"He is definitely a very talented choreographer, and because of his very solid and lovely knowledge as a classical dancer, the movements he creates for the dancers are really interesting and beautiful to look at".
Violette Verdy for NYCI/NYCB
 
“Slippery, Friction, Skipped and Stretch” is a dance that is born open in space and time. Each performance is thus a premiere in which dance and music meet and change, creating situations that are different from time to time. Levaggi here demonstrates his ability to construct, albeit abstractly, a series of pictures
of great visual impact.”
Sonia Schoonejans - Ballet2000
 
Highlights 2014/2025
 
Matteo Stella Dance Arts production 2014
Preludio per una Sinfonia in Nero
Concept Corpicrudi
Choreography Matteo Levaggi
Music Joy Division, The Death of Anna Karina
Performers Samantha Stella, Sergio Frazzingaro, Matteo Levaggi
co-production MilanOltre, Traffic Gallery
première Teatro Elfo Puccini, MilanOltre
 
Prelude for a Symphony in Black 2014
Concept Corpicrudi
Choreography Matteo Levaggi
Music Von Haze
Performer Samantha Stella, Matteo Levaggi
Première Ace Museum, Los Angeles Fashion Week
 
New York Choreographic Insitute/NYCB 2014
Director Peter Martins
Sensosriun
Original music Lamberto Curtoni
Costumes Samantha Stella
 
Florence Opera House/Maggiodanza 2014
Director Davide Bombana
Action Point
Music M° Ennio Morricone
Set, costumes Samantha Stella
 
Bird Dance Project 2015
Violin and electronic violin Francesco D’Orazio
Music Carlo Boccadoro, Gianvincenzo Cresta, Francesco D’Orazio, Kaija Saariaho
Video installation Vjs KidddZ
Computer music and sound direction Francesco Abbresciaco-production Teatro di Chiasso (Switzerland) and Alkema Ambasciatori di Cultura
Ponchielli Theatre, Cremona IT
Fonderia Aterballetto, Reggio Emilia IT
Teatro Cantieri Florida, Florence IT
Pirelli Hangar Bicocca, Milan IT
 

Luigi Pecci for contemporary art, Prato 2016

Matteo Levaggi and Elisabetta Guttuso

Mesh https://old.centropecci.it/it/eventi/matteo-levaggi

 

Pirelli Hangar Bicocca | Triennale Milano 2016

Antigone

Orignal music Carlo Boccadoro | Sentieri Selvaggi ensemble Live Costumes Davide Balliano

 

Teatro Massimo, Palermo 2017

Choreographer in residency

Contemporary Trilogy

Levaggi - Inger - Kylian

Water Game

Music Michael Nyman

Conductor Alessandro Cadario

Artistic director Marco Bellone

 

The Sleeping Beauty

Music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

New creation for the Teatro Massimo

Conductor Farhad Mahani

Set design Antonino Di Miceli

Costumes designed by students of the Master's Degree in Costume Design at the Accademia Costume & Moda:Cristina Capuani, Flavia Galinari Zanin, Annabelle Gotha, Sara Micarelli, Gabriele Porrelli, Yiyao Tian, Tatjana Zdiara, Lan Zhang, Hong Zhang, Qi Zhang – Coordinator Andrea Viotti

Director Marco Bellone

 

Les Italiens de l'Opéra de Paris 2017

Black Dust
Original score Lamberto Curtoni
Costumes Christian Lacroix
Dancers Valentine Colasante Alessio Carbone
Production Les Italiens de l'Opéra de Paris for Ravello Festival

https://ravellofestival.info/les-italiens-de-lopera-de-paris-per-il-gran-finale-della-danza-del-ravello-festival-2017/ 

 

Matteo Stella Dance Arts at Transart Festival, Bozen 2018

Crises
concept Matteo Levaggi, Samantha Stella, mdi ensemble
choreography Matteo Levaggi
set&costume design Samantha Stella
music Francesco Filidei, Sylvano Bussotti, Helmut Lachenman, Simon Steen-Andersen, Iannis Xenakis, Mauricio Kagel
Production Transart Festival Bolzan, co-production Ravello Festival 

 

Matteo Stella Dance Arts at MADRE Museum 2019, Naples

Death Speaks

Performance for the retrospective Robert Mapplethorpe. Choreography for an exhibition, curated by Laura Valente and Andrea Viliani, in collaboration with The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, New York.Performers Samantha Stella, Matteo Levaggi, Salvatore Manzo. Production Fondazione Donnaregina per le arti contemporanee

“Much has been said about Robert, and more will be added. Young men will adopt his gait. Young girls will wear white dresses and mourn his curls. He will be condemned and adored. His excesses damned or romanticized. In the end truth will be found in his work, the corporeal body of the artist. It will not fall away. Man cannot judge it. For art sings of God, and ultimately belongs to him." Just Kids, Patti Smith

 

Matteo Levaggi and Umberto Chiodi at Oriente Occidente Festival + MART Museum 2020

Over the Rainbow

 

Teatro alla Scala Academy and Advanced Course in classical and contemporary dance,

directors Frédéric Olivieri/Maurizio Vanadia

_School of Ballet

Largo 2022

Music J. S. Bach

Costumes Samantha Stella

Tours: Italy, Tokyo, Dubai

Largo: Garden with a Full Moon 2023
Teatro alla Scala, Milan
Edra's Evening of Honor in homage to its author Masanori Umeda "Flowers collection" - Design Week, Milan
Ballet School of the Teatro alla Scala
Directed by Frédéric Olivieri

Choreography Matteo Levaggi
Music J.S. Bach
Cello Sofia Bellettini
Installation and costumes for Edra Samantha Stella

_Advaced Course La Scala Academy

Under The Trees 2023

Music Ezio Bosso, thanks to Ivana Bosso and Tommaso Bosso

Kunti Mantra 2023

Music Riccardo Nova

The Complot 2024

Music Art Zoyd

Eka 2025 Cannes https://www.pnsd.fr/it/rencontres-internationales-de-ballets-juniors

Music Riccardo Nova

Luce (Tramonti a Nord est), with Elisa LIVE for Edison 2024

Ecstasio 2025 from 2005 version

Music Thomas Ades 

 

Matteo Stella Dance Arts production 2024

Vox Poetica 
Concept Matteo Stella Dance Arts 
(from Untitled New Work residency with Karole Armitage and Richard Move at NYU | Tisch School of the Arts - Dance, New York) Music, Frédéric Chopin, Nero Kane

Maggiore_Danza 2024/2025 Season 
Fondazione Egri per la Danza
Dar Corpo allo Spazio
Teatro Il Maggiore, Verbania, Italy, 2025

Performers Vittoria Valerio (Teatro alla Scala Soloist), Samantha Stella, Matteo Levaggi

InDanza&InArte Festival 2025
Progetti per la Danza
Teatro Vasariano, Arezzo, Italy

Performers: Megan LeCrone (former New York City Ballet Soloist), Samantha Stella, Matteo Levaggi

 

Artedanza production srl 2024/25 Gala

The Joy of Dancing/La gioia di danzare 

Nicoletta Manni - Timofej Andrijashenko

and Teatro alla Scala dancers - Largo, Music J. S. Bach

 

Highlights 1999/2013

 

Salome 1999
Music Mauricio Kagel John Zorn Richard Strauss
Set&costumes Eugenio Guglielminetti
Production Balletto Teatro di Torino
Premiére Acqui Terme Dance FEST 

Gee, Andy! 2000
Original score Bochumwelt/Andy Bluvertigo
Set&costumes design Roger Salas
Video Andrea Scaglione
Light design Enzo Galia
Production Balletto Teatro di Torino  in collaboration with Andy Warhol Foundation première Castello di Rivoli - Museum for Contemporary Art 

Caravaggio 2004
Original score Giovanni Sollima
(Casa Musicale Sonzogno - Milano)
Set&costume design Roger Salas
Production Balletto Teatro di Torino
Première International Ballet FEST on Genoa Nervi
The original soundtrack:
https://open.spotify.com/intl-it/album/7LKyOeCcQuEEmzUfV7s0SZ?si=oHzHw31VSw-JIneGR9i1IA 

Drowning by Numbers 2005
Music Michael Nyman
Production Arena di Verona Foundation
Premiére Teatro Filarmonico - Verona

Venice Biennale/Dance 2006
Canto bianco...
Music Steve Reich/David Lang
Set&light designer Marco Policastro
Production Balletto Teatro di Torino
Director Ismael Ivo
 
Les Etoiles du XXIe siècle Téathre de Chaps-Elysèes, Paris 2007
Largo
Music Dmitri Shostakovich
Dancers Celine Cassone/Bruno Roy
(Ballet - Grand Théatre de Genève)
 
White Lux 2007
Event curated by E.T.I. Ente Teatrale Italiano
Choreography Matteo Levaggi
Set&costume design Corpicrudi (Samantha Stella and Sergio Frazzingaro)
Music Mika Vainio, Autechre
Production and dancers Balletto Teatro di Torino
Première Cavallerizza Reale, Torino
 
OPENING CEREMONY Music Biennale Zagreb 2007
BALLET OF THE CROATIAN NATIONAL THEATRE IVAN pl. ZAJC, Rijeka (HR)
Matteo Levaggi, choreographer and director (IT)
Istvan Zimmermann, stage designer
Heiner Goebbels: Red Run, 9 songs for 11 instruments (1988-91) Igor Kuljerić: Song, for string quartet (1981)
Igor Kuljerić: Concerto for marimba and orchestra (2001)
String quartet of the Opera orchestra of the HNK Ivan pl.
Stage design was made at the Studio Plastikart, Turin
Costumes were made at the Croatian National Theatre Ivan pl. Zajc Rijeka
Co-production: MBZ - HNK Ivan pl. Zajc, Rijeka - Balletto Teatro di Torino
 
La Boutique Fantasque 2008
Music Rossini/Respighi
Costumes Anna Biagiotti
Production Arena di Verona Foundation
Première Teatro Romano
 
Theatre Le Toboggan, Biennale de la Danse de Lyon 2008
Primo Toccare - White
The Joyce Theatre New York 2009
Primo Toccare - Black
Teatro Comunale, BolzanoDanza 2010
Primo Toccare - Red
 

Primo Toccare White - Event 2010
Pitti Immagine for Mila Shon
Florence (IT)
 
Folia Barocca 2010
Choreography Matteo Levaggi
Costume design and performer Samantha Stella
Original music Lamberto Curtoni
Production and dancers Balletto Teatro di Torino
Première Lavanderia a Vapore di Collegno, 2010, Ravello Festival
 
Amaturo Theatre Broward Centre for the Performing Arts, International Ballet FEST Miami + 
Italian première Teatro Elfo Puccini, MilanOltre FEST 2011
Le Vergini
Concept, set&costume design Corpicrudi
Choreography Matteo Levaggi
Music Hildur Guðnadóttir, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (The Sleeping Beauty)
Production and dancers Balletto Teatro di Torino, Lavanderia a Vapore di Collegno
 
 
MilanOltre Festival, 2012
Anthology Karole Armitage+ Matteo Levaggi 
 
After the first week—dedicated to choreographer Karole Armitage—MilanOltre gives space to Matteo Levaggi and his Balletto Teatro di Torino. On stage is PrimoToccare, a triptych aimed at representing the inner journey toward an aesthetic ideal. The profile dedicated to Matteo Levaggi opens on October 13 at the Teatro dell'Elfo with "Primo Toccare," which arrives in Milan in its entirety. On October 14, there will be a mixed program that explores the art of Andy Warhol, Caravaggio, and Man Ray, culminating in the abstract dance of the latest creations: Gee, Andy! Caravaggio. Ray Man, and Canto bianco.
 
Eleonora Abbagnato for Luchino Visconti 2012
Production Daniele Cipriani Entertainment 
Erupting Light - for Anna Magnani
Originale music Lamberto Curtoni
Erupting Light is a tribute to one of Visconti's muses, Anna Magnani, who was the superb star of the film Bellissima. Some images recall dance lessons at the Rome Opera Ballet School, then directed by sisters Teresa and Palcida Battagli. The video becomes the backdrop for an original creation in its world premiere.
 
Michael Nyman and Sentieri Selvaggi ensemble Live 2012
Drowning by Numbers - And Do They Do - The Piano soundtrack - Lavanderia a vapore, Collegno 
 
 
Pavillon Noir - Angelin Preljocaj
Dance Season 2012/13
Primo Toccare White | Black | Red
 
LACMA Museum Los Angeles 2013
Caravaggio from the originale version 2004
 
 
Lavanderia a vapore, Collegno 2013

Sexxx

https://www.teatro.it/notizie/teatro/sexxx-il-nuovo-balletto-di-matteo-levaggi-alla-lavanderia-vapore-collegno

 

Lavanderia a vapore, Collegno 2009/2014

Resident choreographer and co-director in collaboration with La Maison de la Danse, Lyon 

https://www.lavanderiaavapore.eu/en/

 


Video

Studio per Carla Fracci 2022
Concept Matteo Stella Dance Arts
Video Samantha Stella
Choreography Matteo Levaggi
Performer Ariel Daley - Ballet School Accademia Teatro alla Scala, director Frédéric Olivieri
Production Alkema Ambasciatori di Cultura / FIRA Onlus

Documentary

Tra Bellezza e Caducità: Matteo Levaggi e Corpicrudi 2011
Documentary on the creation Primo Toccare
Director Francesca Pedroni
Production Sky Classica

Movie

SEXXX 2015

https://www.primevideo.com/-/it/detail/Sexxx/0I28PTUFS72D7544TIL3JU0AWG

https://www.primevideo.com/search/ref=atv_dp_pd_gen?phrase=Documentary&ie=UTF8

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