NOTTE MORRICONE

NOTTE MORRICONE

Théâtre d’Orléans Orléans
31 December H 20.30
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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 Théâtre d’Orléans to bid farewell to 2024 and welcome 2025.

Tuesday, December 31, 2024 at 8:30 PM
Wednesday, January 1, 2025 at 5:00 PM

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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Direction and choreography MARCOS MORAU
Music ENNIO MORRICONE
Musical direction and adaptation by MAURIZIO BILLI
Sound design ALEX RÖSER VATICHÉ, BEN MEERWEIN
Set and lighting MARC SALICRÚ
Costumes SILVIA DELAGNEAU
Choreography assistants SHAY PARTUSH, MARINA RODRÍGUEZ

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

Outdoor premiere August 1, 2024, Macerata Opera Festival

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, what music inspires or accompanies me in my daily life, and I always respond the same way: from classical music to the 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 unspoken and unseen in films. Although it is almost impossible to separate his music from the images it accompanies, 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 comes from both the contemplation of the past and the impossibility of capturing any past experience.

Classically trained and avant-garde by vocation, Morricone has always been beyond the trends of the moment. Today, three years after his death, Morricone continues to inspire artists and visionaries from different fields, and his music belongs to an entire century, having revived many of our great masters. His music was a genre unto itself, and for this evening I want to build a universe based on his sensibility to confirm that his legacy is more alive than ever and that, as he would say himself, “my music has a life of its own, which can live far from the films for which it was created.”»

Marcos Morau

Recently appointed Knight 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 theatrical theory and dramaturgy, Marcos Morau constructs imaginary worlds and landscapes where image, text, movement, music, and space form a unique universe that is 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 Avignon Festival, Tanz Im August in Berlin, the RomaEuropa Festival, the SIDance Festival in 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 various 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, and 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 interact more than ever, seeking new ways to express and communicate in our ever-turbulent and constantly evolving present time.

From this season, he is an associate artist at 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 find ourselves immersed in what 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

NOTTE MORRICONE

NOTTE MORRICONE

Théâtre d’Orléans Orléans
31 December H 20.30
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The National Choreographic Center/Aterballetto pays tribute to Ennio Morricone with a new production by Spanish choreographer Marcos Morau.

The Spanish artist, with his visionary power and ability to transform musical universes, presents a unique creation that intertwines the music of Academy Award winner Ennio Morricone with dance, visual arts, and cinematic inspirations.
Marcos Morau, the youngest choreographer to date to receive the National Dance Award, Spain’s highest honor in dance, constructs imaginary worlds and landscapes where image, text, movement, music, and space form a unique universe constantly nurtured by cinema, photography, and literature. Now, for his first collaboration with the CCN/Aterballetto, he has chosen to draw from iconic compositions of the cinematic landscape of the last seventy years: those of Academy Award winner Ennio Morricone.
The director says: “With classical training and an avant-garde vocation, Morricone has always been beyond the trends of his time. His music spans an entire century and has revived the works of many great masters. For this evening, I aim to build a universe based on his sensitivity, confirming that his legacy is more alive than ever, and, as he himself would say, ‘My music has a life of its own, which can live beyond the films for which it was created.'”
Discover more »

Duration 90′

NOTTE MORRICONE

NOTTE MORRICONE

Théâtre d’Orléans Orléans
1 January H 17.00
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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 Théâtre d’Orléans to bid farewell to 2024 and welcome 2025.

Tuesday, December 31, 2024 at 8:30 PM
Wednesday, January 1, 2025 at 5:00 PM

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.

 

PURCHASE THE TICKET

 

Direction and choreography MARCOS MORAU
Music ENNIO MORRICONE
Musical direction and adaptation by MAURIZIO BILLI
Sound design ALEX RÖSER VATICHÉ, BEN MEERWEIN
Set and lighting MARC SALICRÚ
Costumes SILVIA DELAGNEAU
Choreography assistants SHAY PARTUSH, MARINA RODRÍGUEZ

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

Outdoor premiere August 1, 2024, Macerata Opera Festival

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, what music inspires or accompanies me in my daily life, and I always respond the same way: from classical music to the 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 unspoken and unseen in films. Although it is almost impossible to separate his music from the images it accompanies, 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 comes from both the contemplation of the past and the impossibility of capturing any past experience.

Classically trained and avant-garde by vocation, Morricone has always been beyond the trends of the moment. Today, three years after his death, Morricone continues to inspire artists and visionaries from different fields, and his music belongs to an entire century, having revived many of our great masters. His music was a genre unto itself, and for this evening I want to build a universe based on his sensibility to confirm that his legacy is more alive than ever and that, as he would say himself, “my music has a life of its own, which can live far from the films for which it was created.”»

Marcos Morau

Recently appointed Knight 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 theatrical theory and dramaturgy, Marcos Morau constructs imaginary worlds and landscapes where image, text, movement, music, and space form a unique universe that is 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 Avignon Festival, Tanz Im August in Berlin, the RomaEuropa Festival, the SIDance Festival in 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 various 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, and 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 interact more than ever, seeking new ways to express and communicate in our ever-turbulent and constantly evolving present time.

From this season, he is an associate artist at 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 find ourselves immersed in what 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

K (A) O

K (A) O

Fonderia Reggio Emilia
19 January H 18.00
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If in chat we use the laughing emoji, are we laughing with it? And if we use the one shedding copious tears? What expression do we really have? Choreographer Kenji Shinohe explores, through the body and digital technologies, how emotions are expressed through keyboard symbols. A show that sets aside words to tackle the highly relevant theme of “superficial communication” created by new technologies.

Recommended age: from 8 years old

by and with Kenji Shinohe

lighting design Cristina Fresia

Production Fondazione Sipario Toscana

Recommended age: from 8 years old | running time: 45′

At the heart of the performance are emojis, the colorful faces tasked with expressing feelings in digital communication, and the doubt that their overuse impoverishes and conceals real emotional expressions.

If in a chat we use the laughing face emoji, do we laugh with it? And if we use the one that sheds copious tears, what face do we really make? But the real question at the core of the work is: how can we recover our true feelings?


Choreographer Kenji Shinohe explores, through the body and digital technologies, the way emotions are expressed through the symbols of the keyboard. A performance that sets aside words to address the very contemporary issue of “superficial communication,” created by new technologies and especially—though not exclusively—used by younger generations.


Kenji Shinohe is a Japanese choreographer and dancer born in 1990, currently residing in Wuppertal, Germany. He started ballroom dancing in early childhood with his grandmother and represented Japan at the Junior World Ballroom Dance Championships when he was a teenager.

He studied dance philosophy and art history at the University of Japan, where he later earned a master’s degree. In 2015, he received an international exchange student scholarship at the Folkwang Universität der Künste in Essen, Germany. After graduating in the summer of 2019, he began his career as a freelance dancer and choreographer.

As a dancer, he has worked with the NEUR TANZ company (Düsseldorf), Tanztheater Erfurt (Erfurt), Carla Jordão (Cologne), Kompanie merighi | mercy (Wuppertal), Saeed Hani (Luxembourg), Dinamo Danza (Pamplona, Spain), and other international choreographers.

As a choreographer, he was awarded the first prize and the audience award “contact.energy 16” at the 5th Internationales Tanz Theater Festival 2016 in Erfurt, the Best Newcomer Solo award at the 10th Internationales Tanzfestival SoloDuo NRW in Cologne 2018, the Best Solo award and the audience award at the SzólóDuó International Dance Festival 2019 in Budapest, Hungary. In addition, he won 5 awards at TEATRI RIFLESSI in Catania, Italy in 2023. He has received international recognition for various choreographic works, both for his solos and group dances.

In his artistic work, he is interested in uniting body movements in relation to the structures of music, extending the expression of dance through metanarrative techniques. His choreographic pieces are hosted and performed in many theaters across more than 15 countries and 55 cities.

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Aterballetto: Pite / Preljocaj / Tortelli

Aterballetto: Pite / Preljocaj / Tortelli

Teatro Comunale Nouveau Bologna
6 February H 20.00
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FND Aterballetto – rehearsals – ph. Christophe Bernard (18)

SOLO ECHO by CRYSTAL PITE | RECONCILIATIO by ANGELIN PRELJOCAJ | GLORY HALL by DIEGO TORTELLI

The National Choreographic Center / Aterballetto presents a brand-new triptych, set to add fresh and unexpected nuances to the company’s already eclectic repertoire. Solo Echo, created by the award-winning Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite, invokes winter, music, and movement to express something profound about acceptance and loss.
Reconciliatio is a delicate female duet inspired by the Book of Revelation, crafted by one of the world’s most acclaimed choreographers, Angelin Preljocaj.
A vibrant fresco of sensuality and overwhelming vitality, Glory Hall by Diego Tortelli, showcases one of Italy’s most innovative choreographers.

The triptych is a true dance concert, beginning with Brahms’ sonatas and concluding with the post-rock of the band Godspeed You! Black Emperor, interspersed with the famous notes of Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata.

Choreography CRYSTAL PITE
Music Johannes Brahms
Sonata for Cello and Piano in E Minor, Op. 38: I. Allegro non troppo
Sonata for Cello and Piano in F Major, Op. 99: II. Adagio Affettuoso
Choreographer’s Assistant Eric Beauchesne

Restaging for CCN/Aterballetto

Production Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto
Co-production Fondazione Teatro Comunale di Bologna

Premiere performances: 6-7/02/2025, Teatro Comunale di Bologna

7 dancers – 20’

Love, loss, and acceptance lie at the heart of the stunning dance work Solo Echo by Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite.

Solo Echo is inspired by two sonatas for cello and piano by Johannes Brahms and the poem “Lines for Winter” by Mark Strand. As in Strand’s poem, Solo Echo evokes winter, music, and the moving body to express something essential about acceptance and loss.

Choreography ANGELIN PRELJOCAJ
Music Ludwig van Beethoven, Moonlight Sonata
Choreographer’s Assistant Claudia De Smet

Restaging from the 2010 creation Suivront mille ans de calme

Production Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto

First performance 16/09/2024, Memorare 2024, Basilica di San Petronio, Bologna

2 dancers – 10’

Dance, the quintessential art of the unspeakable, has the delicate role of unveiling our fears, anxieties, and hopes by evoking them. The duet chosen to convey the theme of reconciliation is from Suivront mille ans de calme (A Thousand Years of Calm Will Follow), a work marked by a poetic and impressionistic vein, inspired by a careful but not literal reading of the Apocalypse. For the choreographer, neither in the original performance nor in the female duet adapted for “Memorare 2024” should there be an attempt to seek precise references to the text of St. John. Rather, the goal is to reveal, uncover, and highlight (as the etymology of the word apocalypse suggests: to lift the veil) elements present in our world but hidden from our eyes. And in the delicate relationship between the two protagonists of the duet, both visible and invisible, emerge the themes to which we refer.

Choreography DIEGO TORTELLI
Music Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Choreographer’s Assistant Hélias Tur-Dorvault

Production Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto
Co-production Fondazione Teatro Comunale di Bologna

Premiere performances: 6-7/02/2025, Teatro Comunale di Bologna

16 dancers – 30’

Glory Hall is the new creation by Diego Tortelli for the 16 dancers of Aterballetto, a sensory and rebellious journey into a liminal space suspended between light and darkness. In a black space but never truly dark, the choreography unfolds as an ecstatic ritual where sensuality and profane spirituality intertwine, creating an ongoing play between pleasure, virtuosity, and the search for a personal version of glory. The dance, rebellious against narrative, constantly regenerates itself, allowing ephemeral emotions to explode, destined to vanish and be reborn. In Glory Hall, anything is possible: the music guides in a crescendo of harmony and transgression, for an ecstasy that knows no boundaries, blending rock sounds with symphonic melodies.

 

Aterballetto: Pite / Preljocaj / Tortelli

Aterballetto: Pite / Preljocaj / Tortelli

Teatro Comunale Nouveau Bologna
7 February H 20.00
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FND Aterballetto – rehearsals – ph. Christophe Bernard (18)

SOLO ECHO by CRYSTAL PITE | RECONCILIATIO by ANGELIN PRELJOCAJ | GLORY HALL by DIEGO TORTELLI

The National Choreographic Center / Aterballetto presents a brand-new triptych, set to add fresh and unexpected nuances to the company’s already eclectic repertoire. Solo Echo, created by the award-winning Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite, invokes winter, music, and movement to express something profound about acceptance and loss.
Reconciliatio is a delicate female duet inspired by the Book of Revelation, crafted by one of the world’s most acclaimed choreographers, Angelin Preljocaj.
A vibrant fresco of sensuality and overwhelming vitality, Glory Hall by Diego Tortelli, showcases one of Italy’s most innovative choreographers.

The triptych is a true dance concert, beginning with Brahms’ sonatas and concluding with the post-rock of the band Godspeed You! Black Emperor, interspersed with the famous notes of Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata.

Choreography CRYSTAL PITE
Music Johannes Brahms
Sonata for Cello and Piano in E Minor, Op. 38: I. Allegro non troppo
Sonata for Cello and Piano in F Major, Op. 99: II. Adagio Affettuoso
Choreographer’s Assistant Eric Beauchesne

Restaging for CCN/Aterballetto

Production Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto
Co-production Fondazione Teatro Comunale di Bologna

Premiere performances: 6-7/02/2025, Teatro Comunale di Bologna

7 dancers – 20’

Love, loss, and acceptance lie at the heart of the stunning dance work Solo Echo by Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite.

Solo Echo is inspired by two sonatas for cello and piano by Johannes Brahms and the poem “Lines for Winter” by Mark Strand. As in Strand’s poem, Solo Echo evokes winter, music, and the moving body to express something essential about acceptance and loss.

Choreography ANGELIN PRELJOCAJ
Music Ludwig van Beethoven, Moonlight Sonata
Choreographer’s Assistant Claudia De Smet

Restaging from the 2010 creation Suivront mille ans de calme

Production Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto

First performance 16/09/2024, Memorare 2024, Basilica di San Petronio, Bologna

2 dancers – 10’

Dance, the quintessential art of the unspeakable, has the delicate role of unveiling our fears, anxieties, and hopes by evoking them. The duet chosen to convey the theme of reconciliation is from Suivront mille ans de calme (A Thousand Years of Calm Will Follow), a work marked by a poetic and impressionistic vein, inspired by a careful but not literal reading of the Apocalypse. For the choreographer, neither in the original performance nor in the female duet adapted for “Memorare 2024” should there be an attempt to seek precise references to the text of St. John. Rather, the goal is to reveal, uncover, and highlight (as the etymology of the word apocalypse suggests: to lift the veil) elements present in our world but hidden from our eyes. And in the delicate relationship between the two protagonists of the duet, both visible and invisible, emerge the themes to which we refer.

Choreography DIEGO TORTELLI
Music Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Choreographer’s Assistant Hélias Tur-Dorvault

Production Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto
Co-production Fondazione Teatro Comunale di Bologna

Premiere performances: 6-7/02/2025, Teatro Comunale di Bologna

16 dancers – 30’

Glory Hall is the new creation by Diego Tortelli for the 16 dancers of Aterballetto, a sensory and rebellious journey into a liminal space suspended between light and darkness. In a black space but never truly dark, the choreography unfolds as an ecstatic ritual where sensuality and profane spirituality intertwine, creating an ongoing play between pleasure, virtuosity, and the search for a personal version of glory. The dance, rebellious against narrative, constantly regenerates itself, allowing ephemeral emotions to explode, destined to vanish and be reborn. In Glory Hall, anything is possible: the music guides in a crescendo of harmony and transgression, for an ecstasy that knows no boundaries, blending rock sounds with symphonic melodies.

 

Aterballetto: Pite / Preljocaj / Tortelli

Aterballetto: Pite / Preljocaj / Tortelli

Teatro Galli Rimini
9 February H 21.00
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FND Aterballetto – rehearsals – ph. Christophe Bernard (18)

SOLO ECHO by CRYSTAL PITE | RECONCILIATIO by ANGELIN PRELJOCAJ | GLORY HALL by DIEGO TORTELLI

The National Choreographic Center / Aterballetto presents a brand-new triptych, set to add fresh and unexpected nuances to the company’s already eclectic repertoire. Solo Echo, created by the award-winning Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite, invokes winter, music, and movement to express something profound about acceptance and loss.
Reconciliatio is a delicate female duet inspired by the Book of Revelation, crafted by one of the world’s most acclaimed choreographers, Angelin Preljocaj.
A vibrant fresco of sensuality and overwhelming vitality, Glory Hall by Diego Tortelli, showcases one of Italy’s most innovative choreographers.

The triptych is a true dance concert, beginning with Brahms’ sonatas and concluding with the post-rock of the band Godspeed You! Black Emperor, interspersed with the famous notes of Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata.

Choreography CRYSTAL PITE
Music Johannes Brahms
Sonata for Cello and Piano in E Minor, Op. 38: I. Allegro non troppo
Sonata for Cello and Piano in F Major, Op. 99: II. Adagio Affettuoso
Choreographer’s Assistant Eric Beauchesne

Restaging for CCN/Aterballetto

Production Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto
Co-production Fondazione Teatro Comunale di Bologna

Premiere performances: 6-7/02/2025, Teatro Comunale di Bologna

7 dancers – 20’

Love, loss, and acceptance lie at the heart of the stunning dance work Solo Echo by Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite.

Solo Echo is inspired by two sonatas for cello and piano by Johannes Brahms and the poem “Lines for Winter” by Mark Strand. As in Strand’s poem, Solo Echo evokes winter, music, and the moving body to express something essential about acceptance and loss.

Choreography ANGELIN PRELJOCAJ
Music Ludwig van Beethoven, Moonlight Sonata
Choreographer’s Assistant Claudia De Smet

Restaging from the 2010 creation Suivront mille ans de calme

Production Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto

First performance 16/09/2024, Memorare 2024, Basilica di San Petronio, Bologna

2 dancers – 10’

Dance, the quintessential art of the unspeakable, has the delicate role of unveiling our fears, anxieties, and hopes by evoking them. The duet chosen to convey the theme of reconciliation is from Suivront mille ans de calme (A Thousand Years of Calm Will Follow), a work marked by a poetic and impressionistic vein, inspired by a careful but not literal reading of the Apocalypse. For the choreographer, neither in the original performance nor in the female duet adapted for “Memorare 2024” should there be an attempt to seek precise references to the text of St. John. Rather, the goal is to reveal, uncover, and highlight (as the etymology of the word apocalypse suggests: to lift the veil) elements present in our world but hidden from our eyes. And in the delicate relationship between the two protagonists of the duet, both visible and invisible, emerge the themes to which we refer.

Choreography DIEGO TORTELLI
Music Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Choreographer’s assistant Hélias Tur-Dorvault

Production Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto
Co-production Fondazione Teatro Comunale di Bologna

Premiere performances: 6-7/02/2025, Teatro Comunale di Bologna

16 dancers – 30’

Glory Hall is the new creation by Diego Tortelli for the 16 dancers of Aterballetto, a sensory and rebellious journey into a liminal space suspended between light and darkness. In a black space but never truly dark, the choreography unfolds as an ecstatic ritual where sensuality and profane spirituality intertwine, creating an ongoing play between pleasure, virtuosity, and the search for a personal version of glory. The dance, rebellious against narrative, constantly regenerates itself, allowing ephemeral emotions to explode, destined to vanish and be reborn. In Glory Hall, anything is possible: the music guides in a crescendo of harmony and transgression, for an ecstasy that knows no boundaries, blending rock sounds with symphonic melodies.

 

NOTTE MORRICONE

NOTTE MORRICONE

Teatro Sociale Trento
13 February H 20.30
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The National Choreographic Center/Aterballetto pays tribute to Ennio Morricone with a new production by Spanish choreographer Marcos Morau.

The Spanish artist, with his visionary power and ability to transform musical universes, presents a unique creation that intertwines the music of Academy Award winner Ennio Morricone with dance, visual arts, and cinematic inspirations.
Marcos Morau, the youngest choreographer to date to receive the National Dance Award, Spain’s highest honor in dance, constructs imaginary worlds and landscapes where image, text, movement, music, and space form a unique universe constantly nurtured by cinema, photography, and literature. Now, for his first collaboration with the CCN/Aterballetto, he has chosen to draw from iconic compositions of the cinematic landscape of the last seventy years: those of Academy Award winner Ennio Morricone.
The director says: “With classical training and an avant-garde vocation, Morricone has always been beyond the trends of his time. His music spans an entire century and has revived the works of many great masters. For this evening, I aim to build a universe based on his sensitivity, confirming that his legacy is more alive than ever, and, as he himself would say, ‘My music has a life of its own, which can live beyond the films for which it was created.'”
Discover more »

Duration 90′

NOTTE MORRICONE

NOTTE MORRICONE

Teatro Sociale Trento
14 February H 20.00
, ,

The National Choreographic Center/Aterballetto pays tribute to Ennio Morricone with a new production by Spanish choreographer Marcos Morau.

The Spanish artist, with his visionary power and ability to transform musical universes, presents a unique creation that intertwines the music of Academy Award winner Ennio Morricone with dance, visual arts, and cinematic inspirations.
Marcos Morau, the youngest choreographer to date to receive the National Dance Award, Spain’s highest honor in dance, constructs imaginary worlds and landscapes where image, text, movement, music, and space form a unique universe constantly nurtured by cinema, photography, and literature. Now, for his first collaboration with the CCN/Aterballetto, he has chosen to draw from iconic compositions of the cinematic landscape of the last seventy years: those of Academy Award winner Ennio Morricone.
The director says: “With classical training and an avant-garde vocation, Morricone has always been beyond the trends of his time. His music spans an entire century and has revived the works of many great masters. For this evening, I aim to build a universe based on his sensitivity, confirming that his legacy is more alive than ever, and, as he himself would say, ‘My music has a life of its own, which can live beyond the films for which it was created.'”
Discover more »

Duration 90′

NOTTE MORRICONE

NOTTE MORRICONE

Teatro Sociale Trento
15 February H 18.00
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The National Choreographic Center/Aterballetto pays tribute to Ennio Morricone with a new production by Spanish choreographer Marcos Morau.

The Spanish artist, with his visionary power and ability to transform musical universes, presents a unique creation that intertwines the music of Academy Award winner Ennio Morricone with dance, visual arts, and cinematic inspirations.
Marcos Morau, the youngest choreographer to date to receive the National Dance Award, Spain’s highest honor in dance, constructs imaginary worlds and landscapes where image, text, movement, music, and space form a unique universe constantly nurtured by cinema, photography, and literature. Now, for his first collaboration with the CCN/Aterballetto, he has chosen to draw from iconic compositions of the cinematic landscape of the last seventy years: those of Academy Award winner Ennio Morricone.
The director says: “With classical training and an avant-garde vocation, Morricone has always been beyond the trends of his time. His music spans an entire century and has revived the works of many great masters. For this evening, I aim to build a universe based on his sensitivity, confirming that his legacy is more alive than ever, and, as he himself would say, ‘My music has a life of its own, which can live beyond the films for which it was created.'”
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Duration 90′

NOTTE MORRICONE

NOTTE MORRICONE

Teatro Sociale Trento
16 February H 16.00
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The National Choreographic Center/Aterballetto pays tribute to Ennio Morricone with a new production by Spanish choreographer Marcos Morau.

The Spanish artist, with his visionary power and ability to transform musical universes, presents a unique creation that intertwines the music of Academy Award winner Ennio Morricone with dance, visual arts, and cinematic inspirations.
Marcos Morau, the youngest choreographer to date to receive the National Dance Award, Spain’s highest honor in dance, constructs imaginary worlds and landscapes where image, text, movement, music, and space form a unique universe constantly nurtured by cinema, photography, and literature. Now, for his first collaboration with the CCN/Aterballetto, he has chosen to draw from iconic compositions of the cinematic landscape of the last seventy years: those of Academy Award winner Ennio Morricone.
The director says: “With classical training and an avant-garde vocation, Morricone has always been beyond the trends of his time. His music spans an entire century and has revived the works of many great masters. For this evening, I aim to build a universe based on his sensitivity, confirming that his legacy is more alive than ever, and, as he himself would say, ‘My music has a life of its own, which can live beyond the films for which it was created.'”
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Duration 90′

NOTTE MORRICONE

NOTTE MORRICONE

Teatro Guglielmi Massa
19 February H 21.00
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The Centro Coreografico Nazionale/Aterballetto pays tribute to Ennio Morricone with a new production by Spanish choreographer Marcos Morau.

The Spanish creator, known for his visionary power and ability to transform musical universes, presents a unique creation intertwining the music of Academy Award winner Ennio Morricone with dance, visual arts, and cinematic inspirations.
Marcos Morau, currently the youngest choreographer to have received the National Dance Award, the highest recognition in Spain, constructs imaginary worlds and landscapes where image, text, movement, music, and space form a unique universe constantly nourished by cinema, photography, and literature. For his first collaboration with CCN/Aterballetto, he proposed turning to iconic compositions from the cinematic landscape of the last seventy years: those of Academy Award-winning composer Ennio Morricone.
The director states: «Classically trained and avant-garde by vocation, Morricone has always been beyond the trends of the moment. His music spans an entire century and has brought many of our great masters to life. For this evening, I want 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 beyond the films for which it was created.»
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Duration 90′