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The performance premiered in Seoul<\/strong> in October 2025<\/strong> at Nakseonjae Hall, within Changdeokgung Palace, and is presented in Italy<\/strong> between June and July 2026<\/strong> in a range of venues whose distinct historical and architectural characteristics offer new resonances and further possibilities for exploring the relationship between body, memory, and landscape. Starting from the Korean context, the work expands towards a broader, universal perspective, resonating with other sites that have undergone similar processes of transformation and re-signification. Within this framework, architectural and cultural heritage sites emerge as particularly meaningful contexts: places shaped by time that preserve a complex weave of histories, narratives, and temporalities, held in a constant tension between past and present.<\/p>\n Their historical density thus becomes a field for choreographic and dramaturgical research, while the performance functions as a tool of mediation and activation, inviting audiences to experience these spaces not as static relics of the past but as living, active environments in which historical and symbolic layers continue to generate contemporary resonances.<\/p>\n The work unfolds in two parts: La Prima Danza<\/strong>, choreographed and directed by Damiano O. Bigi and Alessandra Paoletti<\/strong>, and The Butterfly Dream<\/strong>, created by Ahn Aesoon<\/strong>. Both sections are adapted to the specific context of each venue, modulating the use of space and the performance pathway in relation to the environments that host them.<\/p>\n
\nThe project draws inspiration from the complex history of Changdeokgung Palace, understood as a place shaped by political transformations, destruction, reconstruction, and ongoing processes of rewriting collective memory that remain, even today, only partially reconciled. Once a royal residence and ceremonial site, later scarred by war and colonial occupation, and now a museum complex, the palace is approached as both a spatial and symbolic device, embodying a trajectory shared by many other places where architectures from different historical periods accumulate, leaving both tangible and intangible traces.<\/p>\n
\nDamiano O. Bigi and Alessandra Paoletti | FRITZ Company<\/strong> is a dance-theatre company founded in 2020 by Damiano Ottavio Bigi, a dancer and choreographer, former member of Pina Bausch’s Tanztheater Wuppertal, who has also collaborated with artists including Dimitris Papaioannou, and Alessandra Paoletti, an actress, writer, and director working across dance theatre and contemporary dance, who has led numerous international projects and collaborated extensively as a stage director with the Istanbul Municipal Theatre.
\nWorking together since 2013, when they began their collaboration with Yuvaya D\u00f6nmek, Babam i\u00e7in, they have developed an artistic practice situated at the intersection of dance, theatre, and the visual arts, bringing together creative production, pedagogy, and site-specific practices.
\n<\/h6>\nAhn Aesoon Company<\/strong>, founded in 1985 and directed by Ahn Aesoon, combines Korean identity with a contemporary sensibility through a choreographic language that reinterprets traditional forms and Eastern concepts. Ahn’s work received the Grand Prix at the 1998 Rencontres Chor\u00e9graphiques de Bagnolet and is featured in both the Oxford Dictionary of Dance and the International Dictionary of Modern Dance. Over more than four decades, she has transformed elements such as shamanism, ritual performance, and kokdu into a distinctive contemporary choreographic language. Today, the company continues to explore choreographic practices that transcend cultural boundaries.
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\nchoreography: Damiano O. Bigi | Alessandra Paoletti e Ahn Aesoon
\nproject: Fabbrica Europa, Bigi Paoletti FRITZ Company and Ahn Aesoon Dance Company
\nperformers: Na Eui Kim, Ji-hyung Kim, Song-yeon Park, Hyeon-seok Lee e You-joung Lim
\ntraditional dancer: Joung-youn Son
\ncostume design: Seonoc Im
\nsound design: Jung-hoon Pi
\nsound engineer: Ju-won Jeon
\nproject direction: Maurizia Settembri
\nproduction: Alice Chiari with Greta Poli (Italy), On Sim (Korea)
\nwith the support of Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (Korea)
\nProject selected by KOFICE (Korean Foundation for International Cultural Exchange), Kore\u2022A\u2022Round Culture \u2013 Bilateral International Collaboration Program for Arts & Culture 2025
\nWith the collaboration of Fondazione 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\u2019Oriente Centro di Produzione della Danza
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