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Farewell to Simone Forti, a pioneer of postmodern dance and contemporary performance

Simone Forti, an Italian-American artist considered one of the most influential figures in the history of postmodern dance and contemporary performance, has passed away at the age of 91. The news of her passing marks the end of an artistic journey th...
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The Brescia Museums Foundation is inaugurating its VR Room with "Double Reality," which combines art, dance, and virtual reality

The Brescia Museums Foundation is taking a new step forward in its journey of digital innovation with “Double Reality – The Monument and Its Double,” a project that combines virtual reality, contemporary dance, and cultural heritage to offer a ...
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Dance, theater and performance at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection: here's Advent #3

The Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice is once again becoming a stage forcontemporary art with the third edition of Avvenimento, the format launched in 2023 that transforms the museum into a space for interdisciplinary experimentation. On Tuesday,...
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Interview with Roberto Bolle and Mauro Bigonzetti: "This is why we brought Caravaggio to the theater."

In May, choreographer Mauro Bigonzetti's ballet Caravaggio was presented for the first time in Italy, seventeen years after its debut in 2008 in Berlin. It fell to étoile Roberto Bolle to interpret Caravaggio, who took the show on stage at the...
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Palazzo Barberini, Roberto Bolle dances among Caravaggio paintings at the exhibition (video)

A night between art in motion and the eternal art of Caravaggio: Roberto Bolle, on the eve of his 50th birthday, danced among the halls of Palazzo Barberini in Rome, surrounded by the masterpieces i Caravaggio exhibited for the Caravaggio 2025 exhib...
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Roberto Bolle plays Caravaggio: ballet about Lombard painter debuts in Italy

Mauro Bigonzetti's ballet Caravaggio, starring étoile Roberto Bolle, promoter of the project and star of the show precisely as Caravaggio, lands in Italy. The show, which debuted in 2008 with the Staatsballett Berlin, will be staged at the Tea...
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In Venice, Bintou Dembélé's dance as an evolutionary ritual of the body

Palazzo Grassi in Venice presents September 27 and 28, 2024 En mode marron, the new performance by choreographer and dancer Bintou Dembélé (Brétigny-sur-Orge, 1975). The double date marks Dembélé's return to dance w...
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Jacopo Tissi is a principal dancer with the Dutch National Ballet

Jacopo Tissi is the new principal dancer of the Dutch National Ballet, the official Dutch ballet company. The young dancer from Pavia, born in Landriano in 1995, had become étoile of the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow, the first Italian to do so, i...
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