Asteroide

Asteroide

On Thursday, February 11, at 9:00 p.m., the show "Asteroid" will take place at the Teatro Comunale Dino Buzzati.

Great catastrophes rarely give warning.

What do the extinction of the dinosaurs and the end of a love have in common? In both cases, it is hard to believe that something destined to last can suddenly disappear.

A mysterious paleontologist takes the stage to talk about bones, geological eras, iridium, and cosmic catastrophes. But something starts to crack: sentimental memories surface during the conference, the body begins to move, and words turn into song. Little by little, the musical invades the stage.

Ubu Award 2025 for Best Dance Show, Asteroid is a surprising face-off with Broadway in which Marco D’Agostin brings together science and love, dissemination and performance, dance and theater. Among dinosaurs, betrayals, and apocalypses, it ironically and dizzyingly tells our most extraordinary ability: to survive our extinctions, to reconstruct ourselves layer by layer, and to discover that after every end, life always manages to invent a new form.

UBU Award for Best Dance Show

Marco D’Agostin
by and with Marco D’Agostin
sound Luca Scapellato
songs Marco D’Agostin, Luca Scapellato
sets Paola Villani, Bots Conspiracy
lights Paolo Tizianel
costumes Gianluca Sbicca
with a textual incursion by Pier Lorenzo Pisano
dance repertoire Giulio Santolini, Stefano Bontempi
shared research practices Chiara Bersani, Sara Bonaventura, Nicola Borghesi, Damien Modolo, Lisa Ferlazzo Natoli
scientific consulting Enrico Sortino
production VAN
co-production Piccolo Teatro di Milano - Teatro d’Europa; Théâtre de la Ville, Paris; ATP Fondazione Teatri di Pistoia; Pôle-Sud CDCN Strasbourg; Festival Aperto / Fondazione I Teatri - Reggio Emilia; Baerum Kulturhus - Dance Southeast-Norway; Snaporazverein
with the support of Centrale Fies; CSC/Centro per la Scena Contemporanea, Bassano del Grappa; CCN Ballet de l’Opéra national du Rhin; Centro Nazionale di Produzione della Danza Virgilio Sieni; AMAT and Civitanova Danza; La Contrada/Teatro Stabile di Trieste; Grand Studio, Brussels; Scenario Pubblico, Catania; Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Oslo / Ål kulturhus in the frame of NID international residencies programme; ATCL/Spazio Rossellini; Teatro Stabile dell’Umbria; Fondazione Teatro Comunale Città di Vicenza; Centro di Residenza dell’Emilia-Romagna L’arboreto - Teatro Dimora | La Corte Ospitale