Description
Riva & Repele Balletto is an artistic association founded by Simone Repele and Sasha Riva in Geneva in 2020.
Very quickly, they felt the need to express themselves in an original and creative way by collaborating together. The creative synergy of this collaboration was a constant source of inspiration with each dancer, bringing their own perspective and artistic sensibility.
They felt the need to start building their own environment to surround themselves with artists who would inspire them and help them grow. Sasha and Simone’s choreographic works are rooted in a strong, sensitive and poetic theatrical aspect. Stylized images are bound together by a neoclassical, contemporary vocabulary and powerful gestures.
In Italy, they collaborate with the dance agency Daniele Cipriani Entertainment, creating and performing at Daniele Cipriani’s parties as well as on their own touring productions. Defined as the “Poets of Dance”, they presented their first full-length ballet “Lili Elbe Show”, already performed in several theaters in Switzerland, Spain and Italy during an extensive tour in the season 2022/23. In 2021, they were the only foreign company selected by Centro Coreografico Canal in Madrid, and recently they were again programmed by the prestigious Festival Madrid en Danza. In 2023 they were selected to do a residency at Orsolina 28 to create their new full-length piece “Dear Son,”.
Riva & Repele got the opportunity to present their work “La Jeune Fille et Les Morts” at the “Noverre Gesellschaft 2022”, the renowned choreographic platform of the Stuttgart Ballet. Following their performance, the company director decided to include their choreography in the Stuttgart Ballet repertoire for the season 2024/2025. Since 2022, they have been collaborating with director Damiano Michieletto. With him, they created L. Bernstein’s opera “Mass” for the Rome Opera, which premiered at the Caracalla Festival. Sasha and Simone recently created for the city of Rome candidature for Expo 2030, performing alongside former Paris Opera Etoile Eleonora Abbagnato. They have been invited to perform at numerous international galas in countries such as Kazakhstan, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Spain, France and the Netherlands. They also collaborate with artists such as Silvia Azzoni, Parvaneh Scharafali, Igone de Jongh and Yumi Aizawa.
Their future projects will see them working for international companies such as the Ballet of Rome Opera with the new creation “I died for love” for a double-bill evening, the Ballet of Teatro Massimo Palermo with the new full-length ballet “Peter Pan”, the Stuttgart Ballet where they will stage their choreography “La Jeune Fille et Les Morts” , the Augsburg Ballet where they will stage their choreography “Sinking”.