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Performing Arts

Save the Last Dance for Me

Alessandro Sciarroni | Alkantara Festival

Save the Last Dance for Me

BOX OFFICE OPENING – 2026_2027 SEASON

June 18-21: Exclusive for CCB Card holders

From June 22 onwards: General public

In Save the Last Dance for Me, Alessandro Sciarroni creates a rare and engaging encounter with polka chinata — a Bolognese courtship dance from the early twentieth century. Performed by Gianmaria Borzillo and Giovanfrancesco Giannini, Save the Last Dance for Me is an intimate duet that unfolds in a continuous spiral of tension and trust: intertwined bodies, spinning, descending and rising, in a demanding, almost acrobatic choreography.

Once danced exclusively by men, Polka Chinata survives today thanks to the meticulous work of Giancarlo Stagni, who reconstructed it from archival footage. When Sciarroni discovered it in 2018, only five practitioners remained.

Between performance and gesture of preservation, Save the Last Dance for Me is simultaneously celebration and reunion — an invitation to witness, share and keep alive a tradition on the verge of disappearing.

Centro Cultural de Belém Foundation reserves the right to proceed with the capturing, storage and use of image, sound and voice recordings, for the purpose of dissemination and preservation of memory, both of its cultural and artistic activities and of its spaces. For any additional clarification, use the email address privacidade@ccb.pt

Sessions

  • 14 Nov 202615:00

Credits

Criação Alessandro Sciarroni Com Gianmaria Borzillo e Giovanfrancesco Giannini Colaborador Artístico Giancarlo Stagni Música Aurora Bauzà , Pere Jou Styling Ettore Lombardi Direção Técnica Valeria Foti Técnico Tour Cosimo Maggini Curadoria, Promoção e Consultoria Lisa Gilardino Administração e Produção Executiva Chiara Fava Comunicação Pierpaolo Ferlaino Produção corpoceleste_C.C.00# e MARCHE TEATRO | Criação Alessandro Sciarroni Com Gianmaria Borzillo e Giovanfrancesco Giannini Colaborador Artístico Giancarlo Stagni | Alessandro Sciarroni | Gianmaria Borzillo | Giovanfrancesco Giannini | Giancarlo Stagni | Música Aurora Bauzà , Pere Jou | Aurora Bauzà | Pere Jou | Styling Ettore Lombardi Direção Técnica Valeria Foti | Ettore Lombardi | Valeria Foti | Técnico Tour Cosimo Maggini | Cosimo Maggini | Curadoria, Promoção e Consultoria Lisa Gilardino | Lisa Gilardino | Administração e Produção Executiva Chiara Fava | Chiara Fava | Comunicação Pierpaolo Ferlaino | Pierpaolo Ferlaino | Produção corpoceleste_C.C.00# e MARCHE TEATRO | corpoceleste_C.C.00# | MARCHE TEATRO | Imagem: (c) Raoul Gilibert – Passages Transfestival-Metz 2023 | Coprodução Santarcangelo Festival, B.Motion e Festival Danza Urbana | Coprodução | Santarcangelo Festival, B.Motion e Festival Danza Urbana | Preços e Descontos Plateia - 7 € Comprar Bilhete Nota: S/descontos e S/lugares marcados | Preços e Descontos | Plateia - 7 € Comprar Bilhete Nota: S/descontos e S/lugares marcados | Plateia - 7 € Comprar Bilhete

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