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The Florence Dance Company
presents
Quattro Maggiore 2014:
Adi Da Samraj Per Vivaldi
A Multimedia Dance Event
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Basic Information
dates: Sunday, July 20, 2014 at 9:30 pm, and Monday, July 21, 2014,
at 9:30 pm
place: Museo
Nazionale del Bargello (courtyard of the Bargello Museum)
Via del Proconsolo, 4
Florence, Italy
price: €36
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Company: Florence Dance Company
Artistic Director: Keith Ferrone and Marga Nativo
Choreography: Keith Ferrone
Music: Antonio Vivaldi
Music Conductor: Giuseppe Lanzetta
Costumes: Indigo Millar, Dagmar Lise Pedersen
Lighting Design: Lucilla Baroni
Sound Collage: Tom Stiles
Dancers:
Vanessa Bambi, Silvia Bertoluzza Elisa Capecchi, Serena Ferrone,
Rachael Stewart, Egle Pranzini, Daniele Del Bandecca, Tsubasa
Tagoku
Art: Images from Geome One: Alberti's Window, by Adi Da Samraj
Click here for pictures from
these performances at the Bargello Museum.
Special Performance: The Four Seasons at The Four Seasons. There will be a special "VIP event" at 7:30pm on July 22, 2014, at the Four Seasons Hotel in Florence. Opening reception at poolside (with appertif, music, and dancing). At 9:00pm, the Florence Dance Company will perform, with conductor Maestro Giuseppe Lanzetta, solo violinist Marco Lorenzini, and the Orchestra da Camera Fiorentina. 10:00pm: Dinner at poolside.
On July 22, 2014, Four Seasons Hotel Firenze and the Florence Dance Company will host an event in the Gherardesca Garden (see the video below), as part of the 25th anniversary celebrations of the Florence Dance Festival. In the biggest private garden of the city, the evening atmosphere will welcome Quattro Maggiore, a dance event inspired by the four seasons of the year, accompanied by the famous music by Antonio Vivaldi performed by the Orchestra da Camera Fiorentina.
The ballet reveals itself through the seasons, with the choreography
of Keith Ferrone and Marga Nativo exceptionally highlighted
by the paintings of artist Adi da Samraj in a show of colour
and light that will surely enchant. Four Seasons Hotel Firenze
is enhancing this extraordinary artistic synthesis between
music, dance and painting with a poolside buffet dinner of
excellent Tuscan specialities.
Click here for pictures
from this performance.
"Dancing on the Bridge of the World": A Special Performance at the Ponte Vecchio. There will
be another special performance of Quattro Maggiore, called "Dancing on the Bridge of the World", on the
evening of July 24, 2014, at the Ponte Vecchio. The Ponte
Vecchio is a medieval multi-arch bridge over the Arno River
in Florence, Italy. It is one of the most historic bridges
in the world, and the earliest bridge at this spot is believed
to have been built in Roman times.
This event is the final one of the 2014 Florence Dance Festival.
Click here for pictures
from this performance.
About
Quattro Maggiore
by Keith Ferrone
(director, Florence Dance Company)
The idea to choreograph The Four Seasons goes back
to my college days when, every Sunday morning, I and my roommates
listened to thirty-three rounds of Vivaldi. I had only just
started my study of dance, but even then I felt that Vivaldi's
music was already tickling my fancy.
A few years ago, I met that music again, after
reading a review in the New York Times of a new and bold reinterpretation
directed and played by violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter for the Trondheim
Ensemble. Their strikingly original version required the listener
to completely re-evaluate Vivaldi's impact, not just as classical
music, but as contemporary music. At that same moment, a lucky
encounter with Marco Pallanti, the new president of the Consorzio
Chianti Classico, gave me the opportunity to set Vivaldi's
"Winter" to new choreography for the "Preview Chianti Classico"
event at the Stazione Leopolda in February, 2006.
More recently, Alessandro Benedetti (Secretary
of the Meyer Foundation) and I were involved in a major project
with the Tuscany Department of Culture, celebrating the life
of the late architect, Leonardo Savioli, as seen through the
eyes of his partner, artist Flora Weichmann. The opportunity
to combine the privileged life of the artist with
Vivaldi's The Four Seasons yielded fresh insights. We associated Spring
(Concerto no.1 in E major) with the passions
of youth. Summer (Concerto no. 2 in G minor) was the season
of love. Autumn (Concerto no. 3 in F major) was creativity.
And Winter (Concerto no. 4 in F minor), was life, reaching
it fulfillment. The set was named "Spring Flora", and it went
on stage for a charity event for the Meyer Hospital at the
Teatro Goldoni in Florence on June 6, 2009.
 The
preview of the ballet took place in the second edition of
the Mugello Dance Experience in Palazzuolo sul Senio. As the
staging of the ballet was taking shape, the idea of associating
the ballet with the art of the great
international artist Adi Da Samraj occurred through a
meeting with Richard Quinn of Da
Plastique, the company with a mandate to promote the artist's
work. Assisted by art critic Giuliano Serafini (who, in the
past had recommended that our dance art be associated with
the art of Adi Da), we selected four works from Adi Da's vast
repertoire that fully resonated with this dramatic ballet.
The current title of the ballet, Quattro
Maggiore, reflects a juxtaposition of plasticity and movement,
visual art, and of course music. It also includes the costumes
designed and made by Dagmar Lise Pedersen and Indigo Millar.
The design lighting of Lucilla Baroni is incisive.
Pictures
from the 2014 Performance at the Bargello Museum
(click pictures for enlargement)
photo by Richard
Osbourne, © ASA 2014
photo by Richard
Osbourne, © ASA 2014
photo by Richard
Osbourne, © ASA 2014
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Osbourne, © ASA 2014
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photo by Richard
Osbourne, © ASA 2014
photo by Richard
Osbourne, © ASA 2014
photo courtesy DaPlastique,
© ASA 2014
Pictures
from the 2014 Performance at the Four Seasons Hotel
(click pictures for enlargement)
photo by Richard
Osbourne, © ASA 2014
photo by Richard
Osbourne, © ASA 2014
photo by Richard
Osbourne, © ASA 2014
photo by Richard
Osbourne, © ASA 2014
photo by Richard
Osbourne, © ASA 2014
photo by Richard
Osbourne, © ASA 2014
photo by Richard
Osbourne, © ASA 2014
photo by Richard
Osbourne, © ASA 2014
photo by Richard
Osbourne, © ASA 2014
Pictures
from the 2014 Performance at the Ponte Vecchio
(click pictures for enlargement)
© Richard
Osbourne 2014
© Richard
Osbourne 2014
© Richard
Osbourne 2014
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Osbourne 2014
© Richard
Osbourne 2014
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Osbourne 2014
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© Richard
Osbourne 2014
photo by Richard
Osbourne, © ASA 2014
photo by Richard
Osbourne, © ASA 2014
photo by Richard
Osbourne, © ASA 2014
photo by Richard
Osbourne, © ASA 2014
photo by Richard
Osbourne, © ASA 2014
photo by Richard
Osbourne, © ASA 2014
photo by Richard
Osbourne, © ASA 2014
photo by Richard
Osbourne, © ASA 2014
photo by Richard
Osbourne, © ASA 2014
photo by Richard
Osbourne, © ASA 2014
photo by Richard
Osbourne, © ASA 2014
photo by Richard
Osbourne, © ASA 2014
photo by Richard
Osbourne, © ASA 2014
photo by Richard
Osbourne, © ASA 2014
photo by Richard
Osbourne, © ASA 2014
photo by Richard
Osbourne, © ASA 2014
Pictures
from Quattro Maggiore 2013
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Scenes from Inverno in Quattro Maggiore
Scenes from Primavera in Quattro Maggiore
Scenes from Primavera in Quattro Maggiore
Scenes from Primavera in Quattro Maggiore
Director Keith Ferrone introduces Quattro
Maggiore and speaks briefly about Adi Da
The backstage rush before the dancers
ascend to the stage
rehearsal
Pictures
from Past Performances of Quattro Maggiore
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Video
Clips from Past Performances of Quattro Maggiore
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