Asteroide

Marco D'Agostin

Programma soort: International performing arts
Genre: Theatre
Herkomst: Bologna, Italy

What do the extinction of the dinosaurs and a broken heart have in common? In Asteroide, Marco D’Agostin takes science off the rails in an absurd and moving blend of dance, song, and theater.

Entrance

€ 22,50

Duration

90 minutes

Language

Engels gesproken

Location

SPOT/Stadsschouwburg

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Dancing after the apocalypse

A palaeontologist walks onto the stage. He talks calmly and with precision about fossils, meteorites and the great extinction of the dinosaurs. But slowly his story takes on another dimension. Words become songs, movements flow into dance, and the lecture derails completely into an absurd, moving musical about loss. Because behind the extinction of the dinosaurs lies a personal story: that of a love that suddenly disappears.
Italian choreographer Marco D'Agostin explores with humour, melancholy and self-deprecation how we deal with everything that once was and no longer is. Asteroide is a playful collision between dance, theatre and Broadway, in which the grand and the small, a meteorite, a broken heart, turn out to lie surprisingly close together.
An enchanting ode to the art of starting over, even after the end of time. Asteroide won the 2025 Italian UBU Award for Best Dance Performance.

Life unfolds in a flow of words and dance.

Author: Francesca Pedroni Occupation: Il Manifesto

Friday 28 August

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Saturday 29 August

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About the artist

Italian choreographer and performer Marco D'Agostin is one of the most exciting voices in contemporary European dance. Since 2010 he has developed a distinctive style in which dance, text, music and performance constantly flow into one another. His work explores how memory functions, both personal and collective, and how performers and audiences relate to each other emotionally. In doing so he deliberately seeks the boundary between emotion, entertainment and absurdity. D'Agostin has collaborated with, among others, Claudia Castellucci/Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio, Alessandro Sciarroni and Liz Santoro, and has presented his work at leading festivals and venues including Festival d'Avignon, Kampnagel Hamburg and Julidans. For both The Years (2023) and Asteroide (2025) he received the prestigious Italian UBU Award for Best Dance Performance. From 2025 to 2027 he is associate artist of the Piccolo Teatro in Milan.

By and with: Marco D’Agostin

Sound: Luca Scapellato

Songs written by: Marco D’Agostin, Luca Scapellato

Scenes Paola Villani

Lights: Paolo Tizianel

Costumes: Gianluca Sbicca

With a textual incursion by: Pier Lorenzo Pisano

Choreographic assistant: Lucia Sauro

Animatronic Bots Conspiracy research shared with: Chiara Bersani, Sara Bonaventura, Nicola Borghesi, Damien Modolo, Lisa Ferlazzo Natoli

Movement coach: Marta Ciappina 

Repertoire dances: Giulio Santolini, Stefano Bontempi

Vocal training: Francesca Della Monica 

Scientific advice: Enrico Sortino

Set construction: Piccolo Teatro di Milano - Teatro d'Europa

Promotion, care: Damien Modolo 

Organization, administration: Eleonora Cavallo, Irene Maiolin, Paola Miolano

Digital communication: Alessandro Ieva 

Production

VAN

Coproduction 

Piccolo Teatro di Milano – Teatro d’Europa;

Téâtre de la Ville, Paris;

Fondazione Teatri di Pistoia; 

Pôle-Sud CDCN Strasbourg;

Festival Aperto / Fondazione I Teatri - Reggio Emilia;

Baerum Kulturhus - Dance Southeast-Norway;

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Supported by

CCN Ballet de l'Opéra national du Rhin;

Centro Nazionale di Produzione della Danza Virgilio Sieni Firenze;

AMAT e Civitanova Danza per RAM_Residenze Artistiche Marchigiane;

La Contrada, teatro stabile di Trieste;

Centro di Residenza >span class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW208605624 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Di default">’Emilia-Romagna L’arboreto – Teatro Dimora | La Corte Ospitale;

Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Oslo/MiC-Direzione Generale Spettacolo and Sprang / Ål kulturhus, regional dance scene and performing arts center, in the frame of NID international residencies programme;

Grand Studio, Bruxelles;

Scenario Pubblico, Catania;

CSC/Centro per la Scena Contemporanea (Bassano del Grappa);

Atcl/Spazio Rossellini:

Fondazione Teatro Comunale Città di Vicenza;

Centrale Fies;

Teatro Stabile dell'Umbria