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CENERI – open rehearsal

CENERI – open rehearsal

Fonderia Reggio Emilia
5 October H 18.00
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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

Dream Team

Fonderia Reggio Emilia
8 October H 20.30
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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.

Alejandro Cerrudo: Lickety-Split

Choreography: Alejandro Cerrudo Choreographer’s assistant: Pablo Piantino Music: Devendra Banhart Costumes: Alejandro Cerrudo, Rebecca Shouse Lighting design: Ryan O’Gara World premiere: Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Harris Theater for Music and Dance, Chicago-IL, 27.09.2006

Despite its title, Lickety-Split comes across as a rather relaxed work and, above all, a very human and playful one. To the hypnotic notes of Californian indie singer-songwriter Devendra Banhart, Alejandro Cerrudo, at the time resident choreographer of the Hubbard Street Dance Company in Chicago, stages the encounter of three couples: highly sensual, refined and with a slightly eccentric streak.

And it is precisely the tangible relationship between the three couples that keeps this work in the memory long after the performance ends. British dance critic David Mead described it this way in his review: a connection there, visible to all.

Marco Goecke: FURIA (for Gudrun)

Choreography: Marco Goecke Music: Jakob David Rattinger, Lina Tur Bonet & Musica Narrans – Folia Variations (After M. Marais & A. Corelli) Lighting design: Marco Goecke & Ludovico Pace Costumes: Michaela Springer Rehearsal direction: Ludovico Pace World premiere: Theaterhaus Stuttgart, 23.01.2026

Marco Goecke dedicated his world premiere to costume designer and Theaterhaus Stuttgart co-founder Gudrun Schretzmeier, who passed away in September 2025.

Created over an exhausting rehearsal period of just six days, FURIA represents an attempt to capture time. As his musical model, the choreographer, a long-standing resident artist of Gauthier Dance, chose the Baroque variations of the Folia by Marin Marais and Arcangelo Corelli: two compositions belonging to an era artistically obsessed with the fleeting nature of time.

“You have to fight for the time that passes,” the choreographer told the dancers during rehearsals, “fight to hold on to time, even when you realise it is slipping away.”

Ohad Naharin: B/olero

Choreography: Ohad Naharin Music: Isao Tomita’s arrangement of Maurice Ravel’s Boléro Lighting design: Avi Yona (Bambi) Bueno Costumes: Eri Nakamura Restaging: Rachael Osborne and Ian Robinson

It is hard to think of a piece of music that has been translated into dance as often, and in ways as varied and creative, as Maurice Ravel’s Boléro. Ohad Naharin too let himself be inspired by this iconic piece, but in his own way…

Not only does the title B/olero contain a slash, but the “Godfather of Gaga” also chose a synthesiser arrangement by Japanese composer Isao Tomita.

Aszure Barton: Lascilo Perdere / Duet

Choreography: Aszure Barton Music: Antonio Vivaldi – Cum dederit (Andante) from Nisi Dominus (Psalm 126), R.608 Costumes: Deanna Berg MacLean Restaging: Tobin Del Cuore

Lascilo Perdere / Duet is part of an evening-length work originally created by Aszure Barton & Artists and first presented at Joyce SoHo in 2005.

With her pas de deux drawn from Lascilo Perdere (A Journey of Letting Go), originally created for her company AB&A in 2005, Aszure Barton may have set a record for the longest and boldest kiss ever seen in a dance work.

For the entire duration of Antonio Vivaldi’s hypnotic Nisi Dominus – Cum Dederit, the new resident artist draws a couple into an almost impossible physical trial. Vivaldi had certainly never been translated into dance in this way before!

Mauro de Candia: La morte del Cigno

Choreography, lighting and costumes: Mauro de Candia Music: Camille Saint-Saëns – Le Cygne from Le Carnaval des animaux World premiere: GBM Giovane Balletto Mediterraneo, Teatro Guglielmi, Massa (Italy), 5 January 2009

Originally created in 1905 for prima ballerina Anna Pavlova, Michel Fokine’s solo set to the dreamlike music of Camille Saint-Saëns’s The Carnival of the Animals has become an emblem of classical ballet.

With La morte del Cigno, Italian choreographer Mauro de Candia offers a radically new vision of this iconic work. In his interpretation, the dying swan is embodied not by a delicate ballerina in a tutu, but by a male dancer. Without white feathers, almost naked, proud and defiant even in death.

Virginie Brunelle: High Moon

Choreography and costumes: Virginie Brunelle Choreographer’s assistant: Sophie Breton Composition: Laurier Rajotte Lighting design: Mario Daszenies World premiere: Theaterhaus Stuttgart, 23.01.2025

Virginie Brunelle is regarded as one of the great promises of Canadian dance, and Eric Gauthier too draws regularly on the talent of his compatriot. High Moon is her third creation for the company and has become one of the JUNIORS’ greatest successes: a young, dynamic and uncompromising choreography with a club-like atmosphere, accompanied by Laurier Rajotte’s original music, inspired by Maurice Ravel’s Boléro.

The dance critic of the Stuttgarter Zeitung wrote: “Living tableaux dissolve into the fog; the wild, darting movements to the techno beats set the oversized jackets dancing, and the dream team literally bounces and sways as if in a trance. The audience was spellbound. A standing ovation!”

Gauthier Dance JUNIORS//Theaterhaus Stuttgart, founded in January 2022 on the initiative of Eric Gauthier, is a project that offers children and young people opportunities for movement and social interaction while, at the same time, creating new opportunities for training and professional growth for young dancers. The JUNIORS’ commitment is not limited to educational activity, however: the company offers young dancers a path of artistic and professional development. In January 2024 came RENAISSANCE, the first production entirely produced by the JUNIORS, with new creations by Rena Butler and Barak Marshall and choreographies by Sharon Eyal, Andonis Foniadakis and Marco Goecke, as well as a short film by Eric Gauthier. In the 2024/25 season the company presented two productions, including Dream Team, with world premieres by Virginie Brunelle and Barak Marshall, works by Alejandro Cerrudo and Nacho Duato and a podcast by Eric Gauthier. In July 2025, Barak Marshall’s Barker became one of the great successes of the COLOURS International Dance Festival and, from the 2025/26 season, it was also adapted into a mobile format intended for schools. The press welcomed the JUNIORS’ journey with enthusiasm, highlighting the quality of the young dancers, the variety and strength of the programmes and describing the experience as a promising beginning for a young company of which, one hopes, we will hear and see much more.

A few years were all it took for Eric Gauthier to go from charismatic soloist of the Stuttgart Ballet to internationally renowned choreographer and artistic director of one of the most successful dance companies in Germany. Thanks in part to his extraordinary networking skills, world-renowned choreographers and talents from all over the world collaborate regularly with Gauthier Dance, including resident artists Marco Goecke, Hofesh Shechter, Barak Marshall and Aszure Barton. Gauthier’s creations have entered the repertoire of major international companies, including the Staatsballett Berlin, the Stuttgart Ballet, the Scapino Ballet Rotterdam, Het Nationale Ballet Amsterdam and the Ballet Nacional de Cuba. His ironic parodies of the dance world Ballet 101, Ballet 102 and ABC have become international hits. Gauthier has also tried his hand at other artistic genres, creating choreographies for theatre productions, music videos, cinema and large-scale productions such as ARISE at the Friedrichstadtpalast in Berlin. In 2023 he made his directorial debut with La Fest, commissioned by the Staatsoper Stuttgart, while as presenter and dance expert of the SWR documentary series Dance Around the World he guides audiences in discovering the world’s great dance cities. His accolades include the 2011 German Dance Prize “Future” for choreography and two titles awarded by tanz magazine: “Great Hope” in 2016 and “Pioneer” in 2022.

TICKETS

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

PURCHASING TICKETS

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

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

Tickets are not numbered.

CONTACTS

Mobile and WhatsApp 3341023554

Dream Team

Dream Team

Fonderia Reggio Emilia
9 October H 20.30
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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.

Alejandro Cerrudo: Lickety-Split

Choreography: Alejandro Cerrudo Choreographer’s assistant: Pablo Piantino Music: Devendra Banhart Costumes: Alejandro Cerrudo, Rebecca Shouse Lighting design: Ryan O’Gara World premiere: Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Harris Theater for Music and Dance, Chicago-IL, 27.09.2006

Despite its title, Lickety-Split comes across as a rather relaxed work and, above all, a very human and playful one. To the hypnotic notes of Californian indie singer-songwriter Devendra Banhart, Alejandro Cerrudo, at the time resident choreographer of the Hubbard Street Dance Company in Chicago, stages the encounter of three couples: highly sensual, refined and with a slightly eccentric streak.

And it is precisely the tangible relationship between the three couples that keeps this work in the memory long after the performance ends. British dance critic David Mead described it this way in his review: a connection there, visible to all.

Marco Goecke: FURIA (for Gudrun)

Choreography: Marco Goecke Music: Jakob David Rattinger, Lina Tur Bonet & Musica Narrans – Folia Variations (After M. Marais & A. Corelli) Lighting design: Marco Goecke & Ludovico Pace Costumes: Michaela Springer Rehearsal direction: Ludovico Pace World premiere: Theaterhaus Stuttgart, 23.01.2026

Marco Goecke dedicated his world premiere to costume designer and Theaterhaus Stuttgart co-founder Gudrun Schretzmeier, who passed away in September 2025.

Created over an exhausting rehearsal period of just six days, FURIA represents an attempt to capture time. As his musical model, the choreographer, a long-standing resident artist of Gauthier Dance, chose the Baroque variations of the Folia by Marin Marais and Arcangelo Corelli: two compositions belonging to an era artistically obsessed with the fleeting nature of time.

“You have to fight for the time that passes,” the choreographer told the dancers during rehearsals, “fight to hold on to time, even when you realise it is slipping away.”

Ohad Naharin: B/olero

Choreography: Ohad Naharin Music: Isao Tomita’s arrangement of Maurice Ravel’s Boléro Lighting design: Avi Yona (Bambi) Bueno Costumes: Eri Nakamura Restaging: Rachael Osborne and Ian Robinson

It is hard to think of a piece of music that has been translated into dance as often, and in ways as varied and creative, as Maurice Ravel’s Boléro. Ohad Naharin too let himself be inspired by this iconic piece, but in his own way…

Not only does the title B/olero contain a slash, but the “Godfather of Gaga” also chose a synthesiser arrangement by Japanese composer Isao Tomita.

Aszure Barton: Lascilo Perdere / Duet

Choreography: Aszure Barton Music: Antonio Vivaldi – Cum dederit (Andante) from Nisi Dominus (Psalm 126), R.608 Costumes: Deanna Berg MacLean Restaging: Tobin Del Cuore

Lascilo Perdere / Duet is part of an evening-length work originally created by Aszure Barton & Artists and first presented at Joyce SoHo in 2005.

With her pas de deux drawn from Lascilo Perdere (A Journey of Letting Go), originally created for her company AB&A in 2005, Aszure Barton may have set a record for the longest and boldest kiss ever seen in a dance work.

For the entire duration of Antonio Vivaldi’s hypnotic Nisi Dominus – Cum Dederit, the new resident artist draws a couple into an almost impossible physical trial. Vivaldi had certainly never been translated into dance in this way before!

Mauro de Candia: La morte del Cigno

Choreography, lighting and costumes: Mauro de Candia Music: Camille Saint-Saëns – Le Cygne from Le Carnaval des animaux World premiere: GBM Giovane Balletto Mediterraneo, Teatro Guglielmi, Massa (Italy), 5 January 2009

Originally created in 1905 for prima ballerina Anna Pavlova, Michel Fokine’s solo set to the dreamlike music of Camille Saint-Saëns’s The Carnival of the Animals has become an emblem of classical ballet.

With La morte del Cigno, Italian choreographer Mauro de Candia offers a radically new vision of this iconic work. In his interpretation, the dying swan is embodied not by a delicate ballerina in a tutu, but by a male dancer. Without white feathers, almost naked, proud and defiant even in death.

Virginie Brunelle: High Moon

Choreography and costumes: Virginie Brunelle Choreographer’s assistant: Sophie Breton Composition: Laurier Rajotte Lighting design: Mario Daszenies World premiere: Theaterhaus Stuttgart, 23.01.2025

Virginie Brunelle is regarded as one of the great promises of Canadian dance, and Eric Gauthier too draws regularly on the talent of his compatriot. High Moon is her third creation for the company and has become one of the JUNIORS’ greatest successes: a young, dynamic and uncompromising choreography with a club-like atmosphere, accompanied by Laurier Rajotte’s original music, inspired by Maurice Ravel’s Boléro.

The dance critic of the Stuttgarter Zeitung wrote: “Living tableaux dissolve into the fog; the wild, darting movements to the techno beats set the oversized jackets dancing, and the dream team literally bounces and sways as if in a trance. The audience was spellbound. A standing ovation!”

Gauthier Dance JUNIORS//Theaterhaus Stuttgart, founded in January 2022 on the initiative of Eric Gauthier, is a project that offers children and young people opportunities for movement and social interaction while, at the same time, creating new opportunities for training and professional growth for young dancers. The JUNIORS’ commitment is not limited to educational activity, however: the company offers young dancers a path of artistic and professional development. In January 2024 came RENAISSANCE, the first production entirely produced by the JUNIORS, with new creations by Rena Butler and Barak Marshall and choreographies by Sharon Eyal, Andonis Foniadakis and Marco Goecke, as well as a short film by Eric Gauthier. In the 2024/25 season the company presented two productions, including Dream Team, with world premieres by Virginie Brunelle and Barak Marshall, works by Alejandro Cerrudo and Nacho Duato and a podcast by Eric Gauthier. In July 2025, Barak Marshall’s Barker became one of the great successes of the COLOURS International Dance Festival and, from the 2025/26 season, it was also adapted into a mobile format intended for schools. The press welcomed the JUNIORS’ journey with enthusiasm, highlighting the quality of the young dancers, the variety and strength of the programmes and describing the experience as a promising beginning for a young company of which, one hopes, we will hear and see much more.

A few years were all it took for Eric Gauthier to go from charismatic soloist of the Stuttgart Ballet to internationally renowned choreographer and artistic director of one of the most successful dance companies in Germany. Thanks in part to his extraordinary networking skills, world-renowned choreographers and talents from all over the world collaborate regularly with Gauthier Dance, including resident artists Marco Goecke, Hofesh Shechter, Barak Marshall and Aszure Barton. Gauthier’s creations have entered the repertoire of major international companies, including the Staatsballett Berlin, the Stuttgart Ballet, the Scapino Ballet Rotterdam, Het Nationale Ballet Amsterdam and the Ballet Nacional de Cuba. His ironic parodies of the dance world Ballet 101, Ballet 102 and ABC have become international hits. Gauthier has also tried his hand at other artistic genres, creating choreographies for theatre productions, music videos, cinema and large-scale productions such as ARISE at the Friedrichstadtpalast in Berlin. In 2023 he made his directorial debut with La Fest, commissioned by the Staatsoper Stuttgart, while as presenter and dance expert of the SWR documentary series Dance Around the World he guides audiences in discovering the world’s great dance cities. His accolades include the 2011 German Dance Prize “Future” for choreography and two titles awarded by tanz magazine: “Great Hope” in 2016 and “Pioneer” in 2022.

TICKETS

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

PURCHASING TICKETS

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

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

Tickets are not numbered.

CONTACTS

Mobile and WhatsApp 3341023554

The Wall_Dance Tribute

The Wall_Dance Tribute

Fonderia Reggio Emilia
22 October H 20.30
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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

Company: MM Contemporary Dance Company
Choreography: Michele Merola
Music: Pink Floyd
Direction: Manuel Renga
Dramaturgy: Emanuele Aldrovandi
Video direction: Fabio Massimo Iaquone
Lighting design: Gessica Germini
Costumes: Nuvia Valestri
Actor: Jacopo Trebbi
Dancers: Filippo Begnozzi, Mario Genovese, Paolo Giovanni Grosso, Aurora Lattanzi, Fabiana Lonardo, Federico Musumeci, Giorgia Raffetto, Alice Ruspaggiari, Diletta Savini, Nicola Stasi, Giuseppe Villarosa

Production Fondazione Teatro Comunale di Ferrara, Fondazione I Teatri di Reggio Emilia, Ravenna Festival, MM Contemporary Dance Company

The MM Contemporary Dance Company is a contemporary dance company directed by choreographer Michele Merola, founded in 1999 in Reggio Emilia.

The company’s repertoire is rich and varied, thanks to the works of Michele Merola and of European and Italian choreographers such as Maguy Marin, Mats Ek, Mauro Bigonzetti, Silvia Gribaudi, Enrico Morelli and many others.

In 2010 the MM Contemporary Dance Company won the prestigious Premio Danza&Danza as best emerging company, and today it is, to all intents and purposes, a centre of excellence in Italian dance, with a well-established programme of performances throughout the country. In recent years it has won over an international market, with performances in European and non-European countries.

In 2022 MMCDC won the Premio Danza&Danza for best Italian production with the show Ballade (chor. Mauro Bigonzetti, Enrico Morelli) and in 2024 the Premio Danza&Danza for the Enhancement of Repertoire, for Maguy Marin’s Grosse Fugue.

Michele Merola is artistic director of the MM Contemporary Dance Company, the contemporary dance company he founded in 1999 in Reggio Emilia. With it, 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 prize in 2010, and Bolero, Premio Europaindanza 2017 – Award of Merit for choreography.

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

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

TICKETS

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

PURCHASING TICKETS

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

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

Tickets are not numbered.

CONTATTI

Cell and WhatsApp 3341023554

DOPPIOGIOCO – open rehearsal

DOPPIOGIOCO – open rehearsal

Fonderia Reggio Emilia
26 October H 18.00
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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

Antigone: un canto necessario – premiere

Fonderia Reggio Emilia
4 November H 20.30
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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.

Company: Natiscalzi DT
Choreography: Claudia Rossi Valli and Tommaso Monza
Sound design and original music: Giuseppe Cordaro
Soprano voice: Francesca Sartorato
Dancers: Elena Grappi, Marco Bissoli, Chiara Esposito, Julia Canard, Federico Russo

Production Cinqueminuti APS

Support ArtGarage, Zerogrammi/Casa LUFT, Anghiari Dance Hub Performing Lands – Cuneo, Lavanderia a Vapore / Leggere Strutture

Natiscalzi Danza Teatro was born from the shared creative path of Tommaso Monza and Claudia Rossi Valli, a collaboration that began in 2012 and has been carried forward successfully over the years. The company initially developed as an offshoot of the Abbondanza/Bertoni company, before asserting its own independent identity in 2016, establishing itself as a cultural association after years of projects, productions, residencies and tours.

TICKETS

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

PURCHASING TICKETS

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

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

Tickets are not numbered.

CONTACTS

Mobile and WhatsApp 3341023554

CENERI / DOPPIOGIOCO

CENERI / DOPPIOGIOCO

Teatro Municipale Valli Reggio Emilia
7 November H 20.30

 

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.

Ceneri

Direction and choreography Marcos Morau
Music Le ceneri di Gramsci by Giovanna Marini. Recording release “I Dischi di Angelica” – Block Nota, 2006
Sound design and original music Alex Röser Vatiché, Ben Meerwein
Costume design Silvia Delagneau
Lighting design CUBE.bz
Choreographer’s assistants Shay Partush, Fabio Calvisi
Special thanks to Sartoria Fondazione I Teatri

Production Fondazione Nazionale Della Danza / Aterballetto
Co-Production Festival Aperto / Fondazione I Teatri di Reggio Emilia
In collaboration with AngelicA | Music Research Centre – Bologna

What begins as a collective celebration gradually turns into a ceremony of farewell. Some bodies are pushed away, veiled and symbolically buried by those who remain. Ash and water fall upon them in a gesture that wavers between punishment, mourning and blessing.
Since ancient times, communities have built rituals to honour their dead and safeguard their memory. To bury, cover, wash or keep vigil over a body has never been merely an act of farewell, but also a way of acknowledging that individual existence lives on within collective history. The dead remain among the living through remembrance, shared stories and the gestures that a community chooses to preserve.
In Ceneri, ash evokes both disappearance and permanence. It is what remains after the passage of time, but it is also the material trace of a life that refuses to vanish completely. Water, by contrast, acts as an element of transition and transformation: it purifies, accompanies, blesses and allows the passage from one state to another. Together, ash and water turn the scene into an ambiguous rite, in which we do not know whether we are witnessing an expulsion, a funeral or a gesture of collective love.
Dance, word, music and the force of the chorus transform the stage into a space of political and emotional confrontation. As in Pasolini, the ashes are not merely the residue of something that has vanished. They are the persistent trace of a question that continues to accompany us.
The most contemporary image of the work is not only that of a community immunising itself against the other, but that of a generation desperately seeking to belong to something while fearing the loss of what makes it unique. In this tension, Gramsci, Pasolini and our present converge.

Marcos Morau – director and choreographer

DOPPIOGIOCO

Choreography Philippe Kratz
Dramaturgy and set design Fabio Cherstich
Additional music Various artists
Sound design and original music Luca Maria Baldini
Costume design Patricia Villirillo
Costume making Nuvia Valestri
Lighting design Valerio Tiberi

Production Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto
Co-Production Festival Aperto / Fondazione I Teatri di Reggio Emilia

Inside a black box, the space is etched with strips of white light: a ring, a court, a boundary that presumes to decide who we are. Two twin hoops, doubled, are motionless sentinels, totems of conquest and failure, targets that shine or dim depending on who looks at them. Everything is ready and nothing is stable: the game can begin at any moment, even when no one is truly ready.
The bodies enter, recognise one another, distrust one another, split into teams without knowing why, form alliances by instinct, betray one another out of necessity. Every gesture is an attempt, quivering like an omen; every step is a calculation or a tremor. The warm-up does not prepare — it reveals: the tensions, the suspicions, the silences before the burst.
At the centre, the ball. Weight, promise, threat. When it falls, it explodes: it is not a bounce but a bomb that opens cracks in the ground, in the breath, in the relationship between the bodies. Every pass is a risk, every shot a confession. You entrust yourself to the other by instinct, or you strike them with the precision of a necessary gesture. You protect and you wound with the very same energy.
Blind shots cross the air like prayers or challenges flung into the void: whoever throws cannot know whether they will hit the target or the memory of a missed intention. In that suspended instant everyone holds their breath: it is not the basket that matters, but the courage not to look, to let go of what cannot be controlled.
And then the group explodes, implodes, devours itself, sustains itself. One against all. All against one. Crowd against solitude, and a solitude that at times cries out louder than the crowd. Rules exist only to be broken; the ring is a cage only for those who do not dare to cross it. You push one another, lift one another, obstruct one another as in every day of our lives, where love and competition coexist in the same gesture.
But at a certain point, without warning, the bodies synchronise. The two teams dissolve, recomposing into a single breathing creature. It is a fragile, absolute moment: the geometry of the court becomes a guide, no longer a barrier. Conflict turns into dance, struggle becomes listening. There is no longer a victory to seek, only a sudden equilibrium, precious as a truce.
Then chaos returns, because it is in our nature. Alliances come undone, the ball’s trajectory breaks again in the air, multiplying like doubts, like attempts. The balls fall one after another, slow bombs that recount what has been lost and what might still come to pass.

Fabio Cherstich – Dramaturgy and set design

Mystery Sonata

Mystery Sonata

Fonderia Reggio Emilia
10 November H 18.00
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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

Concept and choreography: Raphael Bianco
Music: F.I.Von Biber
Sound design: Ivan Bert
Costumes: Melissa Boltri
Set design: Alis-Filliol
Dancers: EgriBiancoDanza

Production Fondazione Egri – Centro di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale per la Danza
With the support of MIC – Ministero della Cultura, Regione Piemonte, Fondazione CRT
In collaboration with Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo

The Compagnia EgriBiancoDanza, directed by Susanna Egri and Raphael Bianco, was founded in Turin in 1999. Inheriting the more than thirty years of experience of the previous company “I Balletti di Susanna Egri,” it stands out for a repertoire of works rich in social and spiritual values, created by Raphael Bianco and by choreographers from the Italian and international arts scene. The Compagnia EgriBiancoDanza embodies some of the distinctive traits of the Fondazione Egri per la Danza: curiosity, roots and innovation, research and sharing — values that are asked of all the company’s artists. From theatrical performances to installations and site-specific works, EgriBiancoDanza is made up of permanent dancers drawn from high-level professional backgrounds and possesses a solid repertoire.

TICKETS

Open rehearsal Tuesday 10 November 6.00 pm

Full price: 3 euros
Free for under-6s

Performance Tuesday 10 November 8.30 pm

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

PURCHASING TICKETS

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

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

Tickets are not numbered.

CONTACTS

Mobile and WhatsApp 3341023554

Mystery Sonata

Mystery Sonata

Fonderia Reggio Emilia
10 November H 20.30
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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

Concept and choreography: Raphael Bianco
Music: F.I.Von Biber
Sound design: Ivan Bert
Costumes: Melissa Boltri
Set design: Alis-Filliol
Dancers: EgriBiancoDanza

Production Fondazione Egri – Centro di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale per la Danza
With the support of MIC – Ministero della Cultura, Regione Piemonte, Fondazione CRT
In collaboration with Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo

The Compagnia EgriBiancoDanza, directed by Susanna Egri and Raphael Bianco, was founded in Turin in 1999. Inheriting the more than thirty years of experience of the previous company “I Balletti di Susanna Egri,” it stands out for a repertoire of works rich in social and spiritual values, created by Raphael Bianco and by choreographers from the Italian and international arts scene. The Compagnia EgriBiancoDanza embodies some of the distinctive traits of the Fondazione Egri per la Danza: curiosity, roots and innovation, research and sharing — values that are asked of all the company’s artists. From theatrical performances to installations and site-specific works, EgriBiancoDanza is made up of permanent dancers drawn from high-level professional backgrounds and possesses a solid repertoire.

TICKETS

Open rehearsal Tuesday 10 November 6.00 pm

Full price: 3 euros
Free for under-6s

Performance Tuesday 10 November 8.30 pm

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

PURCHASING TICKETS

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

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

Tickets are not numbered.

CONTACTS

Mobile and WhatsApp 3341023554

BOXES

BOXES

Fonderia Reggio Emilia
14 November H 15.00
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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.

A project conceived and created by: Valeria Bianchi, Aurora Buzzetti, Giulia De Canio
with the participation of: Francesco Capponi
Software, circuit design and physical computing: Francesco Bianchi
Thanks to: Malu Costa, Romulo Chindelar, Lucas Popeta

Production: UnterWasser
Executive production: Pilar Ternera / NTC

With the support of Cambio Festival (Rio de Janeiro); Crossing the sea; Centro di Residenza della Toscana (Armunia Castiglioncello – CapoTrave/Kilowatt Sansepolcro)

UnterWasser is a theatre research group founded in 2014 by Valeria Bianchi, Aurora Buzzetti and Giulia De Canio. The company positions itself at the boundary between visual theatre and contemporary art, studying their mutual cross-influences and creating an original, poetic and imaginative language that becomes a tool for investigating the human and its many facets. With the performance UNTOLD it made its debut at the Biennale Teatro 2020. The company received the “Premio Valter Ferrara 2019” and the ANCT 2022 award.

TICKETS

Saturday free. The audience can view the installation on their own.
Sunday €3. The audience will be guided by the artists on a 30-minute journey.

PURCHASING TICKETS

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

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

Tickets are not numbered.

CONTACTS

Mobile and WhatsApp 3341023554

POP

POP

Fonderia Reggio Emilia
14 November H 16.00
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Play in Nicola Galli’s performance enlivens the season at the Fonderia.

Saturday 14 November 4.00 pm

Sunday 15 November 4.00 pm

POP is an event for children and families that places the body at the centre as a tool for exploring its expressive and communicative potential.

Through play, the interactive performance invites participants to experiment with different possibilities of movement and to take time to discover new perceptions, sensations and emotions connected to movement.

On a square platform covered in bubble wrap, the dancer bends and extends the joints, tracing figures and geometries. The audience is invited to interact with the material and with the performance space, sharing the pleasure of moving and exploring.

https://vimeo.com/852246747?fl=pl&fe=cm

Action and creation: Nicola Galli
Curated by: Nebula APS

Nicola Galli works in bodily research and is a choreographer, dancer, and lighting and costume designer.

His research takes shape in actions and devices that range from choreography to performance, from installation to graphic and visual design.

Starting from the natural sciences, geometry, astronomy, architecture and a passion for photography, his gaze is fascinated by human anatomy, by light and by sound — key elements that nourish the close relationship between the subjects inhabiting the stage in a perspective of interdependence.

His work embraces a cross-disciplinary scenic horizon, in which the body becomes the radiating centre of an artistic discourse that takes substance in a scenic sensibility devoted to exploring movement as a hybrid panorama of knowledge.

Nicola Galli started out as a competitive gymnast and came to contemporary languages with Teatro Nucleo, later dancing for the company CollettivO CineticO from 2010 to 2014.

Since 2010 he has developed a choreographic inquiry centred on the profound relationship between humankind and nature and on the analysis of the notions of “stratification” and “landscape.”

Alongside his more specifically artistic research, he leads training programmes for children, adults and young dancers in training, developing a personal method aimed at exploring movement, discovering new visions and perceptions of the body, and deepening one’s personal physical and communicative boundaries.

Since 2014 he has been an artist supported by the production body TIR Danza.

TICKETS

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

PURCHASING TICKETS

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

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

Tickets are not numbered.

CONTACTS

Mobile and WhatsApp 3341023554

CUOR DI CONIGLIO

CUOR DI CONIGLIO

Fonderia Reggio Emilia
14 November H 18.00
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The Compagnia Dimitri/Canessa dances in search of the lost heart at the Fonderia.

Saturday 14 November 6.00 pm

Sunday 15 November 6.00 pm

Cuor di Coniglio is a poetic modern fairy tale that explores fragility and the courage of self-acceptance. Vincent is a happy, imaginative child who, wounded by the cruel dragon of other people’s judgement, shuts himself away in his inner castle, losing touch with himself. With the help of Rosi, an eccentric and dancing rabbit, Vincent sets out on a symbolic and surreal journey in search of his lost heart. Through the language of physical theatre and clowning, the performance is an invitation to overcome the fear of judgement and to discover the beauty in fragility: a hymn to the freedom of being oneself, to look at the world from a new perspective and to show oneself, simply, for what one is.

https://vimeo.com/1082119951

Company: Dimitri/Canessa
Direction: Elisa Canessa
with Federico Dimitri and Francesco Manenti
Artistic collaboration: Giorgio Rossi
Lighting design: Marco Oliani
Sound designer: Tommaso Marzini Della Ragione
Set and costumes: Matilde Gori / Atelier scenografia Zaches

Production Associazione Sosta Palmizi, Pilar Ternera / Nuovo Teatro delle Commedie e Straligut Teatro
with residential support from Centro di Residenza della Toscana (Fondazione Armunia Castiglioncello – CapoTrave/Kilowatt Sansepolcro), Wintergarten – Atelier di teatro permanente e In Tel Fade

The Compagnia Dimitri/Canessa was founded in Livorno in 2013. Among its main productions are: Bruno (2013), a performance drawn from the works of Bruno Schulz, winner of the FIT, Festival Internazionale di Teatro di Lugano and named by MilanoTeatri among the best performances presented in Milan for the 2017/18 season; ..di Giulietta e del suo Romeo (2014), an Italian-Swiss co-production for teenage audiences; Hallo! I’m Jacket! il gioco del nulla (2016), a performance that received numerous accolades, an In-Box finalist, Premio Nazionale per il Teatro Contemporaneo 2017 and winner of the l’Italia dei Visionari call for Kilowatt Festival 2017; Ad esempio questo cielo (2019), a performance inspired by the life and works of Raymond Carver, produced with the support of the Theatherwerkstatt Gleis 5 (CH); Geppetto 201 (2022), a performance drawn from Fabio Stassi’s beautiful novel Mastro Geppetto (Ed. Sellerio) and produced in collaboration with Theaterwerkstatt Glai 5 (CH), Pilar Ternera/Nuovo Teatro delle Commedie, and Come alla fine di Casablanca, premiering in July 2027 within the Festival Inequilibrio. Alongside their production of work for contemporary audiences, Elisa Canessa and Federico Dimitri have for years been involved in theatre for children, collaborating as authors and performers with choreographer Giorgio Rossi/Sosta Palmizi. Their collaboration with Francesco Manenti is, moreover, a twenty-year artistic partnership that has seen them work side by side on many creations. Together, for young audiences, they have created Col Naso All’Insù (2016) and Esercizi di Fantastica (2020 – Jury and Audience Prize at the Vimercate Ragazzi Festival 2021; Special Mention at the “Emanuele Luzzati” Theatre for Young Audiences Prize, Municipality of Santa Margherita Ligure 2023). In 2022 the Compagnia Dimitri/Canessa produced, with the support of Pilar Ternera/Nuovo Teatro delle Commedie, the performance L’Orso Felice, winner of In-box verde 2023, Mention from the In-box Critical Observatory 2023 and Best Young and Kids Performance at the FIT, Festival Internazionale del Teatro di Lugano. In addition to its production activity, the company collaborates with two schools of advanced pedagogy in Zurich (Liceo Atelierschule and Liceo Raphaelschule), where it carries out a social theatre project with over 40 young people with disabilities. With them, directed by Federico Dimitri, the following performances have been created: Il verbo degli uccelli; Orfeo e Euridice; Antigone/Wir sind die Prinzessin; Perfect Place, Dreamland and La fattoria degli animali.

TICKETS

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

PURCHASING TICKETS

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

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

Tickets are not numbered.

CONTACTS

Mobile and WhatsApp 3341023554

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