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.

   

       

NOTTE MORRICONE

Teatro Regio Parma
11 April H 20.30

On April 11, 2026, Aterballetto performs Notte Morricone by Marcos Morau at the Teatro Regio in Parma.

“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 minutes
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Glory Hall / Reconciliatio / Solo Echo

Teatro Sociale Rovigo Rovigo
15 April H 21.00

The CCN/Aterballetto performs at Teatro Sociale di Rovigo on 15 April 2026.

The evening opens with Glory Hall, choreographed by Diego Tortelli, offering the company and the audience a tableau of sensuality and overwhelming vitality.

Reconciliatio is a delicate female pas de deux inspired by the Book of Revelation, created by one of the most important choreographers on the international scene, Angelin Preljocaj.

The dancers of CCN/Aterballetto are also the protagonists of a production by the award-winning Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite, now firmly in the pantheon of dance. Solo Echo draws inspiration from two sonatas for cello and piano by Johannes Brahms and the poem Lines for Winter by Mark Strand. As in Strand’s poem, Solo Echo invokes winter, music, and the moving body to express something essential about acceptance and loss.

https://youtu.be/erHGNRRz6sQ

Glory Hall

Choreography: Diego Tortelli
Music: Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Production: Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto
Co-production: Teatro Comunale di Bologna

Reconciliatio

Choreography: Angelin Preljocaj
Music: Ludwig van Beethoven, Moonlight Sonata
Production: Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto

Solo Echo

Choreography: Crystal Pite
Music: Johannes Brahms (Sonata for Cello and Piano in E Minor, Op. 38: I. Allegro non troppo; Sonata for Cello and Piano in F Major, Op. 99: II. Adagio affettuoso)
Production and restaging: Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto
Co-production: Teatro Comunale di Bologna

 

NOTTE MORRICONE

Teatro Bonci Cesena
19 April H 16.00

Aterballetto performs Notte Morricone by Marcos Morau at Teatro Bonci in Cesena on 19 April 2026.

“I, Ennio Morricone, am dead,” the composer wrote before taking his leave. His music, however, cannot die. And this is how creators and artists always leave us without truly leaving us, and how memory takes care of keeping them alive, of keeping 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 creator, who, alone and dazed before his sheets of paper, jots down notes and imagines 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 piece that reaches the audience in waves, embraces them with emotional surges, and captures them in the memory of timeless melodies that have long outlived the images that first gave rise to them. Equally enchanting is the finely chiselled and ever-poetic choreography, composed with obsessive attention to detail: legs and necks seem jointless, bending and snapping rhythmically like metronomes.”
Maria Luisa Buzzi, Danza&Danza

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Duration: 90 minutes

 

STELLA

Fonderia Reggio Emilia
19 April H 21.00

Luciano Padovani brings the dance of the Years of Lead to Fonderia.

Rome, Saturday 18 March 1978.
An orange commercial envelope is found in an underpass at Largo di Torre Argentina, containing a Polaroid photograph: the portrait of a man in shirtsleeves, a flag with a five-pointed star… and communiqué no. 1 of the Red Brigades.
The years of desire and lead, in a danced fragment of republican Italy.

The lived experience of choreographer Luciano Padovani becomes, in STELLA, material shaped through the bodies and voices of the two performers: Roberta Piazza and Andrea Rizzo.

With them, we enter a brigatist hideout—that hideout… an interior scene inhabited and stirred by intense emotions and moments of great humanity and poetry. A warm atmosphere made of illusions and projections, masterfully suggested by costume designer Lucia Lapolla.

Elisabetta Calvi

https://youtu.be/2Ju8v8nh5lo?si=50WffQBk6J1O9wwD

Choreography and direction: Luciano Padovani
By and with Luciano Padovani, Roberta Piazza, Andrea Rizzo
Critical eye: Mauro Zocchetta
Lighting: Thomas Heuger
Costumes: Lucia Lapolla

A production by Compagnia Naturalis Labor

Co-production: Festival AbanoDanza 2024

With the support of: MIC – Ministry of Culture, Regione Veneto, Arco Danza, Comune di Vicenza

He came to dance relatively late, during his university studies. A decisive encounter was with Carolyn Carlson, who encouraged him to move abroad. He chose Paris, where he spent two intense years in the heart of the nouvelle danse française. He then returned to Italy and moved to Milan, where he worked with Susanna Beltrami’s company and at Teatro alla Scala. Eventually, he returned to Vicenza and founded Compagnia Naturalis Labor. It was then that he realised that being a choreographer was truly his calling. He describes himself as a “craftsman of the body.”

With the company, he has created dozens of works. He has collaborated on numerous opera productions, in theatre, for events, and has created choreographies for various Italian dance companies. He is the artistic director of Festival AbanoDanza and Visioni di Danza. He lives in Vicenza.

TICKETS

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

NOTTE MORRICONE

Teatro Carignano Torino
22 April H 20.45

From April 23 to 26, 2026, Aterballetto performs Notte Morricone by Marcos Morau at the Teatro Carignano in Turin for Torinodanza Extra.

“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 minutes
Find out more »

 

NOTTE MORRICONE

Teatro Carignano Torino
23 April H 19.30

From April 23 to 26, 2026, Aterballetto performs Notte Morricone by Marcos Morau at the Teatro Carignano in Turin for Torinodanza Extra.

“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 minutes
Find out more »

 

NOTTE MORRICONE

Teatro Carignano Torino
24 April H 20.45

Dal 22 al 26 aprile 2026 Aterballetto danza Notte Morricone di Marcos Morau al Teatro Carignano di Torino per il Torinodanza Extra.

“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′

 

NOTTE MORRICONE

Teatro Carignano Torino
25 April H 19.30

Dal 22 al 26 aprile 2026 Aterballetto danza Notte Morricone di Marcos Morau al Teatro Carignano di Torino per il Torinodanza Extra.

“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′

 

NOTTE MORRICONE

Teatro Carignano Torino
26 April H 16.00

Dal 22 al 26 aprile 2026 Aterballetto danza Notte Morricone di Marcos Morau al Teatro Carignano di Torino per il Torinodanza Extra.

“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′

 

Spellbound Evening, choreographies by Mauro Astolfi

Fonderia Reggio Emilia
29 April H 18.00

Mauro Astolfi presents three choreographies created for his company as part of Danza in Fonderia.

On the occasion of International Dance Day, Fonderia hosts three works by Mauro Astolfi for Spellbound Contemporary Ballet. On stage: Trust, If you were a man and Holy Shift—three pieces exploring relationships, listening and transformation through the language of dance.

6:00 PM – Open rehearsal
9:00 PM – Performance

Choreography and direction: Mauro Astolfi
Performers: Maria Cossu, Giuliana Mele
Music: Various artists

Trust is a short story about two women who do not really know how to behave toward one another. It is an attempt at a temporary agreement, based on the idea of mutual trust as a tool for getting to know each other a little more quickly. A game woven from different personalities, yet driven by a subtle need to understand what the other is thinking, how she might stay close to you, how you might live beside her.

Trust is an infantile, mature, adolescent yet aware duet—a brief narrative, a suggestion about certain decisions that sometimes must be made quickly and that can change the course of life. The two vibrate together, in unison they hide within one another, they protect each other… and, moving forward, they become friends; in the end, they discover that they can trust one another.

Choreography: Mauro Astolfi
Performers: Filippo Arlenghi, Roberto Pontieri, Alessandro Piergentili, Lorenzo Beneventano
Music: Various artists
Costumes: Anna Coluccia

A production by Spellbound

With the support of the Ministry of Culture

Co-production: Attraversamenti Multipli and Armonie d’Arte Festival

If you were a man is a study for four men on a profound reprogramming of listening. If the sounds produced by movement and breath could always be decoded in time, certain things might be avoided, might never happen, and one might learn to listen effectively to a body that does not speak.

The wonder of a silent dialogue carries unexpected results with it… even the smallest noises and the body’s strategies may reveal an imminent conflict in advance.

Rejection, suspicion, distrust, love, or fear are not always communicated in time for intervention, in time to receive precious information about others.

Choreography and direction: Mauro Astolfi
Performers: Maria Cossu, Marco Prete, Martina Staltari, Miriam Raffone, Filippo Arlenghi, Lorenzo Beneventano, Alessandro Piergentili, Anita Bonavida, Giuliana Mele
Lighting design: Marco Policastro
Original music: Davidson Jaconello
Costumes: Anna Coluccia
Choreography assistant: Elena Furlan

A production by Spellbound

With the support of the Ministry of Culture and Regione Lazio

In collaboration with Festival MilanOltre

Holy Shift is a rupture of the paradigm, the end of a linear dream.
A kind of “sacred” disorientation in which it is better to stop looking for answers in familiar models and instead cultivate a new openness to change.

Sometimes we can find the sacred in ruin, in disintegration, where a new version of the “sacred” may be hidden.

Holy Shift is an inner displacement toward a new orientation, not toward power, but toward presence.
I do not believe the future will be built like a project…
rather, it will reveal itself to those who are able to remain listening to the void,
to inhabit uncertainty without fleeing it,
to recognise in chaos the hidden grammar of another possibility.

Mauro Astolfi

Mauro Astolfi is one of the most representative authors on the European contemporary dance scene. Active internationally as both a choreographer and teacher, he has developed a distinctive and ever-evolving movement language, shaped by a personal reinterpretation of different forms of contemporary expression.

After a long period in the United States, he founded Spellbound Contemporary Ballet in 1994 together with Valentina Marini, a production project that is now a leading presence on the international contemporary dance market. Alongside his extensive work for the company, Astolfi has also been active in recent years as a freelance choreographer.

His creations include works for Kitonb Extreme Theatre Company, the Theatre School of Amsterdam (2004), Balletto di Roma (2009 and 2012), Szegedi Kortárs Balett in Hungary (2009)—the same year he also choreographed the musical I Promessi Sposi – Opera moderna directed by Michele Guardì—Leipziger Ballett (2011), and River North Chicago Dance Company (2011). In that same year, he co-created a project with Israeli artist Adi Salant, Associate Director of Batsheva Dance Company, for Danza e/è cultura, a cultural bridge between Italy and Israel promoted by MIUR, Fondazione Flavio Vespasiano, and the Municipality of Rieti.

In 2012, he was invited to create a new work for BalletX in Philadelphia and to develop Humanology – Site specific young project for Festival Oriente Occidente. In 2013, he was one of five choreographers selected for the MINUTEMADE project at Gärtnerplatztheater in Munich. In 2015, he created works in Canada for Arts Umbrella in Vancouver and ProArteDanza in Toronto.

Since October 2009, he has also been the Artistic Director of the modern-contemporary department at the Dance Arts Faculty (D.A.F.) in Rome.

TICKETS | PERFORMANCE

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

TICKETS | OPEN REHEARSAL

€3 for all / free for children under 6

PURCHASE

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

The box office at Fonderia opens one hour before the performance.
Seats are unassigned.

CONTACTS

Mobile and WhatsApp: +39 334 1023554

Spellbound Evening, choreographies by Mauro Astolfi

Fonderia Reggio Emilia
29 April H 21.00

Mauro Astolfi presents three choreographies created for his company as part of Danza in Fonderia.

On the occasion of International Dance Day, Fonderia hosts three works by Mauro Astolfi for Spellbound Contemporary Ballet. On stage: Trust, If you were a man and Holy Shift—three pieces exploring relationships, listening and transformation through the language of dance.

6:00 PM – Open rehearsal
9:00 PM – Performance

Choreography and direction: Mauro Astolfi
Performers: Maria Cossu, Giuliana Mele
Music: Various artists

Trust is a short story about two women who do not really know how to behave toward one another. It is an attempt at a temporary agreement, based on the idea of mutual trust as a tool for getting to know each other a little more quickly. A game woven from different personalities, yet driven by a subtle need to understand what the other is thinking, how she might stay close to you, how you might live beside her.

Trust is an infantile, mature, adolescent yet aware duet—a brief narrative, a suggestion about certain decisions that sometimes must be made quickly and that can change the course of life. The two vibrate together, in unison they hide within one another, they protect each other… and, moving forward, they become friends; in the end, they discover that they can trust one another.

Choreography: Mauro Astolfi
Performers: Filippo Arlenghi, Roberto Pontieri, Alessandro Piergentili, Lorenzo Beneventano
Music: Various artists
Costumes: Anna Coluccia

A production by Spellbound

With the support of the Ministry of Culture

Co-production: Attraversamenti Multipli and Armonie d’Arte Festival

If you were a man is a study for four men on a profound reprogramming of listening. If the sounds produced by movement and breath could always be decoded in time, certain things might be avoided, might never happen, and one might learn to listen effectively to a body that does not speak.

The wonder of a silent dialogue carries unexpected results with it… even the smallest noises and the body’s strategies may reveal an imminent conflict in advance.

Rejection, suspicion, distrust, love, or fear are not always communicated in time for intervention, in time to receive precious information about others.

Choreography and direction: Mauro Astolfi
Performers: Maria Cossu, Marco Prete, Martina Staltari, Miriam Raffone, Filippo Arlenghi, Lorenzo Beneventano, Alessandro Piergentili, Anita Bonavida, Giuliana Mele
Lighting design: Marco Policastro
Original music: Davidson Jaconello
Costumes: Anna Coluccia
Choreography assistant: Elena Furlan

A production by Spellbound

With the support of the Ministry of Culture and Regione Lazio

In collaboration with Festival MilanOltre

Holy Shift is a rupture of the paradigm, the end of a linear dream.
A kind of “sacred” disorientation in which it is better to stop looking for answers in familiar models and instead cultivate a new openness to change.

Sometimes we can find the sacred in ruin, in disintegration, where a new version of the “sacred” may be hidden.

Holy Shift is an inner displacement toward a new orientation, not toward power, but toward presence.
I do not believe the future will be built like a project…
rather, it will reveal itself to those who are able to remain listening to the void,
to inhabit uncertainty without fleeing it,
to recognise in chaos the hidden grammar of another possibility.

Mauro Astolfi

Mauro Astolfi is one of the most representative authors on the European contemporary dance scene. Active internationally as both a choreographer and teacher, he has developed a distinctive and ever-evolving movement language, shaped by a personal reinterpretation of different forms of contemporary expression.

After a long period in the United States, he founded Spellbound Contemporary Ballet in 1994 together with Valentina Marini, a production project that is now a leading presence on the international contemporary dance market. Alongside his extensive work for the company, Astolfi has also been active in recent years as a freelance choreographer.

His creations include works for Kitonb Extreme Theatre Company, the Theatre School of Amsterdam (2004), Balletto di Roma (2009 and 2012), Szegedi Kortárs Balett in Hungary (2009)—the same year he also choreographed the musical I Promessi Sposi – Opera moderna directed by Michele Guardì—Leipziger Ballett (2011), and River North Chicago Dance Company (2011). In that same year, he co-created a project with Israeli artist Adi Salant, Associate Director of Batsheva Dance Company, for Danza e/è cultura, a cultural bridge between Italy and Israel promoted by MIUR, Fondazione Flavio Vespasiano, and the Municipality of Rieti.

In 2012, he was invited to create a new work for BalletX in Philadelphia and to develop Humanology – Site specific young project for Festival Oriente Occidente. In 2013, he was one of five choreographers selected for the MINUTEMADE project at Gärtnerplatztheater in Munich. In 2015, he created works in Canada for Arts Umbrella in Vancouver and ProArteDanza in Toronto.

Since October 2009, he has also been the Artistic Director of the modern-contemporary department at the Dance Arts Faculty (D.A.F.) in Rome.

TICKETS | PERFORMANCE

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

TICKETS | OPEN REHEARSAL

€3 for all / free for children under 6

PURCHASE

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

The box office at Fonderia opens one hour before the performance.
Seats are unassigned.

CONTACTS

Mobile and WhatsApp: +39 334 1023554

Rhapsody in blue / An Echo, A Wave / Reconciliatio / Solo Echo

Teatro Piccinni Bari
30 April H 19.30

Aterballetto performs at the Teatro Piccinni in Bari on 30 April 2026.

CCN/Aterballetto presents a true concert in dance.

Rhapsody in Blue by Iratxe Ansa and Igor Bacovich is a playful, vibrant choreography, much like George Gershwin’s iconic score. In An Echo, A Wave by Philippe Kratz, the flowing movement of the two dancers evokes the motion of the sea. Reconciliatio is a delicate female pas de deux by Angelin Preljocaj, set to Ludwig van Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata.

Finally, Solo Echo by Crystal Pite, through the cello and piano sonatas of Johannes Brahms, invokes winter to express something essential about acceptance and loss.

https://youtu.be/SBq99Tyc-xQ