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Pablo Girolami dances through the voids of fear at Fonderia.

Monday 30 March, 6:00 pm – open rehearsal

Tuesday 31 March, 9:00 pm – performance – premiere

The fear of holes—or rather, of all those small geometric shapes that, when clustered together, create masses of tiny cavities. A play of images based on three-dimensional repetitions and juxtapositions that triggers a sense of disgust and repulsion; the alarm is activated by an intrinsic code, developed over centuries by our ancestors, which protects the phobic subject from the danger of infection by parasitic forms or injury from venomous animals.

Anxiety, anguish, fear: hundreds of names for a single existential condition—the fear of losing control over the world, over our body, over the other.

The medium through which a trypophobic skeleton takes shape is geometry, which, through the imaginative contribution of the human mind, becomes an active gateway to fear, reflecting human insecurities and paranoias.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkMUMq-eNaY

Compagnia IVONA
Choreography: Pablo Girolami
Dancers: Guilherme Leal, Pablo Girolami
Music: Jacob Kirkegaard, Philip Jeck, Max Richter, Guilherme Curade and others to be confirmed
Video: xxcxclarissa
Lighting: Angelo Tauro
Dramaturgy: Karen Stenico

Production: House of IVONA, Nutida Festival – Stazione Utopia, The Rijeka Port of Dance Festival, Skopje Dance Festival, Dance Festival Malta, TACT Festival in Trieste, Quinzena de Dança de Almada – International Dance Festival

With the support of KOMM TANZ Teatro Cartiera, Compagnia Abbondanza/Bertoni in collaboration with the Comune di Rovereto; Festival Fuori Programma & Romaeuropa Festival; ResiDanceXL – AnticorpiXL – Network Giovane Danza d’Autore, coordinated by L’arboreto – Teatro Dimora di Mondaino; Centro di Residenza della Toscana (Armunia – CapoTrave/Kilowatt); TWAIN Centro di Produzione Danza and PERIFERIE ARTISTICHE; DANCEHAUSpiù, Milan; Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia; MIC – Italian Ministry of Culture.

Pablo Girolami is a choreographer of Italian-Spanish origin who trained at the Tanz Akademie Zürich, where he graduated in 2014.
He has danced with Hessisches Staatsballett Wiesbaden/Darmstadt and Spellbound Contemporary Ballet, working with choreographers such as Wayne McGregor, Hofesh Shechter, and Marcos Morau.

He is currently the artistic director of IVONA and a freelance choreographer. Since 2024, he has also been the artistic director of the Fagagna Dance Festival.

Pablo has received important awards, including:

First Prize at the Jerusalem International Choreography Competition;
Best Choreography at the Certamen Coreográfico del Distrito de Tetuán – Madrid;
Best Choreography at the Linkage Choreographic Competition – Sofia;
TWAIN Direzioni_Altre Award 2019 and 2022 – Tuscania;
Audience Award at RIDCC – Rotterdam;
Audience Award at CortoinDanza Festival – Cagliari;
Audience Award at the 33rd Certamen Coreográfico de Madrid;
Best Dance Film at the ZED International Videodanza Festival – Bologna;
Best Dance Film at Interfaccia Digitale – HangarFest – Pesaro;
FeelGood Award at BIGFF – Bari.

Alongside his work with IVONA, Pablo has created works for several companies, including Balletto dell’Opera di Graz, Jerusalem Dance Theatre, Club Guy & Roni, EgriBianco Danza, and Nuovo Balletto di Toscana. In 2025, together with Philippe Kratz, he won the Biennale di Venezia call for projects with the new creation Sisifo Felice, which premiered at Biennale Danza 2025.

Girolami has further expanded his presence in the artistic field by taking on roles as movement director and consultant in theatre and multidisciplinary projects, while also working in education at major institutions such as the Bachelor Program in Zurich and Taipei Art University.

TICKETS

Open rehearsal – Monday 30 March, 6:00 pm
Full price: €3
Free admission for children under 6

Performance – Tuesday 31 March, 9:00 pm
Full price: €10
Reduced price (under 30, dance schools, Liceo Coreutico Matilde di Canossa, over 65, CRAL Comune di Reggio Emilia members): €6
Reduced 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

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