Dates / Schedules
Saturday, november 14 2026 3:00pm and 5:00pm
Dance
In Save the Last Dance for Me, Alessandro Sciarroni creates a rare and captivating encounter with the polka chinata — a Bolognese courtship dance dating back to the early twentieth century. Performed by Gianmaria Borzillo and Giovanfrancesco Giannini, Save the Last Dance for Me is an intimate duet unfolding in a continuous spiral of tension and trust: intertwined bodies spinning, descending and rising again in a demanding, almost acrobatic choreography.
Once danced exclusively by men, the Polka Chinata survives today thanks to the meticulous work of Giancarlo Stagni, who reconstructed it from archival footage. When Sciarroni discovered it in 2018, only five practitioners remained.
Balancing performance with an act of preservation, Save the Last Dance for Me is both a celebration and a reunion — an invitation to witness, share, and keep alive a tradition on the verge of disappearing.
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Biography
Alessandro Sciarroni is an Italian artist active in the field of Performing Arts with several years of experience in visual arts and theater research. His work starts from a conceptual Duchamp-like matrix using a theatrical framework and they are featured in festivals, museums and unconventional spaces, in whole Europe, South and North America and Asia.
In his creations he involves professionals from different disciplines and uses some techniques and experiences from dance, as well as circus or sports. His work tries to uncover obsessions, fears and fragilities of the act of performing, through the repetition of a practice to the limits of the physical endurance of the interpreters, looking at a different dimension of time, and to na empathic relationship between the audience and the performers.
In 2019 he was awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in Dance by the Venice Biennial. Alessandro Sciarroni is associate artist of MARCHE TEATRO.
Ages
+6
Data sheet
Created by Alessandro Sciarroni
With Gianmaria Borzillo and Giovanfrancesco Giannini
Artistic Collaborator Giancarlo Stagni
Music Aurora Bauzà, Pere Jou
Styling Ettore Lombardi
Technical Director Valeria Foti
Tour Technician Cosimo Maggini
Curator, Promotion, and Consultant Lisa Gilardino
Administration and Executive Producer Chiara Fava
Communication Pierpaolo Ferlaino
Production corpoceleste_C.C.00# and MARCHE TEATRO
Co-Production Santarcangelo Festival, B.Motion, and Festival Danza Urbana
Photo: (c) Raoul Gilibert – Passages Transfestival-Metz 2023
Prices and Discounts
Note: No discounts and no reserved seats
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