
TEATRO COMUNALE
7:30PM
DURATION 50′
ITA
Third opening on the creation process of RISE, a project derived from a profound reflection on the crisis arising from the disconnection between the individual and the collective. A widespread condition, in which it is difficult to perceive the sense of belonging to a larger body, although the need to find a shared us remains alive. Ninarello chooses not to set the self against the collective, but to investigate the bond between them, seeking the transformative potential contained in this relationship. RISE was born from this impulse: a physical and poetic quest that stages the possibility of welcoming the other, letting its diversity pass through us, modify us, open us up. It is in the act of welcoming otherness that a new collective voice can be born, capable of generating new forms of presence, coexistence and listening. Gestures such as cradling, pushing and shoving activate a choreographic system where bodies tune like instruments in a shared score, a dance that does not impose, but opens: the body becomes a shared space, a place of encounter and awakening. On stage the performers are immersed in Dan Kinzelman’s live soundscape.
National premiere at Torinodanza 2025
Concept and choreography: Daniele Ninarello
Performers: Marina Bertoni, Vera Borghini, Erica Bravini, Nicola Simone Cisternino, Pietro C. Milani
Original music composed and performed by: Dan Kinzelman
Creation assistant: Elena Giannotti
Lighting design: Marco Santambrogio
Technical direction: Lucia Ferrero
Photo: Angelo Maggio
Graphic editing: Stefano Ricci
Produced by: Codeduomo (2025)
Co-produced by: the RING project (Festival Aperto / Fondazione I Teatri Reggio Emilia – Bolzano Danza / Fondazione Haydn – FOG Triennale Milano Performing Arts – Torinodanza Festival / Teatro Stabile di Torino – Teatro Nazionale) and IRA Institute
With the support of: Primavera dei Teatri, MAB – Maison des Artistes de Bard,
K3 – Centre for Choreography | Tanzplan Hamburg and the IIC in Hamburg in collaboration with NID Platform, Grand Studio Brussels in collaboration with Lavanderia a Vapore – Centro di residenza per la danza.
Daniele Ninarello is a choreographer and performer. Trained at the Rotterdam Dance Academy, he has performed for numerous internationally acclaimed choreographers, including Bruno Listopad, Barbara Altissimo, Meekers Uitgesprokendans, Virgilio Sieni, and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui.
Over the years he has danced alongside musicians and composers such as Kai Gleusteen, Ezio Bosso, Dan Kinzelman, Francesco Romano, Xenia Ensemble, and Adriano De Micco. In 2021, together with singer-songwriter Cristina Donà, he launched Perpendicolare — an interdisciplinary project that weaves together music, song, and dance, presented in numerous festivals and theatres across Italy.
He was associate artist at Lavanderia a Vapore – Centro di Residenza per la Danza in Collegno from 2018 to 2020.
Among his creations are Rock Rose Wow (2013), winner of Movin’Up and of the Teatri del Tempo Presente call; KUDOKU, which premiered at the International Festival of Contemporary Dance 10 of La Biennale di Venezia, and was later selected for the international AEROWAVES TWENTY17 programme (with partners in 34 countries worldwide), for NID Platform 2017, and for Rencontres Chorégraphiques – Seine-Saint-Denis; and Pastorale, a creation project selected as part of the Residance XL action by the Anticorpi network and presented at the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris in 2024.
As a choreographer, Ninarello has been commissioned to create works for companies and institutions such as EgriBianco Danza (under the direction of Raphael Bianco); MM Contemporary Dance Company (directed by Michele Merola); the third-year students of the Modern Dance Theatre programme at the University of the Arts in Amsterdam; the European project Performing Gender – Dancing in Your Shoes, at the invitation of Gender Bender Festival in Bologna; the Teatro Sperimentale in Tirana in collaboration with the IIC of Tirana.
In 2013 he founded the association CodedUomo, through which he not only develops his own productions but also designs training initiatives aimed at professionals, amateurs, local communities, young people, and adolescents.