With the UK Delegates With the support of British Council Come and meet delegates from organisations from across the UK at this “British” breakfast. Over a cup of tea, you can find out more about the dance scene in the UK and see if there are opportunities for collaboration. This event is supported by the […]

In collaboration with: the Embassy of Canada to Italy and the Délégation du Québec à Rome.  Contemporary dance plays a key role in the Canadian arts sector. For this reason, the governments of Canada and Québec support it through targeted programs that encourage its development, creation, diffusion and distribution around the world.   Bonds between […]

Curated by: Springback Magazine and Aerowaves  Fifteen Springback writers from almost as many European countries will gather for their annual think-tank, Springback Assembly, during this year’s NID in Reggio Emilia. As well as attending performances, learning more about the history of Italian dance and literature and pondering the profound poetics of dance, this unique group […]

The work heads in the direction of the desire to build “experiential choreographic rituals” like Kudoku and Still. Pastorale is an utopian elsewhere we desire to reach, that place where we are unified with the nature of events, a place that might be gained through dance and ritual. Pastorale explores the theme of the Nostalgia […]

Notes for a Faust/Evocations is a creative process that starts from Goethe’s opera and subsequent visions by Mann and Pessoa around the Faust figure to create its own vision inspired by the themes of the Sabbah and Evocation.  Faust is a symbol of personal crisis and revolution. Plural in nature, he represents the plurality of […]

The Elegy (or Lost Things) choreographic project is inspired by a corollary of primarily existentialist and introspective reading we reached at the end of a productive cycle featuring Alcesti (a work of the most humanist of the tragic Greek playwrights) and Don Quixote (the self-examination of a misunderstood hero). Other literary works that provided inspiration […]

A ruthless and immoral canvas on today’s period, a contemporary middle-class drama, occasionally familiar. An overview of stereotypes, of the already seen, already said, already acted on. A little theatrical farce of human misery: the body and the voice in service of a pathetic collective that resembles that of Aristophanes’ ‘The Frogs’, or perhaps one […]

The Gran Ballo Excelsior was created in 1881 in celebration of the triumph of Civilization over Obscurantism that keeps people «in the shadows of servitude and ignominy» positioning itself in a precise cultural scheme of affirming the concept of national identity and respective collective unconscious. The question behind the entire work process is what survives […]

The GrandPrix Project stems from a reflection on encounter in contemporary dance and its productive processes. Although different generations of artists make up this wide choreographic context, the possibilities for creative exchange are limited. The wider-frame of GrandPrix is to propose itself as both platform and place of encounter between two generations vaunting different study […]

Punk. Kill me please emerged from our fascination with Punk Rock, the revolutionary weapons of its aesthetics, and the political questions it shouted, all of which remain open today. At the heart of the story from which the choreographic exploration begins is the legendary and painful relation (and its tragic conclusion) between Sid Vicious and […]

Home starts from the need to come home, return to the origins of a language, and the questions that this need consequently raises. Addressing the idea of Home confronts us with scenarios and imaginings that regard liquid, multiform, transformational identity, with images of war, flight from one’s native land bound for some unknown place, whether voluntarily […]

VN searches for the closest relation between dance and music, in order to emancipate body’s expressive potentialities, gesture’s grace, the convertibility between impulse and decision in the space, between determination and unexpected in which the human attempts to his-self as pure potential. The choreographic dimension makes use of different methods in generating an aesthetic experience […]

Three different masterpieces on stage: One musical: Death and The Maiden” String quartet no.14 in D minor by Franz Schubert. One physical: The human being in all its excellence. One spiritual-philosophical: The mystery of our end and its continual watching over us. Our thoughts go back to human existence and to what defines it: life […]

Ballade – Preghiera profana   A lonely wandering in the outskirts of the city, a ballad, a drunk walk that becomes a desperate run, a scream that tears the rainy night. An original rewrite in a “street-romantic” key starting from The Night just before the forest of B. M. Koltès. A meeting between choreography, corporeality, […]

Unicorn origins are unknown. Their roots have been lost by one distracted generation of humans after another. The Unicorn, a creature without homeland or history, has been used and abused by human beings and deprived of its right to speak. Chiara Bersani wants to redress their grievances and give them a love, a story, and […]

‘Kokoro’ is a  Japanese word we can translate as ‘inner being’ but which literally embraces two words/concepts: ‘mind’ and ‘heart’ .This solo by Luna Cenere is the personal research for a uniqueness of being, an inner journey that has become a physical path through space, during which the naked body, through its exposure and specific […]

The sight of a full moon does engulf the observer with a sense of completeness, a closed, perfect circle. However, it also can cause anxiety, light sleep, and strange instincts, which are sometimes difficult to control. One might get the urge to go out, run somewhere, to feel something different coursing through one’s veins. People […]

A beginning, an encounter. A journey that passes through a thousand ways of being a dancing body, animal, slight, explosive, sophisticated, mathematical, exposed, vulnerable, but above all alive. An adventure for four young dancers at the beginning of their path. Absolute desire and passion for movement. And at any moment, the certainty of being able […]

Who would The Three Graces be today? What does ‘grace’ mean? How and in which ways can we embody and understand it? The work draws from mythology. Zeus’ three daughters – Euphrosyne, Aglaea and Thalia – radiated splendour, joy and prosperity. Three male figures take the stage in a space and time suspended between the […]

Metamorphosis can be glimpsed in the slightest bend of a marionette hinting at movement, in the preparation for a first step, in the playful reflection of light catching a body by surprise. The dances that make up the show are intended as a meditation on the infiniteness of the gesture. Dances come and go from the […]

Lost in A stage can be presented as a sort of ideal map, in which the dancer searches for his or her own routes, stops waiting – as if in an unknown city – or throws himself or herself safely along lines that belong to him or her in the construction of his or her […]

Un/dressis a metaphorical performance in which the fusion of body with fabric gives life to a moving painting that explores the changes and migrations of cloth. While preserving our natural way dressing and undressing, the piece becomes an inquiry into the role of the female’s clothing and body in modern society. The body both strongly […]

WRECK – List of extinct species is an interdisciplinary performance mixing movement, sound and visual art. A huge black plastic soft sculpture inflated with air moves through the space like a hunter. This abstract object has a very evocative power. Swallowing and spitting human beings. It could be an allegory of Leviathans or legendary undersea […]

Bermudas is a choreographic system for a variable and interchangeable number of performers (from five to thirteen). It supports the idea of a perpetual motion ruled by an organic order, aiming at the creation of a dynamic continuum in space and time, while making visible the workings of each performer to feed and alter the […]

Adopting an iconographic apparatus, extremely contemporary, the performance tackles, with a universal language, current issues such as violence against women, and religious and economic fundamentalism. A.semu tutti devoti tutti? is dedicated to the patron Saint of Catania – deprived of her breasts as a punishment for her refusal to get married with the city Proconsul – […]

The poet and philosopher Lucretius described the Nature of Things with a surprising attention for the explanation of phenomena. His Latin poem discloses the reality of the cosmos and humanity with precursory contents of the modern science. De rerum natura is a work devoted to atomic fusion and fission, the vastness of space, the development […]

“The real happiness represents the great dilemma of everyone, or at least of the wisest ones.” Pierre Zaoui “Joie de vivre” is a thought in choreographic form addressed to the vegetal universe and willing to investigate specific behaviour in the relationship between body and space. In “Joie de vivre”, the preponderance of an emerging behaviour […]

HARLEKING is a demon with multiple identities. His bodily expression resembles that of Harlequin of the Commedia dell’Arte, a sly servant driven by an insatiable hunger. Harleking’s mode of communication has a specific hypnotic quality in which its contents, often extreme and contradictory, merge to create a fluid, metamorphic system wherein anything can happen, yet all is […]

Bad Lambs is a physical score for an expanded group of performers combining the permanent Balletto Civile team with disabled dancers to trigger new processes and experiences. It mixes different bodies together to find a collective balance as the common denominator of a journey through present times. What is a ghost? It is something that […]