Romaeuropa, the international festival of the capital, returns with its program that intertwines generations and languages, built as a dialogue of over two months between music, theater, dance, digital arts, and creation for children. The inauguration of the forty-first edition of the festival, chaired by Guido Fabiani with the general and artistic direction of Fabrizio Grifasi, is double. On September 8 and 9, at the Auditorium Conciliazione, the opening of this edition takes shape in two evenings, supported by Banca Ifis and dedicated to two Italian artists who are protagonists on the international scene and represent some of the most interesting trajectories of Italian creation in the world.
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First dance, (September 8) with Sofia Nappi and her company KOMOCO; then music (September 9) with Caterina Barbieri, ONCEIM – Orchestra for Creation, Experimentation and Musical Improvisation, and Christian Marclay. And precisely in the spirit of dialogue between these two disciplines, the festival’s opening week continues at the Auditorium Conciliazione with French choreographer Benjamin Millepied who, on September 14, as part of the celebrations for the Seventy years of exclusive twinning Rome-Paris, presents the national premiere of Summerland, a new creation for the dancers of Paris Dance born from the meeting with French singer-songwriter November Ultra with her voice and musical universe, suspended between bedroom pop, R&B, folk, and electronic music. From September 15 to 17, the festival then moves to the Auditorium Parco della Musica Ennio Morricone, thanks to collaboration with the National Academy of Santa Cecilia, with three great concerts: On September 15 Fatoumata Diawara, one of the most important voices of the contemporary African scene, presents live her latest album Massa; on September 16 music meets cinema with the masterpiece Powaqqatsi by Godfrey Reggio and Philip Glass, presented with the Philip Glass Ensemble performing live the famous score in sync with the film images; finally, on September 17 The Trip To Vega by Jeff Mills and Kety Fusco builds a sci-fi journey between electronic music, harp, spaceships, and distant stars.
The grand finale
Romaeuropa Festival continues for over two months in 18 venues, presenting in Rome 100 shows for 240 performances and about a thousand artists from Italy, Europe, and the world, culminating on November 15 with its grand finale with an entire day dedicated to music that will culminate in the Classical Rave Party by Enrico Melozzi. A special project that starts in the morning with the 100 Cellos founded by Melozzi and Giovanni Sollima and continues until night with the Orchestra Notturna Clandestina and a constellation of musicians, artists, and guests: from Niccolò Fabi, to Alessandro Baricco, from Giovanni Sollima to the Italian Army Band together with Giuseppe Andaloro, Alessandro Carbonare, Gloria Campaner, Marta Sollima, Miriam Prandi, and Carlotta Dalia, up to the incursions of Elsa Lila, Anastasio, Fasma, and many others. A great party born from classical music and crossing its boundaries, mixing concert, rave, and performance, to once again transform music into a place of meeting, energy, and sharing, in the spirit that has distinguished Romaeuropa for forty-one years.
The opening between dance and music
On September 8, at the Auditorium Conciliazione, Sofia Nappi opens the Festival with the national premiere of Chora – The void at the origin and DODI, one of her very first creations. Already at the Romaeuropa Festival in 2021 with her Wabi Sabi, presented within the Dancing Days section dedicated to new European dance, Nappi quickly established herself as one of the most interesting voices of new Italian choreography in the world. Artistic director of KOMOCO, a company she founded in Florence together with dancers Adriano Popolo Rubbio and Paolo Piancastelli, she has built an international path recognized by important awards and collaborations with prestigious theaters and companies, from the Venice Biennale to the Nederlands Dans Theater, from the Scottish Dance Theatre to Introdans, up to Ballet BC and Leipzig Ballet.
Today present in theaters worldwide, she returns to Rome with two works that offer a view of her artistic journey and the questions that have always crossed her research. In DODI (2021), one of her first creations, the choreographer stages two bodies that seek each other, mirror each other, support each other, and mutually test each other, crossing tension, desire, fragility, and abandonment. The relationship thus becomes a space of listening and discovery, in which the presence of the other can transform into an opportunity for change and freedom. The duo deeply marked the beginning of Nappi’s international path and was awarded in 2021 with the Partner Introdans Award at the Rotterdam International Duet Choreography Competition and with the First Prize and Critics’ Prize at the International Choreography Competition in Hannover. Chora – The void at the origin (co-produced by Romaeuropa and the Oriente Occidente Festival, of which Nappi is an associated artist and where it will be performed again on September 10), brings that same attention to the empty space, understood as a generative entity capable of defining and moving the individual in its form and primary essence. Conceived for seven dancers, the piece is born from a deep listening to space. The bodies appear and disappear, support and touch each other, building continuously transforming landscapes. The void thus becomes a fertile place where presence and absence coexist and where creation can continuously begin again.
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