Since 2017, Alphabet et Ultra has been the choreographic and pedagogical project for the construction and deepening of the choreographic language by gruppo nanou company.
Alphabet et ultra is aimed at professional or newly graduated dancers, scholars, teachers, research fellows and PhD students in the performing arts. The aim is to offer an environment of research and experimentation for artists with different backgrounds, encouraging the exchange of knowledge and the deepening of body practices.
Since 2019, the Alphabet et Ultra project has been supported by the Fondazione del Monte di Bologna e Ravenna and is developed in collaboration with E Production, Rete Almagià, marte, Ravenna Ballet Studio.
To conclude the 2025 edition, below is a memoir for moving frames, a heterodox work that continues the experimentation between scenic and visual languages, enhancing the collaboration between nanou group and photographer Daniele Casadio. Our way of telling what happened.
The Alphabet et Ultra project is made possible with the support of Fondazione del Monte di Bologna e Ravenna – ACCCADE
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Alphabet et ultra. Photographs by Daniele Casadio and Lorenzo Pasini
The choreographies of Alphabet et ultra 2025:
Rhuena Bracci
She began training as a gymnast from the age of 5 by participating in national and international competitive events. She trained as a dancer with Monica Francia and Michele di Stefano. From 1999 to 2004 he was part of the Monica Francia company. From 2001 to 2004 he worked with the Teatro della Valdoca. In 2005 he performed in MK’s Real Madrid, choreographed by Michele Di Stefano. She is co-founder of the nanou group company.
In 2024 she graduated as a Yoga teacher with the high training and research school “I vasi comunicanti” founded and directed by the dancer, choreographer and teacher Francesca Proia.
Monica Francia
Raised in the avant-garde dance environment of New York in the late seventies, she decided to undertake an original path of research in the field of Italian contemporary dance. By creating working groups, she brings people together who, together with her, are committed to defining dance as a tool not only for artistic, political and social research, but also for personal ones. By creating working groups, she brings people together who, together with her, are committed to defining dance as a tool not only for artistic, political and social research, but also for personal ones.
Francesca Proia
Dancer, choreographer, yoga teacher, author.
She has collaborated extensively with director Romeo Castellucci. She presents her work as a choreographer in the major centers of contemporary creation, obtaining numerous awards. Yoga, sensory and conceptual support, runs through his creation project from the very beginning. In 2016 he created Mìnera, a yoga school in absentia. In 2018 he founded in Ravenna I vases comunicanti, an advanced training school for yoga teachers, and in 2022 I campi magnetici, a further segment of specialization and research. He is a teacher at Malagola, a school of vocality and voice research center directed by Ermanna Montanari.
In 2022, for Astrolabio Ubaldini editore he published “Yoga, la composizione delle tecniche“.
Marco Valerio Amico
Choreographer and graphic designer.
He graduated in 2001 from the Civic School of Dramatic Arts Paolo Grassi in Milan. In 2004, together with Rhuena Bracci and Roberto Rettura, he founded the contemporary dance and research company gruppo nanou. He has presented his work with the company in Italy, Europe and the United States. The choreographic installation Paradiso is a finalist at the Ubu Awards 2022 for best dance show and best scenography. The choreographic installation redrum was awarded at the Ubu Awards 2024 in the category best dance show. Cinema, photography, architecture and visual art are his passions.
He is the creator and artistic director of the projects AgoràKajSkené (2008 > 2012), a residency and comparison project on artistic languages, and Alphabet (2017 > ), an artistic research and professional training project in the contemporary choreographic field.