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Lights and shadows, revealed, sensual bodies: the world of Michelangelo Merisi, aka Caravaggio, inspires choreographers, for his work and for his restless biography.

They are the artists who, like the painter, know how to work on the plasticity of human musculature, enhanced by the scenographic use of light. The painter of the Boy with the Basket and the Boy Bitten by a Lizard, of Bacchus and the Penitent Magdalene, of the Musicians, of Judith and Holofernes, of David with the Head of Goliath, of Amor vincit omnia, who was born in Milan in 1571 (and not in the Marquisate of Caravaggio), activator of the naturalistic movement, precursor of the Baroque, master of the dramatic use of chiaroscuro, inspired Mauro Bigonzetti, the most prominent international neo-post-classical Italian choreographer, to create a ballet in the name of the most disturbing Caravaggio, created in 2008 for the darting qualities of the Ukrainian star Vladimir Malakhov, then head of the Staatsoper Berlin.

Those who loved the duo from this Caravaggio in the Bolle and Friends gala in January 2025 at the Teatro Regio, with Roberto Bolle and Melissa Hamilton, will also love the full-evening extension that our iconic dancer produces for himself and for the chosen group that will give life to a sculptural dance, with the music of Claudio Monteverdi, re-orchestrated by Bruno Moretti, and the light design of Carlo Cerri, in dialogue with the skin-costumes of Lois Swandale and Kristopher Millar.