La Prima Danza / The Butterfly Dream is a site-specific contemporary dance project resulting from the collaboration between Fondazione Fabbrica Europa, Bigi Paoletti/Fritz Company by Damiano O. Bigi and Alessandra Paoletti, and Ahn Aesoon Company (Korea). The project is supported by the 2025 Kore·A·Round Culture – Bilateral International Collaboration Program for Arts & Culture.

TOUR DATES

	FRI 19 JUNE 2026 Teatro Il Maggiore – Arena CROSS Festival 2026 VERBANIA
	MAR 23 GIUGNO 2026 Cappellone degli Spagnoli and Chiostro Verde of S. Maria Novella Secret Florence 2026 FLORENCE
	WED 24 JUNE 2026 Cappellone degli Spagnoli and Chiostro Verde of S. Maria Novella Florence Dance Festival 2026 FLORENCE
	SAT 27 JUNE 2026 | SUN 28 JUNE 2026 Parco Nervi – Padiglione del Sale CAGLIARI
	THU 2 JULY 2026 Spazio Murat BARI

Bigi Paoletti FRITZ Company is a dance-theatre company founded in 2020 by Damiano Ottavio Bigi, a dancer and choreographer formerly of the Tanztheater Wuppertal under Pina Bausch, who has worked with Dimitris Papaioannou, among others, and Alessandra Paoletti, an actress, writer, and director active in dance theatre and contemporary dance, who has led numerous international projects and collaborated for many years as a guest director with the Istanbul Municipal Theatre. Active together since 2013, when they began their collaboration with Yuvaya Dönmek, Babam için, created for the Istanbul Municipal Theatre, they have developed a practice situated at the intersection of dance, theatre, and visual arts, interweaving creation, pedagogy, and site-specific practices. Their work explores compositional, dramaturgical, and kinesthetic structures often inspired by scientific models, giving rise to performative universes that inscribe themselves in bodies and expand into space and landscape, redefining the relationship between presence, environment, and perception. Following the premiere of Un Discreto Protagonista (2022), the company has presented its work at major international festivals and theatres in Europe and Asia and is supported by international partners.

Ahn Aesoon Company, founded in 1985 and directed by Ahn Aesoon, blends Korean identity with contemporary sensibilities in a choreographic style that reinterprets Eastern traditions and concepts. Ahn’s work was awarded the 1998 Grand Prix at the Rencontres Chorégraphiques de Bagnolet and is documented in the Oxford Dictionary of Dance and the International Dictionary of Modern Dance. Over more than forty years of activity, she has transformed elements such as shamanism, ritual performance, and kokdu into a contemporary language, and today the company continues to explore choreographic possibilities capable of transcending cultural boundaries.

production: Fondazione Fabbrica Europa per le arti contemporanee and Ahn Aesoon Company
a work by Damiano O. Bigi / Alessandra Paoletti and Ahn Aesoon
performers: Nae-ui Kim, Ji-hyung Kim, Song-yeon Park, Hyeon-seok Lee, You-joung Lim
traditional dancer: Joung-youn Son
costume design: Seonoc Im
sound design: Jung-hoon Pi
sound engineer Ju-won Jeon
project direction: Maurizia Settembri
production: On Sim (Korea), Alice Chiari with Greta Poli (Italy)
with the support of Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (Korea), KOFICE (Korean Foundation for International Cultural Exchange), 2025 Kore.A.Round Culture – Bilateral International Collaboration Program for Arts & Culture (Korea) | project selected by KOFICE, 2025 Kore.A.Round Culture
partners: Fabbrica Europa, Secret Florence, Florence Dance Festival, Comune di Firenze, CROSS Festival, Fondazione Egri Danza CRID, Comune di Verbania, CRID Sardegna – Centro di rilevante interesse per la Danza, ResExtensa / Porta d’Oriente – centro di produzione della danza

The June 23 performance in Florence is part of Secret Florence, a festival within the Estate Fiorentina 2026.

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