Compagnia Zappalà Danza – BROTHER TO BROTHER / DALL’ETNA AL FUJI

Compagnia Zappalà Danza

Friday, October 31, 2025 – 8:30 PM

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Production Team:

• Director & Choreographer: Roberto Zappalà

• Original Music & Soundscape: Giovanni Seminerio

• Live Music: Munedaiko

• Concept, Set, Lighting & Costume: Roberto Zappalà

• Dramaturgy: Nello Calabrò

• Choreography Assistant: Fernando Roldan Ferrer

• Costume Production: Majoca

• Set Production: Peroni

• Technical Director: Sammy Torrisi

• Sound Engineer: Gaetano Leonardi

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Performers:

• Dancers: Samuele Arisci, Loïc Ayme, Faile Sol Bakker, Giulia Berretta, Anna Forzutti, Dario Rigaglia, Silvia Rossi, Damiano Scavo, Alessandra Verona

• Musicians: Mugen Yahiro, Naomitsu Yahiro, Tokinari Yahiro

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Management & Production:

• Management: Vittorio Stasi

• International Distribution: Elettra Giunta

• General Director: Maria Inguscio

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Co-Production:
Scenario Pubblico / Compagnia Zappalà Danza – National Center for Dance Excellence & Fondazione Teatro Comunale di Modena

Collaborators:
AMAT & Civitanova Danza, Marche Teatro, Fuori Programma Festival

Support & Sponsorship:

• INGV National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology

• Ministry of Culture (MiC) & Sicilian Region – Department of Tourism, Sports and Performing Arts

Special Thanks:
BÙUM Italian Volcanology Guides

World Premiere

Nicoletta Manni & Timofej Andrijashenko – LA GIOIA DI DANZARE

Nicoletta Manni & Timofej Andrijashenko

Sunday, November 2, 2025 – 8:30 PM

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Description:
Dance Gala with dancers from Teatro alla Scala

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Production Team:

• Artistic Directors: Nicoletta Manni & Timofej Andrijashenko

• Production: Artedanza srl

Tbilisi Opera Ballet – The Sleeping Beauty

Pavarotti-Freni Municipal Theatre
Wednesday, December 3, 2025 – 8:30 PM

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Tbilisi Opera Ballet
The Sleeping Beauty

Libretto: Ivan Vsevologsky and Marius Petipa, based on the story by Charles Perrault
Choreography: Marius Petipa
New Choreography and Staging: Nina Ananiashvili and Alexey Fadeechev
Music: Pëtr Il’ič Čajkovskij
Set and Costume Design: Anatoly Nezhny
Lighting Design: Steen Bjarke
Assistant Principal Choreographer and Ballet Teacher: Tatiana Rastorgueva
Assistant Choreographer: Ekaterina Shavliashvili
Artistic Director of the Tbilisi Opera Ballet Theatre: Nina Ananiashvili

Photo © Levan Leko Tchkonia

MM Contemporary Dance Company – The Nutcracker

Pavarotti-Freni Municipal Theatre
Sunday, January 18, 2026 – 5:30 PM

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MM Contemporary Dance Company
The Nutcracker

Choreography: Mauro Bigonzetti
Music: Pëtr Il’ič Čajkovskij
Performers: MM Contemporary Dance Company (22 dancers)
Matilde Abbati, Filippo Begnozzi, Elisa Bocconi, Giovanni Karol Borriello, Paolo Giovanni Grosso, Anna Dal Maso, Sara Ferrentino, Mario Genovese, Aurora Lattanzi, Fabiana Lonardo, Giulia Lusetti, Sara Manzini, Luca Marchi, Lorenzo Molinaro, Federico Musumeci, Andrea Palmieri, Giorgia Raffetto, Alice Ruspaggiari, Diletta Savini, Gabriele Scarcia, Nicola Stasi, Giuseppe Villarosa

Set, Lighting and Video Design: Carlo Cerri
Video Maker: OOOPStudio
Costume Design: Lois Swandale and Kristopher Millar
Assistant Choreographer: Roberto Zamorano
Rehearsal Pianist: Enrico Morelli

Production: LAC Lugano Arte e Cultura
In co-production with: MM Contemporary Dance Company
In productive collaboration with: Teatro Comunale di Modena Foundation

Photo © Nicola Stasi

Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT2)

Pavarotti-Freni Municipal Theatre
Wednesday, January 28, 2026 – 8:30 PM

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Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT2)

WIR SAGEN UNS DUNKLES
Choreography: Marco Goecke
Music: Franz Schubert, Placebo, Alfred Schnittke
Set and Costume Design: Marco Goecke
Lighting Design: Udo Haberland

FOLKÅ
Choreography: Marcos Morau
Music: Juan Cristobal Saavedra, Kim Sutherland, Dessislava Stefanova, Kiril Todorov
Stage Production: Shay Partush
Lighting Design: Tom Visser
Set Design: Marcos Morau
Costume Design: Silvia Delagneau

FIT (Italian premiere)
Choreography: Alexander Ekman
Music: Nicolas Jaar, The Dave Brubeck Quartet, Doug Carroll, Wildcookie
Lighting Design: Alexander Ekman, Lisette van der Linden
Set Design and Text: Alexander Ekman
Costume Design: Alexander Ekman, Yolanda Klompstra
Collaborating Artist: Julia Eichten
Dramaturgy: Carina Nildalen

Photo © Rahi Rezvani

Rijeka Ballet – Cinderella

Pavarotti-Freni Municipal Theatre
Wednesday, March 18, 2026 – 8:30 PM

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Rijeka Ballet – Cinderella
(Teatro Nazionale Croato Ivan pl. Zajc)

Libretto: Nikolaj Volkov
Choreography: Leo Mujić
Music: Sergej Prokof’ev
Dramaturgy: Bálint Rauscher
Set Design: Stefano Katunar
Costume Design: Manuela Paladin Šabanović
Lighting Design: Aleksandar Čavlek

Photo © Dražen Šokčević

L’altro Viaggio – Dance in the Divine Comedy

Pavarotti-Freni Municipal Theatre
Tuesday, April 28, 2026 – 8:30 PM

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L’ALTRO VIAGGIO
Dance in the Divine Comedy

Director: Arturo Cannistrà
Music: Antonio Vivaldi, Philip Glass, Michael Nyman, Max Richter, Arvo Pärt
Dramaturgy: based on the texts of Giulia Pugnaghi
With the contribution of: Prof. Giuseppe Ledda
Curated by: Alessandro Baldrati
Voices: Elina Nanna, Enrico Vagnini
Project: “Leggere per… ballare”, from an idea by Rosanna Pasi

Performance produced by:
Dance schools of Modena affiliated with the National Federation of Dance School Associations
LaCapriola, Centro La Fenice, Khorovodarte, Movimento Unico, Tersicore per la Danza

Photo © Marco Vannini

Maribor Ballet – Stabat Mater | Carmina Burana

Pavarotti-Freni Municipal Theatre
Sunday, April 19, 2026 – 8:30 PM

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Maribor Ballet
(Teatro Nazionale Sloveno)

STABAT MATER
Choreography: Edward Clug
Music: Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Set and Costume Design: Jordi Roig
Lighting Design: Tomaž Premzl

CARMINA BURANA (Italian premiere)
Choreography: Edward Clug
Music: Carl Orff
Set Design: Marko Japelj
Costume Design: Leo Kulaš
Lighting Design: Tomaž Premzl

Photo © Tiberiu Marta

Centro Coreografico Nazionale / Aterballetto

Pavarotti-Freni Municipal Theatre
Friday, May 22, 2026 – 8:30 PM

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Centro Coreografico Nazionale / Aterballetto

SOLO ECHO
Choreography: Crystal Pite
Music: Johannes Brahms – Cello and Piano Sonata No.1 in E Minor, Op.38; Sonata No.2 in F Major, Op.99
Set Design: Jay Gower Taylor
Costume Design: Crystal Pite & Joke Visser
Lighting Design: Tom Visser
Staging: Eric Beauchesne
Created for Nederlands Dans Theater
Restaged for CCN / Aterballetto (2025)
Produced by Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto
Co-production with Fondazione Teatro Comunale di Bologna

RECONCILIATIO
Choreography: Angelin Preljocaj
Music: Ludwig van Beethoven – Moonlight Sonata
Costume Design: Igor Chapurin
Lighting Design: Cecile Giovansili
Assistant Choreographer: Claudia De Smet
Restaged from the 2010 creation Suivront mille ans de calme
Produced by Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto
Co-production with Fondazione Teatro Comunale di Bologna

GLORY HALL
Choreography: Diego Tortelli
Music: Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Oneohtrix Point Never
Costume Design: Sportmax
Lighting Design: Matthias Singer
Assistant Choreographer: Hélias Tur-Dorvault
Produced by Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto
Co-production with Fondazione Teatro Comunale di Bologna

Photo © Christophe Bernard

Martha Graham Dance Company

Pavarotti-Freni Municipal Theatre
Tuesday, May 12, 2026 – 8:30 PM

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Martha Graham Dance Company

STEPS IN THE STREET – Devastation-Homelessness-Exile
From Chronicle
Choreography and Costume Design: Martha Graham
Music: Wallingford Riegger
Lighting Design: Jean Rosenthal
Restaged in 1989 by Yuriko and Martha Graham, based on the film by Julien Bryan

IMMEDIATE TRAGEDY – Dance of Dedication
Choreography: Martha Graham, restaged by Janet Eilber
Music: Henry Cowell
Restaged by Christopher Rountree, produced and mixed by Lewis Pesacov, performed by Richard Valitutto, piano
Costume Design: Martha Graham
Lighting Design: Yi-Chung Chen
“Danzaturgia” restaged by: Neil Baldwin
With the support of The O’Donnell-Green Music and Dance Foundation

DIVERSION OF ANGELS
Choreography and Costume Design: Martha Graham
Music: Norman Dello Joio
Lighting Design: Jean Rosenthal
Readaptation by Beverly Emmons

LAMENTATION
Choreography and Costume Design: Martha Graham
Music: Zoltán Kodály
Lighting Design: Martha Graham
Readaptation by Beverly Emmons

EN MASSE
Choreography: Hope Boykin
Music: Leonard Bernstein, Christopher Rountree
Costume Design: Karen Young
Lighting Design: Al Crawfor

Martha Graham in Lamentation – Photo © Barbara Morgan

Opus Ballet Company – A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Pavarotti-Freni Municipal Theatre
Wednesday, May 6, 2026 – 8:30 PM

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Opus Ballet Company
A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Choreography: Davide Bombana
Music: Felix Mendelssohn, Jóhann Jóhannsson
Music Editing: Silvio Brambilla
Set Design: Margherita Citran
Costume Design: Ermanno Scervino
Lighting Design: Carlo Cerri
Technical Director: Laura De Bernardis
Costume Maker: Lisa Perin
Dancers: Giuliana Bonaffini, Emiliano Candiago, Matheus De Oliveira Alves, Ginevra Gioli, Gaia Mondini, Giulia Orlando, Riccardo Papa, Niccolò Poggini, Frederic Zoungla, Rebeca Zucchegni
Maître de Ballet: Giusi Santagati
Artistic Director: Rosanna Brocanello

Produced in collaboration with: Comune di Verona – Estate Teatrale Veronese ETV and Centro Servizi Culturali Santa Chiara
With thanks to: Toscana Spettacolo onlus Foundation and the City of Carrara

Photo © Giulia Lenzi