Tre Volte / Thrice
Tre Volte is a solo born from gestures of care, labor, and endurance passed down through generations of women. Tre Volte traces maternal lineage and ancestral memory, entering folklore not to reconstruct it but to test, dismantle, and embody it. It asks how its rhythms, rituals, and stories continue to live in the body today, carried and echoed through the evocative sound creation of Federico Pipia.
Team & Collaborators
- Veronica ParlagrecoChoreographer / Performer / ConceptAbout →
- Federico PipiaSound Designer / Conceptfedericopipia.com ↗
- Caterina PolitiCostume Designer@caterina_politi ↗
- Joy Alpuerto RitterArtistic Supportjoyalpuertoritter.com ↗
- Michele PiccioneEthnomusicological Consultation@piccione_michele ↗
Created With the Support Of
Goethe-Institut, Compañía Nacional de Danza, Madrid (ES), Scenario Pubblico (IT), CORDILLERA berlin (DE), and spazio ßeta (IT).
Synopsis & Choreographic Research
Tre Volte begins with a simple yet radical question:
What remains today of the gestures passed down through generations of women?
The work draws from the roots of Southern Italian folklore, particularly the tarantella and gestures connected to agricultural labor, daily fatigue, care, suffering, and small acts of resistance. Long before becoming a festive or popular dance, these movements were physical responses to exhaustion, oppression, desire, and survival. They carried what could not be spoken.
The piece explores how these inherited gestures persist within a contemporary body. Not as a reconstruction or quotation of tradition, but as embodied traces that continue to inhabit the present. The tarantella becomes a rhythmic and symbolic structure through which memories, tensions, and invisible layers emerge.
Between repetition and transformation, Tre Volte, a 15-minute solo work, inhabits a space where folklore is no longer performed but embodied; where gestures survive not as spectacle, but as memory sedimented in the body. Dance becomes a way of listening to what remains and of revealing how the past continues to live within the movements of the present.
Performance Video & Trailer
Artistic Trajectory
Tre Volte constitutes the Second chapter of a choreographic trilogy investigating memory, bodily transmission, and cultural migration across three interconnected stages:
Giuiuzza (Solo) ↗
The private and domestic archive
An investigation into the quiet weight of family lineage, daily routines, and the tension between inherited patriarchal discipline and intimate resistance.
Premiere: June 2026Tre Volte (Solo)
The generational exchange across women
Tracing daughter, mother, and grandmother. Drawing from the roots of Southern Italian folklore and the *tarantella*, the piece traces gestures of agricultural labor, daily fatigue, care, and silent survival passed down through maternal lineage. Rather than performing folklore, the contemporary body becomes a vessel where unspoken labor and emotional resistance continue to breathe and endure.
Premiere: October 2026Codici Ritmici (Ensemble)
The displaced and hybrid archive (Working title – in development)
If the first two chapters question what has been handed down through bloodline and tradition, this final chapter interrogates what is emerging: *what happens to folklore when the body carrying it lives in a state of migration, mobility, and transnational identity?* Exploring how inherited ancestral rhythms mutate into entirely new codes.
Premiere: 2028Workshop / Practice
Masterclass — Between Form and Memory
A movement workshop dedicated to exploring gestures as a trace of memory and a tool for transformation. Through play, improvisation, and instant composition, everyday movements are observed, deconstructed, and reassembled to generate new avenues of inquiry and become material for character building. The practice of C'NF (Control in/and Flow) serves as the starting point of the work, acting as a tool to investigate movement quality, rhythm, and intention, while developing a precise, sensitive physical awareness.
Tour (2026)
- October 2, 2026PreviewOpen Scene — Théâtre Quai de ScèneStrasbourg, France
- October 3, 2026PreviewCORDILLERABerlin, Germany
- October 16, 2026PremiereFira MediterràniaManresa, Spain
Artist Biography
Veronica Parlagreco trained at D.A.F. – Dance Arts Faculty in Rome. She took part in creations by Caroline Finn, Vladimir Varnava, Noa and Rina Wertheim, Thomas Noone, Didy Veldman, Joy Alpuerto Ritter, and Holger Seidelin. She has danced with Eigengrau Company, directed by Kira Metzler and Riccardo Berardi, and as a guest dancer at the Staatstheater Oldenburg.
Alongside her work as a performer, Veronica develops a personal choreographic research. Her practice starts from the idea of a continuous and broken flow, moving between fluidity and isolation, shifting states of continuity and interruption to generate rhythm and embodied dramaturgy.
Among her most recent creations, the solo St(r)ati, created thanks to the initiative INNESTI '25 promoted by IterCulture, received both the Critics’ Award and the Technical Award at the Le Voci dell’Anima Festival in 2025. In the same year, Veronica was awarded the Radici Residency Prize, promoted by Farm Cultural Park (Favara), where she developed the solo Giuiuzza in collaboration with musician and director Federico Pipia, with the support of Scenario Pubblico. Giuiuzza was also selected for a residency at the Compañía Nacional de Danza in Madrid. In 2026, Giuiuzza is the winner of Danza Urbana XL '26, an initiative from Anticorpi XL.
Collaborators
Music Composer / Concept
Federico Pipia
Composer, Director, Musician and Sound Artist, born in Palermo in 1996. Currently a PhD Student in Sound and Performance Studies, his fields of interest are theatre, cinema and audiovisual, improvisation, acousmatic composition, performances, live electronics, and music productions. He has performed or developed projects in numerous theaters, venues, international festivals, and residencies (Triennale Milano, Montreux Jazz Festival, Societas Teatro Comandini, Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Compañía Nacional de Danza de España, Teatro Biondo Palermo, Danza Urbana, Tempo Reale, FARM Cultural Park, and many others). His research focuses on the relation between sound, words, body, space, image, and the combination of traditional techniques with new technologies.
Costume Designer
Caterina Politi
(IT, 1994 / Berlin-based) is a freelance artist, costume designer, and performer. Initially trained with Spellbound Contemporary Ballet, she collaborates internationally as a dancer and designer with companies including Frantics, Hungry Sharks, Aerites, and Wang Ramirez. Her costume design credits include Strati (V. Parlagreco), Re:ternal (Tanzzeit), and Manbhusa (Ivona).
The costume translates the piece's dramaturgy through a dialogue across female generations: lace evokes post-war grandmothers, denim recalls the freedom and modernity of mothers, while black reflects the anonymity of Berlin, where both artists are based. Drawing on textures from Southern Italian tarantella, the headpiece conceals the face, turning the garment into a second skin and a metaphor for imposed social roles. Through layering and choreographic movement, it portrays a body in search of identity and liberation.
Technical Specifications
Tre Volte is a flexible, site-responsive performance that can be presented indoors or outdoors, in theatres, galleries, historic buildings, courtyards, piazzas, and other unconventional architectural spaces.
Contact & Booking Information
Artistic Direction & Booking: Veronica Parlagreco
