Monday, October 21 at 6:00 PM at Fonderia, Waiting for Notte Morricone: an open rehearsal of the Aterballetto Company with choreographer Marcos Morau, allowing the audience to experience the emotions before the indoor debut of Notte Morricone at Teatro Argentina in Rome, where the show will be on stage from October 24 to November 10.
Open rehearsals are unique moments where you can witness the creation of a show, interact with the artists, and be amazed by the art of dance: a special opportunity that allows the audience to enter the daily routine of dancers and choreographers.
Direction and Choreography MARCOS MORAU
Music ENNIO MORRICONE
Musical Direction and Adaptation by MAURIZIO BILLI
Set and Lighting MARC SALICRÚ
Costumes SILVIA DELAGNEAU
Production Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto
Commission, Co-production, First Outdoor Performance Macerata Opera Festival
Co-production, First Indoor Performance Fondazione Teatro di Roma
Co-productions Fondazione I Teatri di Reggio Emilia, Centro Servizi Culturali Santa Chiara Trento, Centro Teatrale Bresciano
Co-production Ravenna Festival | Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini
Indoor Premiere October 24 – November 10, 2024, Rome, Teatro Argentina
The performances at Teatro Argentina are co-presented with Fondazione Teatro di Roma and Romaeuropa Festival
«People often ask me what music I listen to, which music inspires or accompanies me in my daily life, and I always answer the same way: from classical music to new contemporary waves, I draw inspiration from many different sources, and Ennio Morricone is always at the top of the list.
Morricone’s music embodies that abstract sense of what is not said and not seen in films. Although it is almost impossible to separate his music from the images that accompany it, Morricone transcends and intertwines with life itself, with memories, and with the beauty and cruelty of a world that continues to move forward, destroying and rebuilding itself every day.
His music has a powerful melancholic quality that stems from both the contemplation of the past and the impossibility of capturing any past experience.With classical training and avant-garde vocation, Morricone was always beyond the trends of the moment. Today, three years after his death, Morricone continues to inspire artists and visionaries in various fields, and his music belongs to an entire century and has revived many of our great masters.
His music was a genre unto itself, and for this evening I would like to build a universe based on his sensitivity to confirm that his legacy is more alive than ever and that, as he himself would say, “my music has a life of its own, which can live far from the films for which it was created.”»
(Marcos Morau, February 2023)
Recently appointed Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Ministry of Culture and selected as the best choreographer of the year 2023 by the German magazine TANZ, the career of Marcos Morau (Valencia 1982) continues to grow as a creator and stage director.
Trained between Barcelona and New York, in photography, choreography, and theater theory and dramaturgy, Marcos Morau builds imaginary worlds and landscapes where image, text, movement, music, and space constitute a unique universe constantly nourished by cinema, photography, and literature.
Since 2004, Marcos has directed La Veronal, a company present in the best theaters and festivals in over thirty countries: Théâtre National de Chaillot in Paris, the Venice Biennale, the Festival d’Avignon, Tanz Im August in Berlin, the RomaEuropa Festival, the SIDance Festival of Seoul, Sadler’s Wells in London, Danse Danse Montreal, among many others.
In addition to his work with La Veronal, Marcos Morau is an international guest artist in several companies and theaters where he develops new creations, always halfway between the performing arts and dance: Nederlands Dans Theater, Lyon Opera Ballet, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, Royal Danish Ballet, or The Royal Ballet of Flanders, among others.
As the youngest creator to receive the National Dance Award, the highest recognition in Spain, the future of Morau and La Veronal aims at exploring new formats and languages where opera, dance, and physical theater dialogue more than ever, seeking new ways of expressing and communicating in our present time, always turbulent and constantly evolving.
From this season, he is an associate artist at the Staatsballett Berlin.
“La Veronal is a reminder that dance is often at the forefront of the most innovative theater.” – The New York Times
“Morau’s visual treatment is so brilliant, so vividly strange, that we get involved in what also turns out to be a story of transmission and emancipation.” – Le Monde
“Morau, one of the most interesting young choreographers on the contemporary dance scene.” – El País
