Istitutions and regional production centre
Aterballetto is the principal producing and touring dance company in Italy. It is also the first permanent ballet-producing organisation apart from Opera House companies.
Founded in 1979, it is composed of solo dancers capable of performing in various dance styles.
Aterballetto has gained wide recognition on the international scene.
After nearly 18 years of direction by Amedeo Amodio, the artistic direction was entrusted to Mauro Bigonzetti, a notable international choreographer. From 1997 to 2007, Mauro Bigonzetti renewed the artistic identity of the Company and gave it an international profile.
In February 2008, Mauro Bigonzetti left his position as artistic director to commit himself to his creative talent and became Aterballetto’s principal choreographer. The artistic direction was entrusted to
Aterballetto has assumed the profile of a contemporary ballet company. The founding element of Aterballetto’s artistic identity is its commitment to supporting and developing the art of choreography and the absolute language of dance, intended as dynamics and forms in space, as an embodiment of expressive and aesthetic qualities, and as a dialectic with music.
Throughout its recent history, thanks to the valuable contribution of Mauro Bigonzetti and of Italian and international choreographers who have collaborated with the Company – including Jiri Kylian,
This has been possible thanks to the insight of the Municipality of Reggio Emilia, of the Emilia-Romagna Region and of A.T.E.R. (Association of Theaters in Emilia-Romagna).
NATIONAL DANCE FOUNDATION
Aterballetto Company
Via della Costituzione, 39
42100 Reggio Emilia
Tel. 0522.273011
Fax 0522.924189
www.aterballetto.it
info@aterballetto.it
