Productions
Production is one of the focal points of the Association’s activities. Over more than 30 years, the company has created over 35 productions and has presented its performances at major Italian and international festivals, achieving a high level of visibility.
The creations are marked by dynamic physicality and a strong personality that characterizes the performers, all personally involved in contributing to the company’s “trademark,” which notably communicates clearly with its audience through energetic presentations of vigorous, expressive, and demanding dance.
Among other elements, what sets Fabula Saltica apart is its approach to narrative themes, using stories that reflect and “comment on,” in a mirrored way, human life and condition. The company employs emotions and strong physicality as dual criteria to engage and move the audience.
Highly acclaimed for the excellence of its performers and the versatility of its choreographic vocabulary, Fabula Saltica has appeared in major theaters and festivals, captivating the most discerning and sensitive audiences.
In Distribution
Fabula Saltica Productions
STABAT MATER
NEW PRODUCTION 2023
This prayer questions how a mother can survive the pain that follows the unjust death of her child and tragically brings us back to the present.
For all audiences
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BALLADES
Ballades draws from the popular traditions of our country, where the dance hall (balera) takes center stage. The show is also inspired by Ettore Scola’s film Le Bal (Ballando Ballando).
Original music, with the possibility of live performance.
Suitable for all audiences.
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CINDERELLA: An Italian Story…
Our Cinderella is set in 1960s Italy, a time when countless creative energies were transforming the nation’s identity, and there was a drive for social redemption and personal achievement.
In this atmosphere of change, Cinderella, a young woman full of vitality, plays her cards right and transforms her life. The performance features inserts from and references to the eponymous work by Gioachino Rossini, alongside specially composed music.
Suitable for all audiences.
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WITH AN OPEN HEART
A multidisciplinary performance inspired by the Sonnets of William Shakespeare and specially written texts. Original music performed live.
Suitable for all audiences – Secondary schools
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Kid Dance
TURN OFF THE LIGHT
Social Withdrawal Among Adolescents
NEW PRODUCTION 2022
Dance for ages 13-18
Our starting point for this investigation was social withdrawal among young adolescents and young adults living in complete or partial isolation known as Hikikomori. The current historical period, marked by forced isolation to curb the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic, significantly broadens the scope of our inquiry and reflection on the impact it has had on the most vulnerable individuals.
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PINOCCHIO
Dance Kids
From the famous soundtrack by Edoardo Bennato, *”A Puppet with No Strings”*, the tale of Collodi is reborn and proves to be a winning choice for its rhythm and lyrics. Pinocchio offers an opportunity to revisit the story in a light-hearted, ironic, and convincing way: the show is danced with great teamwork and energy by the dancers of the Company. To tell the story, the audience is invited to follow a path that unfolds through a game of Snakes and Ladders, taking them on a phantasmagorical journey between the dreamlike and the real. Performed in numerous squares and festivals.
Awarded for strategy and innovation by the Veneto Region in 2004.
This show is suitable for families, children, and pre-teens (recommended audience age: 6-13 years).
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THE ANIMALS COURT
Dance for Kids
An original tale focused on themes of nutrition and consumption, this story is designed to educate its audience with humor and self-irony. It is a multimedia show that includes the presence of a VJ, with references to trends and styles in video communication.
The show is suitable for families, children, and pre-teens (recommended audience age: 6-13 years).
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Site Specific
I AM MADE OF WOOD
“… wood appears still, but it is subjected to internal pressures that slowly crack it. Ceramics break and immediately reveal their shattered pieces. Wood does not; as long as it can, it hides, allowing itself to be tortured but never confessing.
I am made of wood“
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DELIRIOUS TENDERNESS
If for a mother pregnancy and childbirth are an unforgettable and deeply engaging experience, as they are lived firsthand, the birth of a child is also an exceptional event for the father. However, he often only realizes how wonderful this moment is later, when he sees his child.
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TIMELESS PASSION
The anticipation, the anticipation, the curiosity of something that has already happened or is about to happen.
The synergy of two bodies reaching out to touch and merge, the eroticism, alive and intense, generated by anticipation.
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SPOON RIVER
A woman in the center of the stage in a rocking chair beginning her slow passage of time; she holds a book, a kind of security to cling to in the loneliness that surrounds her, in the dark emptiness that envelops her person. She flips through the book and begins her Spoon River tale sometimes tearing the sheets, sometimes rewriting them in the making of the text, and creatures populate her mind and the space around her; dancing souls come to visit her and give body and gesture to the features of the human figures she has acted out through her word… and the rocking chair changes pace… varies moment by moment from a night to a dawn to a blinding day that blinds her. This woman thus evokes the world of the dead and in connection with them restores them to us alive and vital in their being more human in this passage and limbo between life and death…
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IN THE COMPANY OF SHAKESPEARE
Poetry reading, with themes extrapolated from William Shakespeare’s Sonnets, staged by Fabula Saltica dancers accompanied by actress Elena Croce. Reading with dance suitable for unconventional venues. In the company of Shakespeare is an excerpt from the show “With an open heart“.
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Co-Productions
Shut up! Silence the beliefs that delude you into thinking you have a power you do not and cannot possess, making you vulnerable and lost, malleable and real.
Toxic love. What hides in the mind of an addict? Love and addiction have similar effects; they writhe in a mix of euphoria, desire, and submission.
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LOVE GOES TO HELL
From the close collaboration between the Fabula Saltica Company and the Compagnia AlphaZTL, led by Vito Alfarano, which has always been particularly sensitive to the exploration of dance applied to social issues, Love Goes to Hell is a performance that explores the theme of violence against women.
Target Audience – Secondary Schools.
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THE NOISE OF LOVE
The performance is the result of a project carried out within the Rovigo Correctional Facility. The central theme is falling in love with all its “noises.”
An idea by Vito Alfarano.
Target Audience – Secondary Schools (both lower and upper levels).
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ALMOST DEAF… I LIKE PIGS
A performance in which the world of the deaf and the hearing communicate, where how something is said is not important, but rather what is being said. Co-production AlphaZTL.
Suitable for indoor venues or, if outdoors, in confined spaces.
The show is intended for an adult audience.
Artistic cardIn the repertoire
Lost in a Dream, music by various authors, many of which feature original music performed live;
Presto, Lento, Presto, music by G. Pergolesi and G.D. Gallo;
Pulcinella, music by I. Stravinsky;
Together, music by G. Sollima;
Histoire du Soldat, music by I. Stravinsky;
Barbablù, original music by P. Zambelli;
Il Pranzo, original music by C. Pedini.
Special Projects
The Association promotes and supports the emerging creativity of young authors, helping them to realize their ideas and enhance their creative potential within a project that is not occasional but lasting over time.