Danza&Danza Award 2024

The new year begins with an important recognition!

We are happy and proud to announce that Notte Morricone—the new show by Marcos Morau for the Compagnia Aterballetto, which premiered at the Arena Sferisterio during the Macerata Opera Festival on August 1 and at the Teatro Argentina di Roma on October 24—has won the Danza&Danza 2024 award in the category: Best Italian Production – Grand Scale.

Here are the reasons given by the jury, composed of Maria Luisa Buzzi, Elisabetta Ceron, Azzurra Di Meco, Giuseppe Distefano, Roberto Giambrone, Francesca Pedroni, and Sergio Trombetta:

«Notte Morricone, a creation by Marcos Morau for the sixteen dancers of CCN/Aterballetto, is a work of surprising originality and impact, a resounding, poetic flight of imagination that the theatrical machinery as a whole offers to the audience. An Italian co-production with international scope, it uses metaphorical dance—often revolving around the theme of duality—to create a choreographic, musical, and scenographic montage full of echoes. It traverses worlds, questioning the human and artistic journey of Morricone through a nocturnal dimension, accompanied by excerpts from unforgettable soundtracks of films like Nuovo Cinema Paradiso, Once Upon a Time in America, and Sacco e Vanzetti.

A score adapted and conducted by Maurizio Billi, recorded by the Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini, and interwoven with the sound design of Alex Röser Vatiché and Ben Meerwein. Significant collaborations also include Silvia Delagneau for the costumes and Marc Salicrù for a set filled with objects such as metronomes, a grand piano, music stands, scores, puppets resembling Morricone, and moving walls.

The sixteen artists of Aterballetto, a multifaceted multiplication of the same musician, brilliantly brought Morau’s vision to life, led by two principal performers, Leonardo Farina and Giovanni Leone

Published On: 9 January 2025