Aterballetto To Small at Piccolo Teatro Strehler

Dates: (6/14/2016 - 6/24/2016 )

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Piccolo Teatro Strehler

Largo Antonio Greppi, 1
Milano,Milano

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The fifth season for the artistic collaboration between Aterballetto and the Piccolo Teatro, by now a veritable “residence”. Two evenings, two programmes, two triptychs subdivided between six choreographers all characterised by solid values and a sense of renewal. Three new productions by Johan Inger, Eugenio Scigliano and Philippe Kratz, a piece by a maestro of 20th century dance, Jiri Kylian, who contributes to the company’s repertoire for the first time, and two choreographies by Giuseppe Spota and Michele Di Stefano, representatives of Italian dance, all make up the offering of the most famous independent Italian dance ensemble. A programme which perfectly sums up the excursus undertaken by the artistic director Cristina Bozzolini with the intention of updating the company’s repertoire, placing international creative minds alongside new Italian talents.

Johan Inger
Following on from Andonis Foniadakis, this year Aterballetto has given Johan Inger the task of creating a new choreography for the company, after having worked with him for the revival of Rain Dogs, seen at the Teatro Strehler in 2014. Inger, Swedish, the ex-director of the Culberg Ballet and a leading choreographer for the Nederland Dans Theather, is among the most interesting of contemporary choreographers, and his work forms part of the repertoires of many companies throughout the world.

Jiri Kylian
Jiri Kylian’s contribution to the company's repertoire is 14'20" set to the music of Dirk Haubrich. «The title – explains Kylian – is simply the length of this piece, which is part of the original work entitled 27'52". Our lives are conditioned by time, but time is an abstract concept. We have constructed devices which measure time with more precision than in the past, but many philosophers maintain that time as an entity does not exist, it is an invention… One thing is certain: our time is defined by two tiny instants, the moment of our birth and the moment of our death. My choreography speaks of time, but not only: it also deals with speed, love and aging».

Eugenio Scigliano, Philippe Kratz, Michele Di Stefano, Giuseppe Spota
As well as the new pas de deux by Eugenio Scigliano, who has for a number of years created choreographies for Aterballetto, and the new work by Philippe Kratz, L'eco dell'Acqua, inspired by a poem by Goethe on the theme of destiny, Italian dance is represented by Michele Di Stefano and Giuseppe Spota. An eclectic, intelligent and radical character, winner of the Leone d’Argento for Dance at the 2014 Venice Biennial, Di Stefano proposes Upper East Side, to the original music of Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch. A piece on the architecture of movement created from the dynamics of bodies, a structure in continuous evolution in as much as it is determined by the gestures of the dancers in space, by their speed, by the execution of a choreography which is at the same time a geography of dance. Giuseppe Spota returns to Aterballetto, the company with which he danced before moving to Germany, in the role of choreographer with LEGO. No specific reference to the famous construction toy, but rather a lexical and conceptual connection: «It is also tied to construction – says Spota –. To connect is to construct, through the meeting of hands and bodies, in the knowledge that if one does not connect every brick properly the construction does not come together, exactly like with the toy».

Cast and Creative team for Aterballetto To Small at Piccolo Teatro Strehler

New choreography (to be defined)
by Johan Inger

14’20”
choreography Jiri Kylian
music Dirk Haubrich

Passo a due-Pas de deux (to be defined)
choreography Eugenio Scigliano

L’Eco dell’Acqua
choreography, concept, costumes and staging by Philippe Kratz
music Autori Vari, luci Carlo Cerri
costumes Francesca Messori – Sartoria Aterballetto

Upper East Side
choreography Michele Di Stefano
music Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch
lighting Carlo Cerri

LEGO
staging and costumes Giuseppe Spota
music E. Bosso, A Filetta, J. Jóhannsson, O. Arnalds/N. Frahm
lighting Carlo Cerri, video e sound design OOOPStudio
costumes by Francesca Messori – Sartoria Aterballett

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