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