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Quattro Maggiore

The Florence Dance Company

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Quattro Maggiore 2013:
Adi Da Samraj Per Vivaldi
A Multimedia Dance Event

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

Bargello Museum courtyard

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.

Adi DaThe 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.

Anne-Sophie MutterThe 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

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Quattro Maggiore 2013
Scenes from Inverno in Quattro Maggiore

Quattro Maggiore 2013
Scenes from Primavera in Quattro Maggiore

Quattro Maggiore 2013
Scenes from Primavera in Quattro Maggiore

Quattro Maggiore 2013
Scenes from Primavera in Quattro Maggiore

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Director Keith Ferrone introduces Quattro Maggiore and speaks briefly about Adi Da

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The backstage rush before the dancers ascend to the stage

Quattro Maggiore 2013
rehearsal

Pictures from Past Performances of Quattro Maggiore

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Quattro Maggiore: The Bargello Museum

Quattro Maggiore: The Bargello Museum

Quattro Maggiore: The Bargello Museum

Quattro Maggiore: July 25, 2011

Quattro Maggiore: July 25, 2011

Quattro Maggiore: July 25, 2011

Quattro Maggiore: July 25, 2011

Quattro Maggiore: July 25, 2011

Quattro Maggiore: July 25, 2011

Quattro Maggiore: July 25, 2011

Quattro Maggiore: July 25, 2011


Video Clips from Past Performances of Quattro Maggiore





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