cocreation and choreography assistance Isaiah Wilson
cocreation and performance Chiara Corbetta, Oceane Robin, Marie Levenez, Clara Lou Munié, Shynna Kalis
musical composition Guillaume Jullien
dramaturgy Amandine Truffy, Isaiah Wilson, Sarah Baltzinger
documentary research Alexandra Joly, Sarah Baltzinger
assistant and tutor Brian CA
scenography Manon Terranova
lighting design and artistic direction Thibault Dubourg
sculptures Manuela Benaim

with the support of Kultur | lx - Arts Council Luxembourg  

National Premiere

An emerging choreographer on the Luxembourg scene, Sarah Baltzinger began her career in 2010, first as a performer, then as a choreographer. Vénus Anatomique is her ninth work, in which she brings together five dancers in a raw white light that highlights the brutality of the overexposure of the female body. To address the theme, Sarah Baltzinger takes as a reference the fascinating reproductions of Clemente Susini, created at the end of the 18th century, artificial bodies intended for teaching female anatomy to medical students. The choreography is conceived and represented in a continuous back and forth between the disintegration of bodies and their instinctive strength of conservation and frenetic reaction to survive, with puppet-like and mechanical gestures. Working on the idea of ​​puppets that exist only in the eye of the beholder and whose sole mission is to perform an anatomical function, pushing the concept of uniformity to the limit.

From an original idea by Emmanuel Jouthe
Choreography Chiara Frigo
Dance Well Dancers in definition

National Premiere

A spectator, a performer, an iPod and two pairs of headphones: ÉCOUTE POUR VOIR is an artistic experience that connects people through the sharing of a song.
Connected through dance and movement, performers and audience give life to singular encounters, where each brief exchange turns into an intense dialogue, an interaction that is both unique and intimate.
ÉCOUTE POUR VOIR is a project by Médiation Culturelle of the Danse Carpe Diem company, which originated in Montréal in 2009, and in 2022 won the prestigious Prix à la Collaboration Internationale de Cinars award. After having traversed numerous cities and continents, it arrives for the first time in Italy curated by Chiara Frigo.

by and with Francesca Albanese, Silvia Baldini, Antonello Cassinotti, Laura Valli
playwriting Simona Gonella

menù to be defined

National Premiere

Supported by   

from the work of Oscar Wilde
concept and direction Maria Alterno, Richard Pareschi
choreographic composition and interpretation Gloria Dorliguzzo
original music Donato Di Trapani
lighting design Andrea Sanson
technical and sound direction Francesco Vitaliti
stage mask creation Plastikart Studio di Zimmermann & Amoroso
graphic design Federico Lupo
production madalena reversa in collaboration with Motus VAGUE
coproduction Triennale Milano Teatro, TPE - Festival delle Colline Torinesi
with the support of C.U.R.A. - Centro Umbro Residenze Artistiche/ZUT!, Anagoor

Madalena Reversa, an artistic project founded by Maria Alterno and Richard Pareschi, reflects on the relationship between the human and the invisible in Salomé, the title and name of the protagonist, played by the dancer and choreographer Gloria Dorliguzzo. The biblical character who has been represented countless times in the figurative arts, in literature, in theater and in cinema, also inspired the homonymous tragedy by Oscar Wilde, to which the Madalena Reversas turned. For them, therefore, Salomé is a trope, biblical, modern and contemporary, a mirror of a humanity fallen in a world of fallen institutions, a symbol of the hypertrophy of the ego, in metaphysical boredom, in the "missed glances with what is sacred and ineffable". But still, the character becomes the vector that opens the door to barbarism, to having believed in some sort of eternal present. Salome's body, ecstatic and at the same time crossed by hysterical gestures, dissolves into a hieratic indolence. Salome is an elegy to absence, until there is no more light, until all that remains is loss.