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Maya Zbib, Lee Serle, Ben Frost & Zoukak Collective – Three Verses of Solitude

April 15th, 2026 FOG Festival, Milan
60 minutes

Alone, but Together

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Three Verses of Solitude is an immersive performance that explores solitude as both a personal refuge and a collective condition, especially in the aftermath of war. Drawing inspiration from the contemplative stillness of the Rothko Chapel, the work is a quiet call for mourning, reflection, and reconnection.

It traces the emotional spectrum from solitude to loneliness, where peace gives way to ache, and isolation meets the longing for connection. Through this lens, the work invites viewers to reflect on their own relationship with solitude, while participating in a collective effort to find solace in our shared humanity and the beauty found in quiet moments.

The piece gestures toward solitude not only as absence, but as possibility, as a creative practice of boldness and joy. In stillness, new worlds can be imagined. In silence, something vibrant can begin.
It asks: In the wake of loss, how can we be alone, together?

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Marco Berrettini – Jiddu

70 minutes

From Folk Dance to?

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Jiddu is the story of a Bavarian folk dance troupe. Lacking success, they decide to diversify and go global. Little by little, the troupe begins to borrow, or even steal, dance steps from other countries and different cultures. But this artistic change, ethically speaking, is not well received by all the dancers. Their problems of conscience are expressed and quickly turn into a dispute. In the middle of the biggest argument the troupe has ever experienced, a brass band suddenly arrives on stage and plays a few songs, before disappearing. Will our Bavarians pick up where they left off? Or is it time to make peace and restart their dance ?

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MARCOS MORAU / LA VERONAL – LA MORT I LA PRIMAVERA

  • August 1st – 2nd, 2025 BIENNALE DANZA, Venice
  • September 24th – October 9th, 2025 TNC, Barcelona
  • November 1st – 2nd, 2025 Temporada Alta, Girona
  • March 21st – 22nd, 2026 FOG Festival, Milan

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A Fantasy

© Silvia Poch

Marcos Morau and La Veronal, a dance company of great international scope and prestige, explore Mercè Rodoreda’s dark imaginary to construct an allegory about creative freedom, social commitment, and art as salvation and refuge.

La mort i la primavera is Rodoreda’s unfinished novel both dark and beautiful, enigmatic and universal, rebellious and fatalistic, with a universe between the human and the sacred, the spiritual and the animal. A piece that expresses sadness and anger, but also resistance. Rodoreda wrote the work in the early 1960s when she was in exile, and it is thought to be a condemnation of totalitarianism and Rodoreda’s experience with nazism during WWII.

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Christos Papadopoulos / Georgios Kotsifakis – Landless

  • June 12th – 13th, 2025 Tanzhaus Basel, Basel
  • July 24th, 2025 OperaEstate Festival Veneto, Bassano del Grappa
  • September 23th – 24th, 2025 Torinodanza Festival, Turin
  • September 27th – 28th, 2025 Milanoltre Festival, Milan
  • October 30th, 2025 Kinneskbond, Mamer

50 minutes

Body as Space

© Luca Del Pia

A Greek artist of rare finesse and originality, Christos Papadopoulos brings bak Landless to the stage, performed by Georgios Kotsifakis. Over the years, the choreographer’s work has approached movement as a hidden secret, focusing on its elementary and everyday characteristics. Landless specifically explores the body’s ability to become its own architecture, transforming into an unfamiliar landscape, in order to sketch a new perspective on its basic functions and movement.

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Peeping Tom – Chroniques

  • June 4th – 6th, 2025 Théâtre National de Nice, Nice
  • June 18th – 20th, 2025 Festival de Marseille, Marseille
  • September 27th – 28th, 2025 I Teatri di Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia
  • October 2nd – 4th, 2025 Torinodanza, Turin
  • October 8th – 9th, 2025 Triennale Milano, Milan
  • October 13th – 14th, 2025 Dialog Festival, Wrocław
  • November 14th – 16th, 2025 Anthéa, Antibes
  • November 20th – 21st, 2025 Les Salins, Martigues
  • November 27th – 29th, 2025 Châteauvallon Liberté, Toulon
  • December 5th – 6th, 2025 Le Carré Leon Gaumont, Sainte-Maxime
  • December 9th – 18th, 2025 KVS, Brussels
  • January 23rd – 24th, 2026 Tanz Köln, Cologne
  • March 4th – 6th, 2026 Le Vilar, Louvain-la-Neuve
  • March 20th – 21st, 2026 Teatro Central, Seville
  • March 28th – 29th, 2026 Emilia Romagna Teatro, Caserna
  • April 2nd – 8th, 2026 La Villette, Paris
  • April 14th – 15th, 2026 CSS Udine, Udine
  • April 28th – 30th, 2026 Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Luxembourg
  • June 4th – 14th, 2026 TNC, Barcelona

90 minutes

Peeping Tom’s
Next Chapter

Peeping Tom - Chroniques
© Sanne De Block

Among the immortal, each act (and each thought) is an echo of those who anticipated it in the past or the faithful omen of those who, in the future, will repeat it to the point of vertigo. – Jorge Luis Borges

Five figures are trapped in a temporal maze, mutating and colliding in an attempt to defy immortality. Their existence takes place in a vast sulfuric landscape, unfolding in a series of chronicles. Is this landscape the ground for new creations, or made out of remnants of what once existed?

Confronted with different laws and physical phenomena, their bodies reveal other behaviors and possibilities of being, without knowing if they are at the twilight or dawn of their existence. We are witnessing a bodily metamorphosis in an abyssal and poetic dimension.

Chroniques unveils the next chapter in Peeping Tom’s universe.

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Ali Chahrour – When I Saw the Sea

June 2nd – 3rd, 2025 HAU, Berlin
June 11th, 2025 Les Rencontres à l’Échelle, Marseille
June 24th – 25th, 2025 Festival Theaterformen, Hannover
July 5th – 8th, 2025 Festival d’Avignon, Avignon
December 9th – 11th, 2025 Les Tanneurs, Brussels
March 11th, 2026 FOG Festival, Milan
70 minutes

A Celebration of Life

© Lea Skayem

The internationally acclaimed dancer and choreographer Ali Chahrour has created a language inspired by Arab myths and by the political, social, and religious context of his country. Through it, he explores the deep relationships between the body and movement, between tradition and modernity.

His new work When I Saw the Sea unfolds on a minimalist stage: the activists Rania, Zena and Tenei – the last two came to Lebanon as migrant workers – embark on a powerful journey of their previously unheard stories through dance, theatre and music. In doing so, they give a voice to countless other labourers from countries such as Cameroon, Sudan and Sierra Leone – people who have been deprived of their rights by the kafala system, which is similar to serfdom – and thus create a deep insight into the political and social reality of Lebanon. 

When I saw the Sea highlights the abuses of this repressive labour system while paying tribute to the courage and resistance of women fighting for justice and freedom. With a mixture of personal and collective testimonies, the work touches on themes such as love, motherhood, war, exile and home. With the music of Abed Kobeissy and the soulful voice of singer Lynn Adib, this is a determined celebration of life, rising above the pain of past struggles.

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Claudia Castellucci / Compagnia Mòra – Sahara

March 22nd – 23rd, 2025 FOG Performing Arts Festival, Milan
55 minutes

Dance in the Desert

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In Sahara, Claudia Castellucci’s choreographic and philosophical research grapples with the dimension of the desert, where the extreme lack of materials and relationships pushes dance to consider only what one has: oneself, as the only—first and last—instrument. The empty desert forces a radical visual relationship with one’s shadow, which, perpetually projected, cannot be ignored. Barely tolerated, it forces one to seek the company of the only things that can be found in total solitude: the products of the mind. These are the subjects of the dance, which asserts its very essence in Sahara.

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Gisèle Vienne – Etude 6 On Crowd

March 7th – 8th, 2025 FOG Festival, Milan
80 minutes

A Sort of Negative of Crowd

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Crowd, one of the most explosive shows by Gisèle Vienne, is the representation of a ritual: that of the party, a collective practice pertaining to all eras and societies. In the hallucinatory simultaneity of the lights, shadows, sounds and moving bodies of a rave party, the artist outlines a series of fascinating and deeply human portraits, focusing on the emotional experience—rather than the actual experience—of time. Gisèle Vienne returns to FOG with Etude 6, a performance that acts as a sort of negative of Crowd, sharing the experience of two characters marked by a lack and a vital need for the crowd. All of Gisèle Vienne’s works are political, not only through their artistic and philosophical stakes but also through formal research, questioning culturally constructed perceptions and the possible shifts in those perceptions. This work offers a direct and visceral response to immediate and profound pain—the kind of pain experienced by bodies constrained and restricted by political systems of domination, in which something that deeply concerns us emerges.

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Emma Dante – Il tango delle capinere

December 17th – 20th, 2024 Théâtre Silvia Monfort, Paris
February 7th – 8th, 2025 Liège Festival, Liège
February 9th, 2025 Salle Stotzem, Dison
March 5th, 2025 Gugliemi Theater, Massa
March 7th, 2025 Teatro Manzoni, Manzoni
April 1st – 6th, 2025 Franco Parenti Theatre, Milan
April 16th, 2025 Teatrodante Carlo Monni, Campi Bisenzio
April 23rd – 24th, 2025 Nest Théâtre, Thionville
May 15th – 24th, 2025 Théâtre National Populaire, Villeurbanne
60 minutes

A Love Story of
New Year’s Eve

© Rosellina Garbo

An old lady rummages through a trunk. She takes out a bottle of pills, a wedding veil, a remote control, lots of colored balloons… From another trunk comes the music of a music box. An old man appears. He is wearing an old, worn-out formal suit. The man looks at the woman and smiles. He immediately reaches her. He hugs her. The woman rests her head on his shoulder. He caresses her. She holds him tight so as not to lose her balance. He supports her. They dance. He takes a pocket watch out of his pocket: minus five… minus four… minus three… minus two… minus one… and at the stroke of midnight he sets off a firecracker. They kiss. He throws a handful of confetti into the air. The party begins. Happy New Year, my love! He and she are now sixteen. In bathing suits they promise each other eternal love. To the tune of old songs they celebrate the arrival of the new year by dancing their love story backwards. 

Il tango delle capinere is the deepening of a study, Ballarini, which belonged to la trilogia degli occhiali. It is the composition of a mosaic of memories that makes bearable the loneliness of those who unfortunately outlive the other.

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Rudolf Nureyev – The Nutcraker

December 18th, 2024 – January 12th, 2025 Teatro alla Scala, Milan
approx. 130 minutes (intermission included)

Christmas Classic in Milan

© Teatro alla Scala

The new Season opens with the reprise of a much loved Christmas classic that has enchanted La Scala since 1969: The Nutcracker, with Rudolf Nureyev’s choreography and the historic staging of Nicholas Georgiadis. From the children’s dances to the family’s Christmas celebrations, from the battle of the mice and toy soldiers to the brilliance of the snowflakes, the music and dance combine beautifully in the choreographic designs of the famous waltzes and pas de deux, rich of technique, rigour, lines and balance, which reveal the dramaturgical approach that Nureyev wanted to give at this ballet: between shadows and light, the journey of an adolescent girl, Clara’s dream.

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