for young people aged between 18 and 25 (not yet turned 25); for groups of 15 people or more; registered journalists with a valid ID card; La Galleria Nazionale, Museo Ebraico di Roma ticket holders; upon presentation of ID card or badge: Accademia Costume & Moda, Accademia Fotografica, Biblioteche di Roma, Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Enel (for badge holder and accompanying person), FAI – Fondo Ambiente Italiano, Feltrinelli, Gruppo FS, IN/ARCH – Istituto Nazionale di Architettura, Sapienza Università di Roma, LAZIOcrea, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Amici di Palazzo Strozzi, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Scuola Internazionale di Comics, Teatro Olimpico, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Teatro di Roma, Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, Youthcard; upon presenting at the ticket office a Frecciarossa or a Frecciargento ticket to Rome purchased between 27 November 2024 and 20 April 2025
valid for one year from the date of purchase
minors under 18 years of age; disabled people requiring companion; EU Disability Card holders and accompanying person; MiC employees; European Union tour guides and tour guides, licensed (ref. Circular n.20/2016 DG-Museums); 1 teacher for every 10 students; AMACI members; CIMAM – International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art members; ICOM members; journalists (who can prove their business activity); myMAXXI membership cardholders; European Union students and university researchers in art history and architecture, public fine arts academies (AFAM registered) students and Temple University Rome Campus students from Tuesday to Friday (excluding holidays); IED – Istituto Europeo di Design professors, NABA – Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti professors, RUFA – Rome University of Fine Arts professors; upon presentation of ID card or badge: Collezione Peggy Guggenheim a Venezia, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Sotheby’s Preferred, MEP – Maison Européenne de la Photographie; on your birthday presenting an identity document
MAXXI’s Collection of Art and Architecture represents the founding element of the museum and defines its identity. Since October 2015, it has been on display with different arrangements of works.
6 Dec 2024 02.45 pm
talk + guided tourMAXXI EnergyThe sustainability worksite
8 Dec 2024 12.00 pm
guided toursMemorabileIpermoda
8 Dec 2024 04.30 pm
MAXXI for familiesio, Abito
10 Dec 2024 08.30 pm
concertA tribute to Arnold Schoenberg
Who are the leading figures in the contemporary dance of the last 50 years? What influences and contaminations have there been with the world of contemporary art and architecture? What were the ideas that revolutionised the performance of dance?
Vito Di Bernardi, Patrizia Veroli, Francesca Pedroni, Maria Pia D’Orazi, Ada D’Adamo, Susanne Franco, Virgilio Sieni in conversation with the curator of the project Anna Lea Antolini, meet the MAXXI public to discuss in seven encounters the history of contemporary dance and to discover together the relationship between dance, architecture and art through video contributions from Cro.me. – Cronaca e Memoria dello Spettacolo of Milan and from the Historical Archive of the Romaeuropa Foundation.
First encounter
Merce Cunningham: at the origins of contemporary dance | with Vito Di Bernardi
Saturday 13 October, 11.00
MAXXI B.A.S.E., Graziella Lonardi Buontempo Room – admittance free
Undisputed pioneer of post-modern American dance, Merce Cunningham (Centralia, Washington, 1919) is, together with Pina Bausch, the most celebrated icon of contemporary choreography.
Cunningham has represented a point of departure and no return for dance, just as New Dada and Pop Art were for the visual arts and John Cage was for the music of the 20th Century.
During the encounter, Vito De Bernardi, associate professor of Theatrical Disciplines at the University of Siena, together with Anna Lea Antolini, will investigate the theme of movement understood as pure form that is renewed within the currency of performance; the happenings created by Cunningham, Cage and Rauschenberg in the Fifties and Sixties will be evoked, events characterised by principles of randomness, improvisation and the dissociation between sound and dance. Lastly, the seminar will see a reconstruction of the career of the American choreographer who liberated modern dance from any narrative and dramatic reference, opening it to the uninterrupted and undetermined flow of the movement of life.
Photo credit: Mark Seliger
Upcoming seminars:
11.00 – 13.00
10 November 2012 | Patrizia Veroli
12 January 2013 | Francesca Pedroni
9 February 2013 | Maria Pia D’Orazi
9 March 2013 | Ada D’Adamo
13 April 2013 | Susanne Franco
11 May 2013 | Virgilio Sieni
The Histories of Contemporary Dance is a Carolina Italiano project organized by Giulia Pedace.