Productions

Since 2005, Koreoproject has developed a coherent and ever-evolving creative path that traverses contemporary dance in all its forms: solos, duets, collective creations, site-specific performances, and multidisciplinary works.

Every production stems from authentic research — on the body, on memory, on identity, on nature, on human relationships — and is nourished by an ongoing dialogue with artists, musicians, choreographers, and institutions at national and international level. Over the years, Koreoproject has built a distinctive language of its own, moving between the European and American Modern Dance tradition and contemporary experimentation, between the theatrical stage and urban spaces, between the theatre and the prison.

The productions gathered in this section tell twenty years of creation: from the early solo works inspired by memory and travel, to the major multidisciplinary productions rooted in the Apulian landscape and nature, through to international collaborations with artists such as Malou Airaudo, Fernando Suels Mendoza and Marco Bardoscia.

Carusə | sine Sole sileo

Carusə is a choreographic solo inspired by tarantism as a practice of transforming trauma into vital energy. Through symbols, physicality, and a disturbing soundscape, the body becomes an agent of regeneration — a contemporary ritual suspended between collective memory, vulnerability, and the desire for freedom.

Bridges/Schegge

Bridges – Schegge is the first study of an international collaboration between Germany, Italy, and Africa on the theme of identity. The self fragments and shatters: splintered images of memories, broken emotions, an identity suspended between two cultures.

Sacre radici - La Maestà del Legno

Olive trees devastated by the Xylella bacterium reborn as works of art. Live music, singing, video, and dance merge in a narrative between nature and memory, drawing on the Salentine songs of Domenico Tizzi.

The time of nine

Nine as a threshold: the last single digit, a symbol of ending and rebirth. A choreographic inquiry into the masculine/feminine duality that lives within each of us — when aligned it generates harmony, when in conflict it creates tension and transformation.

Shocking

The pink flamingo as a guide: shocking pink and pandemic shock, animal freedom and the human desire to fly. Inspired by Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex on the Flight of Birds, the show becomes a personal manual for taking flight.

White & Black

Black and white as a universal principle: yin and yang, transformation and essence. Giorgia Maddamma and Fernando Suels Mendoza — both trained at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen — reunite after three years to explore opposites that contain and generate each other.

Tracce

What traces do we leave of ourselves? The body is a geographical map carrying within it the story of who we are. Through dance, music, and sculpture, inmates at the Lecce Prison transform confinement into an act of freedom.

Ritorno alla Terra

The earth as a mother who welcomes and nourishes. Dance is the tree, music its vital sap. Born out of the need to slow down and begin again after the pandemic, this live performance with double bass explores the relationship between movement and roots.

Unitanz Abend

A collage of solos and duets exploring body, relationships, and identity. Three Koreoproject creations — Johnny, Crash, and Embruns — assembled into a single flexible show, adaptable to theatres and non-conventional spaces alike.

Na Die Ander

Sand, water, and bodies in crossing. Na Die Ander — “towards the other” in Afrikaans — tells the story of contemporary Ulysses figures: leaving a country, uprooting oneself, attempting to plant new roots on the other side of the sea.

Rien de Rien

Piaf and Marlene: two twentieth-century icons come back to life in a dance concert weaving movement, voice, and electronic music. The tormented existence of the Môme Piaf and the contradictory inner world of Marlene Dietrich meet in a dialogue between shadow and light.

Nina

A little girl hidden in a trapdoor survives the massacre. Many years later, the survivors reunite and the past returns — but without bloodshed. Freely inspired by Baricco, Nina is a choreographic fairy tale about memory, forgiveness, and the need for beauty.

Entrambi

Malou Airaudo and Giorgia Maddamma meet in Salento: the wind, the pizzica rhythm, the red earth become the living material of movement. A creation born from the sea and through the sea, in which two different dance generations converse.

M-Minotaurus

Not a monster, but a human being trapped in the labyrinth of their own difference. M-Minotaurus overturns the myth: the Minotaur is capable of desire and feeling, while Ariadne — sister, executioner, and victim — holds the thread of an ambiguous salvation.

Linee d'inverno

Rarefied memories, beloved places, words noted over time. Linee d’Inverno is a dreamlike journey between solitude and playfulness, German melancholy and Brazilian vitality. Chairs and coat stands as the only set design; two bodies as the only landscape.

Sara's Dream

Sara falls asleep and her dolls come to life: Scaramouche, Pulcinella, Colombina dance until dawn in a dream made of reinterpreted masks, Brazilian and new-age music. A choreographic fairy tale for all ages.