Artistic Director

Rosanna Brocanello

Performers

Giuliana Bonaffini, Emiliano Candiago, Matheus Alves De Oliveira, Ginevra Gioli, Giulia Orlando, Giovanni Russo, Frederic Zoungla

Sound and Music Environments

Roberto Passuti

About

A dance of desire as vertigo: gesture brushes past, veers away, accelerates. Giacomo Casanova moves through the work as an underlying presence—seducer, gambler, strategist of displacement—and gives rise to a physical quality that embraces risk as a mode of existence.

The bodies on stage are fleeting identities, constantly negotiating with space and with sudden misdirections of the gaze.

The choreography becomes a field of tension where the rules are written yet continually reversible.

Performers

Giuliana Bonaffini, Emiliano Candiago, Ginevra Gioli, Giovanni Russo, Frederic Zoungla

Support

Italian Ministry of Culture, Regione Toscana, Teatro Stabile del Veneto – Teatro Nazionale

About

1749 by Erika Silgoner revisits the world of Giacomo Casanova, shifting the focus from the legendary seducer to the broader game of desire, ambiguity, and encounter. Between impulse and vulnerability, seduction and disorientation, the choreography transforms Casanova’s myth into a contemporary reflection on eros, identity, and the power dynamics between bodies. Reimagined through a modern sensibility, the ballet poses an enduring question: who is truly seducing, and who is ultimately being seduced?

Performers

Emiliano Candiago, Matheus Alves De Oliveira, Giovanni Russo, Frederic Zoungla

About

Casanova is an extraordinary figure: libertine, intellectual, traveler, philosopher and above all an enchanter whose name became an icon of seduction.

The choreography works with a quartet of young men focusing on shameless strength and recklessness.