The famous fairy tale of Snow White this time features two unlikely characters as protagonists: a Queen fatigued by always having to be “the fairest in the Realm,” and her Mirror who, tired of always having to repeat “what others do,” will seek a way to escape.
The Queen, orphaned of her mirror image, will therefore have to find a way to win back the Mirror’s trust. An exciting tale that disassembles and reassembles one of the most famous fairy tales of all time, giving us a whole new perspective on the beauty of diversity.
Eleonora Chiocchini’s choreographies reinterpret Antonio Viganò’s play Bianca & Neve, which has already been staged and translated into several languages: the Mirror and the Queen come alive in a dance of relationship, playful nuances, sometimes quarrelsome, sometimes mysterious, color their dialogue that will become body. Always accomplices as only a mirror and the image it reflects can be.

Director’s notes
Theater la Ribalta-Kunst der Vielfalt will be 10 years old in 2023. We celebrate this birthday by looking back to see how much we have accomplished and what traces and signs of this adventure remain. This looking back serves us to see ahead, to understand and then to design a near future.
The Festival Bolzano Danza, co-producer of the show, has played an important role in our short but intense history: the first show, The Minotaur, was born with the complicity of the Festival as well as the show The Sound of Falling, a show signed by choreographer Julie Anne Stanzak, historical dancer of the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch. So this is why this return of ours to the Bolzano Danza Festival has a special flavor.
The show is also intended for an audience of childhood and adolescence because we want to meet the new generations, our future. An audience, the audience of children, who are familiar with the language of the body and will meet, thanks to this performance, performers, dancers and di-verse actors, who will reveal to them that being defined as “different” is not something less, a lack, but another possibility, another way, full of poetry, truth and ability.

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