BOLERO
MM Contemporary Dance Company

choreography by Michele Merola
music by Maurice Ravel, Stefano Corrias
lighting design by Cristina Spelti
costumes by Alessio Rosati with the collaboration of Nuvia Valestri
rehearsal director Enrico Morelli
performers Filippo Begnozzi, Paolo Giovanni Grosso, Aurora Lattanzi, Federico Musumeci, Giorgia Raffetto, Diletta Savini, Giuseppe Villarosa
produced by MM Contemporary Dance Company

VIVALDI UMANE PASSIONI
MM Contemporary Dance Company

choreography by Michele Merola 
music by Antonio Vivaldi
lighting design by Gessica Germini 
costumes by Nuvia Valestri
rehearsal director Enrico Morelli
performers Filippo Begnozzi, Mario Genovese, Fabiana Lonardo, Giorgia Raffetto, Alice Ruspaggiari, Nicola Stasi, Giuseppe Villarosa
produced by MM Contemporary Dance Company
co-produced by Teatro Ristori di Verona

BOLERO

Boléro (1928) is a precise and seductive musical composition that evokes ambiguous images of sensuality. In his new choreographic version, Merola explores the obsessive repetitiveness of the music, focusing on the relationships and distances between men and women and transforming fears, desires, and tensions into dance. Stefano Corrias incorporates three original musical fragments to highlight the most intimate moments. The resulting choreography is a non-narrative, abstract fairy tale that conveys pain, misunderstanding, and the contrasts of life from the opening roll to the final explosion, transforming Boléro into a metaphor for existence and human relationships.

VIVALDI UMANE PASSIONI

In every creation, Michele Merola seeks to express joy, anger, hope, and torment through dance, breathing new life into bodies scarred by experience. He finds inspiration in Vivaldi's music and movement, rediscovering the art of choreography, and in Marc Chagall's paintings, guided by emotions and a desire for beauty. Concerts such as La Follia and L'Estro Armonico capture universal emotions. Merola translates notes into movement with contemporary intensity, creating a harmonious dialogue between music and body that engages the audience and explores passion, elegance, and life.