary worlds and landscapes where image, text, movement, music, and space form a unique universe, constantly nourished by cinema, photography, and literature. Now, in his first collaboration with CCN/Aterballetto, he has chosen to work with the iconic compositions that have shaped the cinematic landscape over the past seventy years: those of Academy Award-winning composer Ennio Morricone.
The director says: «Classically trained yet avant-garde in spirit, Morricone was always beyond the trends of his time. His music belongs to an entire century and has brought many of our great masters back to life. For this evening, I want to build a universe based on his sensitivity to confirm that his legacy is more alive than ever and that, as he himself would say, my music has a life of its own, one that can live beyond the films for which it was created.»
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Duration: 90′
The performances at the Ruhrfestspiele are presented in collaboration with the General Directorate for Public and Cultural Diplomacy of MAECI and the Italian Cultural Institute in Köln.

NOTTE MORRICONE
2025-06-05 20:00 - 21:30, 2025-06-06 20:00 - 21:30 (Europe/Rome) | Pavillon Noir, 530 Avenue Mozart, Aix-en-Provence, Francia
The National Choreographic Center/Aterballetto pays tribute to Ennio Morricone with a new production by Spanish choreographer Marcos Morau.
The Spanish artist, with his visionary power and ability to transform musical universes, presents a unique creation that intertwines the music of Academy Award winner Ennio Morricone with dance, visual arts, and cinematic inspirations.
Marcos Morau, the youngest choreographer to date to receive the National Dance Award, Spain’s highest honor in dance, constructs imaginary worlds and landscapes where image, text, movement, music, and space form a unique universe constantly nurtured by cinema, photography, and literature. Now, for his first collaboration with the CCN/Aterballetto, he has chosen to draw from iconic compositions of the cinematic landscape of the last seventy years: those of Academy Award winner Ennio Morricone.
The director says: “With classical training and an avant-garde vocation, Morricone has always been beyond the trends of his time. His music spans an entire century and has revived the works of many great masters. For this evening, I aim to build a universe based on his sensitivity, confirming that his legacy is more alive than ever, and, as he himself would say, ‘My music has a life of its own, which can live beyond the films for which it was created.'”
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Duration 90′
The shows are in partnership with Directorate-General for Public and Cultural Diplomacy of Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and Italian Institute of Culture in Marseille

Made in Italy 35.0
2025-06-05 21:00 - 22:30, 2025-06-06 21:00 - 22:30 (Europe/Rome) | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Double performance:
Thursday, June 5 – 9:00 PMFriday, June 6 – 9:00 PM
The protagonists of the evening are the dancers of Agora Coaching Project, an advanced 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. Launched in 2010, the course is gaining full recognition in the European dance scene and boasts collaborations with internationally renowned teachers and choreographers.
The evening features two choreographies: Passo d’addio by Claudia Rossi Valli and Last movement of hope – III Chapter: Annunciation by Adriano Bolognino.
AGORA COACHING PROJECT
Agora Coaching Project is a year-long advanced dance training program for dancers aged between 18 and 22, based in Reggio Emilia. 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 of Reggio Emilia.
The program aims to train artists who are prepared to face the diversity of the international dance market with flexibility — dancers capable of responding to its various technical and stylistic demands. The project offers a wide range of stimuli, including technical training, cultural enrichment, and opportunities for exchange between students and choreographers, each of whom brings a unique and valuable perspective from the international dance scene.
Agora allows young dancers to meet established choreographers from diverse stylistic backgrounds. Over the years, many renowned names have taken part in the project. Alongside Michele Merola and Enrico Morelli, the program is supported by a team of highly qualified instructors, each with proven experience in the field.
Passo d'addio
by Natiscalzi DT
concept/choreographic dramaturgy/texts: Claudia Rossi Valli
artistic assistance: Tommaso Monza
music: F. F. Chopin, Niccolò Fabi, Ori Litchi, Meitei, Olivia Sellerio, Michael Wall
dance and voices: Agora Coaching Project
duration: 40 min.
addìo: interjection and noun [A form of farewell used when parting for good. “Dare l’a.” — to say goodbye to a place or thing, to leave it forever. Also plural, “gli addii” — the final farewells, the separation.] — Treccani
Passo d’Addio is a sensorial and emotional journey through the many nuances of final moments. The performance explores the concept of “farewell” and “last time” as physical, sonic, and poetic acts, transforming images, thoughts, and memories into movement. By sharing the creative process with the performers, the stage becomes a sensory lab — a collective, corporeal narrative.
How do we know this will truly be the last time? How does our best farewell move? Sometimes, it makes space like revenge; other times, it tickles a laugh or gently brushes the cheek, consoles us like a prayer, cradles us like a lullaby. Sometimes, the farewell is whispered; other times, it crashes — tumbling down the stairs. What does a farewell taste like? The taste of melancholy?
My farewell tastes like salted caramel on the last ice cream cone of that summer.
What does our farewell sound like?
It strikes the bass drum of our lungs and then reverberates to the edges of us.
It stumbles on our teeth, bounces off the palate, falling in and out of us, not knowing where its echo will land.
It skips across our goosebumps, turning into dismay — and a nocturnal forest.

LAST MOVEMENT OF HOPE - III CHAPTER: ANNUNCIAZIONE
choreography: Adriano Bolognino
assistant: Rosaria Di Maro
music: Luke Howard, Giuseppe Villarosa, M83
performers: Agora Coaching Project
duration: 20 min.
“Facing dust storms, I will fight until the end.
Creatures of my dreams: rise and dance with me.
Now and forever, I am your King.”
The need to be reborn arrives loudly — and perhaps you hear it shout even louder when faced with the fear of loss. Then, perhaps, filling up before it empties, building before it collapses, seems like the right path. The need for rebirth comes when you start to envision a void you cannot leap over. So you decide to plant seeds around it, to water a garden you can lie on — a garden that can hold you when pain brings you to your knees. A garden not of flowers, but of breath, waiting, and names not yet spoken. An energy that moves, tears, pushes. It descends, flows through bodies, uniting them. It opens a space, a passage. A pulsating collective body that crosses the threshold.
This work is part of a collection of micro-dances titled Last Movement of Hope, conceived as a larger project — a collection, a book in which each chapter represents a moment of creative exploration, an emotion, an encounter, or a reflection. It was born from the desire to explore and narrate the human experience through dance, in all its complexity: our relationships with ourselves and others, our fears, struggles, and, above all, the hope that drives us forward.
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TICKET PURCHASE
Tickets can be purchased online at www.biglietteriafonderia39.it
The box office opens one hour before the performance begins.
Seats are unassigned.
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Italia Danza - Edinburgh
2025-06-12 18:00 - 20:00 (Europe/Sofia) | Istituto Italiano di Cultura, 20-22 East London Street, Edimburgo, United Kingdom
Italia Danza arrives in Edinburgh.
A cosmopolitan project, entrusted to the universal language of the body, promoted by the Directorate General for Public and Cultural Diplomacy of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and interpreted by CCN/Aterballetto thanks to its extensive repertoire of site-specific creations. A contemporary repertoire that includes the MicroDanze (short choreographies for confined spaces, created by Italian and international choreographers), as well as stage performances adapted for the occasion, making them suitable to be presented anywhere.
Italian Cultural Institute of Edinburgh, 12 June 2025 at 6:00 PM and 7:00 PM
On the occasion of the inauguration of the new premises of the IIC, CCN/Aterballetto will perform four MicroDanze in the indoor and outdoor spaces of the Institute. On stage: Eppur si muove by Francesca Lattuada, Turn the Tide by Roberto Tedesco, Near life experience by Angelin Preljocaj, and A Gig by Diego Tortelli.

SANTA
2025-06-12 19:30 - 23:15 (Europe/Rome) | Reggiane Parco Innovazione, Piazzale Europa, 1, Reggio Emilia, Italy
From an idea by director Gigi Cristoforetti, the new project SANTA by the Centro Coreografico Nazionale / Aterballetto, in co-production with the Sanpapié Company, is an urban experience between art and dance curated by journalist and cultural communicator Nicolas Ballario, through a journey that unfolds between the choreographic actions of Lara Guidetti and the works of Maurizio Cattelan, one of the most renowned and controversial contemporary Italian artists, famous for his provocative and ironic language.
The new project SANTA by the Centro Coreografico Nazionale / Aterballetto, co-produced with Compagnia Sanpapié, is an urban experience blending art and dance. Conceived in collaboration with curator and cultural communicator Nicolas Ballario and choreographer Lara Guidetti, the project features artworks by Maurizio Cattelan—such as the homeless figure seen in the photo—as central protagonists.

Starting June 12, for three weekends, audiences will be guided through Pavilions 17 and 18 of Reggiane Parco Innovazione: an urban regeneration project that has transformed a former industrial site in the Santa Croce district of Reggio Emilia (hence the name SANTA) into a hub for research, culture, and new technologies.

Wearing silent-disco headphones and guided by the voice of Nicolas Ballario along with choreographic actions, visitors will experience a unique perceptual journey that weaves together historical memory and architecture—an invitation to imagine new futures within one of the city’s symbolic spaces.
It’s something that resembles a kind of ritual, where the final destination of the site-specific performance is not immediately revealed. Only those who take part—rewarded for placing their trust in this artistic offering—will discover something truly unexpected. And perhaps it is precisely for this reason that the title SANTA was chosen.

Credits

Concept and Curatorship: Nicolas BallarioChoreographic Action: Lara Guidetti
Special thanks to Maurizio Cattelan and his private collection
Music: various composersSound Design: Marcello GoriLighting Design: Marcello MarchiCostume and Accessories Design: Maria Barbara De Marco / Fabrizio CalannaCostume Realization: Nuvia Valestri
Performers:Gioele Cosentino, Vittoria Franchina, Gador Lago Benito, Alberto TerribileKiran Luc Gezels, Alessia Giacomelli, Michele Hu, Karline Olivia Kotila
A co-production by CCN/Aterballetto and Compagnia SanpapiéIn collaboration with STU Reggiane, with the support of the City of Reggio Emilia
SANTA is the first chapter of the three-year project Danze dell’Utopia by the Centro Coreografico Nazionale / Aterballetto, conceived by director Gigi Cristoforetti to explore the relationship between body, space, and imagination in processes of urban regeneration.

Dates and Times
Thursday 12, Friday 13, Saturday 14 June 2025 – 7:30 PM, 9:00 PM, 10:15 PMThursday 26, Friday 27, Saturday 28 June 2025 – 7:30 PM, 9:00 PM, 10:15 PMThursday 3, Friday 4, Saturday 5 July 2025 – 7:30 PM, 9:00 PM, 10:15 PM

Duration: 1 hour
Where
Reggiane Parco Innovazione
Piazzale Europa, 1, Reggio Emilia
Ticketing

Single ticket: €5Online purchase: www.biglietteriafonderia39.it/home.aspx
On-site box office is open at the Tecnopolo, Reggiane Parco Innovazione from 6:30 PM on the following dates:12, 13, 14 – 26, 27, 28 June – 3, 4, 5 July 2025
Tickets purchased online must be collected at the box office during opening hours by presenting the purchase receipt.

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Note for the Audience

The SANTA experience is a walking itinerary with no seating, and includes some stair passages.Total duration is approximately one hour.We recommend wearing comfortable shoes.Please arrive 15 minutes before the start time to collect your silent-disco headphones and complete check-in procedures.

NOTTE MORRICONE
2025-06-19 21:30 - 23:00 (Europe/Rome) | Palazzo Mauro De André, viale Europa,1, Ravenna, Italy
At Ravenna Festival the Centro Coreografico Nazionale/Aterballetto dances Notte Morricone, the tribute to Ennio Morricone from Spanish choreographer Marcos Morau.
With his visionary power and ability to transfigure musical universes, the Spanish artist presents a unique creation intertwining the music of Academy Award-winning composer Ennio Morricone with dance, visual arts, and cinematic influences.
Marcos Morau, the youngest choreographer to receive the National Dance Award—Spain’s highest dance honor—builds imaginary worlds and landscapes where image, text, movement, music, and space form a unique universe, constantly nourished by cinema, photography, and literature. Now, in his first collaboration with CCN/Aterballetto, he has chosen to work with the iconic compositions that have shaped the cinematic landscape over the past seventy years: those of Academy Award-winning composer Ennio Morricone.
The director says: «Classically trained yet avant-garde in spirit, Morricone was always beyond the trends of his time. His music belongs to an entire century and has brought many of our great masters back to life. For this evening, I want to build a universe based on his sensitivity to confirm that his legacy is more alive than ever and that, as he himself would say, my music has a life of its own, one that can live beyond the films for which it was created.»
Find out more »
Duration: 90′

MICRODANCES
2025-06-20 18:00 - 22:00 (Europe/Rome) | Classis Ravenna, Via Classense, 29, 48124 Ravenna RA, Ravenna, 48124, Italia
The MicroDanze, within the setting of the Ravenna Festival, will return in 2025 to the Classis Ravenna. Museo della Città e del Territorio.
After last year’s success, CCN/Aterballetto presents a new dance itinerary that will lead the Ravenna Festival audience through and into the spaces of the Classis Museum.
With a novelty! In addition to three MicroDanze, Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda will also be performed.
The program

Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda
directed and visual concept by Fabio Cherstich
choreography and scenic movement by Philippe Kratz
music by Claudio Monteverdi
Raffaele Giordani tenor
Deniel Perer harpsichord
Alessia Giacomelli, Kiran Gezels dancers

Eppur si muove
choreography by Francesca Lattuada
music by Ludwig van Beethoven
dancers Vittoria Franchina, Paolo Giovanni Grosso
creation for CCN/Aterballetto
restaged and presented by MM Contemporary Dance Company

Shelter
choreography by Saul Daniele Ardillo
music by Pasquale Catalano
dancer Sara De Greef

Platform 02
choreography by Ina Lesnakowski
music by Loscil
dancer Gador Lago Benito

DON JUAN
2025-06-28 22:30 - 23:59 (Europe/Rome) | Teatro del Generalife, P.º del Generalife, 1B, Granada, Centro, 18009, Spain
The CCN/Aterballetto at the prestigious Festival de Granada presents the full-length evening performance Don Juan, choreographed by Johan Inger.
The performance is in collaboration with the Directorate General for Public and Cultural Diplomacy of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and the Italian Cultural Institute of Madrid

The choreography stems from Inger’s desire to explore Don Giovanni, a paradigmatic myth both ancient and still contemporary. The original comedy by Tirso de Molina, Molière, Bertolt Brecht, and the theatrical work of Suzanne Lilar are just some of the sources of inspiration: Inger and dramaturg Gregor Acuña-Pohl consulted twenty-five different texts inspired by the character.
All the story’s key figures are featured in the piece, from Donna Elvira to Donna Anna to Zerlina and Masetto. Don Juan can be considered a Kammerspiel, with its focus on nuance and emotion: in this creation, dance becomes a magnifying glass on each character, subtly yet clearly revealing the inner world of the men and women on stage.
Danza&Danza Award ‘Best Production’ 2020

MICRODANCES
2025-06-29 20:00 - 21:30 (Europe/Rome) | Alhambra y Generalife, Plaza de los Aljibes, Granada, Spain
The MicroDances by CCN/Aterballetto arrive at FEX, the Festival Extension of Granada, to inhabit the incredible palace complex of the Alhambra.

The performance is held in collaboration with the Directorate General for Public and Cultural Diplomacy of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (Maeci) and the Italian Cultural Institute of Madrid

Two routes are scheduled (8:00 PM and 8:30 PM), guiding audience-visitors from Plaza de los Aljibes to the Torres Bermejas, passing through the Fundación Rodríguez-Acosta.
An Echo, A Wave by Philippe Kratz
Performer: Federica Lamonaca, Nolan Millioud
Turn the Tide by Roberto Tedesco
Performers: Arianna Kob, Matteo Fiorani
A Gig by Diego Tortelli
Performer: Estelle Bovay, Leonardo Farina
Near Life Experience by Angelin Preljocaj
Performer: Ivana Mastroviti, Albert Carol Perdiguer
Platform 02 by Ina Lesnakowski
Performer: Gador Lago Benito
Eppur si muove by Francesca Lattuada
Performer: Clément Haenen

NOTTE MORRICONE
2025-07-04 21:00 - 22:30, 2025-07-05 21:00 - 22:30 (Europe/Rome) | Teatro Grande – Scavi di Pompei, Piazza Porta Marina Inferiore, Pompei, NA, 80045, Italy
The Centro Coreografico Nazionale/Aterballetto presents Notte Morricone by Marcos Morau on July 4 and 5 at 9:00 PM at the Teatro Grande in Pompeii, as part of the Pompeii Theatrum Mundi festival organized by Teatro di Napoli and the Archaeological Park of Pompeii.

The Spanish choreographer, with his visionary power and ability to transform musical universes, presents a unique creation that intertwines the music of Academy Award winner Ennio Morricone with dance, visual arts, and cinematic influences.
Marcos Morau, to date the youngest choreographer to receive the National Dance Award—Spain’s highest recognition—builds imaginary worlds and landscapes where image, text, movement, music, and space form a unique universe constantly nourished by cinema, photography, and literature. Now, for his first collaboration with CCN/Aterballetto, he has chosen to explore iconic compositions from the cinematic landscape of the past seventy years: the works of Ennio Morricone.
The director says: “Classically trained and avant-garde in spirit, Morricone was always beyond the trends of the moment. His music belongs to an entire century and has brought many of our great masters back to life. For this evening, I would like to build a universe based on his sensitivity, to confirm that his legacy is more alive than ever and that, as he himself would say, my music has a life of its own, which can live far from the films it was created for.” Find out more »
Duration 90′

MicroDanze
2025-07-10 18:30 - 20:30 (Europe/Sofia) | Chiesa di San Bartolomeo Apostolo, Via Borzano, 157, Canossa, RE, Italy
MicroDanze arrive in the hills of Canossa, in the province of Reggio Emilia, at the Church of San Bartolomeo Apostolo in Borzano.
Surrounded by legendary and breathtaking landscapes, Aterballetto dancers will present Eppur si muove by Francesca Lattuada, Near Life Experience by Angelin Preljocaj, An Echo, A Wave by Philippe Kratz, and A Gig by Diego Tortelli.
The event, organized by Entroterre Festival, is part of the Festival dei Borghi.
July 10, 20256:30 PM and 7:30 PMDuration: 45 minutes
Access is possible only by car; carpooling is highly recommended.
Find the exact location here.A map marking parking, dining options, and points of interest is available here: click here to view.

Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda
2025-09-13 20:00 - 22:00 (Europe/Rome) | Puerta de Bisagra, Toledo, Spain
Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda in Toledo is the first performance of CCN/Aterballetto’s 2025–2026 season.
Puerta de Bisagra – Toledo, September 13, 2025 at 8:00 pm and 9:30 pm
With the support of the Italian Cultural Institute of Madrid, CCN/Aterballetto celebrates Spain’s Noche del Patrimonio with Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda.

The Puerta de Bisagra provides the majestic setting where the tale of love and death told by Torquato Tasso in Jerusalem Delivered (1575) and set to music by Claudio Monteverdi (1624) will come to life. The performance, created by Fabio Cherstich and Philippe Kratz, is interpreted by dancers Alessia Giacomelli and Kiran Gezels, tenor Matteo Straffi, and harpsichordist Deniel Perer.

https://youtu.be/mjZQdcn1fgc
CREDITS
Direction and Visuals: Fabio CherstichChoreography and Stage Movement: Philippe KratzMusic: Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda by Claudio MonteverdiDancers: Alessia Giacomelli, Kiran GezelsSinger: Matteo StraffiHarpsichord: Deniel Perer

Co-production: Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto, Teatro Regio di Parma / Festival Verdi, Torinodanza Festival – Teatro Stabile di Torino – Teatro Nazionale, Ghislierimusica – Centro di Musica Antica

Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda is a project for the promotion of live performance in museums and cultural heritage sites, supported by the Directorate-General for Museums and co-financed by the Directorate-General for Performing Arts.

For the implementation of the project, the National Museums of Perugia – Regional Directorate of National Museums of Umbria – and in particular the National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre of Spoleto, with the support of the Directorate-General for Museums, have established a partnership with five other major cultural sites: Villa Pisani in Stra, the Castle and Park of Racconigi, the Swabian Castle of Bari, the Certosa di San Martino in Naples, and the Archaeological Park of Venosa. In addition, Castel Sant’Angelo in Rome will host the initiative as part of the summer festival Sotto l’angelo di Castello.

The project is part of Italia Danza, a co-designed initiative by the Directorate General for Public and Cultural Diplomacy of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and CCN/Aterballetto, aimed at promoting Italy’s artistic heritage abroad.
BODIES AS MIRRORS
In my vision of Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, I imagine a confined, circular space, where proximity and the resemblance of bodies play a fundamental role. Together with choreographer Philippe Kratz, we explore the idea of bodies as mirrors, thus narrating a humanity in conflict with itself. Eros and Thanatos emerge as equally powerful forces, creating a paradoxical atmosphere in this perfectly balanced struggle between human beings. In our vision, Tancredi and Clorinda are contemporary warriors, indissolubly bound to one another, compelled to fight and to enact a story already written.

A single voice will give life to three characters: the text itself, Tancredi, and Clorinda will merge into the body and sound of one singer. This estranged sound, constrained by a circular path, creates a sense of constant repetition, underlining the endless cycle of this story of love and death—destined, tragically, to repeat itself through the centuries and to reach us with all its force, as an emanation of Tasso’s poetic power and Monteverdi’s sublime music.

Fabio Cherstich, Director
STRUGGLE WITHIN
In Tasso’s tale, set to music by Claudio Monteverdi, the most obvious themes are the struggle between man and woman and religious conversion, but these are also the aspects I find least intriguing: when adapted into dance, they risk becoming a mere narration of factual circumstances.

A more philosophical or psychoanalytic reading of this struggle—one from which both protagonists emerge defeated, deceived, and solitary—strikes me as far more compelling. Within the opposition of the two roles lies an entire world: the search for one another, the confrontation, the wounding of each other. The dynamic is that of a warlike, conflictual ritual between two entities drawing close. The absurdity of the act becomes clear when one of the two loses their life, and we realize that the other, in any case, has not won… a deep, shared wound remains, inscribed on both bodies. So, are they two people fighting one another, or perhaps one person struggling with themselves?

Philippe Kratz, Choreographer

Cani lunari - open session
2025-09-16 18:00 - 19:00 (Europe/Rome) | Fonderia, via della Costituzione, 39, Reggio Emilia, 42124, Italy
Francesco Marilungo’s Cani lunari is the opening event of the autumn edition of Danza in Fonderia.

Francesco Marilungo inaugurates Antologie. New Readings of the Body, the Danza in Fonderia series, with the open rehearsal of his latest work. Cani lunari reveals the first fragments of his new creation. Inspired by a rare lunar optical phenomenon and steeped in ancestral symbols, the piece delves into the imagery of the witch, the healer, the sorceress: figures on the margins of society, suspended between fear and desire, science and magic, exclusion and power.
https://vimeo.com/1048362306
Credits
Choreography and Direction: Francesco MarilungoWith: Vera Di Lecce, Barbara Novati, Roberta Racis, Alice Raffaelli, Francesca Linnea UgoliniCostumes: Lessico FamiliareMusic and Vocal Coaching: Vera Di LecceLighting Design: Gianni StaropoliPhotography and Video: Luca Del Pia

Production: Körper | National Dance Production CentreCo-production: SNAPORAZVEREIN, IRA Institute

With the support of ResiDance – an initiative of the Anticorpi XL Network,Tuscany Residency Centre (Fondazione Armunia Castiglioncello – CapoTrave/Kilowatt Sansepolcro),AMAT – Associazione Marchigiana per le Attività Teatrali,Consorzio PUGLIA CULTURE – Regional Consortium for Arts and Culture,in collaboration with Associazione Menhir / festival LE DANZATRICI en plein air in Ruvo di Puglia and Ass. Cult. TEATRO MENZATI’ / TEX – Il Teatro dell’ExFadda in San Vito dei Normanni (Puglia).

With the support of Cross Festival, Primavera dei Teatri CastrovillariWith the contribution of Marosi Festival, Teatro delle Moire
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During the winter months, when the moon is full or nearly full, its light can sometimes be refracted by ice crystals in the high clouds, creating a circular halo around the satellite with two symmetrical gleams at its sides: the moon dogs. Atmospheric phenomena that folk tradition once read as omens of storms, but also as signals of transition—visual thresholds into the invisible.
CANI LUNARI is a choreographic project that crosses these thresholds and immerses itself in an imaginary rooted in the archaic feminine, in magical knowledge, in ecstatic bodies. A sensitive inquiry into the figure of the witch, the healer: not as folkloric residue or demonized stereotype, but as the emblem of marginal yet powerful knowledge, resisting the logic of utility and visibility.

Through a process of research combining archival materials, oral testimonies, folkloric iconographies, and bodily practices, CANI LUNARI builds a performative rite in which the body dances trance, ecstasy, metamorphosis. The performers, holding taxidermy crows—souls released, spirit animals, threshold guides—enact gestures suspended between ritual and fiction, magic and theatrical play. Movement feeds on fragmentations, limps, archaic gestures, and sudden slips into animality, evoking a world where the boundary between human and beyond-human is porous and mutable. The body moves “above water and above wind,” echoing ancient formulas that still resonate in some Italian territories at the margins.

At the heart of the project lies a reflection on the hysterical body, a feminine site of crisis and enigma, historically linked to the figure of the witch and to states of possession. The 19th-century photographs of the Salpêtrière become symbolic material to embody: bodies out of control, traversed by the invisible, performing a different kind of knowledge. The witch’s body becomes a threshold-organism between dimensions—as John Cotta once wrote, “not a traveler between worlds, but the site of encounter between different spheres of being.”

CANI LUNARI recalls a knowledge that is both political and sensorial, an embodied epistemology. The soul—bird or breath—leaves the mouth, flies, detaches, and then returns to the body. As in the confessions extorted from persecuted women—often visionaries, storytellers, healers—the body becomes narrative, ritual of healing, exercise in survival. The soundscape, created by Vera Di Lecce, interweaves electronics and natural sound, oral chants and magical formulas, in a score suspended between the earthly and the divine.
CANI LUNARI is a crossing, a white sabbath, a collective ritual to re-enchant the world.

Francesco Marilungo
After studying Engineering and conducting research at the Von Karman Institute in Brussels, Francesco Marilungo attended the Theatre-Dance Atelier at Paolo Grassi in Milan. Since 2010, he has worked with internationally renowned choreographers such as Julie Anne Stanzak, Masaki Iwana, Yasmine Hugonnet, Jan Fabre, and Romeo Castellucci. Over the years, he has performed for Enzo Cosimi, Antonio Marras, and Alessandro Sciarroni. He then began his own artistic path, seeking a personal language at the intersection of performance, dance, and visual arts.

Paradise, winner of the NEXT 2015/2016 call in Lombardy, was selected by Anticorpi XL for the 2016 Vetrina della Giovane Danza d’Autore. Love Souvenir (2018) won the Inteatro Festival call and the Lombardy NEXT 2017/2018 call. With Party Girl, he received the Prospettiva Danza Award 2020 and the Cross Award 2020, and was selected for the Nid Platform 2021. Stuporosa premiered at Short Theatre Rome in September 2023 and began an international tour. In 2024, Stuporosa was presented at the Nid Platform in the programming section and won the 2024 UBU Award for Best Dance Performance.

His new project, Cani Lunari, winner of the Premio CollaborAction – Anticorpi XL Network, will premiere in September 2025.
Info&Tickets
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Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda
2025-09-22 18:00 - 18:30 (Europe/Rome) | Teatro Padiglione Italia, Osaka, Japan
CCN/Aterballetto is at Expo 2025 Osaka with Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda.
Italian Pavilion Theatre, September 22–24–25, 2025 at 6:00 pm
Thanks to the support of the Emilia-Romagna Region, CCN/Aterballetto takes part in Emilia-Romagna Week at Expo 2025 Osaka with Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda.

On stage at the Italian Pavilion Theatre, the story of love and death told by Torquato Tasso in Jerusalem Delivered (1575) and set to music by Claudio Monteverdi (1624) comes to life. The performance, created by Fabio Cherstich and Philippe Kratz, is interpreted by dancers Alessia Giacomelli and Kiran Gezels.

https://youtu.be/mjZQdcn1fgc
CREDITS

Direction and Visuals: Fabio CherstichChoreography and Stage Movement: Philippe KratzMusic: Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda by Claudio Monteverdi (recorded music by Matteo Straffi, tenor, and Deniel Perer, harpsichord)Dancers: Alessia Giacomelli, Kiran Gezels
Co-production: Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto, Teatro Regio di Parma / Festival Verdi, Torinodanza Festival – Teatro Stabile di Torino – Teatro Nazionale, Ghislierimusica – Centro di Musica Antica

Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda is a project for the promotion of live performance in museums and cultural heritage sites, supported by the Directorate-General for Museums and co-financed by the Directorate-General for Performing Arts.

For the implementation of the project, the National Museums of Perugia – Regional Directorate of National Museums of Umbria – and in particular the National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre of Spoleto, with the support of the Directorate-General for Museums, have established a partnership involving five other major cultural venues: Villa Pisani in Stra, the Castle and Park of Racconigi, the Swabian Castle of Bari, the Certosa di San Martino in Naples, and the Archaeological Park of Venosa. In addition, Castel Sant’Angelo in Rome will host the initiative as part of the summer festival Sotto l’angelo di Castello.

The project is part of Italia Danza, a co-designed initiative by the Directorate General for Public and Cultural Diplomacy of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and CCN/Aterballetto, aimed at promoting Italian artistic heritage abroad.
BODIES AS MIRROR
In my vision of Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, I imagine a confined, circular space, where proximity and the likeness of bodies play a fundamental role. Together with choreographer Philippe Kratz, we explore the idea of bodies as mirrors, thus narrating a humanity in conflict with itself. Eros and Thanatos emerge as equally powerful forces, creating a paradoxical atmosphere in this perfectly balanced struggle between human beings. In our vision, Tancredi and Clorinda are contemporary warriors, indissolubly bound to one another, compelled to fight and to enact a story already written.

A single voice will give life to three characters: the text itself, Tancredi, and Clorinda will merge into the body and sound of one singer. This estranged sound, constrained by a circular path, creates a sense of constant repetition, emphasizing the endless cycle of this tale of love and death—destined, tragically, to repeat itself through the centuries and to reach us with all its force, as an emanation of Tasso’s poetic power and Monteverdi’s sublime music.

Fabio Cherstich, Director
STRUGGLE WITHIN
In Tasso’s tale, set to music by Claudio Monteverdi, the most obvious themes are the struggle between man and woman and religious conversion, but these are also the aspects I find least intriguing: when adapted into dance, they risk becoming a mere narration of factual circumstances.

A more philosophical or psychoanalytic reading of this struggle—one from which both protagonists emerge defeated, deceived, and solitary—strikes me as far more compelling. Within the opposition of the two roles lies an entire world: the search for one another, the confrontation, the wounding of each other. The dynamic is that of a warlike, conflictual ritual between two entities drawing close. The absurdity of the act becomes clear when one of the two loses their life, and we realize that the other, in any case, has not won… a deep, shared wound remains, inscribed on both bodies. So, are they two people fighting one another, or perhaps one person struggling with themselves?

Philippe Kratz, Choreographer
