PROGRAM Torino 2025 | Solocoreografico 2025

PROGRAMME TORINO

SOLOCOREOGRAFICO

SOLO DANCE TEATRO CAFÉ MÜLLER, Torino - Italy

Friday & Saturday, 28 & 29.11.2025

21:00 - 22:30

SOLOCOREOGRAFICO Dance Show & Award Ceremony

Five young dance talents and six of the dance artists selected from the global call for application, among 670 candidates worldwide, will present their solo choreography.
Each night the audience will assign the Audience Award to their favourite solo choreography.

"INEPTIA" choreography and dance Marco Varriale - YOUTH Programme
"MY STRENGTH" choreography Tiziano Pilloni, dance Amanda Picciano- YOUTH Programme
"ALLEGRO VIVACE" choreography Gaia Triacca, dance Anita Ciccarelli- YOUTH Programme
"SIGNAL" choreography James Sutherland, dance Josepha Voss- YOUTH Programme
"DEVENIR SOI" choreography and dance Louna Yvonneau- YOUTH Programme

- opening speech

"ARCANA" – choreography by Raffaele Irace, danced by Tessa Fungo (Italy/USA)
Inspired by the mystery and symbolism of the Major Arcana of the Tarot, Arcana is an inner journey through the invisible forces that guide human choices and transformations. Each gesture evokes an archetype, a transition, a revelation. In the interplay of light and shadow, Arcana becomes a rite of knowledge, a path seeking balance between the visible and the invisible.

"SHIITAKE HIGHWAY 5D" – choreography by Sean Howe, danced by Victoria Chassé-Dominguez (USA)
Shiitake Highway 5D leads us into the inner world of a woman who, in turn, discovers the outer world—with all its beauty, unease, and tension. Through an increasingly complex movement language, the performer appears at the edge of the stage, as if trapped in a glass case under the audience’s gaze. Lights, fragments of text, and a warped classical soundtrack guide a journey from safety and protection toward the fragile yet astonishing beauty of the world.

"TRANSPARENT PERSON" – choreography and dance by Yingyu Lyu (China)
Transparent Person reflects on the desire for individual freedom in a world where many seem inclined to follow the crowd, as if disappearing into the “majority” were the safest option. Inspired also by the song Hero, with melodies and lyrics that deeply moved the artist, the dance expresses a dream of swimming freely like a dolphin—if only for one day as a king, a day of complete independence, without pleasing others or fearing their gaze.

"THE SKIN REMEMBERS" – choreography and dance by Einav Berkovich (Israel)
The Skin Remembers emerges from collective memory: stories, traumas, and traditions carried within our bodies. The work unfolds as a response to a community’s turmoil, exploring the tension between carrying history and the desire to rewrite it. Through movement, the piece investigates the possibility of transforming past and present into an act of clarity and healing, seeking in the skin a sensitive map of memory and renewal.

"COURAGE. BAD LUCK DOESN’T EXIST" – choreography and dance by Matteo Vignal / C.ia VIDAVÉi (Italy)
Bad luck is often blamed on external, uncontrollable forces that make us feel powerless. But does bad luck really exist, or is it simply our mind—and the world around us—frightening us? This creation develops as a detailed composition around the concept of the Self, through a surrealist solo exploring the complexity of the human psyche and the power of resilience.

"WHY" – choreography by Caterina Mochi Sismondi / compagnia blucinQue, danced by Jonnathan Lemos Felicio (Italy/Brazil)
An evocative interplay of movement, sound, and imagination: a performer moves delicately between comedy and melancholy, evoking fragments of life and scenes inspired by the metaphysical, poetic figure of Grock. The sound universe, rich in layers and deviations, blends references from film music—from Chaplin to Cabaret—with a physical-sound score inspired by Berio’s Sequenza V dedicated to the clown Grock. Circus artist Jonny Lemos uses three juggling balls, merging styles from past and future with the signature traits of blucinQue’s choreographic work.

>>> The Audience will vote for the assignement of the Audience Award.

The Award winners will be announced on stage.

Sunday 12.10.2025

15:00 - 16:30

SOLOCOREOGRAFICO YOUTH DANCE Show

Young dancers coming from Italy and abroad between 12 and 18+ dance students, presents their solo choreography on stage. Guest choreographies:

- An International Jury of professionals will select three young dancers that will be joining the next edition of SOLOCOREOGRAFICO 2026 in Frankfurt and Lyon, dancing during the professional evening program.

Saturday & Sunday, 29 & 30.11.2025

SOLOCOREOGRAFICO DANCE WORKSHOPS
registration at solocoreografico@gmail.com

WORKSHOPS REGISTRATION >> solocoreografico@gmail.com

1 Workshop 20,- € / 2 Workshops 35, € / 3 Workshops 45,- € / 4 Workshops 55,- € / 5 Workshops 65,- €

SATURDAY 29 November

🔺 11:00 – 12:15

Workshop 1 YOUTH program / open to everyone involved in the festival

Contemporary dance with DENIZ ALP (State Theatre Ankara, Turkey)

🔺 12:30 – 13:45

Workshop 2 YOUTH program / open to everyone involved in the festival

Contemporary dance with TESSA FUNGO (Freelance dancer in New York City, USA)

🔺 14:30 – 15:45

Workshop 3 YOUTH program / open to everyone involved in the festival

Acrobatic Dance CARLOS PARRA ZAVALA & MICHELANGELO MERLANTI
(Professors at Accademia Cirko Vertigo, Torino)

SUNDAY 30 November
🔺 10:00 – 11.15

Workshop 4 YOUTH program / open to everyone involved in the festival

Contemporary dance with MATTEO VIGNALI (Vidavé Dance Company, Italy))

🔺 11:30 – 12.45

Workshop 5 YOUTH program / open to everyone involved in the festival

Contemporary dance with RAFFAELE IRACE (Choreographer in Frankfurt, Germany)

WORKSHOPS REGISTRATION >> solocoreografico@gmail.com

1 lezione 20,- € / 2 lezioni 35, € / 3 lezioni 45,- € / 4 lezioni 55,- € / 5 lezioni 65,- €

The festival was created in 2014 in Turin, Italy, by choreographer Raffaele Irace.