Mauro Bigonzetti

Abstract

In 1990, Mauro Bigonzetti choreographed his first ballet, Sei in Movimento (Six in Motion), for Aterballetto, a pioneering ballet company set up in 1979 in the Emilia Romagna region of Italy. Over the course of the 1990s, an emergent, multifaceted choreographic identity began to evolve in his work, entwining the cultural and historical influences that inhabited the creative spaces of Aterballetto in Reggio Emilia. The chapter identifies the (dis)placed stylistic heritage that emerges from Bigonzetti’s choreography, including his reimagining of Bronislava Nijinska’s Les Noces (1923). This chapter articulates Bigonzetti’s artistic contributions throughout the end of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries within the context of Italian contemporary ballet.