Why do we dance? After a worldwide pandemic, how to come back to life on stage? Première is a rite celebrating humanity, the unique stories of the dancers, a contemporary ceremony of emotional applause, the artists’ only point of contact with so-long missing audience. A dedication to all those who have worked for a return to life.
Première was born from a “remote” collaboration: from Tel Aviv, where the choreographer Andrea Costanzo Martini resides, he guided the dancers of Balletto di Roma on “remote-mode”; a true creative challenge that gave birth to new principles of dance design and production.

BALLETTO DI ROMA / ANDREA COSTANZO MARTINI

Balletto di Roma was founded in 1960 from the artistic partnership between Franca Bartolomei and Walter Zappolini. It has always promoted the production and dissemination of Italian art house dance in Europe and worldwide, with a repertoire that is as attentive to innovation and research as it is to history and tradition.
Andrea Costanzo Martini from Cuneo trained as a dancer in Italy and Germany, and in 2008 joined the Batsheva Dance Company (Tel Aviv) where, in addition to dancing the works of Ohad Naharin and Sharon Eyal, he began to take his first steps as a choreographer and teacher of Gaga. His works are now performed worldwide.