world premiere
May 30, 2024 – Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino – Firenze
Year
2024
Duration
75 min
The project sees Roberto Zappalà tackle three great classical compositions, which are also "sacred" to him, that have marked the choreographic (and also musical) journey of the last century. The respect he has always had for these works has made him reflect on them for more than 10 years. Today the time is ripe to stage them.
The three creations that have Zappalà's clear and wild language as a common denominator are Afternoon of a Faun - Boléro - The Rite of Spring and are all presented on the same evening under the title Trilogy of Ecstasy.
The challenge and the bet of this trilogy, in retrospect, is to find a new imagery that, without a preconceived denial of the past, does not seek to modernize, but rather, strong with acquired maturity, to personalize a world that already has an immense evocative power.
In addition to the choreographer's specific language, the work on space thus becomes important, if not fundamental, creating a "scenic device" that, from time to time, performance to performance, limits, amplifies, modifies the dance created by the choreographer.
To give an example, the first piece of the trilogy, already performed as a study, in the wonderful piano version played by Leonardo Zunica, Debussy's L'après-midi d'un faune, is danced in a restricted space, whether it be a real or symbolic carpet, with what this entails in the limitation of scenic and choreographic space.
As always for Zappalà, the emphasis is on human relations, on the relationships between men and women: denied, exalted, violated in a choreographic "reflection" on the drifts of contemporary society.
The first conceptual driving force of the creation draws inspiration from a tragic news event that occurred during a party in a villa in the Roman countryside 1 in early 2021, onto which is grafted an evocation of the iconic party sequence in Kubrick's "Eyes Wide Shut." Both the news story and the cinematic scenes are freely transfigured by Zappalà's visual and choreographic imagination.
A single stage set hosts the creation, a creation which at the same time encompasses exclusion, courtship, and eroticism in L'après-midi d'un faune; inclusion, vice, and lust in Boléro; and finally, persecution and sacrifice in The Rite of Spring.
To quote the title of an old Lelouch film that concludes with the filming of Ravel/Béjart's Bolero, it is always a matter of dancing with and for "the ones and the others."
direction, choreography, set design, and lighting Roberto Zappalà
music Claude Debussy/’L’après-midi d’un faune’ – Maurice Ravel/ ‘Boléro‘ – Igor Stravinskij/ ‘Le Sacre du Printemps’ – Other music AA.VV
dance and collaboration Samuele Arisci, Faile Sol Bakker, Giulia Berretta, Andrea Rachele Bruno, Corinne Cilia, Filippo Domini, Laura Finocchiaro, Anna Forzutti, William Mazzei, Silvia Rossi, Damiano Scavo, Thomas Sutton, Alessandra Verona, Erik Zarcone
Dramaturgy Nello Calabrò
choreographer's assistant Fernando Roldan Ferrer
costumes Roberto Zappalà In collaboration with Veronica Cornacchini
realization of the costumes Majoca
realizzazione scene Peroni S.p.a.
goatmask Giada Russo Art Atelier
Technical Direction Sammy Torrisi
management Vittorio Stasi
tour management Federica Cincotti
organizzazione Laura Gullotta, Lucia Inguscio
Communications Manager Caterina Andò
comunicazione digitale Andrea Di Giovanni, Giuseppe Tiralosi
ufficio stampa Veronica Pitea
comunicazione visiva Maurizio Leonardi
Administration Carmen Carace, Marica Runza
direzione generale Maria Inguscio
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