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MATTEO BITTANTE

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After important experiences abroad with John Neumeier, Roland Petit Daniel Lomel, Joseph Russillo returned to Italy and worked with important theatres such as Teatro alla Scala and Maggio Fiorentino. A choreographer and dancer, since 2003 he has collaborated with Susanna Beltrami as an assistant in all her creations and as a dancer for the Susanna Beltrami Company. In this context, he became a partner of étoile Luciana Savignano in 2004. In 2011 he became co-founder of ContART - leader of the project DANCEHAUSpiù - National Centre of Dance Production from 2018. In 2012 he founded the DanceHaus Company, one of the young companies in permanent residence at DanceHauspiù.

LAST CREATIONS

BROMANTICA
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BROMANTICA

BY |  MATTEO BITTANTE

WITH | Barbara Allegrezza, Nicolò Castagni, Giovanni Fasser, Andrea Piras
PRODUCTION DANCEHAUSpiù - new production 2024 

with the support of Next REGIONE LOMBARDIA/FONDAZIONE CARIPLO

duration 35'

Today, as the shadow of war is felt like an echo, manifesting in the hegemony of chaos and discord, the choreographer explores beauty, peace, and harmony. He delves into human relationships that transcend barriers of borders, ethnicity, and gender.

 

A dance, as a powerful expression of resistance, hope, and human connection, becomes the sanctuary for four young souls where love and solidarity unfold in a powerful and moving narrative. The "bromance," a term that goes beyond simple friendship, takes a unique form among the four artists. A choreographic texture that alternates synchronized movements with individual bodily fluidity, thus exploring the power of the most intimate union born from the shared passions, dreams, and common challenges.

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ANIMI

ANIMI

ph Alice Colombo

BY |  MATTEO BITTANTE

WITH | ANDREA PIRAS e GIOVANNI FASSER/FABIANO PARRINELLO 
PRODUCTION DANCEHAUSpiù - new production 2024 

duration 20'

Gender stereotypes can limit individual freedom. Escaping male ones means challenging cultural expectations and embracing a wider range of personal expressions and interests. Starting from this premise, the choreographer deepens his research with an interpretation that explores the relationship between two boys, one a prisoner, the other free from patterns. Two characters who manage to find interest through the sharing of common dreams and challenges. A story of "bromance", a form of homosocial intimacy that transcends simple friendship.

Over Under di Matteo Bittante

OVER UNDER

OVER UNDER

DI MATTEO BITTANTE

con DANCEHAUS COMPANY

COSTUMI | TOM REBL
PRODUZIONE DANCEHAUSpiù

Over under è stato concepito durante la pandemia “gli artisti non potevano entrare in contatto fisico”. Tali restrizioni hanno limitato fortemente il lavoro creativo. Oggi, il coreografo residente del Centro Nazionale di Produzione della Danza DANCEHAUSpiù Matteo Bittante, rielabora la creazione con maggiore libertà compositiva, tornando su quei temi: la nascita, la trasformazione, il sogno. Ripartendo dal tema della Foglia, ha scelto di far giocare i suoi interpreti con gli oggetti in scena, mescolando significati e significanti.

 

La foglia, infatti, è un perfetto simbolo di trasformazione, la sua forma si evolve, raccontando storie che si intrecciano nei segni lasciati dal tempo e dalle circostanze.

Nel suo primo stadio è un piccolo germoglio, fragile e suscettibile, proprio come un corpo che porta in sé il potenziale di divenire, e la crescita è un tempo tutto da scoprire.

La foglia si espande, raggiunge la sua pienezza e il corpo racconta un viaggio che si snoda tra sogni e incubi, tra momenti di gioia e altri di sofferenze, andando verso il proprio destino con lo sguardo aperto di chi ha vissuto pienamente.

 

LE SPECTRE
poster le spectre aprile 2023

BY MATTEO BITTANTE

With TRAVIS CLAUSEN-KNIGHT and JAMES PETT

COSTUMES ALESSANDRO VIGILANTE

SOUND MIXING CHRIS COSTA

PRODUCTION DANCEHAUSpiù 2023

Duration 24'

Debut 15-16 april 2023

With the support of

LE SPECTRE DE LA ROSE

Le spectre de la rose, a famous 20th-century ballet danced by the most famous dance personalities in the world's most important theatres, is today reinterpreted in a contemporary key by choreographer Matteo Bittante. Entitled Le spectre de la rose | Rave, the show brings to the stage three different artistic personalities that see Matteo Bittante himself, for years the on-stage partner of the étoile Luciana Savignano, dancing together with two British dancers and creative artists: Travis Clausen-Knight, recently starring with Roberto Bolle in Bolle and Friends, and James Pett, former partner of Alessandra Ferri in the BBC documentary Performance Live

 

 

"I retreated into solitude and danced all day, to the point of exhaustion, but the next morning that infernal dance began again. I tried to escape myself, and at night I wandered aimlessly. During the day I kept myself hidden and danced alone in the woods and on the deserted mountains." - Carl Gustav Jung

 

From the famous ballet Le spectre de la rose, inspired by the poem of the same name by Théophile Gautier (1837), the choreographer Matteo Bittante elaborates a personal interpretation in a contemporary key.

The memorable dream of the young girl is here transformed into an imaginative journey of a forty-year-old man overwhelmed by the experience and echo of a Rave.

Lost in his own anxieties and trapped within himself, the protagonist is overwhelmed by the spectral vision of two young dancers. Two spirits who, in a surreal and dreamlike atmosphere, drag him into a visceral dance that binds instincts, desires and existences.

 

The rose, in this imagery, is the symbol of spiritual rebirth. It has the transformative and self-reflective power to bring back awareness and self-love, allowing the protagonist to resent himself in his own uniqueness and at the same time part of the whole.

RAVE

Ph. Salvatore Lazzaro

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SCIGHERA

SCIGHERA

BY MATTEO BITTANTE

with BARBARA ALLEGREZZA, NICOLO' CASTAGNI, SOFIA MAGNANI, MATTEO BITTANTE 

COSTUMES | TOM REBL
PRODUCTION DANCEHAUSpiù
- new production 2022 (2 to 6 performers)

duration 20'

Scighera, it enters lives, squares, courtyards, bathes bodies, pervades with its elusive designs the fears, the imagination of all.

 

This is what the Milanese call the thick fog that during the winter months hides and conceals the landscape of the Val Padana.

A fog that takes possession of the city, blurring its distances, mixing the real with desire, the past with the future, becoming the envelope of blurred, vague and fleeting images. Images that dissipate in a constantly changing and transforming landscape between what is silenced and what is shown.

For the first time Matteo Bittante approaches the creation of a performance by treating it as a living organism.

An organism in which different performances coexist, allowing themselves to be revealed, discovered and decomposed by the material and imaginary veil of fog.

 

A fog that becomes the curtain and catalyst of light on changing performances in accordance with the choreographic choices and the environment that in real time will welcome them. Each choreographic fragment will have a varying number of dancers, from two to six performers, and will unveil from time to time different looks at themes that are spokesmen for contemporary issues and clichés representing a thought that changes, decomposes and shows itself for what it is or is not.

Versione con 4 performers

Versione con 2 performers

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LITANIA

LITANIA

BY MATTEO BITTANTE

with Davide Salvadori, Nicolò Castagni, Andrea Piras, Ilaria Malin
PRODUCTION DANCEHAUSpiù - production 2022

Project included in the nextlaboratoriodelleidee.it platform, promoted by

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A cry of a generation to man encroaching on the natural territory where the soul resides.

What emerges is a body that transcends toward community and collective harmony, to strive, but above all to live.

Litania is a performance in which two different entities live in opposition: on the one hand, the analytical and rational action that drives man toward the machinic form of things; and on the other, the emotional and sensitive drive of instinct.

In an encounter and struggle for supremacy, or surrender, a balance of the two sides is accomplished, in favor of a survival that does not elevate the victims but praises the perpetrators.

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24,42
Vegliate dunque

24,42

Ph Sara Meliti

BY MATTEO BITTANTE

with DANCEHAUS COMPANY
COSTUMES | TOM REBL

SOUND DESIGN & MIX | CHRIS COSTA

PRODUCTION DANCEHAUSpiù

with the support of:

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duration 60' with break

A soul, torn to pieces, dresses itself in memory and looks back at the ages of its life: the time of unconsciousness, the gold of dreams, the baroque chatter of intentions, good intentions. He sees a dancing self re-emerge, the struggle of the many selves agitated and confused by the thrill of domination, attracted by power. In the heart of a tale that refuses words, the biography of mute, unchanging pain emerges: the unjust martyrdom of an absurdly sacrificial victim, observed in the light of memory stripped of judgement. 24:42 is the reflection of this gaze: the man who reflects himself by contemplating his wounds, no longer fears or condemns himself. Instead, as in a dawn, he leads himself by the hand towards the breath of play, in a free run on the tracks of a recurring step, in the sweetness oozing from a living rebirth, unexpected, and yet so awaited.

Matteo Bittante sinks the roots of his research into the abysses of an eternal conflict: that between victim and executioner. Not with his gaze turned outwards, outside, but consciously drawn into the meanders of human nature. He represents its traits by painting two frescoes, two acts, two visions. In the first, two young men frolic in the tanning sun of unconsciousness, savouring the taste of secret, of gossip, discovering the multiform richness of a golden skirt, now ruff, now rosette, now refuge. Then the team comes into being, a group of four that aggregates and governs itself, deludes itself into thinking it dominates its animal side, experiments with the function of its dynamics, determines its dominant logic. And where one dominates, another is dominated. It is the system that forms the scapegoat, legitimises hatred for the designated victim, crime and abuse against the different: the weak, the last, the other.

The victim is chosen and isolated, stripped of his right to exist: through skilful citations of a secular Eden, a new Saint Sebastian is struck by the darts of modern abuse and the sacrifice is accomplished. But in the tragic epilogue, the light preludes to the second, dramatic, luminous vision.

24, 42 are two even numbers. Palindrome figures that rise to symbolism, they represent two cycles: one begins, rises, the other reaches, declines and ends. They are youth and maturity meeting in the deep skies of awareness, the student and the master, Icarus and Daedalus, fury and calm, flight and embrace. If one ascends and collides with gratuitous pain, the other understands and with firm resolve, repairs. The two men are not strangers to each other, they are parts of the same harmonic whole: they embark on a journey that will lead the first to full maturity, the second to the acceptance of a new phase of self, invigorated by a resilient sap, both caught up in the perpetual vortex of change. In it nothing is lost, everything shines with a renewed energy, to be cherished and passed on, never to die again.

words by Laura Massari

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REPERTOIRE

I wandered lonely a s acloud di M. Bitta

I WANDERED
LONELY
AS A CLOUD

BY MATTEO BITTANTE

with DANCEHAUS COMPANY Alice Carrino, Cristian Cucco, Giovanni Leone
MUSICS | VARIOUS AUTHORS
PRODUCTION | DANCEHAUSpiù

“I wandered lonely as a cloud” is the incipit of one of the most famous poems of English romance written at the beginning of ’800 by William Wordsworth. In this new creation by choreographer Matteo Bittante, co-director and resident artist of the National Dance Production Centre, DANCEHAUSpiù, the poet’s verses form the background to the bucolic rite of the three dancers in which the life force and the idyllic stillness of nature are opposed to the turmoil and confusion of the city. In poetry, as in the show, the real protagonists are not men but the elements of nature such as the lake, the daffodils or the clouds with which the bodies of dancers attempt a possible metamorphosis.

Notes of the choreographer

I lived my childhood on a hill, in the middle of nature, running from one meadow to another; Climbing on trees, I was always in constant contact, almost symbiotic with her. Since antiquity the countryside, and rural life have served as a source of inspiration to many artists. An idyllic place of escape, a refuge from the shops of life, once for the exploration of the self. A landscape of the soul, today to be defended and protected against the ideologies of a period that contaminate and desert Mother Earth.

-Matteo Bittante

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ANATOMY
OF INSPIRATION

BY MATTEO BITTANTE 

with DANCEHAUS COMPANY Matteo Bittante, Alice Carrino, Cristian Cucco, Giovanni Leone, Fabio Calvisi
MUSIC | CHRIS COSTA

COSTUMES | TOM REBL
PRODUCTION DANCEHAUSpiù

“Anatomy of Inspiration” comes from the multiple creative collaboration of the choreographer Matteo Bittante with the multi-instrumentalist singer and composer, Chris Costa and with the german rock-styled designer, Tom Rebl. Through the succession of the ten scenes that make up the show, the audience is led to reflect on the condition in which each individual lives within society, and on the relationship that art has with the power.

Power and Art, a combination that is sometimes imperceptible, an underground bond, yet rooted for centuries. Paraphrasing Dostoevsky’s famous statement “beauty will save the word” we know that, unfortunately, beauty has failed to save the word.
The hypercommodification, the spectacularization without precedents, associated with hypercommunication have upset and distorted the profound meaning of art and of experiencing art, whose expressive truth requires measure, rhythm, formal quality...

On stage the dancers, who accompany the choreographer, answer with their body to a drawing of styles and original sounds that range from electronic to rap, taking the viewer in a hypnotic whirl of strong and energetic suggestion and rhythms. In search of inspiration, in search of a saving beauty, even if just temporary.

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AZIONI
SITE
SPECIFIC

ARTISTIC DIRECTION I MATTEO BITTANTE

with DANCEHAUS COMPANY
MUSIC | VARIOUS AUTHORS

COSTUMES | TOM REBL
PRODUCTION | DANCEHAUSpiù

DANCEHAUSpiù proposes original site-specific performative paths within architectural spaces, museums, prestigious palaces, or magical places. Making use of artists of different backgrounds, through their gesture, the 'encounter between tradition, classicism and contemporaneity takes place.

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INSIDE
CREAZIONE
PER VIDEO E CORPO

BY MATTEO BITTANTE

with DANCEHAUS COMPANY

COSTUMES | TOM REBL
MUSIC CONSULTING | CHRIS COSTA and M. ALESSANDRO LUPO PASINI
PRODUCTION ASSOCIAZIONE ContART/ ArtedanzaE20 with the contribution of Next 2015

“Inside” is the story of a universe wounded by the violence of men the uncontrollable fury of Mother Nature. A genesis of the human race, from its first steps on the earth to the evo- lution in the modern individual. Music accompanies this development in any phase with acoustic environments that recall tribal and primordial sounds and that change in the frenetic and destructive rhythm of contemporary tecno music. The origin of the world begins with the tumults of the earth, the birth of the mountains, represented by installations made up of tubes and video projections. The tubes represent “the hand” of the man, they are everywhere, from the city to the boundaries of forests... it is the trail of mankind.

Still governed by animal instincts, men gather in the first tribes and experience gestures, habits and rituals. With the beginning of social dynamics, the struggle for the affirmation of authority, at the expense of the freedoms of others, quickly arises.
The thirst for power ghost the course of history, till nowadays. The modern individual has no other way out of the infernal existence that he leads. He can only follow its frenetic rhy- thm, without the possibility of salvation. The only winner of this eternal cycle of suffering seems to be Mother Nature, able to breathe new life into the world and give hope to a lost human race.

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BROTHERHOOD

DUET BY MATTEO BITTANTE

with DANCEHAUS COMPANY | GIOVANNI LEONE - FABIO CALVISI

COSTUMES | TOM REBL
MUSICS | VARIOUS AUTHORS

duration 15'

PRODUCTION DANCEHAUSpiù

Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow,
don’t walk behind me,
I may not lead,

walk beside me and be my friend.

 

Albert Camus

Two men, maybe two strangers, maybe brothers, maybe friends, maybe lovers. A two-way game in which the body of one draws on the body of the other the incipit of a new direction, of new gestures, of new rhythms. It is an invitation to unite fraternally, to walk together to find oneself hand in hand, no longer only “my”, no longer only “yours”, but relentlessly “one”.

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