Drama & Dance
Equilibrio Festival 2018
3-24 Feb. This year Rome's annual contemporary dance festival is dedicated to France's contribution to modern dance in the 20th century, as part of a broader programme that each year sees a country ch...
Night Garden with eVolution Dance Theater
10-11 May. Dance, acrobatics, magic and illusion, with choreography by Anthony Heinl and the eVolution Dance Theater. Heinl started his dance career with Momix in 2001 and then moved to Italy in 2006...
Stomp
9-12 May. The ever-popular percussion group Stomp returns to Brancaccio with its atheletic dancers and their everyday props such as dustbins, old tyres, brushes and pans, drills. The internationally s...
Sleeping Beauty at Teatro dell' Opera di Roma
8-15 Feb. This a Teatro dell' Opera production of Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty with choreography by French choreographer Jean-Guillaume Bart from the Paris Opera Ballet, and guest dancer Iana Salenko...
The Nutcracker
18-24 Dec. This is a repeat of the ballet that marked the beginning of the new artistic direction of the opera's ballet academy by Eleonora Abbagnato last year. Altough it is a traditional Christmas w...
Twyla Tharp Dance
26 June. Una Serata di Quattro Danze. The programme includes a preview of the choreography to Beethoven's Opus 130 danced by Matthew Dibble before it gets its official debut at the Saratoga Performing...
Serata Nureyev
22-26 June.. Evenings at the Baths of Caracalla dedicated to two of Nureyev's choreographies from Swan Lake and La Bayadère which are staged by Patricia Ruanne, who worked with Nureyev at the Paris Op...
Balletto del Sud
27-28 May. Balletto del Sud perform Fredy Franzutti choroegraphy The Four Seasons.
This choreography refers not just to the four seasons of the European year but the seasons of a human life. It i...
Aterballetto at Teatro Olimpico
24-25 May. Aterballetto presents three choreographies as part of Festival Internazionale della Danza 2016.
Aterballetto, formed by Mauro Bigonzetti and now under the artistic direction of Cristina...
Grandi Coreografi at Teatro dell'Opera di Roma
26 Feb-2 March.
An evening of Balanchine (Serenade), Millepied (Closer), Forsythe (Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude), and Nureyev (Raymonda) with the etoiles, first ballerinas and the ballet corps...
Equilibrio. Festival della Nuova Danza
9-28 Feb. The festival of new dance returns to the Auditorium Parco della Musica in a different format.
Three themes dominate the 12th edition of this contemporary dance festival: The importance o...
Moxim Opus Cactus now scheduled at Teatro Italia
9-21 Feb. Opus Cactus moved from Teatro Olimpico to Teatro Italia.
Moses Pendleton's Opus Cactus which he choreographed for Momix in 2002 was scheduled at Rome's Teatro Olimpico. However as Teatr...
Odyssey Ballett
13-14 Feb. A Mediterranean story.
Mvula Sungani's choreography with Emanuela Bianchini and dancers of the Physical Dance. Mvula Sungani's dance company and school is based in Rome. Sungani, grew...
Tosca X
9-10 Feb. The work covers the ever-present theme of violence against women.
Choreographer Monica Casadei with Artemis Danza. Artemis Danza is collaborating with campaigns in Italy to raise awaren...
Festival della Nuova Danza
9-28 Feb. Equilibrio festival of dance returns to Rome.
Three themes dominate the 12th edition of this contemporary dance festival: The importance of live music to dance; the role of Spanish wome...
Bastard Sunday by Enzo Cosimi
Bastard Sunday is part of the Teatro che Danza series at Teatro India.
18 Dec. Inspired by the life and work of Pier Paolo Pasolini. A male figure together with an androgynous female figure move th...
Fear Party by Enzo Cosimi
Fear Party is part of the Teatro che Danza series at Teatro India.
12-13 Dec. This work confronts our fears as individuals and as social beings, the way our fears are manifest and the way we cope w...
Duetto by Virgilio Sieni
Duetto reworked. 12-13 Dec. This work by Virgilio Sieni and Alessandro Certini was first staged in 1989 and was one of the most innovative of its time. Here it is reworked by the Fattoria Vittadini, a...
Sofia City Ballet in Rome
The top Bulgarian ballet company performs at Teatro Brancaccio. With Schiaccianoci (1-2 Dec), Lago dei Cigni (3-4 Dec) and La Bella Addormenta (5-6 Dec). The Sofia City Ballet, the top Bulgarian balle...
Coppelia at Teatro dell'Opera di Roma
30 Oct-7 Nov. This popular ballet is staged by the Teatro dell'Opera and is conducted by David Garforth to the choreography by Roland Petit. It is set in modern times and was first danced in 1976 by L...
