Double performance:
Thursday, June 5 – 9:00 PM
Friday, 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 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.
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.
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.
TICKET PURCHASE
Tickets can be purchased online at
www.biglietteriafonderia39.it
The box office opens one hour before the performance begins.
Seats are unassigned.
CONTACTS
Mobile & WhatsApp: +39 334 1023554
Email: biglietteria@aterballetto.it
