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LE FENICIE

BALLETTO CIVILE

direction and choreography Michela Lucenti 

dramaturgy Michela Lucenti, Emanuela Serra, Maurizio Camilli 

musical collaboration Daniele Boccardi and Ambra Chiarello 

assistant director Francesco Gabrielli 

assistant choreographer Alessandro Pallecchi Arena 

costume design Giulia Spattini 

lighting design Lorenzo Diofili 

volunteer assistant director Annachiara Vispi 

stage assistant Stella Capelli 

special thanks to Stefano Mazzanti 

production Balletto Civile, co-produced with ERT Emilia Romagna Teatro / Teatro Nazionale, with the support of Tiere Teatro Festival / Biennale Internazionale di teatro antico, SCARTI Centro di Produzione Teatrale d’Innovazione (Progetto Habitat), and the Italian Ministry of Culture. 

performed by Fabio Bergaglio, Maurizio Camilli, Antonio Carta, Ambra Chiarello, Francesco Collavino, Cecilia Francesca Croce, Giovanni Fasser, Michela Lucenti, Emanuela Serra, Giulia Spattini, Mirco Tosches. 

duration 75-80 min 

In Euripides’ tragedy Le fenicie [The Phoenician Women], current political events merge with a distant mythical past, revealing, as if in a play of mirrors, the roots of the suffering that devastates Thebes. It is impossible not to draw parallels with the conflicts at our very borders: fratricidal wars rooted in ancient history. The tragedy takes its name from the chorus of foreign women, whose youth, female identity, and foreign origin endow the group with a unique status of absolute ‘marginality’. The audience thus becomes a marginal observer of daily horrors and the slaughter of entire generations. The performers’ bodies trace the unstoppable downfall of the House of Labdacus. Moving in lines like figures on a Greek vase, a dance of war accompanies the scenes of this narrative: all evil unfolds before everyone’s eyes. A radical text demands radical choices. Here, movement becomes narrative rather than descriptive, establishing a visual dialogue with the Polis. Aesthetic beauty exists only to serve meaning: there is an urgent need to embody a score of words, offering bodies as a tribute to democracy, a rejection of tyranny, and a reflection on the futility of civil strife. 

Michela Lucenti

Michela Lucenti is an author, choreographer, and director who trained at the Scuola del Teatro Stabile di Genova. She deepened her research through her encounters with Beatrice Libonati and Jan Minarik, historic dancers of Pina Bausch’s company. While studying in Genoa, she also engaged with the final phase of Jerzy Grotowski’s research through the teachings of Thomas Richards. In 2003, as a natural continuation of her experience with L’IMPASTO Comunità Teatrale Nomade, she founded Balletto Civile, a nomadic artistic project driven by a profound ethical tension. From 2022 to 2025, she was an associate artist at ERT Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione, where she continues to curate the CARNE Focus di Drammaturgia Fisica and coordinate the Advanced Training Course at the Scuola di Teatro Iolanda Gazzerro. Together with the company, she also conducts masterclasses and community-based projects. She was awarded, among others, the Ada D’Adamo Prize (2024), the Leonide Massine Prize (2024), the Ivo Chiesa Prize (2021), the Rete Critica Prize (2020), the Danza&Danza Prize (2017), and the Hystrio Corpo a Corpo Prize (2016).

Balletto Civile

Michela Lucenti founded Balletto Civile in 2003, developing a hybrid physical language that weaves together dance, theatre, and live music into an original dramaturgy. Her work explores contemporary themes, social tension, and the political responsibility of the body on stage, transforming performance into a space for bearing witness and connecting with the audience. Balletto Civile’s works draw from diverse inspirations, ranging from often irreverent reinterpretations of great classics of dance, theatre and music to original dramaturgy by Italian authors and the staging of major international creators.