Gauthier Dance JUNIORS//Theaterhaus Stuttgart

To my mum, to my daughter: the end of the world and wonderland.

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 upon a threshold. It’s a suspended space between transformation and loss, a liminal state where nothing ever truly settles and everything remains in a constant and delicate state of becoming.

Yet, liminality itself is not the centre of this work: what compels Bolognino is the emotional tension this condition exacts upon the body when it cannot fully surrender to either joy or sorrow. The choreographer brings to the stage a body in continuous transition, never still, never safe, yet intensely, precariously alive. Gestures return again and again like fragments of a prayer, as if repetition alone could bind what is constantly slipping away.

This shifting emotional landscape echoes Vincent van Gogh’s “Wheatfield with Crows” (1890), which permeates the work as a chromatic atmosphere. The painting becomes a field of forces rather than a reference: the gold of the wheat burns with the fleeting brilliance of joy; the deep blue opens onto a still contemplation where time seems to hesitate; the black of the crows symbolizes both omens and guides.

With “Of Gold, Blue and Black”, Bolognino seeks to explore a duality that refuses resolution, the flesh that grows and the flesh that withers, fierce joy and fertile grief, the inheritance passed from one body to another, parenthood emerging at the very moment we lose the child we once were.

Adriano Bolognino

Born in Naples in 1995, Adriano Bolognino is a freelance choreographer who collaborates with independent companies and dancers. His work is supported by organizations such as Körper and the Orsolina28 Art Foundation. He won the 2024 Danza&Danza Award (Italian Middle Scale Production) with La Duse, while Ravel / Into Us – Bruciare was selected for the 2025 Fedora Dance Prize. He is the choreographer for the Opening Ceremony of the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympic Games. For the 2025-27 period, he is an associate artist of the Teatro Comunale Vicenza/Danza in rete festival. In 2022, he won the Danza&Danza Award as an emerging choreographer. Over the years he has collaborated with companies such as: Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, MM Contemporary Dance Company, Zfin Malta National Ballet, and many others, while his independent works are part of international festivals and platforms: Aerowaves, Anticorpi XL, NID Platform, Venice Biennale, Torino Danza, Triennale Milano, Bolzano Danza, MilanOltre, Belgrade Dance Festival, Prisma Festival, FIDCDMX, MAS DANZA, Festival Aperto.

Gauthier Dance JUNIORS//Theaterhaus Stuttgart

Dance for the next generation: that is in every sense the mission of Gauthier Dance JUNIORS//Theaterhaus Stuttgart. With the foundation of the young company in January 2022, a long-time dream of Eric Gauthier's came true. From the beginning, cultural education has been at the heart of the concept: By the end of the 2024/25 season, the JUNIORS reached almost 24,000 children and teenagers through the large-scale MOVES FOR FUTURE initiative.

Artistically, the JUNIORS pursue an ambitious path. Counting six members since the 2023/24 season, they premiered their first full-length stage production Renaissance in January 2024 with works by Rena Butler, Barak Marshall, Sharon Eyal, Andonis Foniadakis, Marco Goecke and a film by Eric Gauthier. The 2024/25 season saw two new programmes: Dream Team with world premieres by Virginie Brunelle and Barak Marshall, and the acclaimed Barker, one of the hits of the 2025 COLOURS International Dance Festival and soon to be performed as a mobile school format. Their latest production Radical Classical explores the connection between classical music and contemporary dance, highlighting the JUNIORS’ ability to reinterpret tradition with fresh physicality and bold energy.