September: what’s on?

Dancers at the barre and staff at their desks. The Fonderia is back in full swing for the 2021/22 season.

The Aterballetto company for the entire month of September is working with the Israeli choreographer Eyal Dadon for the new production that will debut in April 2022, together with the new creation by Diego Tortelli.

We are also getting ready for the premiere of MicroDanze, a public art project in partnership with Les Halles de Schaerbeek in Brussels and the Greek National Opera in Athens, co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union, which will be on 9 and 10 October in Athens, and the German premiere of Don Juan by Johan Inger, in Ludwigsburg on 16 and 17 October.

In September there are two appointments in which the Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto is the protagonist: in Ferrara from 10 to 12, in Rovereto on 12.

 

We open our season at Contemporary Dance Festival of Teatro Comunale in Ferrara in the framework of the Interno Verde Festival, where the secret gardens in town become open-air theatres.

On stage A Poetry Abstraction, creation by Diego Tortelli born in 2019 for Marina Rinaldi by Roksanda capsule, and Eppur si muove by Francesca Lattuada.
The choreographies are danced by specifically selected performers.

The performance venue is the Chiostro Grande di San Paolo (Piazzetta Schiatti 7) at the following times:

  • Friday 10 September h 15.00, 16.30, 18.00
  • Saturday 11 September h 15.00, 16.30, 18.00
  • Sunday 12 September h 15.00, 16.30, 18.00
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Feeling Good, the duet by Diego Tortelli for a disabled dancer and a not-disabled dancer, is at Oriente Occidente Festival in Rovereto, Italy.

For this performance starring Cristian Cucco and Annemieke Mooij.

The creation, a co-production by Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto and Oriente Occidente Dance Festival, as part of EBA Europe Beyond Access, co-funded by the European Union’s Creative Europe Programme, is presented on Mixed Doubles evening, along with three other duets produced by Onassis Cultural Centre (GR), Holland Dance Festival (NL), Skånes Dansteater (SE).

Feeling Good is within the project by the Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto “Danza e Fragilità”, supported by Gruppo Credem in partnership with Reggio Emilia Città senza Barriere and Consorzio Oscar Romero.

FND/Aterballetto – Feeling Good – ph. Albert Vidal / Vèrtex Comunicació

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The Fonderia welcomes back the public with open rehearsals and performances: starting on 11 and 12 September with Compagnia Artemis Danza / Monica Casadei, on 19 September with the Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto and on 25 and 26 September with Compagnia Stalker / Daniele Albanese.

The performances are part of ” La cultura non starà al suo posto. Reggio per Emilia 20/21″.

The Fall Season 2021 in Fonderia is opened by the Compagnia Artemis Danza directed by Monica Casadei with the latest production Dante solo inferno, a creation inspired by the first cantica of the Divine Comedy, on Sunday 12 September at 8.30 p.m. (an open rehearsal is scheduled for Saturday 11 September at 6 p.m.).

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On Sunday 19 September the Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto presents a programme composed of three choreographies that will be performed in the main spaces of the Fonderia. On stage Eppur si muove by Francesca Lattuada, the premiere of Punch 24 by Roberto Tedesco and A Poetry Abstraction, the creation by Diego Tortelli created in 2019 for the Marina Rinaldi by Roksanda capsule. The choreographies are danced by specially selected performers. There will be three performances of the show: 4.30 pm, 6 pm and 7.30 pm.

Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto for Marina Rinaldi by Roksanda – A Poetry Abstraction – ph. Jennifer Moyes

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The choreographer Daniele Albanese is back at the Fonderia with Home Altrove, a performance and at the same time a framework for reflection on invisible communication in the border zone between action and thought, between what is here and what is elsewhere. An open rehearsal is scheduled for Saturday 25 September at 6.00 p.m., the performance on Sunday 26 September at 8.30 p.m. will be introduced by a short lecture by the philosopher Maurizio Zanardi and will be followed by an open dialogue between the philosopher and Daniele Albanese.

 

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Published On: 1 September 2021

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