Armoniosa Unità

Choreography: Michele Merola and Enrico Morelli
Music: Pierre Jodlowski, Anne Muller
Performers: Lorenzo Fiorito, Mario Genovese, Nicola Stasi, Giuseppe Villarosa
Duration: 20 min.

Armoniosa Unità is a choreography by Michele Merola and Enrico Morelli, created this year for the celebration of Guglielmo Marconi’s birth. The work explores the meaning of the near and the far, inspired by electromagnetic waves. It is about reaching out to a distant person and bringing them onto our path to share a common journey. This approach creates a union of intentions and a journey towards cohesion that, even in diversity, leads to a vision of the common good. The choreography is accompanied by a musical score by Pierre Jodlowski with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, which incorporates a series of messages and announcements from radio broadcasts into a contemporary music composition. This sonic backdrop takes us into the world of radio, which even today, as in the previous century, serves as a medium for spreading news and, above all, for conveying cultures and messages of great importance.

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 this company, Merola has brought many of his choreographies to the stage, both in Italy and abroad, including La metà dell’ombra, which won the Anita Bucchi Award in 2010, and Bolero, which won the Europaindanza 2017 Award for Choreographic Merit. Since 2000, he has created numerous works for other companies, including Aterballetto, Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Dominic Walsh Dance Theatre, Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Junior Balletto di Toscana, National Theatre of Belgrade, and Tanzcompagnie Landesbühnen Sachsen in Dresden. 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 he won the GD Awards 2016 (www.giornaledelladanza.com) as the Best Italian Choreographer. In 2017, he won the L’Abella Danza Award (in memory of Ricardo Nunez) at the Roman Amphitheater of Avella (AV). In 2018, he received the “Incontro con la danza” award instituted by Basilicata ArteDanza. Since 2010, Merola has been, along with Enrico Morelli, the artistic director of Agora Coaching Project, a professional training program for dancers based in Reggio Emilia.

ENRICO MORELLI, a dancer and choreographer, began his dance studies in Barletta. In 1999, he graduated from the National Academy of Dance, where he later attended the advanced course for teachers. His creative talent led him to participate in major choreography competitions, winning first place at the Michele Abbate Competition in Caltanissetta, the Città di Perugia Competition, the Rieti International Dance Festival, and the Danza Estate in Florence. From 1997 to 2003, he worked as a dancer with the N. Piccinni Concert Foundation, Milena Zullo’s Arte Balletto company, the Piccinni Ballet, and Micha Van Hoeke. In 2001, he received the silver medal from the President of the Republic as a dancer. Since 2004, he has been part of the MM Contemporary Dance Company as a dancer and choreographer. Since 2003, he has created choreographies for Astra Roma Ballet, the school of Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Dominic Walsh Dance Theatre, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, KAOS company in Florence, Palermo InDanza, the Hungarian Szegedi Kortàrs Ballet, Milwaukee Ballet (USA), MM Contemporary Dance Company, and Agora Coaching Project. In 2018, Morelli won the “Incontro con la danza” award instituted by Basilicata ArteDanza. In 2010, he founded and has since co-directed, with Michele Merola, Agora Coaching Project, a professional training program for dancers based in Reggio Emilia.