Teatro Sala Vittoria 20:30
Piazza Marconi, 28, 33034 Fagagna

Performance ACT I
The performance will be followed by a Q&A with the artists.

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Nice to meet you two – Sara Ariotti & Kyda Pozza

Choreography: Sara Ariotti & Kyda Pozza
Music: Studio Batsumi, London.
With the support of Calimala Disclosure Platform, in collaboration with Nutida Festival.
Production: Associazione HOUSE of IVONA.

Two people enter the stage, perhaps meeting for the first time, and shake hands.
The pleasure of meeting the stranger emerges the moment their hands touch; the contact becomes the switch that makes the immaterial and the imaginary possible.
Through glances, gestures, pauses, and thoughts, the game has already begun—suspended in a time that cannot be measured—and the two people are now getting to know each other in countless ways, purely for the joy of being together in this dimension.
By recalling memories or imagining the future, they bring something different to the handshake—something that keeps changing shape… What else could this contact become? A couple’s dance?
How much can we truly know about another person simply through a handshake?
The essence of Nice to meet you two revolves around the concepts of play, degrees of familiarity, and the connection between mind and body, creating an emotional wave of irony, intimacy, conflict, and illusion.
All within the time of a handshake.

Sara Ariotti and Kyda Pozza met through the NOHA urban dance training program by Marisa Ragazzo and Omid Ighani, and began their professional careers together with the DACRU company in the adaptation of the production PEOPLE [the poetry of immaterial things].
In parallel, both artists have continued their own paths: Sara working with Pablo Girolami’s project-based company IVONA and developing her own research with the solo Misshapen; Kyda dancing for the Misanga collective in Alessandra Ruggeri’s production HA-BI-TUS and taking part in the theatre project Tartaruga (still in development) with Matteo Caramazza and Davide De Togni, directed by Davide De Togni and Noemi Valentini.
They are currently both members of the HUM collective, founded in 2023 with Aurora Sbailò, Beatrice Foglia, and Anya Pozza. Recognising their artistic affinity and compatibility of language, the two performers have initiated the new project Nice to meet you two, still in development, as co-authors, supported by Calimala Disclosure Platform – Nutida Festival and produced by House of IVONA.

Venus Bleue – Kiran Bonnema

Concept, choreography and dancer: Kiran Bonnema
Music: Yves Klein, Symphonie Monotone in D major
Body paint: Dulce Jordão

Venus Bleue is a dance solo performance inspired by Yves Klein’s sculpture, also titled Venus Bleue, as well as other parts of his work, such as his compositions and keen interest in the Japanese martial art of judo.
This piece illustrates the statue’s realization of its own existence, when it suddenly awakens to its awareness of self. The performer embodying Venus embarks on a journey of discovery within this newfound body, at first confined to the blue, until curiosity and euphoria gradually bring life to her imaginary limbs.
A little surrealist, full of energetic movement exploration in contrast with the persistence of the Symphonie Monotone in D major, Venus Bleue is a meditation on embodiment, absence, and the possibility of becoming whole.

Kiran Bonnema was born in Wageningen, Netherlands (1998), and moved to Brazil at a young age where they started dancing. They graduated from Bolshoi Theatre School in Brazil at 16 before continuing their studies at École Atelier Rudra Béjart in Switzerland.

In 2017, Kiran returned to the Netherlands where they worked with De Dutch Don’t Dance Division (DeDDDD) and danced with Nederlands Dans Theatre 2. In 2021 they joined Hessisches Staatsballett in Germany.

Through out the years Kiran performed works by renowned choreographers such as Sharon Eyal, Damien Jalet, Ohad Naharin, Marco Goecke, Paul Lightfoot and Sol León, Crystal Pite, Xie Xin, Yoann Bourgeois, Johan Inger, amongst others.

Kiran is now a freelancer, working closely with IVONA as a dancer, choreographing and assisting at DeDDDD and teaching across Europe.

Dusk – Nuovo Balletto di Toscana/Philippe Kratz

Choreography, Lighting, and Costumes: Philippe Kratz
Music: Anna von Hausswolff
Dancers: Matteo Capetola, Matilde Di Ciolo

Taking subtle inspiration from Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett (1952), Philippe Kratz’s duet DUSK is a conversation between two beings who, suspended in space, await the darkness (or perhaps the dawn?) while around them the presence of a perpetual twilight marks the non-passage of time. The organ music of contemporary Swedish composer Anna von Hausswolff fills the air, giving breath to the two bodies in dialogue; the atmosphere is as light and vibrant as it is charged with allusive power. The choreography premiered on November 16, 2024, at Teatro Grande in Brescia.

Nuovo Balletto di Toscana
The Nuovo Balletto di Toscana is a professional production structure of rigorous standards, founded in 2018 with a company of 10 dancers and, since July 2024, under the artistic direction of Philippe Kratz.
The artistic program of the Florence-based company, supported by a team of renowned collaborators and creators who for years worked alongside its founder Cristina Bozzolini, maintains a consistent and coherent cultural vision, affirming the primacy of contemporary choreography and embracing a plurality of expressive languages.

For several years, it enjoyed a strong collaboration with the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, presenting full-length ballets such as The Sleeping Beauty by Diego Tortelli and Cinderella by Jiří Bubeníček, as well as participating in several opera productions including Le Villi choreographed by Susanna Sastro, Fernando Cortez by Alessio Maria Romano, Die Fledermaus by Karl Schreiner, and Cinderella by Jiří Bubeníček.
At the same time, the company developed a new creation by Arianna Benedetti, staging the production Pulcinella, Uno di Noi, which won the 2019 SIAE Per chi crea award.