After its debut in Korea in October 2025 at the Nakseonjae Hall of Changdeokgung Palace in Seoul, LA PRIMA DANZA \/ The Butterfly Dream<\/strong> will be presented in Italy<\/strong> in June 2026<\/strong>, as part of The First Dance \/ La Prima Danza<\/strong>, a project funded by the 2025 Kore.A.Round Culture \u2013 Bilateral International Collaboration Program for Arts & Culture.<\/p>\n The project, resulting from the collaboration between Fondazione Fabbrica Europa<\/strong>, Bigi Paoletti\/Fritz Company<\/strong> by Damiano Ottavio Bigi<\/strong> and Alessandra Paoletti<\/strong> and the Ahn Aesoon Company<\/strong>, aims to transform spaces of historical and artistic heritage into devices for performative experiences, fostering a deep connection between territory, place, artwork, and audience through dance.<\/p>\n In Italy, LA PRIMA DANZA \/ The Butterfly Dream<\/strong> will be staged in Verbania<\/strong> (Teatro il Maggiore, 19 June 2026<\/strong>) as part of CROSS Festival, and in Florence<\/strong> at Chiostro Grande di Santa Maria Novella (23-24 June 2026<\/strong>): two spaces whose differing historical and architectural features will offer new resonances and further possibilities for relationships between body, memory, and landscape.<\/p>\n LA PRIMA DANZA \/ The Butterfly Dream<\/strong> draws inspiration from the complex history of Changdeokgung Palace, understood not merely as architecture, but as a site shaped by political transformations, destructions, reconstructions, and rewritings of memory that remain unresolved to this day. Starting from the Korean context, the work opens onto a broader, more universal perspective, placing Changdeokgung in resonance with other places that have undergone similar processes of transformation and re-signification.<\/p>\n Dates in Italy | June 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48922,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2305,1586],"class_list":["post-48953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized-en","tag-international-projects","tag-relevant-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabbricaeuropa.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabbricaeuropa.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabbricaeuropa.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabbricaeuropa.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabbricaeuropa.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48953"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/fabbricaeuropa.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49209,"href":"https:\/\/fabbricaeuropa.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48953\/revisions\/49209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabbricaeuropa.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabbricaeuropa.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabbricaeuropa.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabbricaeuropa.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
A dynastic residence and ritual space, later a place scarred by war and colonial occupation, and today a museum and heritage site, the palace is conceived as a spatial and symbolic device, embodying a trajectory shared by many other sites where architectures from different historical periods accumulate, leaving both material and immaterial traces.<\/p>\n
\nchoreography and direction: Damiano Ottavio Bigi & Alessandra Paoletti, Ahn Aesoon
\nperformers: Na-eui Kim, Ji-hyung Kim, Seong-hyeon Park, Hyeon-seok Lee and You-joung Lim
\nsound design: Jung-hoon Pi
\ncostumes: Seonoc Im
\nsound engineer: Ju-won Jeon<\/h6>\nconcept and project direction: Maurizia Settembri
\nproduction: On Sim, Elisa Godani with Greta Poli
\nassociated producer: Hye-yeon Ki
\nconsultant for international collaboration: Andrea Paciotto<\/h6>\ncarried out with the support of Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (Korea)
\nKOFICE (Korean Foundation for International Cultural Exchange)
\n2025 Kore.A.Round Culture \u2013 Bilateral International Collaboration Program for Arts & Culture (Korea)
\nMinistero della Cultura, Dipartimento per le attivit\u00e0 culturali \u2013 Italy
\nDirezione regionale Musei nazionali Toscana (Florence)<\/h6>\npartners: Fabbrica Europa | Secret Florence | Florence Dance Festival | City of Florence
\nCROSS Festival | Fondazione Egri Danza CRID | City of Verbania
\nAssociazione Tersicorea \u2013 Cortoindanza | cedac Cagliari<\/h6>\n\n\n
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