The Chiostri di San Pietro are the most extraordinary monumental complex in Reggio Emilia, one of the most striking of the Italian Renaissance, with a shape that bears the recognisable hand of Giulio Romano.
The Chiostri di San Pietro are the evocative setting of DANZA AI CHIOSTRI, a summer event curated by the Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto and the Fondazione I Teatri di Reggio Emilia as part of the Restate summer programme of the Municipality of Reggio Emilia.


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CENERI – open rehearsal

Monday 5 October, at 6.00 pm, the Fonderia audience will have the chance to meet the choreographer and watch the preparation of Ceneri, the new creation by Marcos Morau that will premiere in November at the Teatro Valli in Reggio Emilia within the setting of Festival Aperto.
Open rehearsals are unique moments in which you can watch a performance take shape, talk with the artists and be surprised by the art of dance: a special opportunity that lets the audience into the daily routine of dancers and choreographers.
Dream Team
Gauthier Dance Juniors opens the autumn season at the Fonderia with Dream Team.
Thursday 8 October 8.30 pm / Friday 9 October 8.30 pm
Six young dancers, six international choreographers, six artistic universes: Dream Team is the new production by Gauthier Dance JUNIORS//Theaterhaus Stuttgart, the young company founded by Eric Gauthier to give space to the new generation of dance and to support it along its artistic and professional path.
From the dynamism of Lickety-Split by Alejandro Cerrudo to the sweeping FURIA by Marco Goecke, from Ohad Naharin’s reworking of Boléro to the physicality of Aszure Barton, through to the interpretations of Mauro de Candia and Virginie Brunelle, the programme moves across profoundly different languages, atmospheres and visions. A Dream Team in the most authentic sense of the term, where young performers are called to test themselves against some of the most compelling names in international contemporary choreography.
- Gauthier Dance JUNIORS, Dream Team. High Moon – Ph. Jeanette Bak
- Gauthier Dance JUNIORS, Dream Team. FURIA – Ph. Jeanette Bak
- Gauthier Dance JUNIORS, Dream Team. La morte del cigno – Ph. Jeanette Bak
- Gauthier Dance JUNIORS, Dream Team. Bolero – Ph. Jeanette Bak
- Gauthier Dance JUNIORS, Dream Team. Lascilo Perdere / Duet – Ph. Jeanette Bak
- Gauthier Dance JUNIORS, Dream Team. Lickety Split- Ph. Jeanette Bak
Dream Team
Gauthier Dance Juniors opens the autumn season at the Fonderia with Dream Team.
Thursday 8 October 8.30 pm / Friday 9 October 8.30 pm
Six young dancers, six international choreographers, six artistic universes: Dream Team is the new production by Gauthier Dance JUNIORS//Theaterhaus Stuttgart, the young company founded by Eric Gauthier to give space to the new generation of dance and to support it along its artistic and professional path.
From the dynamism of Lickety-Split by Alejandro Cerrudo to the sweeping FURIA by Marco Goecke, from Ohad Naharin’s reworking of Boléro to the physicality of Aszure Barton, through to the interpretations of Mauro de Candia and Virginie Brunelle, the programme moves across profoundly different languages, atmospheres and visions. A Dream Team in the most authentic sense of the term, where young performers are called to test themselves against some of the most compelling names in international contemporary choreography.
- Gauthier Dance JUNIORS, Dream Team. High Moon – Ph. Jeanette Bak
- Gauthier Dance JUNIORS, Dream Team. FURIA – Ph. Jeanette Bak
- Gauthier Dance JUNIORS, Dream Team. La morte del cigno – Ph. Jeanette Bak
- Gauthier Dance JUNIORS, Dream Team. Bolero – Ph. Jeanette Bak
- Gauthier Dance JUNIORS, Dream Team. Lascilo Perdere / Duet – Ph. Jeanette Bak
- Gauthier Dance JUNIORS, Dream Team. Lickety Split- Ph. Jeanette Bak
MicroDanze
The MicroDanze at the Verdi Off of the Teatro Regio di Parma
Friday 9 and Sunday 11 October 2026 at 9.00 pm
The Verdi Off Festival of the Teatro Regio di Parma hosts a roving itinerary made up of 6 MicroDanze that move through the cultural venues of Parma’s historic centre, ending in the spaces of the Ridotto of the Teatro Regio. The MicroDanze are Afterimage by Philippe Kratz, Eppur si muove by Francesca Lattuada, Platform02 by Ina Lesnakowski, Near Life Experience by Angelin Preljocaj and Soft P. by Diego Tortelli. The sixth MicroDanza is a world premiere created for the Verdi Off, by choreographer Dunja Jocić, The Great Silence.
MicroDanze stems from an intuition of Gigi Cristoforetti for CCN/Aterballetto: to break down the invisible barrier of the stage and turn dance into an intimate, almost confidential encounter.
MicroDanze
The MicroDanze at the Verdi Off of the Teatro Regio di Parma
Friday 9 and Sunday 11 October 2026 at 9.00 pm
The Verdi Off Festival of the Teatro Regio di Parma hosts a roving itinerary made up of 6 MicroDanze that move through the cultural venues of Parma’s historic centre, ending in the spaces of the Ridotto of the Teatro Regio. The MicroDanze are Afterimage by Philippe Kratz, Eppur si muove by Francesca Lattuada, Platform02 by Ina Lesnakowski, Near Life Experience by Angelin Preljocaj and Soft P. by Diego Tortelli. The sixth MicroDanza is a world premiere created for the Verdi Off, by choreographer Dunja Jocić, The Great Silence.
MicroDanze stems from an intuition of Gigi Cristoforetti for CCN/Aterballetto: to break down the invisible barrier of the stage and turn dance into an intimate, almost confidential encounter.
The Wall_Dance Tribute
At the Fonderia, MMCDC dances in the footsteps of The Wall.
Thursday 22 October 8.30 pm
The Wall_Dance Tribute, with the dancers of the MM Contemporary Dance Company, directed by Michele Merola, and actor Jacopo Trebbi, comes to life from the Pink Floyd’s historic concept album (1979).
The Wall is an act of protest against a society that denies the individual the possibility of being free and authentic. The story of the rock star Pink, Roger Waters’s alter ego, unfolds through the album’s tracks: a mother’s suffocating love, a marriage marked by absence, drugs, the father’s death in the war, the bullying of a frustrated teacher and the pressures of show business become, one after another, the bricks of a wall that separates the man from the world.
Yet in the darkest and most alienating moment, the will emerges to tear down that wall, to break free from oppression and strip away the masks.
https://vimeo.com/1176650427
DOPPIOGIOCO – open rehearsal

Monday 26 October, at 6.00 pm, the Fonderia audience will have the chance to meet the choreographer and watch the preparation of DOPPIOGIOCO, the new creation by Philippe Kratz with dramaturgy and set design by Fabio Cherstich, which will premiere in November at the Teatro Valli in Reggio Emilia within the setting of Festival Aperto.
Open rehearsals are unique moments in which you can watch a performance take shape, talk with the artists and be surprised by the art of dance: a special opportunity that lets the audience into the daily routine of dancers and choreographers.
Antigone: un canto necessario – premiere
Natiscalzi’s Antigone at Danza in Fonderia.
Wednesday 4 November 8.30 pm
Where does the possibility of saying “no” reside today? What does it mean to “witness” in a world saturated with images of suffering? Are we witnesses or accomplices? And what does the ancient gesture of burying our dead ask of us? What social pact are we willing to break for an act of pure compassion? ANTIGONE resounds once more. It returns as sound (Mendelssohn and Cordaro). It returns as body (the ensemble of dancers). It returns as a question. In Natiscalzi‘s project, this return transforms the stage into a site of physical research on the crisis of dualism, into a territory of conflict but also into a contemporary rite capable of generating urgent questions. This year too, the company continues its research through a dialogue with the classics, starting from Sophocles’s Antigone and its most contemporary reworkings, to immerse itself in the questions of the present time.
CENERI / DOPPIOGIOCO
On the occasion of Festival Aperto, CCN/Aterballetto presents the world premieres of Ceneri by Marcos Morau and DOPPIOGIOCO by Philippe Kratz.
Teatro Municipale Romolo Valli – Saturday 7 November 2026 at 8.30 pm and Sunday 8 November 2026 at 5.00 pm
The Centro Coreografico Nazionale / Aterballetto presents the world premiere of an evening made up of two new creations by some of the most compelling authors on the contemporary scene: Ceneri by Marcos Morau and DOPPIOGIOCO by Philippe Kratz, with dramaturgy and set design by Fabio Cherstich.
A performance marking Marcos Morau’s return to CCN/Aterballetto following the success of Notte Morricone. For his new creation, Ceneri, the choreographer draws inspiration from Le ceneri di Gramsci, a musical adaptation of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s poetry collection, composed as a choral oratorio by Giovanna Marini, as a starting point for a reflection on community, its loss, and what remains when a collective form dissolves. Alongside it, Philippe Kratz, a former lead dancer of the company and a choreographer well established on the international scene, creates DOPPIOGIOCO, a new work for eight dancers in which basketball becomes a metaphor for conflict, belonging and sudden synchronisation. Two different languages that together question how bodies organise, divide and recompose themselves.
Mystery Sonata
The Compagnia EgriBianco breaks down danza in Fonderia.
Tuesday 10 November 6.00 pm – open rehearsal and 8.30 pm – performance
MYSTERY SONATA is a “modular” performance, one that can be broken down and reassembled in relation to the spaces that host it. A performance with no true beginning or end, conceived in 2013 for the spaces of the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo.
At the heart of the work are the co-presence of multiple realities and spatial dimensions and their mutual influence, together with the theme of spiritual heritage and its echo, whether direct or indirect.
The choreographer thus reflects on the boundaries of our actions: where do they begin and end, and what remains of us in others? What is the true nature of things and, above all, what relationship exists between the two?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMi_V7hsGxU&feature=youtu.be
Mystery Sonata
The Compagnia EgriBianco breaks down danza in Fonderia.
Tuesday 10 November 6.00 pm – open rehearsal and 8.30 pm – performance
MYSTERY SONATA is a “modular” performance, one that can be broken down and reassembled in relation to the spaces that host it. A performance with no true beginning or end, conceived in 2013 for the spaces of the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo.
At the heart of the work are the co-presence of multiple realities and spatial dimensions and their mutual influence, together with the theme of spiritual heritage and its echo, whether direct or indirect.
The choreographer thus reflects on the boundaries of our actions: where do they begin and end, and what remains of us in others? What is the true nature of things and, above all, what relationship exists between the two?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMi_V7hsGxU&feature=youtu.be
BOXES
UnterWasser’s “boxed” micro-performances arrive at the Fonderia
Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 November at 3.00 pm and 7.30 pm
BOXES is a work of visual theatre and an installation made up of “boxes” that hold micro-performances and interactive games, to be experienced by one viewer at a time.
The audience is invited into an intimate, personal and dedicated experience. Looking through small slits and openings, viewers come into contact with small poetic worlds, gathered and protected inside the boxes.
BOXES is an open project, born from the reworking of Lambe Lambe theatre and from research into the effects and techniques of pre-cinema.














