BOLÉRO - RAVEL

A tribute to Maurice Ravel, a composer so closely linked to the world of dance, on the 150th anniversary of his birth (1875 – 2025). Boléro – Ravel is the title of the new production to the music of the French master, conceived by Roman patron Daniele Cipriani and entrusted to the skilful hands of choreographers Sasha Riva and Simone Repele, a creative tandem born of their shared studies at John Neumeier’s Hamburg Ballet and now based in Geneva. Nicknamed the “poets of dance” for the delicate and elegant poetry they manage to infuse into each and every movement and gesture of the body, Riva&Repele shape in this performance a kind of choreographed artistic biography, in which they freely retrace the main stages of Ravel’s life, enlivened by the encounter of iconic figures of Tersicore’s art such as Serge Diaghilev, Vaslav Nijinsky and Ida Rubinstein, while savoring his most celebrated compositions.

This seals the 2025 Dance Season of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, celebrating legacies that are still alive and able to inspire.