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Ballade
Under the title BALLADE, the MM Contemporary Dance Company, directed by Michele Merola, presents a new show featuring two original choreographies by two Italian creators, Mauro Bigonzetti and Enrico Morelli. The pieces, performed by the MMCDC dancers, will take the audience on a journey through different generations: BALLADE by Bigonzetti is a comprehensive portrait of the 1980s, a decade that has lost its temporal boundaries to become a symbol of an era, while ELEGIA by Morelli is set in and tells the story of our current age, a time that, more than ever, brings vertigo and confusion, but also the renewed hope for a new beginning.
World Premiere: Theatre Comunale di Modena – Saturday, November 19, 2022
Production: MM Contemporary Dance Company
Co-production: Teatro Comunale di Modena
With the support of ATER Fondazione, Municipality of Correggio / Centro di Documentazione Pier Vittorio Tondelli – CorreggioMinistry of Culture / Emilia-Romagna Region / Municipality of Reggio Emilia / Centro Permanente Danza – Reggio Emilia
The performance BALLADE won the Danza & Danza 2022 Award for Best Italian Production.
Choreography: Enrico Morelli
Music: Frédéric Chopin, Giuseppe Villarosa
Lighting Design: Carlo Cerri
Costumes: Nuvia Valestri
Narrating Voice: Isidora Balberini
Choreographic Assistant: Paolo Lauri
Dancers: Lorenzo Fiorito, Mario Genovese, Matilde Gherardi, Fabiana Lonardo, Alice Ruspaggiari, Nicola Stasi, Giuseppe Villarosa
Duration: 35 minutes
People searching for their own path and identity, united by the same inclusion in a historical period, in an era like the present one, which brings vertigo and confusion. Individuals tracing new trajectories and seeking new paths to regain their direction, in a moment of exile from normality. A story of lost moments and relationships, along with a search in one’s memory for familiar and comforting images and landscapes. A dreamlike journey to rediscover one’s lost self. A collective dance that immerses us in a vortex of lines and trajectories that intersect and intertwine, in an apparent primordial chaos until the return of calm, which carries the choice to surrender to newfound hope, looking forward to a new rebirth. A tribute to care and attention to others, amplified by words from the poetry of Mariangela Gualtieri.
Choreography and Direction: Mauro Bigonzetti
Music: Nick Cave, CCCP – Fedeli alla linea, Leonard Cohen, Arvo Pärt, Prince, Nina Simone, Frank Zappa
Lighting Design: Carlo Cerri
Costumes: Silvia Califano
Choreographic Assistant: Roberto Zamorano
Repetiteurs: Paolo Lauri, Enrico Morelli
Dancers: Lorenzo Fiorito, Mario Genovese, Matilde Gherardi, Fabiana Lonardo, Alice Ruspaggiari, Rossana Samele, Nicola Stasi, Giuseppe Villarosa, Leonardo Zannella
Duration: 50 minutes
Mauro Bigonzetti’s new creation for the MM Contemporary Dance Company aims to be a tribute, a collective narrative, a comprehensive portrait of the 1980s, a decade that has lost its temporal boundaries to become a symbol of an era.
A musical image narrative that recovers the sensations of a generation, its erased euphoria, collective absurdities, “dreams cast away,” but at the same time also reclaims the lifestyle of those years, the scents of vitality, and the dense experimental artistic creativity that characterized a rapidly evolving society, transforming in step with the impulses of sharing and the anxiety of change.
A work staged without artifices, performed by the MMCDC dancers, and tailored to a musical dramaturgy structured around the tensions and visions of those years, drawing from various authors who were prominent during that period, from Prince to the anarchic genius of Frank Zappa, to the profound poetry of Leonard Cohen, and the punk and existential aesthetic of CCCP.
The choreography is also inspired by one of the most significant literary voices of the time: it aims to pay homage to the writer Pier Vittorio Tondelli, who in those years created and produced his major masterpieces. Through an abstract narrative, the choreographic score brings to life a space of memory and feeling where man, shedding his shell and armor, rediscovers his living and vulnerable body. A journey that leads us to uncover pain, love, abandonment, and rebirth. A symbolic journey in the incessant search for a new collective rebirth where beauty enriches and guides our path.
The MM Contemporary Dance Company is a contemporary dance company directed by choreographer Michele Merola. It was founded in 1999 as a center for producing events and performances and as a promoter of festivals and workshops with the goal of fostering exchanges and alliances between Italian and international artists, witnesses and spokespersons of contemporary culture.
The company, based in Reggio Emilia, has a rich and varied repertoire, thanks to the works of Michele Merola and creations by European and Italian choreographers such as Maguy Marin, Mats Ek, Mauro Bigonzetti, Thomas Noone, Gustavo Ramirez Sansano, Karl Alfred Schreiner, Eugenio Scigliano, Emanuele Soavi, Enrico Morelli, Daniele Ninarello, Ginevra Panzetti, Enrico Ticconi, Camilla Monga, and Roberto Tedesco.
In 2010, the MM Contemporary Dance Company won the prestigious Danza&Danza Award as the Best Emerging Company, and today, it is, in all respects, an excellence in Italian dance, with a well-established activity of performances throughout the national territory. In recent years, it has conquered an international market with performances in European and non-European countries (South Korea, Colombia, Canada, Germany, Russia, Morocco, Belgium, Spain, Slovenia, Hungary, Czech Republic, Sweden, France, Finland, Serbia…). In 2017, the MM Contemporary Dance Company won the Europaindanza 2017 Award – Merit Award for Choreography for the performance Bolero by Michele Merola.
Since 2018, the MM Contemporary Dance Company has been an associated company of the InDanza Circuit of Trentino Alto Adige.
The MMCDC is supported by the Ministry of Culture, Emilia-Romagna Region, Municipality of Reggio Emilia, National Dance Foundation/Aterballetto, Permanent Dance Center/Reggio Emilia.
TICKETS
Full price: 10 euros
Discounted under 30, dance schools, Matilde di Canossa High School, over 65, CRAL members of the Municipality of Reggio Emilia: 6 euros
Discounted under 8: 3 euros
TICKET PURCHASE
- ONLINE: https://www.biglietteriafonderia39.it/home.aspx
- Box Office at Fonderia: The box office opens one hour before the start of the performance (via della Costituzione 39, Reggio Emilia).
Tickets are not numbered.
CONTACTS FOR RESERVATIONS Cell and WhatsApp: 3341023554 Email biglietteria@aterballetto.it
Ballade
Under the title BALLADE, the MM Contemporary Dance Company, directed by Michele Merola, presents a new show featuring two original choreographies by two Italian creators, Mauro Bigonzetti and Enrico Morelli. The pieces, performed by the MMCDC dancers, will take the audience on a journey through different generations: BALLADE by Bigonzetti is a comprehensive portrait of the 1980s, a decade that has lost its temporal boundaries to become a symbol of an era, while ELEGIA by Morelli is set in and tells the story of our current age, a time that, more than ever, brings vertigo and confusion, but also the renewed hope for a new beginning.
World Premiere: Theatre Comunale di Modena – Saturday, November 19, 2022
Production: MM Contemporary Dance Company
Co-production: Teatro Comunale di Modena
With the support of ATER Fondazione, Municipality of Correggio / Centro di Documentazione Pier Vittorio Tondelli – CorreggioMinistry of Culture / Emilia-Romagna Region / Municipality of Reggio Emilia / Centro Permanente Danza – Reggio Emilia
The performance BALLADE won the Danza & Danza 2022 Award for Best Italian Production.
Choreography: Enrico Morelli
Music: Frédéric Chopin, Giuseppe Villarosa
Lighting Design: Carlo Cerri
Costumes: Nuvia Valestri
Narrating Voice: Isidora Balberini
Choreographic Assistant: Paolo Lauri
Dancers: Lorenzo Fiorito, Mario Genovese, Matilde Gherardi, Fabiana Lonardo, Alice Ruspaggiari, Nicola Stasi, Giuseppe Villarosa
Duration: 35 minutes
People searching for their own path and identity, united by the same inclusion in a historical period, in an era like the present one, which brings vertigo and confusion. Individuals tracing new trajectories and seeking new paths to regain their direction, in a moment of exile from normality. A story of lost moments and relationships, along with a search in one’s memory for familiar and comforting images and landscapes. A dreamlike journey to rediscover one’s lost self. A collective dance that immerses us in a vortex of lines and trajectories that intersect and intertwine, in an apparent primordial chaos until the return of calm, which carries the choice to surrender to newfound hope, looking forward to a new rebirth. A tribute to care and attention to others, amplified by words from the poetry of Mariangela Gualtieri.
Choreography and Direction: Mauro Bigonzetti
Music: Nick Cave, CCCP – Fedeli alla linea, Leonard Cohen, Arvo Pärt, Prince, Nina Simone, Frank Zappa
Lighting Design: Carlo Cerri
Costumes: Silvia Califano
Choreographic Assistant: Roberto Zamorano
Repetiteurs: Paolo Lauri, Enrico Morelli
Dancers: Lorenzo Fiorito, Mario Genovese, Matilde Gherardi, Fabiana Lonardo, Alice Ruspaggiari, Rossana Samele, Nicola Stasi, Giuseppe Villarosa, Leonardo Zannella
Duration: 50 minutes
Mauro Bigonzetti’s new creation for the MM Contemporary Dance Company aims to be a tribute, a collective narrative, a comprehensive portrait of the 1980s, a decade that has lost its temporal boundaries to become a symbol of an era.
A musical image narrative that recovers the sensations of a generation, its erased euphoria, collective absurdities, “dreams cast away,” but at the same time also reclaims the lifestyle of those years, the scents of vitality, and the dense experimental artistic creativity that characterized a rapidly evolving society, transforming in step with the impulses of sharing and the anxiety of change.
A work staged without artifices, performed by the MMCDC dancers, and tailored to a musical dramaturgy structured around the tensions and visions of those years, drawing from various authors who were prominent during that period, from Prince to the anarchic genius of Frank Zappa, to the profound poetry of Leonard Cohen, and the punk and existential aesthetic of CCCP.
The choreography is also inspired by one of the most significant literary voices of the time: it aims to pay homage to the writer Pier Vittorio Tondelli, who in those years created and produced his major masterpieces. Through an abstract narrative, the choreographic score brings to life a space of memory and feeling where man, shedding his shell and armor, rediscovers his living and vulnerable body. A journey that leads us to uncover pain, love, abandonment, and rebirth. A symbolic journey in the incessant search for a new collective rebirth where beauty enriches and guides our path.
The MM Contemporary Dance Company is a contemporary dance company directed by choreographer Michele Merola. It was founded in 1999 as a center for producing events and performances and as a promoter of festivals and workshops with the goal of fostering exchanges and alliances between Italian and international artists, witnesses and spokespersons of contemporary culture.
The company, based in Reggio Emilia, has a rich and varied repertoire, thanks to the works of Michele Merola and creations by European and Italian choreographers such as Maguy Marin, Mats Ek, Mauro Bigonzetti, Thomas Noone, Gustavo Ramirez Sansano, Karl Alfred Schreiner, Eugenio Scigliano, Emanuele Soavi, Enrico Morelli, Daniele Ninarello, Ginevra Panzetti, Enrico Ticconi, Camilla Monga, and Roberto Tedesco.
In 2010, the MM Contemporary Dance Company won the prestigious Danza&Danza Award as the Best Emerging Company, and today, it is, in all respects, an excellence in Italian dance, with a well-established activity of performances throughout the national territory. In recent years, it has conquered an international market with performances in European and non-European countries (South Korea, Colombia, Canada, Germany, Russia, Morocco, Belgium, Spain, Slovenia, Hungary, Czech Republic, Sweden, France, Finland, Serbia…). In 2017, the MM Contemporary Dance Company won the Europaindanza 2017 Award – Merit Award for Choreography for the performance Bolero by Michele Merola.
Since 2018, the MM Contemporary Dance Company has been an associated company of the InDanza Circuit of Trentino Alto Adige.
The MMCDC is supported by the Ministry of Culture, Emilia-Romagna Region, Municipality of Reggio Emilia, National Dance Foundation/Aterballetto, Permanent Dance Center/Reggio Emilia.
TICKETS
Full price: 10 euros
Discounted under 30, dance schools, Matilde di Canossa High School, over 65, CRAL members of the Municipality of Reggio Emilia: 6 euros
Discounted under 8: 3 euros
TICKET PURCHASE
- ONLINE: https://www.biglietteriafonderia39.it/home.aspx
- Box Office at Fonderia: The box office opens one hour before the start of the performance (via della Costituzione 39, Reggio Emilia).
Tickets are not numbered.
CONTACTS FOR RESERVATIONS Cell and WhatsApp: 3341023554 Email biglietteria@aterballetto.it
NOTTE MORRICONE
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«”I, Ennio Morricone, am dead”, wrote the composer before saying goodbye. His music, on the other hand, cannot. And this is how creators and artists always leave us without leaving us, and this is how memory takes care of keeping them alive, keeping them safe. Notte Morricone is my gift, a devoted tribute to the beauty he gave to the world. Ennio Morricone could be my father, or my grandfather, I am a direct heir of his legacy, of the films that (whether masterpieces, good, mediocre, or bad) owe him an immeasurable debt.» – Marcos Morau
Notte Morricone, the new creation of CCN/Aterballetto signed by the award-winning choreographer Marcos Morau, is at the Festspielhaus St. Poelten, for the first time with live orchestra.
Notte Morricone is a devoted tribute by choreographer Marcos Morau to the beauty that Oscar winner Ennio Morricone gave to the world.
Notte Morricone takes place in the twilight of an ordinary night in the life of a creator, who alone and dazed in front of his sheets, takes notes and visualizes melodies for films that do not yet exist, bringing stories back to life in the rarefied air of his room.
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Pierino e il Lupo
SHOW FOR PRIMARY SCHOOLS
Peter and the Wolf is a simple yet emotionally rich tale. As the story unfolds, the protagonist will meet friends and foes who will experience fear, friendship, joy, and sorrow alongside him. In an original and fun way, the audience will try to recognize, together with the characters, the orchestra’s instruments, their movements, and their emotions. What do they sound like? How do they move?
In the introduction, the audience will be involved in creating the movements that the dancers will perform in the second part of the show. The children themselves will make Peter and the Wolf an interactive performance, always different and easy to understand even for the youngest viewers.
A perfect show to make children aged 6 and up fall in love with theater.
Direction and script: KanterStrasse
Choreography: Beatrice Ciattini and Niccolò Poggini
Music: Sergei Prokofiev
Narrator: Alessio Martinoli
Dancers: 7 dancers
Duration: 55 minutes
Production: Nuovo Balletto di Toscana
First performance 2/12/2023 MET RAGAZZI, Fabbricone Prato (PO)
The language used is contemporary dance, with particular attention to the exploration of movements that evoke clear yet non-descriptive imagery. The choreographers guide young spectators through a vision marked by narrative clarity, which, however, does not rely on the pantomime of classical ballet. Instead, through a play of forms and dynamics, they allow the audience to follow the plot’s development.
Prokofiev’s music supports the directorial approach, which, while preserving the original and highly descriptive score, allows the work to be completely understandable and accessible to the audience. The performance plays on the parallelism between music and movement; it recreates repeated movements over time that characterize the characters, just as the musical score does.
TICKETS
Single ticket: 3 euros
CONTACTS FOR RESERVATIONS
Cell and WhatsApp: 3341023554
Pierino e il Lupo
SHOW FOR PRIMARY SCHOOLS
Peter and the Wolf is a simple yet emotionally rich tale. As the story unfolds, the protagonist will meet friends and foes who will experience fear, friendship, joy, and sorrow alongside him. In an original and fun way, the audience will try to recognize, together with the characters, the orchestra’s instruments, their movements, and their emotions. What do they sound like? How do they move?
In the introduction, the audience will be involved in creating the movements that the dancers will perform in the second part of the show. The children themselves will make Peter and the Wolf an interactive performance, always different and easy to understand even for the youngest viewers.
A perfect show to make children aged 6 and up fall in love with theater.
Direction and script: KanterStrasse
Choreography: Beatrice Ciattini and Niccolò Poggini
Music: Sergei Prokofiev
Narrator: Alessio Martinoli
Dancers: 7 dancers
Duration: 55 minutes
Production: Nuovo Balletto di Toscana
First performance 2/12/2023 MET RAGAZZI, Fabbricone Prato (PO)
The language used is contemporary dance, with particular attention to the exploration of movements that evoke clear yet non-descriptive imagery. The choreographers guide young spectators through a vision marked by narrative clarity, which, however, does not rely on the pantomime of classical ballet. Instead, through a play of forms and dynamics, they allow the audience to follow the plot’s development.
Prokofiev’s music supports the directorial approach, which, while preserving the original and highly descriptive score, allows the work to be completely understandable and accessible to the audience. The performance plays on the parallelism between music and movement; it recreates repeated movements over time that characterize the characters, just as the musical score does.
TICKETS
Single ticket: 3 euros
CONTACTS FOR RESERVATIONS
Cell and WhatsApp: 3341023554
VISIONI DEL CORPO: IL CORPO GRANDE
The final event of Visions of the Body: understanding contemporary art through signature dance.
A “dancing encyclopedia” that speaks about the world through dance, placing the body at the center of the human experience. A series of six cultural dissemination events that connect the arts, movement, and current issues, addressing themes such as psychological well-being, the relationship with the city, the future, and ecology, through an experimental cultural medium.
Nicolas Ballario, journalist, curator, and educator, introduces the theme of the debate, which, moving between dance and contemporary arts, reflects on the body from a different perspective each time. Each event is divided into six segments, dedicated to the works of six artists chosen to explore the central theme: well-known faces of the contemporary art world, familiar to the general public. Each event will be interpreted by a choreographer from the contemporary scene, who will translate the inspirations of the featured works into dance through an original performance, created specifically for the project.
Sixth appointment: Friday 29 November h 20.30 at Fonderia
Il corpo grande (The big body)
Talk with Nicolas Ballario and Roberta Ferrara
Choreographies by Roberta Ferrara
Focus on Fausto Delle Chiaie, Damien Hirst, JR, Ron Mueck, Niki de Saint Phalle, Claes Oldenburg
On November 29th, the series of events concludes with The Big Body: Roberta Ferrara brings to Fonderia details and impactful disproportions, from glamour to urban art, from Fausto Delle Chiaie to Damien Hirst.
The audience will have the opportunity to experience Fernando Melo’s Never Odd or Even through Oculus headsets: a work where proportion is pushed to the extreme, entirely based on the real size of the two dancers, who always tower over the viewer.
Niki de Saint Phalle (1930-2002), Dancing Nana (Rouge d’Orient – Bloum), 1995, polyethylene resin, fiberglass, steel, paint, 1,024 x 768 cm. François Odermatt Collection, in collaboration with the McGill University Visual Arts Collection. © 2017 Niki Charitable Art Foundation / ADAGP
Roberta Ferrara (1988) has been the artistic director of Equilibrio Dinamico DANCE company and the international training program ED ENSEMBLE since 2011. Since 2020, she has also been an associate artistic director for Odyssey Dance Theatre in Singapore, one of Asia’s leading professional dance arts organizations, founded by Dr. Danny Tan.
She holds a degree in Modern Literature with a focus on Theater Culture, with an experimental thesis on the value of instinctive movement as a therapeutic gift for dancers and non-dancers alike. Alongside her research, she has engaged in immersive studies with various artists on techniques and languages of international contemporary dance. As a performer, she has worked with choreographer Emanuel Gat in projects promoted by the Venice Biennale and the Ravello Festival. She has been a guest artist for various national and international entities such as Staatstheater Ballet Augsburg, Teatrul De Balet Sibiu, English National Ballet School, Korea Ballet House, Conservatorio Internacional de Ballet e Dança Annarella Sánchez, Morikawa Dance Academy, Ateneo della Danza, Elan Ballet, Mosa Ballet School, Balletto di Siena, ODT, Experimental Film Virginia, Eko Dance Project, and has been supported in her work by the Italian Cultural Institutes of Cologne, New York, Mexico City, Zagreb, San Francisco, Ankara, São Paulo.
Her creations have been selected and hosted in various international festivals including MASDANZA, FIDCMX, Cortoindanza, Network Danza Urbana XL, Festival Ammutinamenti Anticorpi XL, ZED Festival, Puglia Showcase, DanzInc, BallettGala Staatstheater Bremerhaven, Prospettiva Danza Teatro, Festival delle 100 Scale, Danza in Rete Festival, Lucky Trimmer, Fuoriformato Festival, VIVADANCA, SoloCoreografico USA, Solo Contemporary Dance Festival Ankara, Sid Festival Seattle, Interdans, Split Summer Festival, and Solo Tanz Theater, where she received the Best Choreographer Award and a residency prize from R. Fernando, the director and chief choreographer of Staatstheater Augsburg. She was also invited as a guest choreographer for the Stara Zagora State Opera by director S. Tomova and received the InDivenire Award for Best Dance Project, presented by étoile L. Savignano.
Nicolas Ballario, born in 1984, specializes in contemporary art applied to media. After completing his studies at the photography academy, he joined Oliviero Toscani’s factory ‘La Sterpaia’, where he later became the cultural manager. He has collaborated with major art institutions and numerous publications, and in 2016, he became the youngest ever to win the Bassani Prize, one of the most prestigious awards for journalists who have excelled in cultural and environmental fields. Currently, he is the author and host of contemporary art programs on Radio Uno Rai and collaborates with L’Espresso (where he has a weekly column), Living del Corriere della Sera, il Post, and Il Giornale dell’Arte. In 2019, he hosted the photography format “Camera Oscura” on LA7, and since 2020, he has been the host on Sky Arte for the programs “Io ti vedo, tu mi senti?”, “Italia Contemporanea,” and “The Square.” He directs the newly established exhibition production company “Piuma” and is the founder and president of Cucù, a communication studio dedicated to culture. He also curates exhibitions and catalogs. The magazine Artribune included him in its ‘Best of’ list of art world excellence for two consecutive years: in 2019 for radio and in 2020 for television projects.
APERITIVO AT FONDERIA
From 7:00 PM
TICKETS
Single: 3 euros
PURCHASE TICKETS
Tickets can be purchased online at www.biglietteriafonderia39.it.
The ticket service at Fonderia is available from 7:30 PM.
Tickets are not numbered.
CONTACTS
Cell and WhatsApp: 3341023554
Email biglietteria@aterballetto.it
FONDERIA ATERBALLETTO
via della Costituzione 39, Reggio Emilia
La Bottega dei Giocattoli
La bottega dei giocattoli (The Toy Shop) is the perfect show to experience the magic of Christmas.
The great book of fairy tales opens, bringing to life a story of toys with voices and souls, of enchanted nights where a young shop assistant is allowed to cross the thresholds of the impossible and become the champion of a universe threatened by a dark, faceless master.
Recommended age: 3 years and up
Text and direction: Sandra Novellino and Delia De Marco
With Delia De Marco / Antonio Guadalupi, Savino Maria Italiano, Sara Pagliaro
Recorded voices by Anna Ferruzzo and Giovanni Guarino
Set, costumes, and lighting design by Maria Pascale
Original music by Mirko Lodedo
Stage technician Vito Marra / Walter Mirabile
Special thanks to Chiara Calò
Production by Crest
Recommended age: 3 years and up | Technique: actor theater and dance | Duration: 55 minutes
Stories about toys that come to life have always inhabited the fantasies of children, who naturally play by giving a soul to objects.
Our story takes place in a toy shop, and aren’t toy shops like little cities where toys live like people? Or perhaps, aren’t cities like toy shops where people live like toys? There’s always a more beautiful doll and an envious doll, a teddy bear that falls in love and a jealous toy soldier, a bad mother and a good fairy, carousels and toy cars that never tire of spinning. A parallel world that helps children experience emotions, learning not to “lose their way,” moving from joy to disappointment, from melancholy to cheerfulness, from love to resentment. A city usually alive at night, because it dwells deep within emotions. Not just childhood ones.
Aimed at younger children, the production is the result of years of work by Crest’s team, even in preschools, exploring the most effective theatrical language for such a unique and challenging audience. The goal is to test languages and techniques that naturally leave little room for words, favoring images, music, and… play.
The show also comes to life through the original music of Mirko Lodedo, a true soundscape for the actions, dance, and storytelling that bring the toys to life. Or perhaps it’s the toys that bring the actors to life? You’ll only find out by visiting our shop.
Born in Taranto in 1977, Crest—an acronym for “Collettivo di Ricerche Espressive e Sperimentazione Teatrale” (Collective for Expressive Research and Theatrical Experimentation)—was initially led by Gianni Solazzo, Mauro Maggioni, and Gaetano Colella, and later by Clara Cottino, Giovanni Guarino, and Sandra Novellino. The company has maintained a coherent and innovative theatrical discourse in a challenging environment—both socially and culturally—by telling stories of complicated lives, stubborn dreams, and encounters between different cultures and conditions. Crest strives to blend traditional theatrical languages with contemporary research.
Since 1992, Crest has been listed by the Italian Presidency of the Council of Ministers among the “…companies that perform at a high and qualified level in the field of theater for children and youth.” The company has chosen children, adolescents, and young people as its primary audience, aiming to create a strong cultural and professional reference point. Crest’s goal has always been to bridge the gap between different audiences. Its productions are presented in evening programs, school events, research schedules, and drama seasons, as well as in specialized festivals.
Notably, Crest was a finalist for the ETI-Stregagatto Prize with the plays “La neve era bianca” in 1999, “La mattanza” in 2000, and “Cane nero” in 2001. The company also produced the winning play of the 2005 Premio Scenario, “Il deficiente.” Crest won three editions of the “L’uccellino azzurro” Award (at the “Ti fiabo e ti racconto” festival in Molfetta) with the plays “La storia di Hansel e Gretel” (2009 and 2015) and “Sposa sirena” (2013). Additionally, the company received the Eolo Award in 2018 and the 2017 Padova Prize – Friends of Emanuele Luzzati (XXXVI National Festival of Theater for Children) with the play “Biancaneve, la vera storia.”
In 2023, Crest won the National Association of Theater Critics Award “for its significant commitment to working in an environmentally critical area.”
Single ticket: 6 euros
PURCHASING TICKETS
- ONLINE: https://www.biglietteriafonderia39.it/home.aspx
- Fonderia Box Office: the box office opens one hour before the start of the show (via della Costituzione 39, Reggio Emilia).
Tickets are not numbered.
CONTACT FOR RESERVATIONS
Phone and WhatsApp: 3341023554
Email: biglietteria@aterballetto.it
OPEN REHEARSAL – SOLO ECHO
FND Aterballetto – rehearsals – ph. Christophe Bernard (18)
Monday, December 9, at 6:00 PM, the audience at the Fonderia will have the opportunity to witness the preparation of Solo Echo, a creation by the multi-award-winning Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite, which will premiere in February at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna.
Open rehearsals are unique moments where you can watch the creation of a performance, engage with the artists, and be captivated by the art of dance: a special occasion that allows the audience to step into the daily routines of dancers and choreographers.
Open rehearsal – Artemis Next Generation
Evening dedicated to young contemporary dance.
The Artemis Danza / Monica Casadei Company presents choreographic works by two companies that it supports and co-produces.
The evening opens and closes with Akmé and Delirium by La casa oscura, an emerging young company directed by Sabino Barbieri and Núria Argilés. The two choreographies are connected by a new creation by Davide Tagliavini, That’s all.
Wednesday, December 11 at 6:00 PM open rehearsal
Wednesday, December 11 at 8:30 PM performance
Artemis Next Generation
Evening dedicated to young contemporary dance under 35.
The Artemis Danza / Monica Casadei Company presents choreographic works by two companies that it supports and co-produces.
The evening opens and closes with Akmé and Delirium by La casa oscura, an emerging young company directed by Sabino Barbieri and Núria Argilés. The two choreographies are connected by a new creation by Davide Tagliavini, That’s all.
Wednesday, December 11 at 6:00 PM open rehearsal
Wednesday, December 11 at 8:30 PM performance
OPEN REHEARSAL – SOLO ECHO
FND Aterballetto – rehearsals – ph. Christophe Bernard (18)
Monday, December 16, at 6:00 PM, the audience at the Fonderia will have the opportunity to witness the preparation of Solo Echo, a creation by the multi-award-winning Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite, which will premiere in February at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna.
Open rehearsals are unique moments where you can watch the creation of a performance, engage with the artists, and be captivated by the art of dance: a special occasion that allows the audience to step into the daily routines of dancers and choreographers.
Le Blatte
The choreographer Carlo Massari and his company C&C Company return to the Fonderia with a new ironic and tragicomic choreography.
LE BLATTE is a contemporary, surreal, and social physical fable, harsh and disillusioned, attempting to describe reality in its moving and wonderfully desolate state. A humanist parable, narrated with unreal lightness, this new creation tries to transform the banality of daily life into poetry, suspending its antihero protagonists between the prison of reality and a dream of escape.
Wednesday, December 18 at 6:00 PM open rehearsal
Wednesday, December 18 at 8:30 PM performance
