The Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto is the first National Choreographic Centre established in Italy in 2022 by the Ministry of Culture.
It is a place of creativity, hospitality, 360-degree planning around contemporary dance and its connection with other arts. Located in northern Italy, in Reggio Emilia, the National Choreographic Center has its headquarters in the Fonderia, an early twentieth century industrial space where metals were once melted, now redeveloped into a creative melting pot, equipped with five large multipurpose rooms, tailors, meeting rooms and offices.
In promoting dance culture, the CCN/Aterballetto stimulates the connection of dance art with other areas of contemporary society, considering dance as an opportunity for personal and social growth and offering the public unique experiences.
Born around the historic Aterballetto company, founded in 1977, today made up of sixteen dancers engaged for entire seasons, working mainly on new productions by internationally renowned choreographers (Johan Inger, Angelin Preljocaj, Marcos Morau, Philippe Kratz, Francesca Lattuada, Iratxe Ansa and Igor Bacovich, Eyal Dadon, Diego Tortelli) and the revival of a selected author’s repertoire (Jiri Kylian, Ohad Naharin, William Forsythe, Hofesh Shechter, Crystal Pite), the CCN/Aterballetto is also dedicated to an innovative and broad-minded. Through projects with bodies that do not follow age, gender and ability norms, the Choreographic Center opens the way to an accessible and refined dance, which raises questions and identifies new canons of virtuosity and beauty, through works entrusted and curated by internationally recognized choreographers. world (Rachid Ouramdane).
Today the CCN/Aterballetto is a reality devoted to the plurality of styles and research in the field of new digital technologies. Cosmopolitan, curious, dynamic, its productions are appreciated in the most important Italian theatres and festivals and around the world.
The founding members of the Fondazione Nazionale della Danza are the Emilia-Romagna Region and the Municipality of Reggio Emilia.
