Le ville e i giardini medicei rappresentano un vero e proprio microcosmo attorno a cui ruota la vita di corte. In questi luoghi i Medici prima, i Lorena e i Savoia poi si dedicarono alle proprie passioni: l’arte e il mecenatismo, la vita nella natura e la caccia, la convivialità a corte e la buona tavola. Per la ricchezza di arredi, motivi decorativi e tecniche artigianali custodiscono veri e propri tesori, testimonianze materiali delle arti minori del nostro territorio.
Stazione Utopia, in collaborazione con il Polo Museale della Toscana, propone una serie di attività ricreative e di formazione, laboratori e visite guidate finalizzate a far conoscere la storia e le opere conservate nelle ville e nei giardini, attraverso metodologie inclusive e una varietà di tematiche e approcci pensati per pubblici sempre più articolati e differenziati: dalle scuole, agli adulti, alle persone con bisogni educativi speciali.
A partire dalle potenzialità offerte dalle lavagne interattive, si propongono lezioni frontali in cui grazie a diversi supporti (video, interviste, immagini, rendering) si illustrano temi di ampia portata e vasto respiro.
From June 16 to July 10, 2026, in the garden of the Castello dell'Acciaiolo in Scandicci, Firenze. Nutida – Nuovə Danzatorə is a dance festival held in the Municipality of Scandicci, created specifically for the Pomario, the garden of the medieval Acciaiolo Castle.
In 2026, Stazione Utopia once again presents a dance festival inspired by the relationship between the venue and its community, with the aim of supporting new generations of dancers and welcoming site-specific performances conceived or reimagined in a stripped-back, essential form: in a garden, outdoors, in the summertime, at sunset.
*Nutida is a Swedish word meaning “contemporary,” and within it are embedded: NU for “new,” UT for “utopia,” and DA for “dance.
ARTISTIC DIRECTION Saverio Cona / ASSOCIATE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Diego Tortelli
JR ARTISTIC DIRECTION Jennifer Lavinia Rosati
GENERAL MANAGEMENT Massimo Carotti, Chiara Damiani, Saverio Cona
STAZIONE UTOPIA PRODUCTION Laura Bandeloni
NUTIDA FESTIVAL PRODUCTION Aldo Noli
ORGANIZATION Ilaria Colini, Zita Marescalchi e Marta Zagaglia
ARTIST and VENUE COORDINATION Luca Cittadoni
SET DESIGN and STAGING Ammar Jaziri
DESIGNER Luciano D’Agostini
PRESS OFFICE Pina Izzi e Laura Mammarella
PHOTO and VIDEO Giampaolo Becherini e Maurizio Tibaldi
GRAPHIC DESIGN Maurizio Tibaldi
FULL PRICE 7€
REDUCED TICKET €5 (eligible reductions apply)
*All workshops are free of charge
INFO & CONTACTS
MAIL nutidanuovidanzatori@gmail.com
WEB stazioneutopia.com
FACEBOOK @stazioneutopia / @nutidafestival
YOUTUBE @stazioneutopia4765
Stazione Utopia presents Calimala Evolution | Disclosure Platform, following the excellent results of the first edition of Calimala | Disclosure Platform: an evolution of the format, which received numerous applications from four continents.
For the 2026 edition, the aim was to select 3 young choreographer-performers under 25 with experience in choreographic creation. The artists/performers worked on an original 15-minute score composed, recorded, and produced specifically for the project by DOMBRE.
The committee reflects the project’s evolving spirit, in line with the development of Calimala Evolution | Disclosure Platform:
Sveva Berti - Artistic supervision of the Calimala Evolution project, Director of the Aterballetto company
Jennifer Lavinia Rosati - Choreographer and director of The Gate Florence Urban Dance School
Philippe Kratz - Freelance choreographer
Marco Betti - TSU dance organization and production
DOMBRE - musician and composer active on the national and international scene
Aldo Nolli - Artistic production, Stazione Utopia/Nutida Festival
The selected artists took part in a working session at CCN/Aterballetto in Reggio Emilia, a moment of exchange and feedback with the committee prior to the final presentation at Nutida Festival.
Selected works:
Sul-levare by Simone Cristofori
Ashes by Francesco Paolino
What if fallen leaves by Francesca Gianelli
Two evenings dedicated to the audience, with their direct involvement in the creation of a dance performance: an instant workshop. This practice draws on the tradition of social dance as a popular, collective event. Unlike dance halls or nightclubs, NED aims to offer an immersive experience and, for this reason, it will take place at the end of the guest companies’ performances.
TUESDAY 23 JUNE / 8:30 PM
VERMOUTH GASSOSA
Pablo Giorolami è coreografo freelance e fondatore di House of IVONA. A Nutida, nel corso degli anni, ha collaborato come interprete, coreografo, insegnante ed educatore.
Con il suo eteronimo Vermouth Gassosa, si presenta come live performer musicale, creando specifici live set a sostegno delle sue creazioni coreografiche e per attivare, coinvolgere e mettere in moto i corpi del pubblico, in un gioco di risonanze tra suono, gesto e presenza.
THURSDAY 2 July / 8:00 PM
STUDIO BATSUMI
Federico Bigonzetti is a drummer, composer, DJ, and producer with extensive experience in contemporary music, electronic production, and composition for theatre and dance. Throughout his career, he has performed live in clubs, venues, and underground festivals in London and across Europe, developing an artistic language that combines sonic exploration, organic groove, and electronic experimentation. He is the founder of Studio Batsumi, a creative platform and independent label dedicated to original productions, multidisciplinary collaborations, and vinyl releases.
/ Production: Stazione Utopia
PROGRAMMe
PERFORMANCES BEGIN AT 7:00 PM
FRANCESCO, LA FORZA DELLA PACE
TUESDAY 16 JUNE
CRISTINA BORGOGNI, PAOLO LORIMER
BY Cristina Borgogni
WITH Cristina Borgogni and Paolo Lorimer
MUSIC Dario Arcidiacono
In a historical moment marked by war, the words of love, brotherhood, and peace of Francesco offer comfort to our troubled hearts. This is a narrative of his life and his actions, from his youth to his death, portrayed through words and performance.
LU BACIU SANTU
THURSDAY 18 JUNE
RESEXTENSA DANCE COMPANY
CHOREOGRAPHY Diego Tortelli
CHOREOGRAPHER’S ASSISTANT Cristian Cucco
MUSIC Justin Adams & Mauro Durante (Used by permission. Courtesy of: Ponderosa Music Records Srl, Universal Music Publishing, Ricordi)
COSTUMES Nuvia Valestri
DANCED BY Veronica Biondini, Edoardo Brovardi, Matteo Capetola, Julien Guibourg
PRODUCTION ResExtensa – Porta d’Oriente Centro Nazionale di Produzione della Danza
WITH THE SUPPORT OF Ministero della Cultura, Area Mediterranea – Residenze Artistiche, Artisti nei Territori (MiC, Regione Puglia), Regione Puglia, Città di Bari Supporto Logica Company Group
Inspired by the ritual of the Taranta and the cult of San Paolo, the work reinterprets the “bite” as a conscious and chosen act: a kiss that triggers transformation, desire, and awareness, leading the body into a lucid trance.
KI
FRIDAY 19 JUNE
KATARZYNA ZAKRZEWSKA and IGA WŁODARCZYK
BY AND PERFORMED BY Katarzyna Zakrzewska and Iga WUodarczyk
PRODUCTION House of IVONA
A moment shapes the next, a choice redirects the path. Listening, moving, connecting — on stage and beyond — following small impulses, giving full energy, sharing presence, and embracing the rhythm.
KI | ph. Witold Prokopczyk
LE CADAVRE EXQUIS
(second study)
FRIDAY 19 JUNE
COMPAGNIA OPUS BALLET
CHOREOGRAPHY AND PERFORMANCE Giovanni Russo
PRODUCTION COB Compagnia Opus Ballet
Inspired by the Surrealist Cadavre Exquis, the work composes the body through fragments: interrupted gestures, tensions, and collapses. In this disassembly, vulnerability and shifting identities emerge, like forces in constant becoming.
/ PREVIEW
mycelium
FRIDAY 19 JUNE
MISIA SARTI
CHOREOGRAPHY Pablo Girolami
PERFORMED BY Misia Sarti
CO-PRODUCTION House of IVONA / Stazione Utopia
An invisible system expands beneath the surface, weaving together worlds that are not visible yet sustain every visible form. Mycelium becomes an originating principle and a hidden web, a living network that connects what appears separate, dissolving the boundaries between individual and environment.
/ PREMIERE
REPRISE Monday 22 June
COMUNICAZIONI POSSIBILI
SATURDAY 20 JUNE
GIANNI WERS / THE GATE
CHOREOGRAPHY Gianni Wers
DANCED BY Iris Berdicchia, Irene Boncivinni, Giovanni Boni, Noemi Carletti, Noemi Catarzi, Letizia Cossari, Riccardo Di Frangia, Misia Sarti, Erika Senesi, Linda Vitale
“Comunicazioni Possibili” explores the difficulty and beauty of human encounter through Urban Dance, Floorwork, and Contemporary dance. From breath emerges a collective dialogue that transforms isolation and listening into connection, guided by music.
/ PREMIERE
THE CLUB
SATURDAY 20 JUNE
ROSER LOPEZ ESPINOZA / THE GATE
CHOREOGRAPHY Roser Lopez Espinosa
DANCED BY Irene Boncivinni, Giovanni Boni, Noemi Carletti, Noemi Catarzi, Letizia Cossari, Riccardo Di Frangia, Duccio Neri, Misia Sarti, Erika Senesi, Linda Vitale
SOUND DESIGN curated by Mark Drillich
Everyone is welcome to the club. Gather together and let yourself be carried by the rhythm. Celebrate uniqueness: here you may encounter surprising creatures. Time expands and becomes elastic. The real and the dreamlike meet here. Have fun, be playful, be together.
This dancing space is for everyone.
/ PREMIERE
Kokoro (心)
(primo studio)
SATURDAY 20 JUNE
RAW TALES COMPANY
CHOREOGRAPHY RawTales Company
DANCED BY Duccio Neri and Linda Vitale
A Japanese noun. It refers to what unites heart, mind, and spirit. It is not something easily shown. It is what remains beneath, when you stop trying to explain yourself.
/ PREMIERE
VARIATION +
MONDAY 22 JUNE
CORNELIA DANCE COMPANY
CHOREOGRAPHY Nyko Piscopo
DANCERS Nicolas Grimaldi Capitello, Leopoldo Guadagno, Francesco Russo, Giada Tibaldi
PRODUCTION Cornelia Dance Company
CO-PRODUCTION ARB Dance Company
WITH THE SUPPORT OF GCDancevents, Lam Dance Works, Art Garage, Officine San Carlo
Variation+ is a danced resistance against the silence of the theatre. Each variation questions a forgotten value. Bodies search for listening: the theatre is one of the last places where one can truly live.
The piece “Variation 3” had its world premiere
and was performed during the opening performance of
Lam Dance Works, ACT II, on Saturday
15 November 2025 in Boston.
VARIATION + | ph. Karolina Kuras
DIRA LIBIDO 2.0
MONDAY 22 JUNE
BELLANDA - CCN / ATERBALLETTO
CONCEPT AND CHOREOGRAPHY Giovanni Leonarduzzi
PERFORMERS Giovanni Leonarduzzi, Lia Claudia Latini|
PRODUCTION Compagnia Bellanda
CO-PRODUCTION CCN / Aterballetto |
WITH THE SUPPORT OF GCDancevents, Lam Dance Works, Art Garage, Officine San Carlo
The work emerges from the fusion of breaking and contemporary dance languages. Dira Libido 2.0 is a hybrid choreographic writing in which each gesture takes on ritual value and the body asserts itself as the only place of truth.
/ PREMIERE
CAFFè Y
TUESDAY 23 JUNE
YoY Performing Arts / IVONA / Michele Ifigenia – Tyche
PERFORMERS Emma Zani, Roberto Doveri, Pablo Girolami, Guilherme Leal e Fed erica D’Aversa
DRAMATURGICAL ASSISTANT Riccardo Vanetta
WITH THE SUPPORT OF MiC and SIAE, within the “Per Chi Crea” program
Winner of the Giovane Danza Italiana 2025 and Bando Cura 2025
Caffè Y emerges from YTI, a project by YoY Performing Arts, IVONA, and Tyche. It is a shared space where the audience encounters research materials such as video, audio, magazines, and studies, entering an evolving creative process.
PERLA III
TUESDAY 23 JUNE
ONA CROS
BY AND PERFORMED BY Ona Cros
MUSICAL COMPOSITION Ona Cros in collaborazione con Miquel Sánchez
MENTORSHIP Pablo Girolami
OUTSIDE EYE Alba Bailón
COSTUMES AND ACCESSORIES Axel
Perla III is a performance that combines live music, dance, and costume. Through the figure of a nymph, it explores identity, memory, and femininity as spaces of transformation and resistance.
PERLA III | ph. Joan Pastor
SOLO SOGNAR CI TERRà SVEGLI
TUESDAY 23 JUNE
YoY Performing Arts
BY AND PERFORMED BY Emma Zani and Roberto Doveri
MUSIC Timoteo Carbone
POETIC TEXT AND SCENIC ELEMENT Ivan
COSTUMES Hache Official
PRODUCTION Anghiari Dance Hub
WITH THE SUPPORT OF MiC and SIAE, within the “Per Chi Crea” program
Special thanks to Fabbrica Europa and Centro di Produzione della Danza Virgilio Sieni
“Solo sognar ci terrà svegli” emerges from the encounter with Ivan Tresoldi and turns dreaming into a political act. Not a private refuge, but a shared gesture of resistance: to dream is to remain present, alert, together.
KUXAPHE
TUESDAY 23 JUNE
PABLO GIROLAMI
BY AND PERFORMED BY Pablo Girolami
PRODUCTION House of IVONA
WITH THE SUPPORT OF One Dance European City (ODEC) un progetto di ArtistiAssociati - Centro di Produzione Teatrale ed SNG Teatro Nazionale Sloveno di Nova Gorica in collaborazione con CCN/Aterballetto
A single body moves through intimate and primordial territories, in search of a rhythm that emerges from within. Solitude becomes fertile ground for discovering new strengths, between fragility and resistance. Instinct guides a journey that is both memory and future, root and momentum. Each gesture arises as the trace of a personal ritual, at once delicate and wild. What emerges is an essential journey, where the body becomes a community of impulses and visions.
non stop ecstatic dancinG Vermouth gassosa (live music)
TUESDAY 23 JUNE, 8:30 PM
PRODUCTION Stazione Utopia
Pablo Giorolami is a freelance choreographer and founder of House of IVONA. At Nutida, over the years, he has worked as a performer, choreographer, teacher, and educator.
Under his heteronym Vermouth Gassosa, he appears as a live music performer, creating bespoke live sets in support of his choreographic works and to activate, engage, and set the audience’s bodies in motion, in a play of resonances between sound, gesture, and presence.
SPOON RIVER
(first study)
Non al denaro,
non all’amore, né al cielo
WEDNESDAY 24 JUNE
The Gate / Officina dei sogni, AMF Scuola di Musica di Scandicci
CHOREOGRAPHIES Jennifer Lavinia Rosati, Teresa Bagnoli
PERFORMERS Irene Bonvicini, Giovanni Boni, Noemi Carletti, Noemi Catarzi, Letizia Cossari, Riccardo Di Frangia, Duccio Neri, Misia Sarti, Erika Senesi, Linda Vitale
VOICE AND GUITAR Riccardo Mori
KEYBOARDS Tommaso Lastrucci
DRUMS Fabio Sbolci
BASS Alessandro Farri
On the hill of Spoon River, voices do not fade away: men and women tell stories of dreams, regrets, and love. On stage, Officina dei Sogni, AMF Scuola di Musica di Scandicci, and The Gate Florence Dance Urban School give life to a chorus of words, gestures, and sounds. Between theatre, dance, and music, the poems become movement and breath, in a dialogue between past and present that continues to question the living.
/ PREVIEW
SKYLARKING
THURSDAY 25 JUNE
DOMBRE/CARRARA/GIOLI
LIVE MUSIC Dombre
DANCED BY Ginevra Gioli and Rita Carrara
PRODUCTION Stazione Utopia
SKYLARKING explores a suspended dimension between play and tension, instinct and composition, where performers continuously negotiate distance, balance, and contact. The audience witnesses a constantly shifting landscape in which dance and music do not accompany one another but co-generate as a single living organism.
/ PREMIERE
PIANO-FORTE
THURSDAY 25 JUNE
ROBERTO TEDESCO
CHOREOGRAPHY Roberto Tedesco
MUSIC Fryderyk Chopin
SOUND DESIGN Giuseppe Villarosa
COSTUMES Santi Rinciari
PERFORMERS Matheus Alves De Oliveira, Ginevra Gioli
PRODUCTION COB Compagnia Opus Ballet
Two bodies move like opposite poles: presence and absence, closeness and distance. Set to Chopin’s Nocturnes, the stage becomes a space of oxymorons: silence becomes sound, fragility turns into strength. Two faces of the same unity.
julia around julia
FRIDAY 26 JUNE
GIULIA ORLANDO
BY AND PERFORMED BY Giulia Orlando
PRODUCTION COB Compagnia Opus Ballet
I remain. I listen. I wait. In the absence of the other, time dissolves and waiting becomes a slow, inevitable return to oneself.
/ PREMIERE
JULIA AROUND JULIA | ph. Giovanni Russo
aerea
FRIDAY 26 JUNE
COMPAGNIA PANZETTI/TICCONI
BY AND PERFORMED BY Ginevra Panzetti, Enrico Ticconi
SOUND Demetrio Castellucci
FLAG INSTRUCTOR Carlo Lobina
TECHNICAL SUPERVISION Michele Piazzi, PaoloTizianel
MANAGEMENT AND DISTRIBUTION Aurélie Martin
PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT VAN
Winner of the Hermès Dance Award – Triennale Milano
AeReA, the first chapter of a diptych, explores the flag as a symbol of identity and separation. Inspired by flag-waving techniques, the duo reworks this code into an essential and contemporary choreographic vision.
muda
MONDAY 29 JUNE
SARA SONDEREGGER
BY AND PERFORMED BY Sara Sonderegger
EXECUTIVE PRODUCTION Stazione Utopia
Muda evokes change. The performance crosses a perceptual threshold, exploring how the subject’s presence is transformed in the gaze of the other, between resistance, vulnerability, and openness.
/ PREMIERE
1749
MONDAY 29 JUNE
ERIKA SILGONER
CHOREOGRAPHY Erika Silgoner
PERFORMERS Giuliana Bonaffini, Emiliano Candiago, Ginevra Gioli, Giovanni Russo, Frederic Zoungla
PRODUCTION COB Compagnia Opus Ballet
COSTUMES Santi Rinciari
WITH THE SUPPORT OF Teatro Stabile del Veneto - Teatro Nazionale
1749 by Erika Silgoner reinvents Casanova: no longer just a seducer, but a kaleidoscope of play, desire, and ambiguity, between the 18th century and contemporary soundscapes. In this dance of seduction, who is seducing whom.
1749 | ph. Mario Sguotti
INVISIBLE TRACES
MONDAY 29 JUNE
YANA REUTOVA
CONCEPT Yana Reutova
CHOREOGRAPHY Yana Reutova insieme agli interpreti
PERFORMERS Jitka Sara Páníková, Katerina Jabůrková / Žaneta Musilová, Lukas Blaha
MUSIC Tomáš Kerle
SCENOGRAPHY AND OBJECT DESIGN Lucie Podroužková, Štěpán Rubáš
PRODUCTION Tanec Praha z.ú. / PONEC – Theatre for Dance
Invisible Traces reflects on how we are shaped by the traces left by others — physical, emotional, and mental — creating a network of connections, memories, and shared experiences that intertwine our lives.
/ NATIONAL PREMIERE
CONTARE LE LACRIME
TUESDAY 30 JUNE
GAIA MONDINI & CRISTINA ROGGERINI
BY AND PERFORMED BY Gaia Mondini e Cristina Roggerini
MUSIC EDITING Stefania Menestrina
PRODUCTION Stazione Utopia
A silent voice that resists over time and carves memory. Through female tears, pain becomes gold, silence becomes breath, and the body a field of rebirth.
Golden, precious, alive.
/ PREVIEW
LASCIAMI CADERE
WEDNESDAY 1 JULY
DARE TO SHARE
WITH Francesca Ginepro and Marco Cappa Spina
PRODUCTION AVL TEK Società Cooperativa
“Lasciami cadere” is an attempt to slow down time, to halt the process of falling. A downward spiral movement, marked by temporal dilations and distorted natural sounds.
REPRISE Friday 3 July
Tuesday 7 July
LASCIAMI CADERE | ph. Stefano Lanzardo
Sul–levare
WEDNESDAY 1 JULY
CALIMALA EVOLUTION
/ Simone Cristofori
CHOREOGRAPHY AND PERFORMANCE Simone Cristofori
ORIGINAL MUSIC Dombre
PRODUCTION Stazione Utopia
The Earth is a celestial body, yet we inhabit suspended in space without wonder. The body, a resonance between the earthly and the absolute, becomes a choral device of presences: everything is body, in tension toward an unattainable harmony.
/ PREMIERE
dada love
WEDNESDAY 1 JULY
MATEO MIRDITA
CHOREOGRAPHY Mateo Mirdita
WITH Martina piacentino e Asja Marabotti
EXECUTIVE PRODUCTION Stazione Utopia
DADA Love is a duet that moves through the Dadaist universe as a silent, ironic dance of courtship. Modesty, attraction, and wonder guide an essential physical language that leads to a suspended, poetic intimacy.
body ramen
THURSDAY 2 JULY
DIEGO TORTELLI
CONCEPT AND CHOREOGRAPHY Diego Torteli
WITH Veronica Biondini, Edoardo Brovardi, Cristian Cucco, Clemént Haenen
LIVE MUSIC Studio Batsumi
PRODUCTION Stazione Utopia
Body Ramen is a performance led by Diego Tortelli, with live music by London-based Studio Batsumi. It draws from rave and club cultures as spaces of freedom and identity redefinition. The title is a metaphor: like ramen, different elements immerse themselves in the same broth, transforming without losing their uniqueness. Each body, immersed in sound, expands and merges. A physical and sonic experience in which dance unfolds as a collective ritual.
/ PREMIERE
non stop ecstatic dancinG
studio batsumi (live music)
THURSDAY 2 JULY, 8:00 PM
STUDIO BATSUMI
PRODUCER - DJ - DRUMMER Federico Bigonzetti
PRODUCTION Stazione Utopia / Nutida Festival
Federico Bigonzetti is a drummer, composer, DJ, and producer with extensive experience in contemporary music, electronic production, and composition for theatre and dance. Based in London, throughout his career he has performed live in clubs, venues, and underground festivals across Europe, developing an artistic language that combines sonic research, organic groove, and electronic experimentation. He is the founder of Studio Batsumi, a creative platform and independent label dedicated to original productions, multidisciplinary collaborations, and vinyl releases.
ASHES
FRIDAY 3 JULY
CALIMALA EVOLUTION
/ Francesco Paolino
CHOREOGRAPHY AND PERFORMANCE Francesco Paolino
ORIGINAL MUSIC Dombre
PRODUCTION Stazione Utopia
Inspired by Heidegger’s concept of “Being-toward-death”, a body crosses space carrying fragments of an accumulated life. Through falls, loss, and transformation, the stage becomes a place of memory and dissolution, where the fragility of human existence emerges.
/ PREMIERE
DADA LOVE | ph. Flavia Mash
akoè
FRIDAY 3 JULY
KOMOCO
CHOREOGRAPHY Sofia Nappi con i danzatori Glenda Gheler, Paolo Piancasteli
MUSIC Ciaran Morahan
COSTUMES Adriano Popolo Rubbio
PRODUCTION Komoco
Akoē is listening as welcome: allowing the other to enter before understanding. It does not create relationship, but makes it possible. In shared emptiness, a silent bond emerges, made of waiting, breath, and presence.
/ PREMIERE
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AKOE' | ph. Franziska Strauss Chora
YOUTH
MONDAY 6 JULY
CONTEMPORARY ACNE /
MARIANNA BASSO
CHOREOGRAPHY Marianna Basso
WITH Elia Alemanno, Rachele Serra, Sara Brignone
PRODUCTION AND SUPPORT Il Gecko SSDARL
Youth, an intoxicating state of beauty, a condition of social disorder where the desire to meet, to know one another, and to present ourselves to the world is irresistible. As if lava were flowing beneath the skin, as if the heart were beating so strongly it could burst the ribcage.
the king is love
MONDAY 6 JULY
CONTEMPORARY ACNE /
MARIANNA BASSO
CHOREOGRAPHY Marianna Basso
WITH Elia Alemanno, Filippo Boneli
PRODUCTION AND SUPPORT Il Gecko SSDARL
The “KING” is not a person, nor a hero. It is an invisible force governing human relationships, an emotional power that dominates and destroys, but at the same time heals. Love becomes an act of truth, violent because it does not lie.
what if fallen leaves
MONDAY 6 JULY
CALIMALA EVOLUTION
/ Francesca Giannelli
CHOREOGRAPHY AND PERFORMANCE Francesca Gianneli
ORIGINAL MUSIC Dombre
PRODUCTION Stazione Utopia
If, in the twilight of summer, a secret rustle were to become voice, then the night would turn into steles; they would sound, swept by the wind. If I could offer my song to those who receive it, I would discover myself as beauty.
/ PREMIERE
NEUTRA
TUESDAY 7 JULY
GIANNI NOTARNICOLA
BY AND PERFORMED BY Gianni Notarnicola
PRODUCTION Stazione Utopia
NEUTRA is a project that investigates a suspended state between childhood and adolescence, where identity, memory, and the body are in transformation. The research is based on questions such as: is it possible to unlearn what the body has already absorbed? How can one inhabit a state of contradiction without resolving it?
The work develops through improvisation, embodied states, and sound–movement relationships, with a strong influence from Gaga practice.
/ PREMIERE
donna con serpente
WEDNESDAY 8 JULY
CLAUDIA CATARZI
/ FRANCESCO GIOMI
PROJECT AND MUSIC Francesco Giomi
CHOREOGRAPHY AND DANCE Claudia Catarzi
TECHNICAL PARTNER K- array
CO-PRODUCTION Tempo Reale / Stazione Utopia
Donna con serpente brings together dance and electronics in a dialogue between body and sound, made possible by a flexible loudspeaker that becomes both scenic presence and movement partner.
/ PREMIERE
hasard & bolore
THURSDAY 9 JULY
SITA OSTHEIMER
MIR DANCE COMPANY
Artistic Direction Giuseppe Spota
CHOREOGRAPHY Sita Ostheimer
DANCERS Camila Bizzi, Chiara Rontini, Marie Louise Hertog, Urvil Shah, Pablo Navarro Munoz, Alessio Monforte, Yordi Yasiel Perez Cardoso, Hila Regev
DRAMATURG Hanna Kneißler
An incessant rhythm from Maurice Ravel’s celebrated orchestral work, marked by the snare drum and translated into the physical expression of the dancers of MiR Dance Company.
portami fuori stanotte
FRIDAY 10 JULY
IRIS BERDICCHIA AND LINDA BERDICCHIA
BY AND PERFORMED BY Iris Berdicchia e Linda Berdicchia
PRODUCTION The Gate
Solitude raises questions: you think you are alone and you drift. Where does the energy that lifts us in the morning come from? “A la vida no hay que ponerle huevos, hay que ponerle ganas.”
In the dark, you can choose not to sleep, to act, to meet yourself. It is a danced film about trial, about failure with dignity, between past and future chasing one another.
/ PREMIERE
the bassline
(first study)
FRIDAY 10 JULY
GIOVANNI BONI AND LETIZIA COSSARI
BY Giovanni Boni e Letizia Cossari
DANCERS Teresa Bagnoli, Giovanni Boni, Soraya Camarlinghi, Noemi Catarzi, Letizia Cossari, Leonardo Litro, Lorenzo Paoli, Gaia Veronica Parrini, Viola Romano
PRODUCTION The Gate
Everything runs in a frictionless silence: a default mode made of habits and postponements that confirm themselves. It is not fate, but continuity that becomes what we are. In a flow that never stops, even the idea of choice dissolves into movement.
/ PREMIERE
dive reloaded
FRIDAY 10 JULY
COLLETTIVO NANOUK
BY AND PERFORMED BY Marianna Basso e Daniel Tosseghini
MUSIC Andrea Cauduro
PRODUCTION House of IVONA
Most of us suffer from goldfish syndrome: we remain in our small glass bowl, excluding difference and limiting our perception of the world we live in. If the size of the aquarium increases, the goldfish will continue to grow. Conversely, if a fish is kept in a small bowl, it will stop growing or die.
DIVE RELOADED | ph. Giorgia Morena
HASARD & BOLERO | ph. Zoran Varga
curated by
Beatrice ciattini
and Niccolò Poggini
SPIGA brings together professional dancers and elderly participants in an intergenerational dance project.
The participants are not spectators, but co-creators of the performance. Everyday gestures and memories intertwine with contemporary dance. The music is chosen collectively, transforming emotions into art.
Each performance is unique and unrepeatable.
SPIGA is a space of inclusion and listening. Fragility and memory become expressive strength. The dialogue between generations takes shape on stage. A celebration of creativity and the vitality of older age.
Wednesday 1 July, 3:00–4:00 pm
RSA "Il Giglio" – Firenze
Wednesday 8 July, 3:00–4:00 pm
Centro Diurno "Il Gignoro" – Firenze
Wednesday 17 June, 3:00–4:00 pm
RSA "Il Giglio" – Firenze
Wednesday 24 June, 3:00–4:00 pm
RSA "Il Giglio" – Firenze
Saturday 27 June, 3:00–4:00 pm
RSA "Villa Jole" – Bagno a Ripoli
workshop
at the premises of The Gate Florence Urban Dance School
Monday 6 July
WORKSHOP
with gianni notarnicola
Friday 10 July
WORKSHOP
with marianna basso
