July 3, 2025 Rome – Teatro India / Fuori Programma Festival
July 12, 2025 Civitanova Marche – Teatro Rossini / Civitanova Danza Festival
17 ottobre 2025 Nova Gorica – Teatro Nazionale Sloveno / Visavì Gorizia Dance Festival
October 31, 2025 Teatro Comunale di Modena
Year
2025
60 min
“Mount Etna has the air of old age; Mount Fuji, on the other hand, is the image of youth, its lines suggest movement, thrust. Etna is powerful, it makes you think of a wise giant, sometimes it’s terrifying, but even then, it seems to shake its chains with the mysterious inevitability of a nocturnal destiny; Fuji is agile, almost like a sword, inviting you to daring... Fuji is also close to love and death, to all the great follies; Etna, instead, is time populated by endless shadows…”Fosco Maraini
The brothers in the title of Roberto Zappalà's creation are Fuji and Etna, the two volcanoes par excellence in the history and symbolic imagery of the world. The new creation strongly and vigorously focuses on the relationship between the performance of the dancers of the Compagnia Zappalà Danza and that of the Munedaiko, musicians dedicated to the practice and valorization of the traditional Japanese drum "Taiko" (太 tai 鼓 ko: large drum), where posture, movement, and concentration are fundamental.
In Brother to Brother full emphasis is given to musical research, which combines the stage presence of Munedaiko with the impressive soundscape composed by Giovanni Seminerio
Just as volcanoes are at the origin of the current formation of the planet, percussion is at the origin of the musical and cultural art created by man, starting with the rhythm of the heartbeat. The drums provoke bubbles of sounds, rhythms that "explode" in the ears and minds of the spectators; rhythms that the dancers follow and provoke at the same time in an incessant flow, a shared breath that harmonizes the bodies, with the civilizations of origin and with each other, with the hope that today is ever more desirable, as Fosco Maraini says, that we may be "soaked in that Confucian oil necessary to lubricate the wheels of civil coexistence."
Silence and chaos, movement and stillness, East and West, nature and culture—dualities that permeate this creation and echo a beloved saying in the East: "Two is one and one is two."
direction and choreography: Roberto Zappalà Roberto Zappalà
live music Munedaiko | original music and soundscape Giovanni Seminerio
dance and collaboration dancers of Compagnia Zappalà Danza:
Samuele Arisci, Loïc Ayme, Faile Sol Bakker, Giulia Berretta, Anna Forzutti, Dario Rigaglia, Silvia Rossi, Damiano Scavo, Alessandra Verona
musicians Mugen Yahiro, Naomitsu Yahiro, Tokinari Yahiro (Munedaiko)
set, lights and costumes Roberto Zappalà | dramaturgy Nello Calabrò
choreographer's assistant Fernando Roldan Ferrer
realization of the costumes Majoca | set realization Peroni
a coproduction by Scenario Pubblico | Compagnia Zappalà Danza – Centro di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale per la Danza e Fondazione Teatro Comunale di Modena
In collaboration with AMAT & Civitanova Danza, Marche Teatro, Visavì Gorizia Dance Festival e Fuori Programma Festival
with the patronage of INGV Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia e and the support of MiC Ministero della Cultura and Regione Siciliana Assessorato del Turismo dello Sport e dello Spettacolo
special thanks to BÙUM Guide Vulcanologiche Italiane
© 2026 Scenario Pubblico / Compagnia Zappalà Danza.
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