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On stage

Not just students, but artists on stage. Experiencing the stage like professionals.

Being part of Formazione TAM means experiencing theatre even before graduating. Our students do not merely study the stage; they inhabit it: productions from the three-year program are an integral part of the official schedules at historic venues such as Teatro Carcano and TAM.
From collaborating with internationally renowned principal dancers to participating in new contemporary works, students engage with every stage of production—from studio rehearsals to the magic of opening night. It is a hands-on, immersive experience that transforms the student into a stage professional, ready to handle the adrenaline and responsibility of a real performance.
On Stage
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If a tree falls

Concept and Artistic Direction: Davide Iacobone

Choreography: Davide Iacobone, Marta Barossi

A single gesture can have infinite resonance, like a tree falling in the forest: the sound may be silent or deafening, yet its echo spreads, transforming its surroundings. *Se cade un albero* explores the theme of action and its influence on the collective, questioning the power of a single act of courage to spark social and political change.
Created with students from the TAM training program, this work stems from an intense creative process that links dance to the artistic-political realm, offering a profound reflection on connection, individual responsibility, and the impact of choices.

Carmen

Concept and Artistic Direction: Davide Iacobone

Choreography: Davide Iacobone

Carmen is a woman.

Carmen is many women.

It is an idea, an ideal.

It is the face of desire that asks for no permission.

It is the fight against the fear of the different,

The silent rebellion screaming beneath the skin.

Carmen challenges the established order,

questions roles,

shatters gender masks with the force of her being.

It's the consequence of everything that needs to change,

the crack that opens the wall,

The voice that shakes the silence.

Carmen is the storm before the calm.

It’s the beginning of something new.

Carmen is revolution.

A contemporary take on *Carmen*, inspired by Mérimée’s work, which transforms Carmen and José into symbolic puppets—pawns in a war of ideals far greater than themselves. The narrative, unfolding from an external perspective akin to a courtroom setting, proceeds through flashbacks, reconstructing events as evidence to support a specific argument.
The stage becomes a space for political and social reflection, where love clashes with destiny and identity with power. In this reinterpretation, Carmen becomes the victim of a system that still judges and punishes women who make their own choices, who say “no,” and who assert their freedom. It is a modern drama addressing femicide and the shadows it casts over society and the law—a story where freedom and control remain intertwined until the very end.
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Some stories about flowers

Concept and Artistic Direction: Davide Iacobone

Choreography: Davide Iacobone, Marta Barossi

POV explores how a simple, everyday gesture can be radically transformed when shaped by diverse stories, desires, and urgencies. A minimal action becomes the starting point for multiple narrative trajectories, evoking the echo of *Mrs. Dalloway*: not the event itself, but the inner flow that accompanies it.
On stage, the dancers share the same space and the same primal gesture. In turn, each assumes the role of a “point of view”: their individual history, purpose, or need reorients the action and alters its choreographic development. The movement repeats, deviates, fragments, or intensifies, revealing how memory, anticipation, loss, or desire can completely rewrite the meaning of a seemingly identical act.
POV challenges the notion of the objectivity of a gesture and invites the viewer to question what they see: how much of what we observe truly belongs to the action itself, and how much to the history of the person performing it—or to that of the person watching it.

Who wants to be Don Quixote?

Concept and Artistic Direction: Davide Iacobone

Choreography: Davide Iacobone

Inspired by the novel *Don Quixote* by Miguel de Cervantes. In a world marked by war, images of suffering, and a pervasive sense of disorientation, a man gradually ceases to recognize himself in the reality around him. The violence of the present weighs him down, until he chooses a means of escape: imagination. Thus, his Don Quixote is born.
No longer the knight-errant of La Mancha, but a contemporary figure rejecting a world that has become corrupt and inhumane. Through dreamlike visions, distorted landscapes, and surreal imagery inspired by Salvador Dalí, the protagonist’s mind constructs an alternative universe where he can battle invisible giants and transform fear into adventure. The body breaks free from the rules of reality, moving between dream and delirium, between freedom and a loss of control. But every escape comes at a price.
Alongside him appears Sancho Panza—no longer merely a squire, but an ambiguous figure: a guide, a conscience, perhaps even a therapist. Sancho observes, accompanies, and attempts to steer Don Quixote back to the real world, pondering a fine line: where does imagination end, and where does escapism begin? *Who Wants to Be Don Quixote?* is a journey between dream and reality, between depression and the desire for freedom. It is a performance that examines our times and poses a question to the audience: in a world that is increasingly difficult to inhabit, who has never wished to become Don Quixote?
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Mosaico

Concept and Artistic Direction: Davide Iacobone

Choreography: Davide Iacobone

Il saggio finale del triennio di Formazione TAM non è solo uno spettacolo, è una sintesi. Abbiamo accostato tecniche e linguaggi differenti — dalla forza della tecnica Graham alla fluidità del Floorwork, dall’essenzialità del Contemporaneo alla dinamicità dell’Acrobatica, fino alla costante ricerca di equilibrio nel Contact & Partnering. Come in un Mosaico, ogni coreografia firmata dai nostri docenti rappresenta una tessera unica e distinta; insieme, queste tessere compongono l’immagine del percorso compiuto dai nostri danzatori. Tre anni di studio, ricerca e trasformazione si ricompongono oggi in un’unica, vibrante visione d’insieme.

Rivoluzione silenziosa

Concept and Artistic Direction: Davide Iacobone

Choreography: Davide Iacobone

In un’epoca dominata dalla frenesia, dalla competizione e dall’indifferenza, Rivoluzione Silenziosa
porta in scena la forma più pura e inaspettata di ribellione contemporanea: la gentilezza.
La coreografia traduce in movimento la potenza dirompente dei piccoli gesti quotidiani — una
mano tesa, un sorriso offerto a uno sconosciuto, una presenza in ascolto. Attraverso la fluidità e
l’espressione dei corpi, l’opera costruisce “ponti invisibili” capaci di accorciare le distanze tra gli
esseri umani e sconfiggere il senso di solitudine.
Rivoluzione Silenziosa svela l’empatia non come fragilità, ma come un profondo e ostinato atto di
coraggio. È una resistenza pacifica che rifiuta il clamore delle grandi azioni eroiche per concentrarsi
su semi invisibili di speranza. Un viaggio emozionale che parte dall’accettazione di sé stessi per
ricordarci una verità fondamentale: il mondo non si cambia con la forza, ma scegliendo ogni giorno,
mille volte, di restare umani.

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