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Dance

Philip Glass, Études

MP3 Dance Project

, September 2025

Philip Glass, Études
Music
Philip Glass

Company

  • Company MP3 Dance Project

Choreography

  • Choreography Lucinda Childs
  • Choreography Michele Pogliani
  • Choreography Cassi Abranches
  • Choreography Shintaro Hirahara
  • Choreography Llewellyn Mnguni

Programme

  • 12 Études

    Music
    Philip Glass
    Choreography
    Lucinda Childs Michele Pogliani Cassi Abranches Shintaro Hirahara Llewellyn Mnguni
    Video artists
    Shirin Neshat Hiroshi Sugimoto Fabio Cherstich Anagoor

Creative team

Music curator
Oscar Pizzo
Piano
Simone Sgarbanti
Piano
Jacopo Petrucci
Chromatic kannel
Anna-Liisa Eller
Ney
Kudsi Erguner
Pandeiro
Roberta Valente
Koto
Mana Yoshinaga
Composer and sound artist
Philip Miller

Details

Production
A co-production of Teatro Comunale di Bologna
Information

First a protagonist of the New York neo-avant-garde of the 1960s within the Judson Dance Theater collective, and then the undisputed mother of minimalism, the choreographer Lucinda Childs has a special relationship with the composer Philip Glass, to whose music she created in 1979 the iconic Dance, a true milestone in the history of dance of the later twentieth century. It is she who curates Philip Glass–Études, born in 2024 as a co-production of Teatro Comunale di Bologna, which now welcomes it back rethought in a new version for the stage of the Nouveau. Over 12 Études by Glass, chosen by the music curator Oscar Pizzo and played on the piano by Simone Sgarbanti, a kaleidoscope of experimental creations unfolds in a plurality of artistic languages. Performed by the Roman company MP3 DanceProject directed by Michele Pogliani, the choreographies are signed by Childs and Pogliani themselves, but also by gifted authors from three different continents: the Brazilian Cassi Abranches, the Japanese Shintaro Hirahara and the queer non-binary South African artist Llewellyn Mnguni. To these are added video works by Shirin Neshat, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Fabio Cherstich and the Veneto collective Anagoor. A synaesthetic show, then, in which to savour minimalism in the broad sense, watching without interruption a range of approaches and visions springing from Philip Glass’s evocative scores.


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