Sunday May 25, at 5.30 p.m. – Teatro Verdi (Pisa) Balletto di Roma

Sunday May 25, at 5.30 p.m. – Teatro Verdi (Pisa)
Balletto di Roma
Consorzio Nazionale del Balletto
direzione Artistica Walter Zappolini
Luciano Carratoni
THE ARENA LOVE
choreographies Michele Pogliani, Giorgio Madia,
Paolo Mangiola, Gianluca Schiavoni
maître de ballet Piero Rocchetti
production Balletto di Roma
photos Matteo Carratoni
duration: 75’
IL GATTO DEL RABBINO choreography Giorgio Madia
music Amsterdam Klezmer Band
On the enchanting notes of Zlabya with the Amsterdam Klezmer Band, the quartet comprising three
men and a woman refers to the comic strip by Joann Sfar Il gatto del rabbino which inspired Madia:
Moujroum is the name of the cunning cat, independent, curious and occasionally cruel, which
magically becomes able to speak after eating a parrot.
KIMERA choreography Gianluca Schiavoni
music Max Ritcher
The merging of the dancers’ bodies in a continual succession of movements reveals shades of an
entity similar to the famous mythological monster emblematic of a unity made up of heterogeneous
beings. The idea of multiplicity for ever generating infinite possibilities enables the choreography to
experiment with new compositions to express alternative, fascinating realities. The elegant, sinuous
movement, free and sensual, is the matrix revealing almost obsessively this on-going research. These
new recompositions, these different combinations, are Kimera.
RACE RACE choreography Paolo Mangiola (in collaboration with dancers)
music John Michael Talbot, Ryan Teague, Bon Iver
light designer Fabiana Piccioli
The pièce explores the double meaning of the word “race” either as “competition” or as “ethnic
group”. Using extracts from Virginia Woolf’s novel The Waves, the work ponders on the concept itself
of identity and the sense of belonging, reflecting on the imbalances, clashes and encounters that
each human being brings about within a community.
THE ARENA LOVE choreography Michele Pogliani
music Antonio Vivaldi, Amon Tobin, Wade Robson, Frankie Cutlass
costumes Michele Pogliani (students Nuova Accademia delle Belle Arti di Milano)
Set in a timeless future, The Arena Love is about love’s diversity: a storyline between fantasy and the
subconscious, appearance and reality, wherein the essence of man, so cleverly hidden behind an
armour of appearances and so full of pretence and useless baroque frills, is laid bare. Created on a
musical, The Arena Love features above all the red of amorous passion, then tinges towards black in a
succession of gestures at times soft and sinuous, then snappy, with total physical involvement. In a
succession of luminous frames – the light design is a basic element in Pogliani’s creations –
movement turns harsh; a feeling of anguish floods the scene, metropolitan sounds highlight the fact
that modern society is on stage, besieged by its own determination to hide behind a constructed
appearance which however conceals within itself all those contradictions that have always been the
matter of human reflection.