Gauthier Dance JUNIORS//Theaterhaus Stuttgart

Orsolina28 Art Foundation is pleased to welcome Gauthier Dance JUNIORS//Theaterhaus Stuttgart for the creation of their new repertory work, “Of Gold, Blue and Black”, by Italian choreographer Adriano Bolognino.

“Of Gold, Blue and Black” unfolds through three symbolic colors that trace a physical and emotional landscape.Gold shimmers like fertile gestures, like wheat glowing under the sun; lue evokes breath held underwater, becoming a metaphor for a suspended time without surface or depth; finally, black emerges like a shadow accompanying every beginning and every ending, like the crows in Van Gogh’s sky: omens, yet also guides.

Within this shifting palette, bodies move in constant disequilibrium, balancing between construction and loss, holding and releasing at the same moment. Movement becomes a fragile threshold where presence and disappearance coexist.

Adriano Bolognino

Adriano Bolognino was born in Naples in 1995. He worked as a dancer with several young companies including Milano Contemporary Ballet, Valencia Dancing Forward, and StudioXL Reggio Emilia, performing works by choreographers such as Wayne McGregor, Marcos Morau, Roberto Altamura / Vittoria Brancadoro, Joan Crespo, Francesco Curci, Natalia Iwaniec, Damian Muñoz, Laura Matano, and Nicoletta Cabassi.

In 2018 he collaborated with choreographer Jorge Crecis, first as a dancer and later as an assistant at the University of the Arts Malta.

As a choreographer, Bolognino created Your Body Is a Battleground – trio version for the EgriBianco Company in 2019 and Preludio dell’anima for the OCDP training project in Verona. His works have been presented in numerous national and international festivals and theaters including Cross Festival Verbania, Opificio in Movimento (Rome), LDIF Leicester, WhatWeAre Udine, Opus 1 Slovenia, Corpo Mobile Festival, Inventaria Festival, Monday Dance Napoli, Festival Ammutinamenti, Fabbrica Europa, Gender Bender Festival, Estate Fiorentina, and Prospettiva Danza Padova.

At the Biennale Danza College Choreographers 2019 he created La più viva delle città morte. His work RM94978 from Paris to Tenerife, selected for the Vetrina della giovane danza d’autore Anticorpi XL, was finalist for the TWAIN_direzioni Altre Award and won the Prospettiva Danza Teatro Prize in 2019.

He was also one of the choreographers selected for Anghiari Dance Hub 2019, where he created Gli Amanti. The Venice Biennale commissioned a new work for the 2020 festival (Your Body Is a Battleground – solo version), produced by Cornelia. His piece Gli Amanti was later selected for the Aerowaves 2021 platform.

Gauthier Dance JUNIORS//Theaterhaus Stuttgart

Dance for the next generation: that is, in both senses of the word, the purpose of the young dance company of Theaterhaus Stuttgart. Eric Gauthier had been dreaming of this for a long time. Supported by the DIS-TANZ-START programme of the Dachverband Tanz as part of NEUSTART KULTUR, the company started out with four dancers in January 2022. From the outset, the outreach aspect was a key focus: since spring 2022, the JUNIORS have been working with children and young people on a large scale with the MOVES FOR FUTURE initiative.

In the 2023/24 season, the company expanded to six members and the young dancers are also meant to grow artistically and advance their own professional careers. January 2024 saw the premiere of the JUNIORS' first stage production, “Renaissance”. With new creations by Rena Butler and Barak Marshall, choreographies by Sharon Eyal, Andonis Foniadakis and Marco Goecke and a short film by Eric Gauthier, the bar was set just as high as for the main company. The JUNIORS rose to the challenge with flying colours and wowed both the audience and the press. In the 2024/25 season, they went one better with two productions of their own. The first programme Dream Team from January 2025 included world premieres by Virginie Brunelle and Barak Marshall, choreographies by Alejandro Cerrudo and Nacho Duato and a podcast format by Eric Gauthier. In July 2025, Barak Marshall's full-length piece Barker become one of the great hits of the COLOURS International Dance Festival.