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.

   

       

The CCN/Aterballetto performs Notte Morricone by Marcos Morau.

NOTTE MORRICONE

NOTTE MORRICONE

National Theatre Bucharest Bucarest
24 June H 19.30
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Bucharest is the final stop on Aterballetto’s Romanian tour of Notte Morricone.

Aterballetto then arrives in the Romanian capital for the final two performances on 24 and 25 June 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

Il 6 dicembre, in "Made in Italy 36.0", i giovani talenti di Agora Coaching Project per Danza in Fonderia a Reggio Emilia

Made in Italy 38.0

Made in Italy 38.0

Fonderia Reggio Emilia
24 June H 21.00
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Agora Coaching Project – photo Nicola Stasi

The young talents of Agora Coaching Project for Danza in Fonderia.

The evening features the dancers of Agora Coaching Project, an advanced training programme promoted and supported by MM Contemporary Dance Company and A.S.D. Progetto Danza di Reggio Emilia, under the artistic direction of Michele Merola and Enrico Morelli. Founded in 2010, the programme has gained full recognition in the European dance scene and boasts collaborations with internationally renowned teachers and choreographers.

Choreography by: Adriano Bolognino, Paolo Mohovich, Enrico Morelli

Tuesday, June 23 at 9.00 PM

Wednesday, June 24 at 9.00 PM

AGORA COACHING PROJECT is a year-long advanced dance training programme for dancers aged between 18 and 22, based in Reggio Emilia. Founded in 2010, it is directed by Michele Merola and Enrico Morelli, and promoted and supported by MM Contemporary Dance Company and the Centro Permanente Danza di Reggio Emilia.

Its aim is to train artists who are ready to face the variety of the international dance market with flexibility—artists capable of responding to the different technical and stylistic demands that this market requires. The project seeks to offer a wide range of stimuli, including technical and cultural development, as well as opportunities for exchange between students and choreographers, each of whom comes from and works within some of the most interesting contexts on the international scene.

Agora brings young dancers into contact with established choreographers of different stylistic orientations, and over the years has welcomed many distinguished names. Alongside Michele Merola and Enrico Morelli, the project is supported by several teachers, each with solid and highly qualified experience in the field.

Michele Merola is the artistic director of MM Contemporary Dance Company, the contemporary dance company he founded in Reggio Emilia in 1999. With the company, Merola has brought many of his choreographies to the stage, both in Italy and abroad, including La metà dell’ombra, winner of the Anita Bucchi Award in 2010, and Bolero, recipient of the Europaindanza 2017 Award – Choreography Merit Award.

Since 2000, he has created numerous works for other companies, including Aterballetto, Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Dominic Walsh Dance Theatre, Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Junior Balletto di Toscana, the National Theatre of Belgrade, Tanzcompagnie Landesbühnen Sachsen in Dresden, and the Rome Opera House. In 2003, he won the Hanover International Choreography Competition; in 2008, the Positano Leonide Massine Award for the Art of Dance; in 2016, the Giornale della Danza Award as Best Italian Choreographer; in 2018, the Incontro con la Danza di Basilicata ArteDanza Award; and in 2019, the Metti le ali al Talento Award for his career and artistic direction of MMCDC.

Since 2010, Merola has also been, together with Enrico Morelli, the artistic director of Agora Coaching Project, a professional advanced training programme for dancers based in Reggio Emilia.

Riccardo Basile, Sara Bianchi, Tommaso Brintazzoli, Alisa Businaro, Anita Campanini, Simone Casella, Giovanni Cennamo, Giulia Chiletti, Margherita Ciardi, Alessandra Fusco, Giulia Giannini, Samuele Iannacchero, Louis Franck Kamta, Marica Lisco, Elena Manfredini, Nicolò Marroccu, Linda Massai, Sofia Oliva, Alessia Romeo, Paula Salinas Alvarez, Alice Scarangelli, Loris Schirinzi, Gabriel Sprovieri, Chiara Tonussi, Claudio Tornesi, Carolina Torrini, Michelle Tuani, Eva Vannini, Camilla Veronesi

TICKETS

Full price: 10 euros
Reduced price for under 30s, dance schools, Liceo Coreutico Matilde di Canossa, over 65s, and members of the CRAL of the Municipality of Reggio Emilia: 6 euros
Reduced price for children under 8: 3 euros

TICKET PURCHASE

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

The box office opens one hour before the start of the performance.

Tickets are unnumbered.

CONTACTS

Mobile and WhatsApp: +39 334 1023554
Email: biglietteria@aterballetto.it

The CCN/Aterballetto performs Notte Morricone by Marcos Morau.

NOTTE MORRICONE

NOTTE MORRICONE

National Theatre Bucharest Bucarest
25 June H 19.30
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Bucharest is the final stop on Aterballetto’s Romanian tour of Notte Morricone.

Aterballetto then arrives in the Romanian capital for the final two performances on 24 and 25 June 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

Aterballetto performs the triple bill by Iratxe Ansa & Igor Bacovich, Angelin Preljocaj, and Crystal Pite.

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

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

Theaterverein Fürstenfeldbruck Fürstenfeldbruck
9 July H 20.00
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Aterballetto will be in Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany, on 9 July 2026.

The CCN/Aterballetto presents a true concert in dance. Rhapsody in Blue by Iratxe Ansa and Igor Bacovich is a playful, vibrant choreography, much like 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 Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata. Solo Echo by Crystal Pite, through Brahms’s sonatas for piano and cello, invokes winter to express something essential about acceptance and loss.