forbidden colours
Choreography, light design and stage clothes design Monica Casadei
Music Giacomo Puccini
Original music Luca Vianini
Scene design and set up Delio Gennai with the participation of Elena Annovi
Production Compagnia Artemis Danza
Thanks are due to Fondazione Toscana Spettacolo onlus, Fondazione Teatro Verdi di Pisa, Comune di Cortona, Teatro Signorelli, Festival La Sfera Danza, Fondazione Nazionale per la Danza
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Butterfly,
ethereal and
wounded, is the main character of Monica Casadei’s last work, a play that talks about an inner drama, about loneliness and hurt emotions, singing about a long wait and its tragic and unavoidable end. It is a play about
sweetness and
courage, whose strength is personified by the dancers’ bodies, in the choreography and in the music.
The music alternates between the arias sung by Cio-Cio-San in Puccini’s Opera and the apocalyptic atmospheres, evocative of ancient rituals, score by the composer Luca Vianini. The stage space is split between Butterfly, suspended in an abstract and pure space-time, interpreted by the aerial dancer Elena Annovi, and a stage animated by the dancers who represent the bowels of Butterfly, her deep sorrow, her courage, her decision to end her life in an ancient and valiant way, with Harakiri.
The choreography is fast and impetuous and recalls a flow of consciousness and the impulsive reaction to events; but Butterfly is suspended in an unlimited, vibrant, melancholic and silent wait, between lightness, dream, and melancholy. Her purity is also evoked by the original art works by the Italian artist Delio Gennai, author of delicate paper writing suspended over the scene.
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