ORGni Day must be danced even in thought, supported Breslov’s Rabbi Nachman … But between June and September 2025 in Italy we can do much better and activate our mirror neurons, thanks to the Offer wealth of the summer dance festivals. The “best title” prize, however, we can undoubtedly award it since now: it goes to “an unavoidable summer”, the claim chosen by Kilowatt, The appointment dedicated to the contemporary scene held since 2003 in Sansepolcro (Arezzo). “In the midst of winter, I discovered that I had, inside me, an invincible summer” he wrote Albert Camus In a poem from 1954, and only to hear these verses do we already feel stronger and more optimistic …
Sansepolcro and the light force
«We often have the impression of finding ourselves in an endless winter in a society that is imposing everything.
Yet we persist in believing that in each of us there is a luminous force to burn to. Art tries to keep alive and feed this light: there is no existence, it does not solve problems, but it brings us into contact with what is deeper and more fertile in us »they explain The two directors, Lucia Franchi and Luca Ricci, who wanted the choreographer, dancer and pedagogue as a godmother of this edition Raffaella Giordano. Among the scheduled events, his solo You will never lose meperformed by Stefania Tansini. But, from north to south, here are the unmissable appointments that will happen in the peninsula.
Stefania Tansini in “You will never lose me”, with the choreography of Raffaella Giordano (Photo Lorenza Daverio).
Insurrection in Bolzano
Has an energy title, to be honest, also the 41st edition of Bolzano Dance (July 18-August): Insurrection. «An invitation
To interrogate their rebellion, to deconstruct, to reinselvaicchi »explain the new directors, Anouk Aspisi and Olivier Dubois. “We believe in a living festival. A festival involving the body, awakens the thought and questions our way of being in the world.
We believe in a form of intelligence that passes through sensations and emotions. It is not the art of reasoning, but that of shocks. The one who awakens something older than us than the word: instinct, the sacred, the impulse. It tends a mirror to our time, captures the fractures, the dizziness ».
Summer Festival Dance: “Double” Preljocaj
Ncantado ”by Lia Rodrigues (Photo Sammi Landweer).
To decline the theme, consecrated artists like Angelin Preljocaj (his double show is essential Helikopter/Licht) and protagonists of the current scene as The Brazilian choreographer and activist Lia Rodrigues (mark his own Encantado), Gisèle ViennePuts Ingvartsen, Martin Zimmermann, Mazelfreten, François Chaignaud, Cherish Menzo, Marco D’Agostin and Adriano Bolognino, as well as Stefania Tanzini who brings here The navel of the limbi. 27 protagonists for seven first Italians, four first absolute, two national previews for a total of over 30 appointments.
The myths at the Venice Biennale
A moment of “slacktide”, choreography by Twyla Tharp.
Imagine the future through the generative power of art also the 19th edition of the International Contemporary Dance Festivalin Venice From 17 July to 2 August: Myth Makers/Creators of Myths It is the theme chosen. “The myths played a crucial role throughout history, providing a framework of reference to understand existence, morality and cosmos. They help us to express our fears, our aspirations and the mysteries of life »he explains The artistic director, Wayne McGregor. «As the companies evolve, their myths also evolve. In times of disorders or transition, when traditional beliefs and structures begin to collapse, humanity often seeks new narratives to cope with uncertainty and inspire hope. These new myths can emerge from various sources: science, philosophy, collective experiences shared between the communities and, above all, by the vibrant field of art ».
Twyla Tharp, golden lion
A moment of “Friends of Forsythe” (photo Bernadette Fink).
The 2025 golden lion – The legend of Modern U.S. dance Twyla Tharpwill celebrate its 60th professional anniversary – and the eighty -fourth birthday – with the first European of Slacktideanother revolutionary collaboration with Philip Glass. The silver lion, Carolina Bianchi, will bring the second chapter of his trilogy with In the And Boa Noite Cinderella: Cadela Força – The Brotherhoodwhere he investigates the complexity of the constraints of masculinity and dates back to the origins of the brotherhood between men, with their codes inscribed in violence.
William Forsythe and Friends
An Aakash Odadra Company dancer in “Songs of the Bulbul” (photo Angela Grabowska).
Among the other appointments not to be missed, In the first Italian and co-commissioned by the Biennale Dance, Friends of Forsythe of the Dance Star of Dance William Forsythe: a new work that explores the origins of popular dance, hip hop and ballet, highlighting the different backgrounds and languages of the dancers. Another star coming to the lagoon is Marcos Morau (associated artist of the Milan Triennale) With his company, Veronal: La Mort i La Spring It is taken from the posthumous and unfinished work of the Catalan writer Mercè Rodoreda. It is not over: to mention, Virginie Brunelle, Aakash Odadra, Tânia Carvahlo and the winners of the Coreographers’ call: Phillipe Kratz and Pablo Girolami (with the new Ballet of Tuscany will bring Sisiphe Felice) And the Bullyache duo, composed of Courtney Garratt and Jacob Samuel (on stage with A good man is hard to Find).
Verona and Sirtaki
“Zorba the Greek” in Verona.
Between a NabuccooneAIDae one The traviata, The Verona Opera Festival It also offers an evening-sirtaki that inserts it perfectly (also) among the dance festivals dance: it is Zorba the Greek, With the music of Mikīs Theodōrakīs (he rework the soundtrack he himself composed for the 1964 film of the same name) and the choreography of Lorca Massine. The ballet made his debut in the Arena in August 1988 starring Vladimir Vasiliev and Gheorghe Iancu. The annual appointment – 22 and 23 July – with the Roberto Bolle and Friends.
In Nervi the Royal Ballet
Two dancers from the Royal Ballet (Photo Tristam Kenton).
It turns 70 the Nervi International Ballet Festival – The first of the Italian summer festivals dedicated entirely to dance, created in 1955 by Mario Porcile – and celebrate with 11 show evenings9 Masterclass and an interesting “Fuori Festival” program with meetings, screenings and lessons (June 28-July 27). The program chosen by Jacopo Bellussi – Genoese dancer and artistic manager of the review organized by the Carlo Felice Theater – provides for the participation of three companies for the history of dance – the Ballet de L’OPéra de Paris, The Royal Ballet, Das Stuttgarter Ballett – next to emerging ensembles and youth formations (the Academy Teatro alla Scala, the Ballett Kiel, the Lucia Lacarra Ballet, the Bayerisches Junior. Ballett München).
Blanca Li returns to Spoleto
A moment of “Didon et Enée” in the preparation of Blanca Li.
A very welcome return to Festival of the two worlds of Spoleto: The Spanish choreographer Blanca Li, who had surprised and amused with the show in the metvers Le Bal de Parisbears on stage Didon et énéeon Didone’s passionQueen of Carthage, for Enea, narrated by Virgil in theAeneidand put in music by Henry Purcell. “I chose to get away from the pure narration to capture and amplify what the characters feel at all times,” he explains them. «I wanted to get to the heart of every emotion to express what music and the text do not say. In this show it is love that has precedence, to which are added betrayal, misunderstanding, pride and fear. These emotions have a contemporary resonance ».
Caracalla goes to the classic
Friedemann Vogel in Maurice Béjart’s “Bolero” (photo Carlos Quezada).
The schedule of Caracalla Festival (June 29-August 7)entrusted from the theater of the Opera di Roma to Damiano Michieletto and entitled “Between sacred and human”next to new top productions (The resurrection of Händel, The traviata of green, Don Giovanni by Mozart e West Side Story by Bernstein) provides Two appointments on 30 and 31 July with the Teatro Ballet Corpsdirected by Eleonora Abbagnato. Bolero by Ravel signed by Maurice Béjart in 1961; The sacred du printemps by Stravinsky with the 1975 Pina Bausch choreography (just 50 years ago); Within The Golden Hour by Christopher Wheeldon, on the arches for Archi composed of Ezio Bosso. Guest Star, Friedemann Vogel.
Romaeuropa
Anne Teresa de Kemersmaeker and Rabih Mroué in “A Little Bit of the Moon”.
Grand finale for the summer dance festivals with the Romaeuropa Festivalwhich celebrates 40 years of age, look forward to the future. From 4 September to 16 Novemberamong the beyond 110 shows of music, theater, digital arts And Creation for childhood, the dance ones stand out. We leave On September 4 with Marcos Morau and the Ballet Nacional de Españacontinue 8 with “La baroness of dance ”, Anne Teresa de Kemersmaeker with Rabih Mrouèto continue with William Forsythe, Ioannis Mandafounis e there Dresden Frankfurt Dance Companythe collective (La) Horde e The Ballet National de Marseille, Qudus onikeku, Moritz Ostruschnjak, Akram Khan with Manal Aldowayanthe Taiwanese U-theatre, Christos Papadopoulos, Israel Galvan with Mohamed el Khatib, Lia Rodrigues, Kor’sia, Motus. A riot of creativity.
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