Four days of contemporary dance at Alfieri Theatre
in Castelnuovo Berardenga (Siena, Italy)
Artistic Direction MOTUS Company
12 April 2026 6 pm
L’ULTIMO UOMO
“It’s the time of the last man who only works, the one who shrinks everything” said F. Nietzsche in Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Man, as an entrepreneur of himself, focuses on work pursuing self-realization until he inevitably self-destructs.. He imagines himself free, but is chained like Prometheus.
Atacama Company (Italy / Chile)
Choreography Patrizia Cavola e Ivan Truol
12 April 2026 6 pm
COME POTEVAMO NOI DANZARE
A reflection on the very current theme of the difficult construction of a culture of peace in times of war and on the role that art can play in this process. “Come potevamo noi danzare” is an invective against war and violence.
MOTUS Company (Italy)
Choreography Simona Cieri
19 April 2026 6 pm
AUT-AUT
A work of physical-poetic theatre born from an engagement with the homonymous work by the philosopher Søren Kierkegaard. An unstable psychic space, shaped and transformed: a stage of identity where bodies do not narrate a linear story but inhabit states, tensions, and drifts. Aut Aut questions the moment in which every decision divides: choosing one direction means renouncing the other.
Margot Theatre Company (Italy)
Direction Valentina Cognatti
10 May 2026 6 pm
VITE BINARIE Winner of the 2026 Move Off call for Young Choreographers
What would happen if the frantic world we are used to—constantly pushing us to rush from one place to another—suddenly came to a halt? In a train station, two strangers share the same bench: they will experience the most static journey in history.
Dis Equilibre Company (Italy)
Choreography Aurora Dario e Stefano Dattrino
24 May 2026 6 pm
K(-A-)O Winner of the 2026 Move Off call for Young Choreographers
Internet is widespread all over the world and with it the possibility to communicate with anyone and in the fastest way. Emojis are a very convenient way. Is it possible that our emotions are becoming increasingly symbolic because of the internet?
Kenji Shinohe (Japan / Germany)
Choreography Kenji Shinohe
24 May 2026 6 pm
INSUFFICIENT
Insufficient is an artistic search for time, moment and space where human beings act. Why? To capture the time, the moment, the space which is often insufficient. Life itself is insufficient to realize our dreams and five dancers are put in search of what is insufficient.
Albanian Dance theater (Albania)
Choreography Gjergj Prevazi
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