NU.DA. Live! | Contemporary Choreographic Experiences is a project that aims to internationalize the careers of young Italian choreographers under 35.

Conceived and developed by Movimento Danza with the artistic direction of Gabriella Stazio, the project is a winner of Boarding Pass Plus 2022 – 2023 – 2024, a call of the Italian Ministry of Culture that promotes the dialogue and exchange of artistic practices between professionals from Italy and other Countries.

In addition to Movimento Danza, NU.DA. Live! involves two other cultural bodies in Italy and three cultural bodies in Croatia and Georgia, two territories with highly dynamic and growing contemporary dance cultures and experiences.

The Italian partners of Movimento Danza (the project’s lead partner) are AlphaZTL Compagnia d’Arte Dinamica, directed by Vito Alfarano, and gruppo nanou, a contemporary dance and performing arts company.

International partners are Arts Research Institute and Georgian Regional Theaters Network for Georgia, Transitional-fictional Theater for Croatia.

During 2023 a number of Italian choreographers under 35 will be selected to carry out a work period between Croatia and Georgia. With the support of senior choreographers from the project partners and a cultural operator, the young artists will tell about themselves and their works through videos, talks, panel discussions and workshops in order to create and strengthen professional relationships with local institutions, cultural operators and artists.

All activities will be broadcasted and available online in order to maximize their visibility and sharing among cultural operators and dance enthusiasts.

All partners will participate in a final meeting to be held in Naples, through which the conclusions of the project will be collected and then disseminated, laying the groundwork for new paths and new cooperation.

Movimento Danza was the lead partner in the project “A Different Past, A Common Future,” which won the Culture 2000 Program together with Pina Bausch’s Tanztheater Wuppertal, the Laban Centre in London, Ballet Victor Ullate in Madrid, Onnagatarea Company in Brussels and Mediascena Europa in Rome. It also recently won the “Creative Europe ’20-’22” call for proposals with the project “Dancing Together Again”. With NU.DA. Live!, Movimento Danza further expands its international collaborative network, concretely fostering the mobility of artists and cultural workers, the interaction between generations and cultures, and the promotion of Italian contemporary dance.

Movimento Danza, directed by Gabriella Stazio, is an artistic and cultural association that has been active since 1979, a Dance School counted among the best in Europe and a Dance Company that has won many awards worldwide, with a youth section that is among the most dynamic and creative in Italy. Since 1987 it has been recognized by the Ministry of Culture first as a Dance Company and since 2000 as a National Promotion Body. Since 2007 it has been recognized by the Campania Region, and numerous skills and experiences have been gained in the international arena, both thanks to the Compagnia Movimento Danza’s tours (more than 30 countries around the world) and to its successful planning and managing ability.

Artistic Direction: Gabriella Stazio
Project Manager: Eleonora Tempesta

AlphaZTL wants to break down those barriers that do not allow social integration by giving voice to minorities, sometimes the object of prejudice, making the echo reach as far as possible. AlphaZTL deals with contemporary dance, video dance, documentaries, artistic workshops in social work, projects against school dropout and education to legality. Thanks to the will of choreographer and artistic director Vito Alfarano, AlphaZTL operates internationally, receives important awards and produces projects that see dance and other art forms develop through arguments related to social issues. AlphaZTL organizes the Brindisi Performing Arts festival.

Artistic Direction: Vito Alfarano

Nanou Associazione Culturale was founded in 2004 as a space for comparison of the artistic ideas and works of Marco Valerio Amico, Rhuena Bracci and Roberto Rettura. In 2009, the association was recognized and funded by the Emilia-Romagna Region and in 2011 by the Fondo Unico per lo Spettacolo as the only producer of contemporary dance in Romagna. Since 2018, choreographer Daniele Albanese has joint to the artistic activity of the association and since 2020 the young choreographer Stefania Tansini. The intent of this partnership is to create a continuity of work on contemporary languages by placing diversity as an enrichment of each artistic vision.

Artistic Direction: Marco Valerio Amico, Rhuena Bracci, Domenico Garofalo
Project Manager: Domenico Garofalo

The goal of the Arts Research Institute is the study of arts theories and practices in Georgia and around the world through applied research and projects. Particular attention is paid to the promotion of best practices, cultural dialogue, cultural diplomacy, tangible and intangible world heritage through conferences, panel discussions, open lectures, exhibitions, debates, festivals (including dance and children’s theater festivals), artistic residencies, various creative projects and publications. ARI is a member of the UNESCO/ITI PA High Education Network and a regional partner of EQ-Arts, and participates in arts education events, consultations and implementations.

Artistic Direction: Levan Khetaguri

The Georgian Regional Theaters Network was founded in 2008 with the aim of supporting regional theaters in Georgia. It actively collaborates with local and international festivals and other arts organizations, within the country and abroad, for the promoting of Georgian and foreign performing arts, also carrying out exchange programs and co-productions. It organizes tours in which Georgian performing artists successfully participate in international festivals and paths of artistic training and management education in the field of culture.

The independent Transitional-fictional theater group TRAFIK, directed by Branko Valenta and Elda Capan, has been operating continuously since 1998. It is one of the first non-institutional theater groups in Rijeka composed of professional artists and one of the first independent theater groups in Croatia, as the entire Croatian independent cultural scene, as we know it today, was still at the beginnings. One of the important settings of the group is the collective collaboration of artists from different fields and artistic backgrounds: playwrights, directors, actors, dancers, visual artists, set designers, and lighting designers.

Artistic Direction: Branko Valenta and Elda Capan