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 […]

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 […]

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 […]