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The performance will take place on December 22nd with two showings:
1st showing: 6:00 PM
2nd showing: 9:00 PM
The protagonists of the evening are the dancers of Agora Coaching Project, a high-level training project promoted and supported by MM Contemporary Dance Company and A.S.D Progetto Danza of Reggio Emilia under the artistic direction of Michele Merola and Enrico Morelli. Started in 2010, the course is gaining full recognition in the European dance world and boasts collaborations with internationally renowned teachers and choreographers.
B.7 SYMPHONY by Emanuele Soavi
The tireless drive of Beethoven towards artistic renewal and his dissected and even visionary vision of the social and political movements of his time give his work an inexhaustible energy, like a continuous flow, just like the flood in nature when it changes the shape of the landscape and living conditions. This idea of constant change, of juxtaposition of opposites, of interaction, of exchange, of shared emotions and experiences is essentially the starting point for this choreographic composition. Both the stage itself and the protagonists who inhabit it with their movements, which continually take on a new form in each of the individual parts, create abstract images that consciously and unconsciously define the idea of a multiform self, which lives today in a modern society that is in a state of continuous upheaval and change.
GERSHWIN SUITE by Michele Merola
In the notes of George Gershwin (1898-1937), one of the most representative musicians of the 20th century, reflects the spirit of the time in which they are created, the moods and atmospheres of the Roaring Twenties. Starting from the best pieces of the composer, and from the suggestions of the pictorial works of another great American artist of the ‘900, Edward Hopper (1882-1967), Michele Merola has created Gershwin Suite. On stage, a lot of variety takes on the ways of a movie set, thanks also to a constantly changing set design, just like on a set, and a choreography that touches more keys, the work of a choreographer capable of declining his creativity and his talent in step with the times of contemporaneity.
PERFORMERS
6:00 PM
Corrado Azzollini, Jasmine Begici, Elisa Bocconi, Laura Dell’Agnese, Sara Ferrentino, Nicole Forni, Giulia Lusetti, Lucrezia Maggiore, Maya Maselli, Carlotta Maucioni, Martina Procacci, Federico Musumec, Filippo Penco, Jada Piccinini, Susanna Russing, Gennaro Todisco, Gaia Camilla, Zorrilla Leonini.
9:00 PM
Chiara Barril, Jacopo Bellan, Giulia Boccarossa, Giovanni Karol Borriello, Salvatore Bruno, Lucrezia Capuzzell, Anna Dal Maso, Vittoria Facci, Chiara Gionti, Aurora Lattanzi, Luna Lefebvre, Gioele Marcante, Laura Miotti, Martina Pagliari, Alessia Russo, Diletta Suman.
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Agora Coaching Project is an annual dance training program aimed at dancers aged between 18 and 22 years old, based in Reggio Emilia. Established in 2010, it is directed by Michele Merola and Enrico Morelli, and is promoted and supported by MM Contemporary Dance Company and Centro Permanente Danza of Reggio Emilia. Its goal is to train artists ready to face the variety of the international dance market in a flexible manner, capable of responding to requests of different nature, both technical and stylistic, coming from this same market. The project aims to offer a wide range of stimuli, including technical, cultural, and exchange opportunities between students and choreographers, each of whom comes from different and interesting backgrounds in the international dance scene. Agora allows students to meet established choreographers with different stylistic orientations, and over the years has seen the participation of many illustrious names. Michele Merola and Enrico Morelli collaborate with various teachers, each of whom has proven and qualified experience in the field, to realize the project.
Michele Merola is the artistic director and main choreographer of the MM Contemporary Dance Company, a contemporary dance company founded in 1999 in Reggio Emilia, which won the prestigious Danza & Danza Award in 2010 as the best emerging company. With the company, he has brought many of his choreographies to the stage, both in Italy and abroad, including La metà dell’ombra, winner of the Anita Bucchi Award in 2010, and Bolero, Europaindanza Award 2017 – Choreography Merit Award. Since 2000, he has created numerous works for other companies, including Aterballetto, Teatro San Carlo di Napoli, Dominic Walsh Dance Theatre, Teatro Massimo di Palermo, Junior Balletto di Toscana, Teatro Nazionale di Belgrado, Tanzcompagnie Landesbühnen Sachsen in Dresden, and Teatro dell’Opera di Roma. In 2003, he won the International Choreography Competition in Hannover, in 2008 he received the Positano Leonide Massine Award for the Art of Dance, and in 2016, the GD Awards 2016 as Best Italian Choreographer. In 2017, he won the L’Abella Danza Award at the Roman Amphitheater of Avella (AV). In 2018, he received the “Encounter with Dance” award instituted by Basilicata ArteDanza. Since 2010, Merola has been the artistic director, alongside Enrico Morelli, of Agora Coaching Project, a professional training project for dancers based in Reggio Emilia.
Emanuele Soavi began his dance studies in Ferrara and later at the Balletto di Toscana. In 1996, he started working in various Italian theaters, including the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari and the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma. In 1998, he moved to Germany, where he worked for three years as a soloist for the Ballet Dortmund, before moving to the Netherlands to join the renowned Introdans company. Throughout his career, he has interpreted works by choreographers such as Maurice Béjart, Jiří Kylián, Hans van Manen, Nils Christe, Renato Zanella, William Forsythe, Ton Wiggers, Nacho Duato, Karole Armitage, and Mats Ek. Since 1999, Soavi has also worked as a choreographer in numerous theaters, including Theater Dortmund, Theater Duisburg, Staatstheater Regensburg, Theater Aachen, Introdans, Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich, Opera Köln, Dansateliers Rotterdam, Folkwang Essen, ZHdK Zürich, Dance Limerick, MM Contemporary Dance Company, and AGORA Coaching Project. Since 2012, he has been the director of the Emanuele Soavi Incompany collective in Cologne. He has received the award for Best Performing Artist in Germany and has collaborated on co-productions since 2016 with Susanne Linke, Jone San Martin of the Forsythe Company, Cora Bos, and Joris-Jan Bos of the Netherlands Dance Theatre.
TICKETS
Full price: 10 euro
Reduced for under 30, dance schools, Liceo Coreutico Matilde di Canossa, over 65, CRAL members Municipality of Reggio Emilia: 6 euro
Reduced price under 8: 3 euro
PURCHASING TICKETS
Tickets can be purchased online on www.biglietteriafonderia39.it.
The ticket office service at the Fonderia is open from 7.30 pm.
Tickets are not numbered.
CONTACTS
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Email biglietteria@aterballetto.it
