The Florence Dance Company
presents
Quattro Maggiore 2013:
Adi Da Samraj Per Vivaldi
A Multimedia Dance Event
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Basic
Information
dates: Tuesday, July 9 at 9:30 pm, and Wednesday, July
10, at 10:30 pm
place: Museo
Nazionale del Bargello (courtyard of the Bargello Museum)
Via del Proconsolo, 4
Florence, Italy
price: €31
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Company: Florence Dance Company
Artistic Director: Keith Ferrone and Marga Nativo
Choreography: Keith Ferrone
Music: Antonio Vivaldi
Violin soloist: Anne-Sophie Mutter
Costumes: Indigo Millar, Dagmar Lise Pedersen
Design light: 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
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. And completing the
event as an experience of total theater is the violin music
played live by Anne-Sophie Mutter.
Pictures
from Quattro Maggiore 2013
(click pictures for enlargement)
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
(click pictures for enlargement)
Video
Clips from Past Performances of Quattro Maggiore
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