as part of the Fabbrica Europa 2026 festival

ANGELS’ ORDERS emerges from the encounter between a foundational poeticc text — Rilke’s First Elegy — and a living landscape shaped by wind, breath, and sound.

At its core lies the meeting point between poetry and electronic music. The elegy is neither illustrated nor narratively interpreted; instead, it becomes physical impulse, vibra on, and rhythm.

The physical language, rooted in IVONA’s research practice, operates through repetition, magnetism, and deep listening,
The BPM of the live DJ set, passing through the bodies, creates an unpredictable relationship in which mutual listening transforms the encounter into a living and spontaneous composition.

IVONA proposes a different way of approaching a literary work: not through reading, but through a shared sensory experience, offering immediate access to poetry and transforming the breath of the text into a physical, collective material. Moving between poetic memory and electronic culture, between artistic rigor and an openness to new spaces and audiences, ANGELS’ ORDERS expands access to dance and poetry, making them more permeable and deeply relevant to the present.

Pablo Girolami is an Italian-Spanish choreographer who graduated from the Tanz Akademie Zürich in 2014. He performed with Hessisches Staatsballett Wiesbaden/Darmstadt and Spellbound Contemporary Ballet, collaborating with internationally renowned choreographers including Wayne McGregor, Hofesh Shechter, and Marcos Morau. He is currently the Artistic Director of IVONA and works internationally as a freelance choreographer. Since 2024, he has also served as Artistic Director of the Fagagna Dance Festival. His work has received numerous international awards, including First Prize at the Jerusalem International Choreography Competition, Best Choreography at the Certamen Coreográfico del Distrito de Tetuán (Madrid) and the Linkage Choreographic Competition (Sofia). In addition to creating works for IVONA, he has choreographed for companies including Graz Opera Ballet, Jerusalem Dance Theatre, Club Guy & Roni, EgriBianco Danza, and Nuovo Balletto di Toscana. In 2025, together with Philippe Kratz, he won the Biennale di Venezia call for new choreographic works with Sisifo felice, which premiered at Biennale Danza 2025.

choreography: Pablo Girolami
performers: Matilde Di Ciolo, Matteo Capetola
dramaturgy: Katherina Vasiliadis
live DJ Set: Vermouth Gassosa
executive production: House of IVONA
co-production: Pan-Adria Network (En–Knap Productions, Artisti Associati, Croatian Cultural Center Rijeka, Flota Institute, Zagreb Dance Center, Mediterranean Dance Center Svetvinčenat, City of Vicenza Municipal Theatre Foundation), Associazione quarantasettezeroquattro

photo: Eros Brancaleon