dancehALL

Alessandria | Musical

20 September 2026

Dates

20 September 2026

Description

5:30 PM

Running time: 20 minutes

dancehALL is an urban techno container, where four bodies move in an obsessive ritual. Four dances—salsa, cha-cha, jive, and polka—are torn from their context and reduced to essential dynamic patterns. The once-sensual steps now become crude gestures, precise mechanisms in a choral choreography where contact becomes detached and energy is consumed in a mechanical dance. What if passion were to disappear? What remains when dance, emptied of its variability, becomes a pure exercise in style?

dancehALL is an experiment, an attempt to redefine the boundaries of dance, an invitation to reflect on the body and movement in an age dominated by mechanization and the loss of humanity.

COMMUNITY PROJECT

The staging of dancehALL can be accompanied by an educational project aimed at actively involving local dance schools and organizations. The project, conceived as an expanding nucleus, aims to engage the people around it until it becomes a community. The project takes shape through intensive workshops and laboratory sessions organized in collaboration with participating organizations.

Authors: Nicolò Abbattista & Christian Consalvo
Dancers: Arianna Cunsolo, Nicoletta Bellazzi, Francesca Lastella, Enrico Luly
Movement Coach: Marcella Fanzaga
Winning creation: Danza Urbana XL 2025
ITI (International Theatre Institute, Georgia)
Special Mention for Urban Audience Development

Lost Movement

The Lost Movement Company was founded in 2011 from an idea by choreographer Nicolò Abbattista in collaboration with dramaturg Christian Consalvo, Artistic Director of the Company since 2024. The artistic duo develops a choreographic research path focused on the relationship between body, roots, and community, producing approximately 30 works to date, performed in Italy, Europe, Asia, and Africa.

Over the years, the Company has collaborated with cultural organizations and institutions, developing projects that combine production, education, and audience engagement: the Lombardy Region, the Cariplo Foundation, the Oriente Occidente Dance Festival, CCN/Aterballetto, DANCEHAUSpiù, Cro.me – Cronaca e Memoria dello Spettacolo, Milano Dancing City, Radic'Arte, FLIC – Festival Lanciano In Contemporanea, and Kilowatt Festival.

Lost Movement has received awards and recognition at major events, including La Danza in 1 Minuto, Movin'Up, the Movin'Up Spettacolo Special Award – Performing Arts, Festival Presente Futuro, Danza Urbana XL, and Dancescapes – Mobility Grant. In 2023 and 2025, as part of the Per Chi Crea – Live and National and International Promotion program, Lost Movement received support from the MiC and SIAE for the national and international mobility of artists under 35.